It’s dangerous to go alone… let Rovo help! 🗡️🛡️

Jimmy Seddon

At the end of January, we hosted our first CUG event of the year. I ran a “Rovo for beginners” prep session, timed with our company‑wide rollout of Rovo.

The session went over really well. We:

• Broke down some core Rovo/AI terminology

• Shared Atlassian learning resources so people could keep exploring on their own

• And I tempted the demo gods with a live build of a Rovo Agent for a real, common use case our attendees cared about

That last part is what sparked the idea for our next experiment.

So, how do we plan our next event? Use ROVO!

As I started thinking about what to do for our next meetup, I realized: “Why not use Rovo itself to help us plan it?”

So I built a Rovo Agent dedicated to CUG event planning.

The prompts and configuration are still a work in progress (far from “perfect”), but here are the key things we’ve wired up so far:

• Event design & topic ideation

  • Suggests themes and topics based on what’s trending internally

  • Helps draft agendas and outline presentation formats

Some other ideas I have that I would like to use to augment this are:

• FAQ mining from real work

  • Ingests JSM tickets we’ve already solved in our team’s JSM project

  • Surfaces frequently asked questions that could become future talk topics, demos, or lightning talks

• Signal from our Slack channels

  • Looks at our Slack channels where people ask questions

  • Identifies recurring pain points and interests

  • Uses those as input for new session ideas

The result: instead of guessing what our community wants, we’re letting our own data guide us.

What’s next? More AI, of course 😄

Ironically (or maybe inevitably), our next CUG event in April is going to be a “next iteration” session on Rovo and AI. Interest in AI is huge right now, and our first session only scratched the surface.

The good news is:

Thanks to this Rovo Agent, we’ve now got a steady pipeline of:

• Topic ideas

• Format experiments

• FAQs we can turn into demos, deep dives, and hands‑on exercises

So it feels like our well of content won’t be running dry anytime soon.

Blake Hall

This is so awesome @Jimmy Seddon, love seeing it! Thanks especially for sharing what people learned about Rovo and how you plan to leverage that new knowledge for future sessions. 

Were there any resources you found particularly helpful that the group should know about? If so, would you mind linking them for the group members?