Axel Sooriah

Axel Sooriah is a product executive and applied AI evangelist with over 10 years of experience who serves as the PM & AI Evangelist at Atlassian. Tasked with helping enterprises build AI-empowered teams, he guides the enterprise evangelism motion for Atlassian's builder audience, serving product teams across hundreds of companies worldwide. Axel oversees a program of workshops, executive briefings, and live agent demonstrations focused on agentic AI adoption, and his leadership has been central to Atlassian's rapid evolution from a project and issue-tracking platform into a comprehensive, AI-native ecosystem where product discovery, agentic workflows, and enterprise-scale collaboration intersect.

At Atlassian, Axel drives the design and rollout of highly automated, AI-powered workflows built to help enterprise product teams achieve measurable productivity gains. He recently spearheaded enterprise AI adoption efforts across more than 250 companies in healthcare, finance, automotive, and retail, moving teams from first agent build to daily-use workflows while sharpening prioritization and turning ideas into business impact. With a deep commitment to turning enterprise complexity into tangible action, Axel specializes in aligning cross-functional teams to build advanced, AI-native technologies that empower product organizations to adopt agentic ways of working seamlessly.