GitLab CEO Sid Sijbrandij to Present at Web Summit

LISBON, PORTUGAL--(Marketwired - Nov 3, 2016) - Web Summit - GitLab, the leading self-hosted git management platform combining git repository management, issue tracking, version control, code review, continuous integration and continuous deployment into a single application announced that co-founder and CEO, Sid Sijbrandij, will be speaking on three panel discussions at Web Summit on Nov. 9 and 10. The talks will cover new technology trends affecting DevOps and how modern IT can leverage them to increase delivery velocity, improve operational efficiencies and ensure security, compliance, and stable operations at scale.

Web Summit, called "the best technology conference on the planet," brings together more than 50,000 tech startups, CEOs, founders, investors and political leaders to discuss how technology is driving global innovation and transformation. Sijbrandij will host mentor hours on Nov. 9 at 10:30 a.m., followed by the following panels:

What: Data: It's about the quality, not the quantity
When: Nov. 9, 12:55 p.m.
Who: Sid Sijbrandij, CEO, GitLab; Amir Orad, CEO, Sisense; Ted Bailey, CEO, Dataminr; Ron Miller, reporter, TechCrunch
Where: SaaS Monster

What: When software eats software
When: Nov. 9, 2:50 p.m.
Who: Sid Sijbrandij, CEO, GitLab
Where: Centre Stage

What: The future of DevOps: Trends & predictions
When: Nov. 10, 2:45 p.m.
Who: Sid Sijbrandij, CEO, GitLab; Steve Brodie, CEO, Electric Cloud
Where: FullSTK

In addition to GitLab's participation at Web Summit, the company has just released its 2016 Global Developer Survey, which highlights developers' preferences in tools and demonstrates a shift towards tools that enable collaboration, offer a hybrid development framework and address the need for secure coding. The global survey of 362 startup and enterprise CTOs, developers and DevOps professionals identifies access to the latest development tools as a top priority for the vast majority (81 percent) of developers, and 36 percent of developers would go so far as to reject a job if they did not use the latest and greatest tools.

About GitLab
Founded in 2014 and downloaded over a million times, GitLab, Inc. is the leading self-hosted git management platform combining git repository management, issue tracking, version control, code review, continuous integration and continuous deployment into a single application. . Built for the enterprise, GitLab scales effortlessly, handling more than 25,000 users on a single server. GitLab provides companies from startups to Fortune 500 enterprises with a faster and more effective development environment. More than 100,000 organizations all over the globe currently use GitLab on premises including NASA, CERN, Alibaba, SpaceX, O'Reilly, IBM and Expedia. Follow @GitLab on Twitter or learn more it at https://about.gitlab.com.