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We're excited to announce the first round of speakers for our inaugural [GitLab Commit](/events/commit) conference in Brooklyn! This group of speakers includes thought leaders and industry experts, members of both the GitLab team and wider community, and people from diverse backgrounds with diverse perspectives. 

Brilliant minds from the likes of Delta Air Lines, Goldman Sachs, T-Mobile, DigitalOcean, VMware, and Cloud Native Computing Foundation will join GitLab CEO and co-founder Sid Sijbrandij for an unforgettable day of learning and networking.

Attendees can expect great conversations and insights on how to bring teams together to deliver code quickly and securely, and how to push innovation forward at lightning speeds. We look forward to seeing you there on **September 17th** and experiencing a unique event that is taking over Williamsburg, Brooklyn. 

### Venue and Location

GitLab Commit Brooklyn will not only take place at the [Williamsburg Hotel](https://www.thewilliamsburghotel.com/), but will be a Williamsburg neighborhood *takeover*. Every venue in a two block radius will have its own theme, immersing you in the city. From a graffiti wall to a trip to a brewery, your day of learning about the future of software development will be full of creative inspiration.

Hear talks, mix and mingle with new and old friends at the Williamsburg hotel, Wythe Hotel, Kinfolk, Schimanski’s and end the night at Brooklyn Bowl. 

Register by August 15, 11:59 pm PT with code: commit99 to save $99 on conference passes!
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### GitLab Commit Brooklyn speakers

#### Keynote: “How Delta Became Truly Cloud Native: Avoiding the vendor-lock”

– Jasmine James, IT Manager - DevOps Center of Excellence, Delta Air Lines

#### Keynote: “Creating a CI/CD Pipeline with GitLab and Kubernetes in 20 Minutes”

– Eddie Zaneski, Senior Director Security, DigitalOcean

#### Keynote: “Implementing an Open Source Culture at NASA”

– Marshall Cottrell, Lead Engineer, Platform Team, MRI Technologies

#### “Being budget conscious in a continuously automated world”

– Tim Davis, Cloud Advocate, VMware

#### “Running GitLab and GitLab CI in Kubernetes for the Enterprise”

– Kyle Persohn, Senior Engineer, and Sean Corkum, Senior Engineer, Northwestern Mutual

#### “Cloud Native Logging & Stream Processing”

– Eduardo Silva, Principal Engineer, Arm/ Treasure Data

#### “GovLab: Gitlab in the Federal Government”

– Solomon Rubin, Cyber Security & Software Engineer, MITRE

#### “How Containerized GitLab CI Pipelines Can Help You Streamline Your Infrastructure Deployments”

– Nico Meisenzahl, Senior Consultant, panagenda

#### “Automation and Iteration: How a small agency team takes advantage of Gitlab to test and deploy rapidly across environments”

– Cory Zibell, Technology Lead, Digital Surgeons

#### “The after-effects of contributing to open source”

– George Tsiolis, UX Engineer, Ubitech

#### “Dynamically managing group permissions using GitOPS and the Gitlab API”

– Philip Marc Schwartz, Principal Software Engineer, CDP Platform, T-Mobile

#### “Using chaos engineering in Gitlab pipelines for faster hardening”

– Umasankar Mukkara, Co-founder and COO, MayaData

### Also featuring...

#### George Grant
VP - Technology Fellow, Goldman Sachs

#### Dan Kohn
Executive Director, Cloud Native Computing Foundation

#### Christopher Bolton
Senior Systems Engineer, Delta Air Lines

#### Claire Carroll
dbt Community Manager, Fishtown Analytics

#### Nicole Schultz
Senior Engineer, Northwestern Mutual

#### Mike Nick
Senior Engineer, Northwestern Mutual

#### Karthik Satchitanand
Quality & Automation Lead, MayaData

#### Sid Sijbrandij
Co-founder & CEO, GitLab

#### Philippe Lafoucrière
Distinguished Engineer - Secure, GitLab

#### Emilie Schario
Data Engineer, Analytics, GitLab

#### Marin Jankovski
Engineering Manager, GitLab

#### Lee Matos
Support Engineering Manager, GitLab

#### Jason Plum
Senior Distribution Engineer, GitLab

## About GitLab Commit

GitLab Commit is a home to learning and collaboration, so we can all experience success through DevOps transformations. We're confident that this lineup of speakers will inspire our audience and empower them to make themselves, their teams and organizations, and the open source and tech communities better.

We'll be bringing GitLab Commit to Brooklyn on September 17 and London on October 9. To find additional information and register, please visit our [GitLab Commit](/events/commit) site. We look forward to contributing with you soon!