Gene Kim has been studying high-performing technology organizations since 1999. He was the founder and CTO of Tripwire, Inc for 13 years, an enterprise security software company. His books have sold over 1 million copies — he is the author of the WSJ bestselling book *The Unicorn Project*, and was co-author of *The Phoenix Project*, *The DevOps Handbook*, and the Shingo Publication Award-winning *Accelerate*. Since 2014, he has been the organizer of DevOps Enterprise Summit, studying the technology transformations of large, complex organizations.