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# Ship with Context: GitLab Orbit and Google Cloud for AI-Powered Software Delivery


- **Date:** Thursday, Sep 24, 2026
- **Time:** 14:50–15:20 (30 min)
- **Room:** Tech Leaders Stage
- **Event:** World Congress 2026 North America

## Description

- Why developers and AI agents need context across code, pipelines, security, deployments, and ownership.
- How GitLab Orbit creates a queryable view of the software lifecycle to support dependency analysis, blast-radius assessment, and faster code review.
- How GitLab CI/CD and Google Cloud services support secure, repeatable builds and deployments.
- A developer workflow from code change to pipeline validation and Google Cloud deployment.
- What tech leaders gain: faster delivery, stronger governance, better security visibility, and more confident releases.

## Speakers

### [Michael Angelo Rivera](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@michael-angelo-rivera)

GitLab Orbit Lead at GitLAb
### [Mike Duchesne](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@mike-duchesne)

AVP, Sales at GitLab


## Related talks at this congress

- [Accelerating development and managing agents with the GitHub Copilot app](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1783-accelerating) — Christopher Harrison
- [Practices, Not Prompts: Scale GitHub Copilot with AI-Ready Repositories](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1874-practices-not) — Luis Pujols
- [AI Agents are Only as Smart as their Context: Building a Real-Time Context Engine at Intuit](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1736-ai-agents-are-only) — Bharat Patel
- [Securing the Agentic Stack: Docker Hardened Images and Supply Chain Security](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1882-securing-the-agentic) — Ajeet Raina

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## Links

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