Gene Kim

Wow, what an amazing three days. Did you have a good time here?

Did you learn anything that you can take back with you?

Great, because that is exactly the reason why we started this conference four years ago. And are you willing to do me one last tiny little favor?

Good, because I'm going to need your help in about five minutes.

But first, I want to highlight a set of resources that you can use as you return back to your organizations. I mentioned a couple of times, there's an amazing set of white papers that the DevOps Enterprise community has generated for you. I think these are some of the most underutilized resources of anything that we've created and published. So please check them out: itrevolution.com/devopsbooks. They're free.

As you know, we've been posting the slides daily, and we've added all the slides from the tracks from our friends at Electric Cloud as well. We've already started sending out videos. I actually watched a couple of them on YouTube last night. The plenary sessions from day one and day two are up. We are starting to post day three as we speak, and if you subscribe to the YouTube IT Revolution channel, you'll be notified whenever we post more videos.

Thank you for the team. I really want to thank Ally, Brian, and Robin for the amazing work they've done to make that all possible.

And by the way, oh, and yes. For those of you who haven't used GitHub, this is a great way. I would actually really encourage you to clone the repo. There's great instructions on there. And Git is scary at times, but man, what a great way to learn how to use Git and GitHub. It will make you feel awesome.

I have so many people to thank. First, let me thank the speakers. It has been amazing watching this community grow over the last five years. It would be impossible to do this without people willing to share their stories, and for that, I am truly grateful.

Also, the programming committee, thank you for all their dedication and time. They have put so much time putting up with me, putting up with all the speakers, helping make sure that the speakers really deliver on the program objectives. I'm grateful for them.

There's no back button on this.

So thank you, program committee. Also, I want to thank our sponsors. Here are our platinum sponsors. I want to thank the gold and silver sponsors as well. I hope everyone has great interactions with them over the last three days. Their participation is so important, and I cannot stress that this would not be possible without them. So thank you to them.

And then, of course, thanks to all of you. I've had so many great conversations with all of you in the halls, at the book signing. It was so inspiring to watch people attend the Ask the Speaker sessions, DevOps workshops, and the Lightning Talks.

And one other thing I want to do is share with you how much fun I've had this week because I have learned so much. It is such a treat to be able to put together, with the program committee, a conference that's really designed so that I can learn what I want to learn.

I can't tell you how many great people I've met, how many people who have volunteered to help, and trust me, on a day like today, there's no group of people I'd rather be hanging out with than the people gathered here, because of your optimism, your values, and a million other reasons. So thank you.

I also want to thank Jason, John Willis, Damon Edwards, for conducting the amazing Lightning Talks on Tuesday night. I thought that was fantastic. Great job, Lightning speakers.

The journey doesn't end here. We've announced the details of our London 2018 conference. And for all other information, go to events.itrevolution.com, subscribe to the newsletter, and details about DevOps Enterprise Summit US 2018 will be announced there soon.

So I need to make one more of those thank-yous. It is impossible to run an event like this without an amazing team of people. Thanks to our founding sponsor since the start, Electric Cloud. Can we give them a round of applause?

And thank you, Sam Fell, wherever you are. Thank you to our partners, EME Productions, New Breed Events, Mammoth Collective, Good Company, Catapult PR, Earn Enough, Ally Leyton, Bethany Hines Photography, and I wanted to thank my team at IT Revolution.

I want to thank Jess, Anne, Anna, Vee, Beth, Diane, and Todd. This is a team that has been living and breathing this conference for the last six months. I'm so proud of what we have been able to accomplish around this event, around the DevOps Enterprise community.

And I want to thank someone very special to me. She's the person who, if something went wrong for you, she was part of the process of helping make that get fixed. If something went awesome, she likely had a hand in making that happen for you.

But it's more than just this conference. I have been so blessed that I'm able to spend almost all my time either writing or hanging out with the best in the game, and trust me, that is everyone here. For me, this is continuation of an 18-year journey studying high-performing technology organizations, and there is no work I find more fulfilling and meaningful than helping this community achieve the goals of helping solve the biggest needs in society. And I've shared with you why I feel that over the last three days.

Now, the person I'm talking about is my boss and my wife. She's also the CEO of IT Revolution, and working with her and working for her has had some amazingly awesome side effects. Because over the last many years, she's become friends with so many of you, who, trust me, I talk about you all the time. It's Jason Cox this, it's Topo Pal that, it's Steven Spear blah, blah, blah. And so I talk about you to her all the time, and it's so awesome that so many of you have gotten a chance to know her.

So I was thinking, how can I possibly thank her for all of this? Something super, super spectacular to thank her for everything that she does. And I came up with this.

Johnny, hit it.

[Music plays: "Uptown Funk." A giant panda appears.]

Oh my God, look, it's a giant panda.

[Music and dancing continue.]

So everybody, I do need your help. I would like a selfie of my wife, me, and this giant panda with all of you. So if you could get up and move into the middle room. Everybody into the center.

I thank you in advance. Crush in tight. And move forward.

Oh my God. Oh.

By the way, thank you.

Oh my God. Oh. He's dead.

Sorry, next. No, this is the last one. Enjoy it.

Johnny, you promised me an army of pandas, real pandas.

They're on the way.

They're in your car.

One, two, three.

Thank you. See you next year.