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GitLab Transcend Highlights Agentic AI for Software Delivery


GitLab Transcend Highlights Agentic AI for Software Delivery
  • by: Business Wire
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  • February 11, 2026

GitLab hosted GitLab Transcend, a virtual event focused on the transformative potential of agentic AI for software delivery. The event demonstrated how GitLab’s Intelligent Orchestration platform enables teams to automate routine tasks across the entire software lifecycle while preserving enterprise-grade security, compliance, and governance—unlocking significant gains in innovation velocity.

Quick Intel

  • GitLab CEO Bill Staples delivered a keynote addressing the AI paradox: AI tools can boost coding productivity by up to 10x, yet developers spend only about 52 minutes per day writing code, limiting overall delivery gains.
  • Chief Product and Marketing Officer Manav Khurana outlined three pillars of Intelligent Orchestration: the Agentic Core (GitLab Duo Agent Platform with unified context), Unified DevOps and Security (end-to-end process simplification), and Enterprise Guardrails (deployment flexibility with control).
  • Southwest Airlines spotlighted how GitLab Duo Agent Platform accelerates mission-critical software delivery while maintaining operational reliability for 24/7 airline services.
  • GitLab VP Sherrod Patching shared results from customers including Ericsson, Deutsche Telekom, and Barclays, and announced a new assessment program launching next month to help organizations evaluate software delivery maturity and modernization paths.
  • Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) discussed joint solutions combining GitLab’s orchestration with OCI’s cloud economics for scalable, secure deployments.
  • Product demos illustrated AI agents collaborating across planning, development, testing, security, and deployment with clear visibility into impact on engineering metrics.
  • A virtual hackathon launched for developers to build and share custom agents and flows, running through March 25, 2026, with top projects featured in GitLab’s AI Catalog.

The event highlighted a shift from incremental AI productivity tools to comprehensive orchestration of AI agents across the full DevSecOps lifecycle. This approach addresses bottlenecks beyond coding—such as planning, testing, security reviews, and deployment—enabling teams to automate hundreds of repetitive tasks while maintaining consistent context, permissions, and standards.

“Now anyone in the organization can get the insights they need without training or technical expertise. It's like giving every employee their own team of AI-powered market intelligence experts.” — Benjamin Seror, CPO and Co-founder of Similarweb (Note: This quote appears to be misattributed in source context; event focused on GitLab leadership.)

“Our managed services program with Data Intensity allows customers to focus on innovation instead of operations by delivering a fully managed GitLab experience on OCI with enterprise-grade security and SLAs,” said Victor Restrepo, group vice president, North America engineering, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. “Together, GitLab's intelligent orchestration and OCI's cloud economics give organizations the flexibility and performance they need to succeed.”

"The reality is teams want AI for hundreds of use cases across the software lifecycle, and adding AI feature by feature simply doesn't scale,” said Manav Khurana, chief product and marketing officer at GitLab. "With GitLab's platform approach, teams can orchestrate AI agents across planning, development, testing, security, and deployment using the same context, permissions, and security model. That's how I see AI becoming operational, shareable, and governed across your organization.”

About GitLab

GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. GitLab enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation. More than 50 million registered users and more than 50% of the Fortune 100 trust GitLab to ship better, more secure software faster.

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