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.