Talks

Michael's talks focus on Responsible Agentic AI adoption, Embedded Systems, DevSecOps efficiency, CI/CD, Developer Experience, SRE/Observability, and overall, learning best practices in public together. Michael loves live demos and engaging with the audience.
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In Michael’s talk experience, you’ll find 70+ talks with slides and/or recordings. You can also watch recordings in the Developer Advocacy at GitLab playlist.
Upcoming events
- Planning: FY26 DevRel events, FY27 DevRel events
- 2025-09-16: GitLab DACH Roadshow Frankfurt, Germany
- 2025-09-18: Bitkom Forum Open Source, Erfurt, Germany
- 2025-09-25: GitLab DACH Roadshow Zurich, Switzerland
- 2025-10-14: GitLab DACH Roadshow Munich, Germany
- 2025-10-28: GitLab DACH Roadshow Dusseldorf, Germany
- 2025-12-02: GitLab DACH Roadshow Berlin, Germany
- 2025-12-04: GitLab DACH Roadshow Vienna, Austria
- 2026-02-10 - 13: OOP conference by heise, Munich, Germany
- 2026-03-10 - 12: Embedded World EMEA, Nuremberg, Germany
2025
Container Days 2025: Evolving the Edge: AI, CI and Hardware-in-the-Loop for Embedded
Open Source @ Siemens 2025: Learning AI 101: Practical Foundations for Developers
Chemnitz Linux Days: Efficient DevSecOps workflows with reusable CI/CD Components
Recording: https://media.ccc.de/v/clt25-284-efficient-devsecops-workflows-with-reusable-cicd-components
2024
IT-Tage 2024, Frankfurt, Germany: Efficient DevSecOps Workflows with a little help from AI
GitLab DACH Roadshow Dusseldorf, Zurich, Berlin, Vienna, Stuttgart
https://go.gitlab.com/JRFMG4 Note: This is a GitLab customer-focused event and talk.
DevSecOps Nuremberg: Efficient DevSecOps Workflows with AI - hands-on workshop session
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-da/use-cases/ai/ai-workshops/gitlab-duo-ai-devops-camp-2024-10-12
InfoQ Dev Summit Munich: Efficient DevSecOps Workflows with a little help from AI
Container Days 2024: Efficient DevSecOps Workflows with a little help from AI
Open Source @ Siemens 2024: Efficient DevSecOps with CI/CD Components
QCon London 2024: Efficient DevSecOps workflows with a little help from AI
Efficient DevSecOps Workflows with reusable CI/CD Components
Slides: https://go.gitlab.com/VYS051
2023
Cloud Native Saar Meetup: Efficient DevSecOps workflows with a little help from AI
KubeCon NA 2023, GitLab lightning talk: Efficient DevSecOps workflows with a little help from AI
KubeCon NA 2023, GitLab lightning talk: Observability for Efficient DevSecOps Pipelines
KubeCon NA 2023, GitLab lightning talk: Simplifying CI/CD Pipelines with Component Catalogs
Container Days 2023: From Monitoring to Observability: eBPF Chaos
Cloudland 2023: Observability for Efficient DevSecOps Pipelines
Cloudland 2023: Learning eBPF for better Observability
KubeCon EU 2023, GitLab booth lightning talk: Efficient DevSecOps Pipelines in a Cloud Native World
QCon London: From Monitoring to Observability: eBPF Chaos
Chemnitz Linux Days: Efficient DevSecOps Pipelines in a Cloud Native World
Config Management Camp: From Monitoring to Observability: eBPF Chaos
2022
IT Tage 2022: Konfidenz mit Kaos für Kubernetes Observability
Talk is German, slides are English.
Continuous Lifecycle: Confidence with Chaos for your Kubernetes Observability
Lightning talk at PromCon EU: Confidence with Chaos for your Kubernetes Observability
Lightning talk at the GitLab booth at KubeCon NA: Efficient DevSecOps Pipelines in a Cloud Native World
Open Observability Day at KubeCon NA: Confidence with Chaos for your Kubernetes Observability
KCD Munich: From Monitoring to Observability: Left Shift your SLOs with Chaos
Open Source Automation Days: Confidence with Chaos for your Kubernetes Observability
Kube Simplify workshop: Kubernetes Observability
Focus on: Linux podcast: Monitoring (German)

Container Days EU: Confidence with Chaos for your Kubernetes Observability
Slides:
Container Days EU: From Monitoring to Observability: Left Shift your SLOs with Chaos
cdCon 2022: How we build CI/CD Observability with OpenTelemetry
KubeCon EU 2022: From Monitoring to Observability: Left Shift your SLOs with Chaos
SLOconf 2022: Left Shift your SLOs with Chaos
Heise Academcy Workshop: Kubernetes Monitoring with Prometheus 2022
She'n'IT meetup: My story in IT: Adventures with dnsmichi
Chaos Carnival: From Monitoring to Observability: Left Shift your SLOs with Chaos
Archive
You made it this far: Here's to everything in from 2012 to 2021 in the archive :)