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Stacey Klein

Stacey Klein

Senior Director of ESG at GitLab; sustainability and social impact leader with 10+ years in corporate responsibility roles.

Jun 24, 2026

9:26
Can you talk through how do you balance innovation and shipping out a product that your customers want and need versus like usage of AI? Like how do you balance the two?
9:39
Yes, it's a very important balance.
9:43
As you call out, AI is increasingly critical, but it can be energy intensive.
9:48
We focus right now on the things that we can't control.
9:51
So as part of our sustainable AI working group, there's two recent initiatives that I can highlight.
9:57
The first being that we launched AI model vendor guidelines.
10:01
So this is public documentation establishing GitLab's framework for evaluating and selecting the vendors who develop the models powering our AI products and the vendors who host those models.

7 MINS LATER

16:56
I think, you know, our listeners are always looking for those nuggets of like, oh, learning and curiosities or anything you would like to share? I

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