Gerrit User Summit 2026 - Schedule

Monday 9th November

Time PST Session
09:00 AM Doors open & Registration
09:30 AM What’s new in Gerrit v3.15 (Luca Milanesio - GerritForge)
10:20 AM Improvements to the replication plugin (Kaushik Lingarkar - Nvidia)
11:05 AM Break
11:15 AM Gerrit, Zuul and OpenClaw, Safe Agentic coding via Human Collaboration Tools (Monty Taylor - OpenDev)
12:05 PM Multipack Index support in JGit (Ivan Frade - Google)
12:35 PM Lunch
01:35 PM Scaling Gerrit and JGit for the AI-era: pluggable object backend with Cassandra (Luca Milanesio - GerritForge)
02:05 PM From CGit to Gitiles: building repository search for everyone (Devansh Varshney - LibreOffice)
02:25 PM HRT’s Gerrit Improvements (Kamen Yotov - Hudson River Trading)
03:10 PM Do I have to approve this again? Sticky Owners in Gerrit (Antonio Barone - GerritForge)
03:45 PM Break
04:15 PM Task quotas in the age of AI (Adithya Chakilam - NVIDIA)
05:00 PM Pimp your Gerrit: upgrade, tune, measure, repeat (Fabio Ponciroli - GerritForge)
05:30 PM Social & Networking
06:00 PM Doors close

Tuesday 10th November

Time PST Session
09:00 AM Doors open
09:15 AM jj mini-summit sessions
12:25 PM Lunch
01:15 PM AI development at scale with Gerrit and Zuul (Jim Blair - Acme Gating & Luca Milanesio - GerritForge)
02:00 PM SHA-256 in JGit: Why, What, and When (Xing Huang - Google)
02:30 PM GHS: sustaining Git performance under AI workload (Shane McIntosh - University of Waterloo)
03:00 PM Break
03:20 PM Scaling Gerrit builds with K8s and real-time output sync (Shameer Erakkath Saidumuhammed - Hewlett Packard Enterprise)
04:00 PM How to Stack Changes like a pro (Jacek Centkowski - GerritForge)
04:15 PM Q&A with the maintainers
05:30 PM Doors close