Faced with the pressures of empowered consumers and fierce competition, communication service providers (CSPs) need to constantly optimize the services they deliver to their customers. CSPs are forced to continuously update customer-facing applications and internal IT applications that improve performance. By capturing the benefits of continuous deployment, CSPs can not only streamline their deployment of applications, increasing efficiency and speed, but also improve coordination and integration across both internal and external application environments. Speakers, Eric Minick and Kimberly Gist