Mike Vitale, an 18-year veteran of Java/Groovy/web development and technical agile coach, gave a presentation on continuous delivery at ACCUS West. He discussed why continuous delivery is important, noting that bugs take 24 times longer to fix later. He covered continuous integration, continuous deployment, and continuous delivery practices and principles, such as automating builds and deployments. Vitale's presentation provided an overview of continuous delivery and ways to implement it.