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Sunday June 7

4:00 PM
- 7:30 PM
Early Registration & Badge Pickup
Location: Grand Foyer

Monday June 8

7:00 AM
- 7:00 PM
Registration & Badge Pickup
Location: Grand Foyer
8:00 AM
- 4:00 PM
Pre-Con Event (Pre-Con Ticket Required)
Pre-Con
9:30 AM
- 11:00 AM
FinOps for SaaS & Software Chalk Talk (Pre-Con Ticket Required)
Anthony Johnson (MGM Resorts) Licensing & SaaS
Chalk Talk
Pre-Con
Level: 200
9:30 AM
- 11:00 AM
Adopting FinOps Chalk Talk (Pre-Con Ticket Required)
Ashwin Jain (American Express), Nik Kozlov (Bonterra)
Chalk Talk
Pre-Con
9:30 AM
- 11:00 AM
Practitioner Re-Certification (Pre-Con Ticket Required)
Jonathan Morley (FinOps Foundation)
Pre-Con
9:30 AM
- 11:00 AM
FinOps Framework Chalk Talk (Pre-Con Ticket Required, details coming soon)
Chalk Talk
Pre-Con
Level: 100
11:15 AM
- 12:45 PM
AI for FinOps Chalk Talk (Pre-Con Ticket Required)
Mike Graff (Dolby), Eric Mulartrick (Boomi, LP), Flavia Trevisani (Public Sector)
Chalk Talk
Pre-Con
Level: 200
11:15 AM
- 12:45 PM
Shift Up: Executive Strategy Alignment Chalk Talk (Pre-Con Ticket Required)
Daniel Cronin (Mastercard), Dan Spira (News Corp), Prasshant Sharrma (Sysco)
Chalk Talk
Pre-Con
11:15 AM
- 12:45 PM
Engaging Optimization: Getting it Done Chalk Talk (Pre-Con Ticket Required)
Noel Crowley (Fidelity), Paul Guarino (Fidelity), Evan Ochs (Electronic Arts), Rachel Palmarozzi (Electronic Arts) Usage Optimization
Chalk Talk
Pre-Con
Level: 200
12:00 PM
- 7:00 PM
FinOps Exec (Invite only)
Networking
Location: Marina Kitchen
12:45 PM
- 2:15 PM
Pre-Con Networking Lunch (Pre-Con Ticket Required)
Networking
Pre-Con
Location: Marina Terrace
2:15 PM
- 3:45 PM
Shift Left Chalk Talk (Pre-Con Ticket Required)
Martin Velez (Aurora), Ziva Tubul (Wix), Barbara Gaspar (BBVA)
Chalk Talk
Pre-Con
Level: 200
2:15 PM
- 3:45 PM
FinOps for Data Center Chalk Talk (Pre-Con Ticket Required)
Alick Jacklin (Kraken), Jason Ward (CH Robinson), Alessandro Bellini (Max Mara)
Chalk Talk
Pre-Con
Level: 200
2:15 PM
- 3:45 PM
ITFM Chalk Talk (Pre-Con Ticket Required, details coming soon)
Chalk Talk
Pre-Con
2:15 PM
- 3:45 PM
The AWS Frugal Architect GameDay: Hands-on challenges for applying FinOps principles
Matt Berk (AWS)
Level: 300
2:15 PM
- 4:00 PM
Google Cloud: Your FinOps Practice with Agentic AI & Delivering Measurable ROI with Agentic Transformation
Pathik Sharma, David Dinh (Google Cloud), Eva Dong (Google Cloud)
Level: 300
4:00 PM
- 7:00 PM
Welcome Reception (All Badged Attendees)
Networking
Location: Expo Hall

Tuesday June 9

7:00 AM
- 8:15 AM
Breakfast in the Expo Hall
Networking
Location: Expo Hall
8:20 AM
- 10:00 AM
Day 1 Keynote
J.R. Storment (FinOps Foundation)
Keynote
Location: Keynote Stage
10:00 AM
- 10:30 AM
Snack Break in the Expo Hall
Networking
Location: Expo Hall
10:30 AM
- 11:15 AM
Breakouts
Breakout
10:30 AM
- 11:15 AM
The "Frozen" Metric: Avoiding the KPI Trap in Enterprise FinOps
Raymond Dao (Capital One), Lauren Brown (Capital One) KPIs & Benchmarking
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Breakout C
10:30 AM
- 11:15 AM
From Centralized Data Lakes to Data Mesh: Driving Cost Accountability and Scalable Governance in Enterprise Data Platforms
Naveena Vadlamudi (JPMorgan Chase & Co), Andrew Feig (JPMorgan Chase)
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Breakout C
10:30 AM
- 11:15 AM
IBM Cloudability Customer Breakout (details TBD)
Breakout
Location: Breakout D
10:30 AM
- 11:15 AM
SHI Customer Breakout (details TBD)
Breakout
Location: Breakout A
10:30 AM
- 11:15 AM
Google Technical Session (details TBD)
Breakout
Location: Keynote Stage
10:30 AM
- 12:00 PM
AI for FinOps Chalk Talk
Mike Graff (Dolby), Eric Mulartrick (Boomi, LP), Flavia Trevisani (Public Sector)
Chalk Talk
10:30 AM
- 12:00 PM
Adopting FinOps Chalk Talk
Ashwin Jain (American Express), Nik Kozlov (Bonterra)
Chalk Talk
11:30 AM
- 12:15 PM
Breakouts
Breakout
11:30 AM
- 12:15 PM
Running FinOps at Scale With a Small Team: Inside Our Operating Model, Automations, and Monthly Cadences
Isabella Paez (World Kinect Corporation) FinOps Practice Operations
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Breakout A
11:30 AM
- 12:15 PM
From Specialist Bottleneck to AI-Powered Scale: AI as a Force Multiplier for FinOps Democratization
JC Griffin (Grainger), Bryson Webster (Grainger) Reporting & Analytics
Breakout
Level: 300
Location: Breakout D
11:30 AM
- 12:15 PM
Oracle Customer Breakout (details TBD)
Breakout
Location: Breakout B
11:30 AM
- 12:15 PM
PointFive Customer Breakout (details TBD)
Breakout
Location: Breakout C
11:30 AM
- 12:15 PM
AWS Technical Session (details TBD)
Breakout
Location: Keynote Stage
12:15 PM
- 1:45 PM
Lunch & Networking
Networking
Location: Marina Terrace
12:45 PM
- 12:55 PM
Implementing Full Stack AI Cost Attribution
Safi Siddiqui (Mavvrik)
Level: 200
Location: Expo Hall
12:57 PM
- 1:07 PM
Modern FinOps Budgeting That Actually Holds
Aishwarya Korde (FastBridge Fiber)
Level: 100
Location: Expo Hall
1:09 PM
- 1:19 PM
FOCUS Semantic Layer
Beau Nelford (Anglepoint)
Level: 200
Location: Expo Hall
1:45 PM
- 2:30 PM
Breakouts
Breakout
1:45 PM
- 2:30 PM
Regaining Control Over Databricks Costs: A FinOps & Engineering Journey
Philippe Galeano (Thales) Usage Optimization
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Breakout A
1:45 PM
- 2:30 PM
Beyond the Tokens: Building the CTO’s AI Control Plane
Frederik Pohl (SAP), Maida Nazifi (SAP)
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Breakout D
1:45 PM
- 2:30 PM
Microsoft Customer Breakout (details TBD)
Breakout
Location: Breakout C
1:45 PM
- 2:30 PM
IBM Automation Customer Breakout (details TBD)
Breakout
Location: Breakout B
1:45 PM
- 2:30 PM
Flexera Technical Session (details TBD)
Breakout
Location: Keynote Stage
1:45 PM
- 3:15 PM
Optimization Beyond the Obvious Chalk Talk
Tanjiha Mahmud (Canada Life), Brad Payne (PointClickCare), Arbidha Babul (CAT)
Chalk Talk
Level: 200
1:45 PM
- 3:15 PM
FinOps for SaaS & Software Chalk Talk
Anthony Johnson (MGM Resorts) Licensing & SaaS
Chalk Talk
Level: 200
2:45 PM
- 3:30 PM
Breakouts
Breakout
2:45 PM
- 3:30 PM
FinOps for Observability: Taming Telemetry Tsunamis
Rich Young (Warner Hotels), Madoc Batters (Warner Hotels) Allocation, Usage Optimization
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Breakout B
Applying FinOps to GenAI in a Mature Tech Organization
Eran Lador (Intuit), Bala Maddina (Intuit)
Breakout
Level: 300
Location: Breakout C
2:45 PM
- 3:30 PM
FinOps Has a Data Cloud Problem
Vijay Kurra (Tenable), Amit Kinha (DoiT)
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Breakout D
2:45 PM
- 3:30 PM
Google Customer Breakout (details TBD)
Breakout
Location: Breakout A
2:45 PM
- 3:30 PM
Accenture Customer Breakout (details TBD)
Breakout
Location: Keynote Stage
2:45 PM
- 2:55 PM
Correlating AI Expenses with Business Outcomes
Cassio Melo (Meilynx) KPIs & Benchmarking, Unit Economics
Level: 200
Location: Expo Hall
2:57 PM
- 3:07 PM
Cost Attribution for Meta Monetization
Manasi Khanuja (Meta)
Level: 100
Location: Expo Hall
3:09 PM
- 3:19 PM
The Human OS of FinOps
Dippu Kumar Singh (Fujitsu) FinOps Practice Operations
Level: 200
Location: Expo Hall
3:21 PM
- 3:31 PM
Why Tools Alone Aren't Enough
Lee Wagner (OpenOps) Automation, Tools, & Services
Level: 200
Location: Expo Hall
3:30 PM
- 4:00 PM
Snack Break in the Expo Hall
Networking
Location: Expo Hall
4:00 PM
- 4:45 PM
Breakouts
Breakout
4:00 PM
- 4:45 PM
Surviving Chargeback without Tagging
Jordi Espasa Clofent (AVIV)
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Breakout A
4:00 PM
- 4:45 PM
From Reactive to FinOps Autonomous Optimization: AWS Infra Resource Rightsizing with Agentic AI
Anuthama Chandrasekaran (S&P Global), Guruprasad Ramamoorthy (S&P Global)
Breakout
Level: 300
Location: Breakout D
4:00 PM
- 4:45 PM
Infracost Customer Breakout (details TBD)
Breakout
Location: Breakout B
4:00 PM
- 4:45 PM
Building FinOps for a World That Might Not Need You
Rick LaFaver (DraftKings), Erik Peterson (CloudZero)
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Breakout C
4:00 PM
- 5:30 PM
FOCUS Implementation Chalk Talk
Karl Kraft (Walmart), Afreen Bano (bp), Cameron Lane (Indeed), Sylvain Barbot (Intact)
Chalk Talk
Level: 200
4:00 PM
- 5:30 PM
Shift Left Chalk Talk
Martin Velez (Aurora), Ziva Tubul (Wix), Barbara Gaspar (BBVA)
Chalk Talk
Level: 200
4:00 PM
- 5:30 PM
FinOps For Data Center Chalk Talk
Alick Jacklin (Kraken), Jason Ward (CH Robinson), Alessandro Bellini (Max Mara)
Chalk Talk
Level: 200
5:00 PM
- 5:45 PM
Breakouts
Breakout
5:00 PM
- 5:45 PM
From Visibility to Value: Eliminating Shadow Waste in Data Cloud Platforms
Velu Natarajan (GoodRx), Yuga Chaparala (GoodRx) Usage Optimization
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Breakout A
5:00 PM
- 5:45 PM
Engineering a Cost per Feature Capability with Open Telemetry
Irena Nikolova (Canva), Japan Patel (Canva) Unit Economics
Breakout
Level: 300
Location: Breakout C
5:00 PM
- 5:45 PM
Making Cloud Costs Make Sense: FOCUS Adoption at Volvo Cars
Sudip Mitra (Volvo Cars)
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Breakout D
5:00 PM
- 5:45 PM
When Building FinOps Tooling Finally Makes Sense
Jennifer Samolyk (Fannie Mae), Bala Sundaram (Fannie Mae)
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Breakout B
5:45 PM
- 7:00 PM
Sponsor Reception in Expo Hall
Networking
Location: Expo Hall
7:00 PM
- 10:00 PM
Official Sponsor Events
Networking
7:00 PM
- 10:00 PM
4th Annual 8-Bit After Party sponsors: ProsperOps, Flexera, SHI & Pay-i
Networking
Location: Pool South

Wednesday June 10

7:00 AM
- 8:15 AM
Breakfast in the Expo Hall
Networking
Location: Expo Hall
8:20 AM
- 10:00 AM
Day 2 Keynote
Keynote
Location: Keynote Stage
10:00 AM
- 10:30 AM
Snack Break in the Expo Hall
Networking
Location: Expo Hall
10:30 AM
- 11:15 AM
Breakouts
Breakout
10:30 AM
- 11:15 AM
Maximizing Financial Efficiency Through FinOps
Sarah Oshingbade (Checkout)
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Breakout B
10:30 AM
- 11:15 AM
FinOps for Data Cloud Platforms: Building a Cost Intelligence Layer that Drove Millions in Savings
Josh Anness (84.51°) Reporting & Analytics
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Breakout C
10:30 AM
- 11:15 AM
CloudHealth Customer Breakout (details TBD)
Breakout
Location: Breakout D
10:30 AM
- 11:15 AM
Archera Customer Breakout (details TBD)
Breakout
Location: Breakout A
10:30 AM
- 11:15 AM
Microsoft Technical Session (details TBD)
Breakout
Location: Keynote Stage
10:30 AM
- 12:00 PM
FinOps for Data Cloud Platforms Chalk Talk
Chinni Krishna Abburi (Communities Foundation of Texas)
Chalk Talk
Level: 200
10:30 AM
- 12:00 PM
Shift Up: Executive Strategy Alignment Chalk Talk
Daniel Cronin (Mastercard), Dan Spira (News Corp), Prasshant Sharrma (Sysco)
Chalk Talk
Level: 200
10:30 AM
- 10:40 AM
Architecture for AI Cost Efficiency
Rajat Lodha (Astuto) Usage Optimization
Level: 200
Location: Expo Hall
10:42 AM
- 10:52 AM
What FinOps-Mature DevOps Leaders do Differently
Esmira Bayramova (Cast.ai)
Level: 200
Location: Expo Hall
10:54 AM
- 11:04 AM
FinOps-as-Code
Seshadri Reddy Kommepalli (Equifax)
Level: 200
Location: Expo Hall
11:06 AM
- 11:16 AM
Intro to the Cloud Efficiency Hub
Jason DiDomenico
Level: 100
Location: Expo Hall
11:30 AM
- 12:15 PM
Breakouts
Breakout
11:30 AM
- 12:15 PM
AI for FinOps: From Hype to Helpful
Dann Berg (Squarespace)
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Breakout A
11:30 AM
- 12:15 PM
How Gerdau Unified Multi-Cloud + SaaS with Automated Allocation and Unit Economics at Scale
Thais Minelvino Dos Santos (Gerdau) Allocation, Unit Economics
Breakout
Level: 300
Location: Breakout D
11:30 AM
- 12:15 PM
Flexera Customer Breakout (details TBD)
Breakout
Location: Breakout B
11:30 AM
- 12:15 PM
How Bayer Eliminates Inefficiencies in Cloud, Code, and AI Workloads with Adaptive6
Michael Aideloje (Bayer), Aviv Revach (Adaptive6)
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Breakout C
11:30 AM
- 12:15 PM
Oracle Technical Session (details TBD)
Breakout
Location: Keynote Stage
12:15 PM
- 1:45 PM
Lunch & Networking
Networking
Location: Marina Terrace
12:45 PM
- 12:55 PM
Multi-Cloud FOCUS Data Ingestion
Arjun Kaushal (Trident Consulting)
Level: 200
Location: Expo Hall
12:57 PM
- 1:07 PM
Making Unit Economics Actionable
Anastassia Storozhev (Atlassian) Unit Economics
Level: 200
Location: Expo Hall
1:09 PM
- 1:19 PM
Designing Human-AI Workflows That Actually Work
Aaron Soto (SHI)
Level: 200
Location: Expo Hall
1:45 PM
- 2:30 PM
Breakouts
Breakout
1:45 PM
- 2:30 PM
Cloud Was Just the Beginning: Extending FinOps to On-Prem at Scale
Ron Tatro (Target), Alex Kadavil (Target) Data Ingestion, Allocation, Reporting & Analytics, Unit Economics
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Breakout A
1:45 PM
- 2:30 PM
Vantage Customer Breakout (details TBD)
Breakout
Location: Breakout B
1:45 PM
- 2:30 PM
ServiceNow Customer Breakout (details TBD)
Breakout
Location: Breakout C
1:45 PM
- 2:30 PM
IBM Cloudability Technical Session (details TBD)
Breakout
Location: Keynote Stage
1:45 PM
- 1:45 PM
Turning AI Cost Data into Strategic Decision Insights
Becky Canterbury (Shutterstock), Courtney Totten (Shutterstock)
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Breakout D
1:45 PM
- 3:15 PM
FinOps Assessments Chalk Talk
Victoria Levy (SailPoint), Andrew Quigley (Northwestern Mutual), David Lambert (Adobe) FinOps Assessment
Chalk Talk
Level: 200
1:45 PM
- 3:15 PM
FinOps for AI Chalk Talk
Josh Collier (Superhuman), Paulo Araujo (PayPal), Phuong Nguyen (Atlassian)
Chalk Talk
Level: 200
2:45 PM
- 3:30 PM
Breakouts
Breakout
2:45 PM
- 3:30 PM
Did You Know We Pay for That?
Hannah Wells-Rhoades (Sweetwater Sound)
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Breakout B
2:45 PM
- 3:30 PM
The Developer’s Guide to Unit Economics
Hrushikesh Pokala (Equifax)
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Breakout C
2:45 PM
- 3:30 PM
Finout Customer Breakout (details TBD)
Breakout
Location: Breakout A
2:45 PM
- 3:30 PM
Advanced AI Optimization with AWS and Capital One
Brent Segner (Capital One), Stephanie Gooch (AWS), Adam Richter (AWS)
Breakout
Level: 300
Location: Breakout D
2:45 PM
- 2:55 AM
Hybrid Cost Transparency
Yuya Miyahara (Sony)
Level: 100
Location: Expo Hall
2:57 PM
- 3:07 PM
ITFM Lessons for AI’s Non-Linear Cost Curve
Janine Pickard-Green (MagicOrange)
Level: 200
Location: Expo Hall
3:09 PM
- 3:19 PM
The Incremental Path to Shifting FinOps Left
Ali Khajeh-Hosseini (Infracost) Governance, Policy & Risk
Level: 200
Location: Expo Hall
Managing Data & AI Costs in the Public Sector
Chinni Krishna Abburi (Communities Foundation of Texas) Unit Economics
Level: 200
Location: Expo Hall
3:30 PM
- 4:00 PM
Snack Break in the Expo Hall
Networking
Location: Expo Hall
4:00 PM
- 4:45 PM
Breakouts
Breakout
4:00 PM
- 4:45 PM
FinOps at National Scale: Enabling Dynamic Cloud Visibility and Collaboration Across Government with FOCUS
Benjamin Bennett (GDS)
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Breakout A
4:00 PM
- 4:45 PM
The Cost of Cognition: Why Your AI Budget Will Break in the Agentic Era
Kuntal Patel (Palo Alto Networks), Abhinav Lad (Palo Alto Networks) Forecasting, Budgeting
Breakout
Level: 300
Location: Breakout D
4:00 PM
- 4:45 PM
Spreadsheets to Autopilot: UiPath's Multi-Cloud Rate Optimization
Tammy Burnitt (UiPath), Erik Carlin (ProsperOps) Rate Optimization
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Breakout B
4:00 PM
- 4:45 PM
Stacklet Customer Breakout (details TBD)
Breakout
Location: Breakout C
4:00 PM
- 5:30 PM
Risk, Policy, & Governance Chalk Talk
Martin Thompson (ITAM Forum), Omkar Gokhale (Salesforce), Savina Stoykova (TP ICAP) Governance, Policy & Risk
Chalk Talk
Level: 200
4:00 PM
- 5:30 PM
Unit Economics Chalk Talk
Dever Carrison (The Cigna Group), Nicole Savona (Evernorth Health Services), Matt Tomlinson (Indeed), Anastassia Storozhev (Atlassian) Unit Economics
Chalk Talk
Level: 200
4:00 PM
- 5:30 PM
FOCUS Implementation Chalk Talk
Sylvain Barbot (Intact), Karl Kraft (Walmart), Afreen Bano (BP), Cameron Lane (Indeed)
Chalk Talk
Level: 200
5:00 PM
- 5:45 PM
Breakouts
Breakout
5:00 PM
- 5:45 PM
FOCUS as the Backbone: Making Multi-Cloud FinOps Reporting Boring
Rohit Mishra (Avaloq)
Breakout
Level: 300
Location: Breakout A
5:00 PM
- 5:45 PM
Managing Capacity at the Feature Level
James Kneeland (Meta), Joshua Louie (Meta)
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Breakout B
5:00 PM
- 5:45 PM
ITFM Breakout Session (Details coming soon)
Breakout
Location: Breakout C
5:00 PM
- 5:45 PM
FOCUS Breakout Session (Details coming soon)
Breakout
Location: Breakout D
6:00 PM
- 10:00 PM
FinOps X Closing Party - Sponsored by IBM Cloudability
Networking

Thursday June 11

8:00 AM
- 11:00 AM
Closing Networking Breakfast (Badge Required)
Networking
Location: Pool South