Agenda – FinOps X 2024

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Thursday June 20

7:00 AM
- 8:00 AM
Breakfast (Badge Required)
Networking
Location: Grand Terrace
7:00 AM
- 5:30 PM
Registration & Badge Pickup
Location: San Diego C
8:00 AM
- 9:30 AM
Day 1 Keynotes
Keynote
Location: Grand Ballroom
The Future of FinOps
J.R. Storment (FinOps Foundation) FinOps Practice Operations, FinOps Education & Enablement, Benchmarking
Keynote
Location: Grand Ballroom
Burn Down the Past - Forecasting at Disney
Elly Rauch (Disney) Forecasting
Keynote
Location: Grand Ballroom
FinOps Beyond Public Cloud at Uber (with Invoice Bots!)
Sarah Keller (Uber), Chavis Richardson (Uber) Invoicing & Chargeback, Rate Optimization, Budgeting
Keynote
Location: Grand Ballroom
Unifying Specification for Cloud Billing Data: FOCUS 1.0 (with Gitlab)
Clément Leroux (GitLab), J.R. Storment (FinOps Foundation)
Keynote
Location: Grand Ballroom
Cloud Panel - VPs from AWS, Google and Microsoft
Pravir Gupta (Google ), Srivatsan Kidambi (Microsoft), James Greenfield (AWS) Architecting for Cloud
Keynote
Location: Grand Ballroom
9:30 AM
- 9:45 AM
Coffee, Tea and Biscuits Break
Networking
Location: Expo Hall
9:45 AM
- 10:30 AM
Simplifying FinOps in a Complex Business
Jarred Clore (Cisco), Lucas Paratore (Tanzu CloudHealth) Invoicing & Chargeback
Breakout
Location: Breakout C
9:45 AM
- 10:30 AM
Aligning Duolingo's Cloud Architecture with Strategic Business Goals
Erik Peterson (Cloudzero), Vitor Pellegrino (Duolingo) Unit Economics
Breakout
Location: Breakout E
9:45 AM
- 10:30 AM
Cost Allocation Models and Chargeback
Swapna Samuel (BMO), Natasha Xu (BMO) Invoicing & Chargeback
Breakout
Location: Breakout D
9:45 AM
- 10:30 AM
Journey to the Center of FinOps with Duolingo, Instructure, and Ticketmaster
Jeff Hyatt (Ticketmaster), Tiffany Taggart (Instructure), Max Blaze (Duolingo), Shon Harris (Spot) FinOps Practice Operations
Breakout
Location: Breakout A
9:45 AM
- 10:30 AM
Cloud Data Analysis & Statistics for the FinOps Practitioner
Victoria Levy (Alteryx) Reporting & Analytics
Breakout
Location: Breakout B
9:45 AM
- 10:30 AM
Google Cloud FinOps Leaders Circle
Bruna Cristofaro De Souza (Uber), Kim Wier (Target), Alfonso Hernandez (Google Cloud), Pathik Sharma (Google), Courtney Bormann (General Mills)
Breakout
Location: Grand Ballroom
9:45 AM
- 11:30 AM
Chalk Talk: Managing FinOps Practice Operations (90 mins Whiteboarding)
Rachel Palmarozzi (Electronic Arts), Vitaly Belyasov (Align Technology), Colin Maynard (TELUS Health)
Chalk Talk
Location: Chalk Talk F
9:45 AM
- 11:30 AM
Chalk Talk: Cloud Optimization Beyond the Obvious (90 mins Whiteboarding)
Kate Ferguson (Liberty Mutual Insurance), Brad Payne (PointClickCare), Jason Sanghi (Iterable)
Chalk Talk
Location: Chalk Talk G
10:45 AM
- 11:30 AM
How to Leverage Engineering to Optimize Workloads and Fleet Management
Jennifer Hays (Fidelity Investments), Pete Davies (Fidelity Investments), Zachary Stitham (Fidelity Investments), Sean Donahue (Fidelity Investments)
Breakout
Location: Breakout A
10:45 AM
- 11:30 AM
Breaking the Iron Triangle: Finding New Opportunities for FinOps Value
Brian Chukwu-Smith (Equifax), Elliott Devenport (Equifax) FinOps Practice Operations, Unit Economics
Breakout
Location: Breakout C
10:45 AM
- 11:30 AM
How to Use FinOps Framework 2024
Mike Fuller (FinOps Foundation), Rob Martin (FinOps Foundation) FinOps Practice Operations
Breakout
Location: Breakout E
10:45 AM
- 11:30 AM
Lessons Learned from "CCC": PepsiCo's Internal FinOps Service
Kimberly Floss (PepsiCo) FinOps Tools & Services
Breakout
Location: Grand Ballroom
10:45 AM
- 11:30 AM
Unveiling Chevron's Transformation: A journey of innovation and cloud adoption fueled by FinOps.
Scott Linn (Chevron), Evelyn Padrino (Microsoft), Michael Flanakin (Microsoft)
Breakout
Location: Breakout D
10:45 AM
- 11:30 AM
Building an Effective Process for Tracking and Reporting Usage Optimization
Parker Nancollas (SoftwareOne), James Taylor (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) Reporting & Analytics
Breakout
Location: Breakout B
11:30 AM
- 1:00 PM
Lunch
Networking
Location: Marina Terrace
1:00 PM
- 1:45 PM
Scaling Economies: Walmart's Approach for Breathing Optimization
Andy Dumich (Walmart), Sasikala Saseedhar (Walmart) Workload Optimization, Reporting & Analytics
Breakout
Location: Breakout C
1:00 PM
- 1:45 PM
Adopting FinOps: Advanced Tips & Tactics
Deana Solis (Smarsh), Eric Mulartrick (Boomi), Tammy Burnitt (Shell), Kyle Campos (CloudBolt) FinOps Education & Enablement
Breakout
Location: Breakout A
1:00 PM
- 1:45 PM
Do More with Less: Skyrocket Your Savings with Automated Rate Optimization
Erik Carlin (ProsperOps), Hitesh Chitalia (FactSet) Rate Optimization
Breakout
Location: Breakout B
1:00 PM
- 1:45 PM
FinOps & ITAM: How to Collaborate and Succeed
Keith Hiszem (Cardinal Health), Brian Adler (Flexera) Licensing & SaaS
Breakout
Location: Breakout D
1:00 PM
- 1:45 PM
Mostly Cloudy: Why Forecasting Became Disney FinOps’ Priority #1
Elly Rauch (Disney) Forecasting
Breakout
Location: Grand Ballroom
1:00 PM
- 1:45 PM
FinOps' Role in System Design Lifecycle in the Public Sector
Al Himler (U.S. Office of Personnel Management), Dan Jacobs (U.S. Office of Personnel Management) Architecting for Cloud
Breakout
Location: Breakout E
1:00 PM
- 2:45 PM
Chalk Talk: Quantifying the Value of the FinOps Practice (90 mins Whiteboarding)
Anthony “TJ” Johnson (MGM Resorts International), Nick Deinzer (Hashicorp)
Chalk Talk
Location: Chalk Talk F
1:00 PM
- 2:45 PM
Chalk Talk: AI for FinOps (90 mins Whiteboarding)
Brent Eubanks (Wayfair), James Barney (MetLife)
Chalk Talk
Location: Chalk Talk G
2:00 PM
- 2:45 PM
Standardizing Cross-FinOps Persona Communication
Teresa Meade (Reddit), Walter King (Reddit) Reporting & Analytics
Breakout
Location: Breakout D
2:00 PM
- 2:45 PM
Build vs Buy? Why Not Both? The Linux Foundation Story
Marie Burke (Ternary), Rudy Grigar (Linux Foundation), Shah Ahmadzai (Linux Foundation) FinOps Tools & Services
Breakout
Location: Breakout A
2:00 PM
- 2:45 PM
How to Combine Management & Governance with Cost Optimization
Yuriy Prykhodko (Amazon Web Services), Steph Gooch (AWS), Larry Advey (Twilio) Cloud Policy & Governance
Breakout
Location: Breakout B
2:00 PM
- 2:45 PM
FOCUS & GitLab: What It Is, and How to Adopt It
Mike Fuller (FinOps Foundation), Amber Gregorio (FinOps Foundation), Clément Leroux (GitLab) Data Ingestion, Reporting & Analytics
Breakout
Location: Grand Ballroom
2:00 PM
- 2:45 PM
Building a Unified View of Cloud Costs at Citi
Amit Kinha (Citi) Allocation
Breakout
Location: Breakout C
2:00 PM
- 2:45 PM
FinOps Across Public Cloud and On-Prem
Dr. Maneesha Asundi (Mr. Cooper), Jon Thompson (Virtasant)
Breakout
Location: Breakout E
2:45 PM
- 3:15 PM
Break
Networking
Location:
3:15 PM
- 4:00 PM
Making Cloud Sustainability Actionable with FinOps
Vik Saluja (Mastercard), Mike Jaco (Mastercard) Cloud Sustainability
Breakout
Location: Breakout B
3:15 PM
- 4:00 PM
Hybrid Cloud Hacks: Use FinOps to Unlock Innovation
Sunil Bhargava (Kyndryl), Ximena Carrillo (NextEra Energy), Umair Dinarwala (Kyndryl) Cloud Policy & Governance
Breakout
Location: Breakout D
3:15 PM
- 4:00 PM
FinOps Strategies in Action
Gokul Naidu (SAP), Conrad Meneide (Kenvue), Shannon Gray (Deloitte) FinOps Practice Operations
Breakout
Location: Breakout A
3:15 PM
- 4:00 PM
Fannie Mae's Journey to Advanced Showback and Chargeback
Jennifer Samolyk (Fannie Mae), Chuck Mountz (Fannie Mae) Invoicing & Chargeback
Breakout
Location: Breakout C
3:15 PM
- 4:00 PM
Maximizing FinOps Education Impact: Insights from Walmart and the FinOps Foundation
Stacy Case (FinOps Foundation), Patrick Moore (Walmart) FinOps Education & Enablement
Breakout
Location: Breakout E
3:15 PM
- 4:00 PM
Driving Profitability with Invoice Bots, Custom Rates, and Improved Cost Attribution at Uber
Sarah Keller (Uber), Chavis Richardson (Uber) Reporting & Analytics
Breakout
Location: Grand Ballroom
3:15 PM
- 5:00 PM
Chalk Talk: Planning, Estimating, Forecasting (90 mins Whiteboarding)
Becky Canterbury (Shutterstock), Lydia Lewin (John Deere), Charlie Wolfe ()
Chalk Talk
Location: Chalk Talk F
3:15 PM
- 5:00 PM
Chalk Talk: Automation (90 mins Whiteboarding)
Riley Jenkins (Domo), Diane Kozobolis (Lockheed Martin)
Chalk Talk
Location: Chalk Talk G
4:15 PM
- 5:00 PM
Navigating FinOps: Building a Lasting Culture for Financial Success
Janel Jensen (Paramount) FinOps Practice Operations, Invoicing & Chargeback
Breakout
Location: Breakout E
4:15 PM
- 5:00 PM
FinOpsPod LIVE: Day 1
Joe Daly (FinOps Foundation), Stacy Case (FinOps Foundation)
Breakout
Location: Breakout B
4:15 PM
- 5:00 PM
Unit Economics: Cloud Cost Metrics that Matter to the Business
Kimberly Schminke (Deltek), Gourav Kapoor (Deltek) Unit Economics
Breakout
Location: Breakout C
4:15 PM
- 5:00 PM
How Anomaly Detection and Unit Economics Fuel Growth at Palo Alto Networks
Zhen Cao (Palo Alto Networks), Kuntal Patel (Palo Alto Networks) Anomaly Management, Unit Economics
Breakout
Location: Breakout D
5:00 PM
- 6:00 PM
Networking Reception in Expo Hall
Networking
Location: Expo Hall
6:00 PM
- 10:00 PM
Official FinOps X Aircraft Carrier Party
Networking
Location: USS Midway (Offsite)

Friday June 21

7:00 AM
- 8:00 AM
Breakfast (Badge Required)
Networking
Location: Grand Terrace
8:00 AM
- 9:30 AM
Main Keynote
Keynote
Location: Grand Ballroom
Infrastructure Meets Finance
Keena Blunschi (American Express), Noreen Dever (American Express) Forecasting, Unit Economics, Invoicing & Chargeback
Keynote
Location: Grand Ballroom
Tooling & Services Ecosystem
Mike Fuller (FinOps Foundation) FinOps Tools & Services
Keynote
Location: Grand Ballroom
Cloud Feature Announcements
Jimin Li (Microsoft), John Phillips (AWS), Sarah McMullin (Google)
Keynote
Location: Grand Ballroom
Platform and Services Ecosystem Announcements
J.R. Storment (FinOps Foundation), Mike Fuller (FinOps Foundation)
Keynote
Location: Grand Ballroom
9:30 AM
- 9:45 AM
Break
Networking
Location:
9:45 AM
- 10:30 AM
Chargeback Walk to Run: Improving Granularity and Driving Cloud Adoption
Nicole Gauer (Evernorth), Sergio Armenta (Evernorth) Allocation
Breakout
Location: Breakout B
9:45 AM
- 10:30 AM
Optimizing GPU Efficiency in Cloud-Native AI Environments
AJ Nish (NVIDIA), Chandra Narayanaswami (IBM) Workload Optimization
Breakout
Location: Breakout C
9:45 AM
- 10:30 AM
Optimizing for Billions: Coinbase's Approach to AWS Cost Efficiency
Sara Reddy (Coinbase), Tiberiu Oprisiu (Coinbase) Workload Optimization
Breakout
Location: Breakout E
9:45 AM
- 10:30 AM
Anomaly Detection with Looker on Google Cloud
Leslie Nolan (CME Group), Kevin Kranz (CME Group) Anomaly Management
Breakout
Location: Breakout A
9:45 AM
- 10:30 AM
Applying FinOps to Gen AI
Joshua Collier (Grammarly), Jason Rhoades (Intuit) Reporting & Analytics
Breakout
Location: Breakout D
9:45 AM
- 10:30 AM
What’s New with AWS Cloud Financial Management
Rick Ochs (Amazon Web Services), David Van Hoven (HERE Technologies)
Breakout
Location: Grand Ballroom
9:45 AM
- 11:30 AM
Chalk Talk: Public Sector Workshop (90 mins Whiteboarding)
Sarah Kula (Canadian Institute for Health Information), Rhett Rothberg (U.S. Coast Guard), Dr. Elizabeth Di Bene (Loudoun County Government), Emma Gersten (Texas A&M University)
Chalk Talk
Location: Chalk Talk F
10:45 AM
- 11:30 AM
Taking FinOps to the Next Level: Beyond Optimization
Ziva Tubul (Wix), Dvir Mizrahi (Wix) Workload Optimization
Breakout
Location: Breakout C
10:45 AM
- 11:30 AM
Resilience & Results Why Hearst Treats FinOps Like a Triathlon
Willy Sennott (Vega Cloud), Carolyn Zakrzewski (Hearst) FinOps Practice Operations
Breakout
Location: Breakout D
10:45 AM
- 11:30 AM
Navigating New Intersections and Trends: FinOps, AI, and Sustainability - Microsoft
Cyril Belikoff (Microsoft), Ritesh Kini (Microsoft), Vikram Desai (Microsoft), Jimin Li (Microsoft) Intersecting Disciplines
Breakout
Location: Grand Ballroom
10:45 AM
- 11:30 AM
Chasing Actionability and Engineering Engagement in FinOps
Federica Teodori (Riot Games) FinOps Practice Operations
Breakout
Location: Breakout E
10:45 AM
- 11:30 AM
Google Cloud User Group - Meet the people behind Google Cloud FinOps
Rupa Patel (Google Cloud), Shruthi Nambi (Google Cloud), Gautam Srikanth (Google Cloud), Alfonso Hernandez (Google Cloud), Yubing Luo (Google Cloud), Karanjit Cheema (Google Cloud), Jingjie Zheng (Google Cloud)
Breakout
Location: Breakout B
10:45 AM
- 11:30 AM
Cloud Sustainability Panel
Natalie Daley (HSBC), Mike Rosenberg (Nubank), Bindu Sharma (Teradata), Mike Fuller (FinOps Foundation)
Breakout
Location: Breakout A
11:30 AM
- 1:00 PM
Lunch
Networking
Location: Marina Terrace
1:00 PM
- 2:45 PM
Chalk Talk: Framework 2024 TAC Panel (90 mins Whiteboarding)
Noel Crowley (Fidelity Investments), Courtney Bormann (General Mills), David Lambert (Adobe), Kim Wier (Target)
Chalk Talk
Location: Chalk Talk F
1:00 PM
- 1:45 PM
Microsoft User Group: Bring Your Data into the AI Era: Democratize FinOps with Microsoft Fabric
Gabriel Esparza-Romero (Microsoft), Shiv Nandan Singh (Microsoft)
Breakout
Location: Breakout B
1:00 PM
- 1:45 PM
Normalization of Multi-Cloud Data Sets for Cloud Cost Management
Paolo Sellari (Tangoe), Dawn Preston (Tangoe), Bob Clasen (MITRE), John Gallivan (MITRE) Reporting & Analytics
Breakout
Location: Breakout A
1:00 PM
- 1:45 PM
Unleashing Comprehensive and Agile Data Models for FinOps
George Parker (Salesforce), Dhanush Devaraj (Salesforce) Data Ingestion
Breakout
Location: Breakout E
1:00 PM
- 1:45 PM
Achieving Exceptional Cloud Efficiency with Strategic Resource Optimization
Andrew Midgley (Apptio), Dustin Bowling (SailPoint)
Breakout
Location: Breakout C
1:00 PM
- 1:45 PM
Engineering and Finance - How to Navigate FinOps Between the Organizations
Jenny Tang (Apple), Sukhvinder Kumar (Apple) FinOps Practice Operations
Breakout
Location: Grand Ballroom
1:00 PM
- 1:45 PM
A Toolbox for Engineering Engagement of FinOps
Thomas Hammer (Nubank) FinOps Practice Operations, FinOps Education & Enablement
Breakout
Location: Breakout D
2:00 PM
- 2:45 PM
FOCUS & Zoom: What It Is, and How to Adopt It
Pavan Tallapragada (Zoom), Nick Konstantinou (Zoom), Mike Fuller (FinOps Foundation), Udam Dewaraja (FinOps Foundation)
Breakout
Location: Grand Ballroom
2:00 PM
- 2:45 PM
Navigating Cloud Cost Optimization Challenges at American Airlines
Kim Darzi (American Airlines), Parag Bhardwaj (American Airlines), Aswanidutt Dasara (American Airlines) Workload Optimization
Breakout
Location: Breakout B
2:00 PM
- 2:45 PM
Maverick: Productizing Showback & Spend Intelligence at Adobe
Karthik Pallapothu (Adobe), Ryan Thorpe (Adobe) Reporting & Analytics, Data Ingestion
Breakout
Location: Breakout D
2:00 PM
- 2:45 PM
AWS User Group: Meet the product leaders and learn more about the latest launch announcements
Jimmy Yang (AWS), Zach Erdman (AWS)
Breakout
Location: Breakout E
2:00 PM
- 2:45 PM
How Cloud FinOps Brings Value to AI Investments - Google Cloud
Eric Lam (Google), Bruce Warner (Google), Leslie Nolan (CME Group), Brent Eubanks (Wayfair), Wallace Suleiman (SAP), Pathik Sharma (Google)
Breakout
Location: Breakout A
2:00 PM
- 2:45 PM
Distilling Cloud Anomalies into Golden Alerts
Usha Ganesh (Electronic Arts) Unit Economics
Breakout
Location: Breakout C
2:45 PM
- 3:15 PM
Break
Networking
Location:
3:15 PM
- 4:00 PM
Why We Built Our Own Cost Governance Tool
Dinesh Sonawane (Workday), Don Rudish (Workday) Forecasting, Cloud Policy & Governance
Breakout
Location: Breakout D
3:15 PM
- 4:00 PM
Achieving Cost Excellence: Shifting Left, Compute Optimization and Tackling Anomaly Detection
Andrew Feig (JPMorgan Chase), Craig Shine (JPMorgan Chase)
Breakout
Location: Breakout C
3:15 PM
- 4:00 PM
Going Multi Cloud with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
Usha Ganesh (Electronic Arts), Arun Ramakrishnan (Oracle) Onboarding Workloads
Breakout
Location: Breakout B
3:15 PM
- 4:00 PM
Applying the FinOps Framework to SaaS at Scale
Amy Ashby (Under Armour), Lindbergh Matillano (Avalara) Licensing & SaaS
Breakout
Location: Breakout E
3:15 PM
- 4:00 PM
FinOps & AI Panel
Natalie Daley (HSBC), James Barney (MetLife), Joshua Collier (Grammarly), Brent Eubanks (Wayfair)
Breakout
Location: Breakout A
3:15 PM
- 4:00 PM
How FinOps Streamlines Creating Managed Services for Your Maturing Enterprise
Michael Bragalone (Capital One), Ben Sleichter (Capital One), Nicole Yegorina (Capital One) FinOps Practice Operations
Breakout
Location: Grand Ballroom
3:15 PM
- 4:10 PM
Chalk Talk: FOCUS Workshop (45 mins Whiteboarding)
Mike Fuller (FinOps Foundation), Rob Martin (FinOps Foundation), Vasilio Markanastasakis (FinOps Foundation) Data Ingestion, Reporting & Analytics
Chalk Talk
Location: Chalk Talk F
4:10 PM
- 5:00 PM
Chalk Talk: FOCUS Workshop (REPEAT - 45 mins Whiteboarding)
Mike Fuller (FinOps Foundation), Rob Martin (FinOps Foundation), Vasilio Markanastasakis (FinOps Foundation)
Chalk Talk
Location: Chalk Talk F
4:15 PM
- 5:00 PM
FinOps Capacity Planning in Meta's Private Cloud
Amit Mookerjee (Meta), Deepak Tiwari (Meta)
Breakout
Location: Grand Ballroom
4:15 PM
- 5:00 PM
A Programmer's Guide to Cloud Cost Conversations
Ian Foster (Marsh McLennan) FinOps Education & Enablement
Breakout
Location: Breakout E
4:15 PM
- 5:00 PM
The Engine and the Fire: Cloud FinOps at Toyota
Jayson Hill (Toyota North America) Unit Economics, FinOps Practice Operations
Breakout
Location: Breakout C
4:15 PM
- 5:00 PM
Podwatcher and Podcost: How Aurora Built a Kubernetes Chargeback System
Martin Velez (Aurora) Allocation
Breakout
Location: Breakout D
4:15 PM
- 5:00 PM
FinOpsPod LIVE: Day 2
Stacy Case (FinOps Foundation), Joe Daly (FinOps Foundation)
Breakout
Location: Breakout B
5:00 PM
- 6:30 PM
Happy Hour Networking in Expo Hall
Networking
Location: Expo Hall
7:00 PM
Sponsor event: 2nd Annual FinOps X 8-Bit After Party (ProsperOps, CloudZero, Xosphere - Badge Required)
Networking
Location: Pool South
7:00 PM
Sponsor event: Flexera Evening Aloha at FinOps X (Badge Required)
Networking
Location: Roy's
7:00 PM
- 10:00 PM
Sponsor event: Finout FinOps After Dark 2024 (Badge Required)
Networking
Location: Bayside Lounge (TopGolf)

Saturday June 22

7:00 AM
- 8:00 AM
Poolside Coffee & Chat (Badge Required)
Networking
Location: Pool South
8:00 AM
- 11:00 AM
Closing Networking Breakfast by the Pool (Badge Required)
Networking
Location: Pool South

Please note agenda times may alter before the event

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How much are rooms in the discounted room block?

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Will scholarships be available for FinOps X?

Applications to scholarship funding for FinOps X 2025 will open on 14 January 2025