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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 Practice Operations, FinOps Education & Enablement, Benchmarking
Keynote
Location: Grand Ballroom
Burn Down the Past - Forecasting at Disney
Elly Rauch () Forecasting
Keynote
Location: Grand Ballroom
FinOps Beyond Public Cloud at Uber (with Invoice Bots!)
Sarah Keller (), Chavis Richardson () Invoicing & Chargeback, Rate Optimization, Budgeting
Keynote
Location: Grand Ballroom
Unifying Specification for Cloud Billing Data: FOCUS 1.0 (with Gitlab)
Clément Leroux (), J.R. Storment ()
Keynote
Location: Grand Ballroom
Cloud Panel - VPs from AWS, Google and Microsoft
Pravir Gupta (), Srivatsan Kidambi (), James Greenfield () 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 (), Lucas Paratore () Invoicing & Chargeback
Breakout
Location: Breakout C
9:45 AM
- 10:30 AM
Aligning Duolingo's Cloud Architecture with Strategic Business Goals
Erik Peterson (), Vitor Pellegrino () Unit Economics
Breakout
Location: Breakout E
9:45 AM
- 10:30 AM
Cost Allocation Models and Chargeback
Swapna Samuel (), Natasha Xu () 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 (), Tiffany Taggart (), Max Blaze (), Shon Harris () FinOps Practice Operations
Breakout
Location: Breakout A
9:45 AM
- 10:30 AM
Cloud Data Analysis & Statistics for the FinOps Practitioner
Victoria Levy () Reporting & Analytics
Breakout
Location: Breakout B
9:45 AM
- 10:30 AM
Google Cloud FinOps Leaders Circle
Bruna Cristofaro De Souza (), Kim Wier (), Alfonso Hernandez (), Pathik Sharma (), Courtney Bormann ()
Breakout
Location: Grand Ballroom
9:45 AM
- 11:30 AM
Chalk Talk: Managing FinOps Practice Operations (90 mins Whiteboarding)
Rachel Palmarozzi (), Vitaly Belyasov (), Colin Maynard ()
Chalk Talk
Location: Chalk Talk F
9:45 AM
- 11:30 AM
Chalk Talk: Cloud Optimization Beyond the Obvious (90 mins Whiteboarding)
Kate Ferguson (), Brad Payne (), Jason Sanghi ()
Chalk Talk
Location: Chalk Talk G
10:45 AM
- 11:30 AM
How to Leverage Engineering to Optimize Workloads and Fleet Management
Jennifer Hays (), Pete Davies (), Zachary Stitham (), Sean Donahue ()
Breakout
Location: Breakout A
10:45 AM
- 11:30 AM
Breaking the Iron Triangle: Finding New Opportunities for FinOps Value
Brian Chukwu-Smith (), Elliott Devenport () FinOps Practice Operations, Unit Economics
Breakout
Location: Breakout C
10:45 AM
- 11:30 AM
How to Use FinOps Framework 2024
Mike Fuller (), Rob Martin () FinOps Practice Operations
Breakout
Location: Breakout E
10:45 AM
- 11:30 AM
Lessons Learned from "CCC": PepsiCo's Internal FinOps Service
Kimberly Floss () 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 (), Michael Flanakin ()
Breakout
Location: Breakout D
10:45 AM
- 11:30 AM
Building an Effective Process for Tracking and Reporting Usage Optimization
Parker Nancollas (), James Taylor () 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 (), Sasikala Saseedhar () Workload Optimization, Reporting & Analytics
Breakout
Location: Breakout C
1:00 PM
- 1:45 PM
Adopting FinOps: Advanced Tips & Tactics
Deana Solis (), Eric Mulartrick (), Tammy Burnitt (), Kyle Campos () 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 (), Hitesh Chitalia () Rate Optimization
Breakout
Location: Breakout B
1:00 PM
- 1:45 PM
FinOps & ITAM: How to Collaborate and Succeed
Keith Hiszem (), Brian Adler () Licensing & SaaS
Breakout
Location: Breakout D
1:00 PM
- 1:45 PM
Mostly Cloudy: Why Forecasting Became Disney FinOps’ Priority #1
Elly Rauch () Forecasting
Breakout
Location: Grand Ballroom
1:00 PM
- 1:45 PM
FinOps' Role in System Design Lifecycle in the Public Sector
Al Himler (), Dan Jacobs () 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 (), Nick Deinzer ()
Chalk Talk
Location: Chalk Talk F
1:00 PM
- 2:45 PM
Chalk Talk: AI for FinOps (90 mins Whiteboarding)
Brent Eubanks (), James Barney ()
Chalk Talk
Location: Chalk Talk G
2:00 PM
- 2:45 PM
Standardizing Cross-FinOps Persona Communication
Teresa Meade (), Walter King () Reporting & Analytics
Breakout
Location: Breakout D
2:00 PM
- 2:45 PM
Build vs Buy? Why Not Both? The Linux Foundation Story
Marie Burke (), Rudy Grigar (), Shah Ahmadzai () FinOps Tools & Services
Breakout
Location: Breakout A
2:00 PM
- 2:45 PM
How to Combine Management & Governance with Cost Optimization
Yuriy Prykhodko (), Steph Gooch (), Larry Advey () 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 (), Amber Gregorio (), Clément Leroux () 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 () Allocation
Breakout
Location: Breakout C
2:00 PM
- 2:45 PM
FinOps Across Public Cloud and On-Prem
Dr. Maneesha Asundi (), Jon Thompson ()
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 (), Mike Jaco () Cloud Sustainability
Breakout
Location: Breakout B
3:15 PM
- 4:00 PM
Hybrid Cloud Hacks: Use FinOps to Unlock Innovation
Sunil Bhargava (), Ximena Carrillo (), Umair Dinarwala () Cloud Policy & Governance
Breakout
Location: Breakout D
3:15 PM
- 4:00 PM
FinOps Strategies in Action
Gokul Naidu (), Conrad Meneide (), Shannon Gray () FinOps Practice Operations
Breakout
Location: Breakout A
3:15 PM
- 4:00 PM
Fannie Mae's Journey to Advanced Showback and Chargeback
Jennifer Samolyk (), Chuck Mountz () 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 (), Patrick Moore () 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 (), Chavis Richardson () Reporting & Analytics
Breakout
Location: Grand Ballroom
3:15 PM
- 5:00 PM
Chalk Talk: Planning, Estimating, Forecasting (90 mins Whiteboarding)
Becky Canterbury (), Lydia Lewin (), Charlie Wolfe ()
Chalk Talk
Location: Chalk Talk F
3:15 PM
- 5:00 PM
Chalk Talk: Automation (90 mins Whiteboarding)
Riley Jenkins (), Diane Kozobolis ()
Chalk Talk
Location: Chalk Talk G
4:15 PM
- 5:00 PM
Navigating FinOps: Building a Lasting Culture for Financial Success
Janel Jensen () FinOps Practice Operations, Invoicing & Chargeback
Breakout
Location: Breakout E
4:15 PM
- 5:00 PM
FinOpsPod LIVE: Day 1
Joe Daly (), Stacy Case ()
Breakout
Location: Breakout B
4:15 PM
- 5:00 PM
Unit Economics: Cloud Cost Metrics that Matter to the Business
Kimberly Schminke (), Gourav Kapoor () 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 (), Kuntal Patel () 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 (), Noreen Dever () Forecasting, Unit Economics, Invoicing & Chargeback
Keynote
Location: Grand Ballroom
Tooling & Services Ecosystem
Mike Fuller () FinOps Tools & Services
Keynote
Location: Grand Ballroom
Cloud Feature Announcements
Jimin Li (), John Phillips (), Sarah McMullin ()
Keynote
Location: Grand Ballroom
Platform and Services Ecosystem Announcements
J.R. Storment (), Mike Fuller ()
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 (), Sergio Armenta () Allocation
Breakout
Location: Breakout B
9:45 AM
- 10:30 AM
Optimizing GPU Efficiency in Cloud-Native AI Environments
AJ Nish (), Chandra Narayanaswami () Workload Optimization
Breakout
Location: Breakout C
9:45 AM
- 10:30 AM
Optimizing for Billions: Coinbase's Approach to AWS Cost Efficiency
Sara Reddy (), Tiberiu Oprisiu () Workload Optimization
Breakout
Location: Breakout E
9:45 AM
- 10:30 AM
Anomaly Detection with Looker on Google Cloud
Leslie Nolan (), Kevin Kranz () Anomaly Management
Breakout
Location: Breakout A
9:45 AM
- 10:30 AM
Applying FinOps to Gen AI
Joshua Collier (), Jason Rhoades () Reporting & Analytics
Breakout
Location: Breakout D
9:45 AM
- 10:30 AM
What’s New with AWS Cloud Financial Management
Rick Ochs (), David Van Hoven ()
Breakout
Location: Grand Ballroom
9:45 AM
- 11:30 AM
Chalk Talk: Public Sector Workshop (90 mins Whiteboarding)
Sarah Kula (), Rhett Rothberg (), Dr. Elizabeth Di Bene (), Emma Gersten ()
Chalk Talk
Location: Chalk Talk F
10:45 AM
- 11:30 AM
Taking FinOps to the Next Level: Beyond Optimization
Ziva Tubul (), Dvir Mizrahi () Workload Optimization
Breakout
Location: Breakout C
10:45 AM
- 11:30 AM
Resilience & Results Why Hearst Treats FinOps Like a Triathlon
Willy Sennott (), Carolyn Zakrzewski () 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 (), Ritesh Kini (), Vikram Desai (), Jimin Li () Intersecting Disciplines
Breakout
Location: Grand Ballroom
10:45 AM
- 11:30 AM
Chasing Actionability and Engineering Engagement in FinOps
Federica Teodori () 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 (), Shruthi Nambi (), Gautam Srikanth (), Alfonso Hernandez (), Yubing Luo (), Karanjit Cheema (), Jingjie Zheng ()
Breakout
Location: Breakout B
10:45 AM
- 11:30 AM
Cloud Sustainability Panel
Natalie Daley (), Mike Rosenberg (), Bindu Sharma (), Mike Fuller ()
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 (), Courtney Bormann (), David Lambert (), Kim Wier ()
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 (), Shiv Nandan Singh ()
Breakout
Location: Breakout B
1:00 PM
- 1:45 PM
Normalization of Multi-Cloud Data Sets for Cloud Cost Management
Paolo Sellari (), Dawn Preston (), Bob Clasen (), John Gallivan () Reporting & Analytics
Breakout
Location: Breakout A
1:00 PM
- 1:45 PM
Unleashing Comprehensive and Agile Data Models for FinOps
George Parker (), Dhanush Devaraj () Data Ingestion
Breakout
Location: Breakout E
1:00 PM
- 1:45 PM
Achieving Exceptional Cloud Efficiency with Strategic Resource Optimization
Andrew Midgley (), Dustin Bowling ()
Breakout
Location: Breakout C
1:00 PM
- 1:45 PM
Engineering and Finance - How to Navigate FinOps Between the Organizations
Jenny Tang (), Sukhvinder Kumar () FinOps Practice Operations
Breakout
Location: Grand Ballroom
1:00 PM
- 1:45 PM
A Toolbox for Engineering Engagement of FinOps
Thomas Hammer () 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 (), Nick Konstantinou (), Mike Fuller (), Udam Dewaraja ()
Breakout
Location: Grand Ballroom
2:00 PM
- 2:45 PM
Navigating Cloud Cost Optimization Challenges at American Airlines
Kim Darzi (), Parag Bhardwaj (), Aswanidutt Dasara () Workload Optimization
Breakout
Location: Breakout B
2:00 PM
- 2:45 PM
Maverick: Productizing Showback & Spend Intelligence at Adobe
Karthik Pallapothu (), Ryan Thorpe () 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 (), Zach Erdman ()
Breakout
Location: Breakout E
2:00 PM
- 2:45 PM
How Cloud FinOps Brings Value to AI Investments - Google Cloud
Eric Lam (), Bruce Warner (), Leslie Nolan (), Brent Eubanks (), Wallace Suleiman (), Pathik Sharma ()
Breakout
Location: Breakout A
2:00 PM
- 2:45 PM
Distilling Cloud Anomalies into Golden Alerts
Usha Ganesh () 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 (), 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 (), Craig Shine ()
Breakout
Location: Breakout C
3:15 PM
- 4:00 PM
Going Multi Cloud with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
Usha Ganesh (), 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 (), Lindbergh Matillano () Licensing & SaaS
Breakout
Location: Breakout E
3:15 PM
- 4:00 PM
FinOps & AI Panel
Natalie Daley (), James Barney (), Joshua Collier (), Brent Eubanks ()
Breakout
Location: Breakout A
3:15 PM
- 4:00 PM
How FinOps Streamlines Creating Managed Services for Your Maturing Enterprise
Michael Bragalone (), Ben Sleichter (), Nicole Yegorina () FinOps Practice Operations
Breakout
Location: Grand Ballroom
3:15 PM
- 4:10 PM
Chalk Talk: FOCUS Workshop (45 mins Whiteboarding)
Mike Fuller (), Rob Martin (), Vasilio Markanastasakis () 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 (), Rob Martin (), Vasilio Markanastasakis ()
Chalk Talk
Location: Chalk Talk F
4:15 PM
- 5:00 PM
FinOps Capacity Planning in Meta's Private Cloud
Amit Mookerjee (), Deepak Tiwari ()
Breakout
Location: Grand Ballroom
4:15 PM
- 5:00 PM
A Programmer's Guide to Cloud Cost Conversations
Ian Foster () FinOps Education & Enablement
Breakout
Location: Breakout E
4:15 PM
- 5:00 PM
The Engine and the Fire: Cloud FinOps at Toyota
Jayson Hill () 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 () Allocation
Breakout
Location: Breakout D
4:15 PM
- 5:00 PM
FinOpsPod LIVE: Day 2
Stacy Case (), Joe Daly ()
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

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