Agenda for FinOps X

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Sunday June 1

Early Hotel Check-in

Monday June 2

8:00 AM
Pre-Con Badge Pick-Up
Pre-Con
8:00 AM
- 10:00 AM
Pre-Con Networking Coffee & Pastries (Pre-Con Ticket Required)
Networking
Pre-Con
10:00 AM
- 10:50 AM
Pre-Con Chalk Talk and Networking (Pre-Con Ticket Required)
Chalk Talk
Pre-Con
Location: Marina Ballroom E
10:00 AM
- 10:50 AM
Unit Economics Chalk Talk Interactive Workshop (Pre-Con Ticket Required)
Unit Economics
Chalk Talk
Location: Marina Ballroom F
10:00 AM
- 10:50 AM
FinOps Scopes: AI Interactive Workshop Chalk Talk (Pre-Con Ticket Required)
Chalk Talk
Location: Marina Ballroom G
10:00 AM
- 12:00 PM
Pre-Con: FinOps Aware Engineering (Pre-Con Ticket Required)
Chalk Talk
Pre-Con
11:00 AM
- 11:50 AM
Building a "FinOps Tiger Team" Chalk Talk Interactive Workshops (Pre-Con Ticket Required)
Chalk Talk
Pre-Con
Location: Marina Ballroom E
11:00 AM
- 11:50 AM
Containerization Engineer-focused Chalk Talk Interactive Workshop (Pre-Con Ticket Required)
Architecting for Cloud, Workload Optimization
Chalk Talk
Location: Marina Ballroom F
11:00 AM
- 11:50 AM
FinOps Scopes: Data Center Interactive Workshop Chalk Talk (Pre-Con Ticket Required)
Chalk Talk
Location: Marina Ballroom G
12:00 PM
- 2:00 PM
Pre-Con Networking Lunch (Pre-Con Ticket Required)
Pre-Con
12:00 PM
- 7:00 PM
FinOps eXec (Application Required)
2:00 PM
- 2:50 PM
Value through Optimization: Workload Optimization Workshop Chalk Talk (Pre-Con Ticket Required)
Chalk Talk
Pre-Con
Location: Marina Ballroom E
2:00 PM
- 2:50 PM
Innovative FinOps Narratives for Public Sector Chalk Talk (Pre-Con Ticket Required)
Chalk Talk
Location: Marina Ballroom F
2:00 PM
- 2:50 PM
FinOps Scopes: ITAM Interactive Workshop Chalk Talk (Pre-Con Ticket Required)
Chalk Talk
Location: Marina Ballroom G
3:00 PM
- 3:50 PM
Building Executive Buy-In Chalk Talk (Pre-Con Ticket Required)
Chalk Talk
Location: Marina Ballroom E
3:00 PM
- 3:50 PM
FinOps Tooling: Build vs. Buy Chalk Talk (Pre-Con Ticket Required)
Chalk Talk
Location: Marina Ballroom F
3:00 PM
- 3:50 PM
FinOps Scopes: SaaS Interactive Workshop Chalk Talk (Pre-Con Ticket Required)
Licensing & SaaS
Chalk Talk
Location: Marina Ballroom G
4:00 PM
- 7:00 PM
Welcome Reception (All Badged Attendees)
Networking

Tuesday June 3

8:00 AM
- 9:30 AM
Day 1 Keynote
Keynote
10:00 AM
- 10:45 AM
FinOps: the Woven by Toyota Way
Emilia O’Driscoll (Woven by Toyota), Maftuh Muhammad (Woven by Toyota) FinOps Practice Operations
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Breakout B
10:00 AM
- 10:45 AM
Shifting from Just Public Cloud: How to include Private Cloud, Licensing, Network, Telecom & Mobile
Anthony “TJ” Johnson (MGM Resorts International) Unit Economics
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Breakout A
10:00 AM
- 10:45 AM
Advanced Cost Optimization with Self-Healing Bots
Corey Scriber (Thermo Fisher Scientific) Workload Optimization
Breakout
Level: 300
Location: Breakout C
10:00 AM
- 10:45 AM
Microsoft Content Session 1
Breakout
Location: Microsoft Stage
10:00 AM
- 10:45 AM
Flexera Content Session 1
Breakout
Location: Flexera Stage
10:00 AM
- 10:45 AM
Oracle Session 1
Breakout
Location: Oracle Stage
10:00 AM
- 11:45 AM
Observability Chalk Talk (Interactive Workshop)
FinOps Practice Operations, Reporting & Analytics
Chalk Talk
Location: San Diego C
10:00 AM
- 11:45 AM
FinOps for Data Center Chalk Talk (Interactive Workshop)
Chalk Talk
Location: San Diego A
10:00 AM
- 10:20 AM
Cloud optimization for elasticity and performance at the lowest cost with IBM Turbonomic
Ryan Strehlke (IBM)
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Breakout D
10:30 AM
- 10:50 AM
Cloud OpEx spend reduction and avoidance by simple platform choice
Mike Thompson (AMD) Workload Optimization
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Breakout D
11:00 AM
- 11:45 AM
FinOps for Analytics and AI
Kimberly Floss (PepsiCo) Reporting & Analytics
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Breakout B
11:00 AM
- 11:45 AM
Licensing & SaaS at Scale
Dieter Matzion (Roku Inc.) Licensing & SaaS
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Breakout D
11:00 AM
- 11:45 AM
The Invisalign Method: Keep Smiling When Your Cloud Invoice Arrives
Vitaly Belyasov (Align Technology), Ema Patki (Align Technology) Workload Optimization
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Breakout A
11:00 AM
- 11:45 AM
Amazon Web Services Content Session 1
Breakout
Location: AWS Stage
11:00 AM
- 11:45 AM
Google Cloud Content Session 1
Breakout
Location: Google Cloud Stage
11:00 AM
- 11:45 AM
IBM Cloudability Content Session 1
Breakout
Location: IBM Cloudability Stage
11:00 AM
- 11:20 AM
Measuring Value of Your GenAI Investments
Nik Jethi (Deloitte), Rajib Deb (Deloitte) FinOps Practice Operations
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Breakout C
11:30 AM
- 11:50 AM
Overcoming Resistance to Action Through Visibility and Accountability in FinOps
Michael Kearns (Virtasant), Tayo Oseni-Alexis (Tesco) FinOps Education & Enablement
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Breakout C
2:00 PM
- 2:45 PM
Multi-Cloud and On-prem Strategy Leveraging FOCUS™
Alessandro Bellini (Max Mara Fashion Group) Data Ingestion
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Breakout C
2:00 PM
- 2:45 PM
Reducing Cloud Waste Journey: from Savings to Empowering Developers
Lydia Lewin (John Deere), Nimesh Rastogi (John Deere) FinOps Practice Operations, Workload Optimization
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Breakout D
2:00 PM
- 2:45 PM
How Booking.com Welcomed AI as Their New Team Member
Christian de Wit (Booking.com), Kieren Wade (Booking.com) Workload Optimization
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Breakout A
2:00 PM
- 2:45 PM
Microsoft Content Session 2
Breakout
Location: Microsoft Stage
2:00 PM
- 2:45 PM
IBM Cloudability Content Session 2
Breakout
Location: IBM Cloudability Stage
2:00 PM
- 2:45 PM
How to Calculate Your ESR & Talk to Your Friends About It
Sanjna Srivatsa (Tanzu CloudHealth), Carolyn Zakrzewski (Hearst) Rate Optimization
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: CloudHealth Stage
2:00 PM
- 2:45 PM
Oracle Session 2
Breakout
Location: Oracle Stage
2:00 PM
- 2:20 PM
How to Automate FinOps Workflows for Faster, Smarter Decisions
Parker Nancollas (SoftwareOne) FinOps Practice Operations
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Breakout B
2:00 PM
- 3:45 PM
FinOps for AI Chalk Talk (Interactive Workshop)
Chalk Talk
Location: San Diego A
2:00 PM
- 3:45 PM
FinOps for SaaS Chalk Talk (Interactive Workshop)
Licensing & SaaS
Chalk Talk
Location: San Diego C
2:30 PM
- 2:50 PM
Smarter FinOps Starts Here: How customers are automating cloud costs with ServiceNow
Amod Bhise (ServiceNow), Abhi Roy (ServiceNow) FinOps Tools & Services
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Breakout B
3:00 PM
- 3:45 PM
FinOps Governance to Enable Shift-Left
Victoria Levy (Alteryx) Policy & Governance
Breakout
Level: 300
Location: Breakout B
3:00 PM
- 3:45 PM
How to Work with Your SaaS Providers and Internal Stakeholders for Broad FOCUS™ Adoption
Lorant Kiss (Delivery Hero), Priyanka Pandey (Delivery Hero) Licensing & SaaS
Breakout
Level: 300
Location: Breakout C
3:00 PM
- 3:45 PM
Flexera Content Session 2
Breakout
Location: Flexera Stage
3:00 PM
- 3:15 PM
FinOps Forecasting at Starbucks: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Ben Linares (Starbucks), David Rogan (Starbucks) Forecasting
Breakout
Level: 300
Location: Breakout D
3:00 PM
- 3:20 PM
Fact vs. fiction: How AI is best leveraged in the world of FinOps
Sasha Kipervarg (Ternary), Joshua Kwan (Ternary) FinOps Practice Operations
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Breakout A
3:30 PM
- 3:50 PM
Pitching Perfect FinOps: MLB’s Strategy for Large-Scale Cost Management
Frank Dice (Major League Baseball) FinOps Education & Enablement
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Breakout A
4:15 PM
- 5:00 PM
Managing Software and SaaS Costs Beyond Cloud Infrastructure
Becky Canterbury (Shutterstock), Bill Jorgensen (Shutterstock) Licensing & SaaS
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Breakout C
4:15 PM
- 5:00 PM
Conquer Cost Anomalies: A FinOps Approach to Smarter Savings
Prudhvi Vadde (Blue Yonder) Anomaly Management, Unit Economics
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Breakout D
4:15 PM
- 5:00 PM
Advancing to Unit Economics Including FinOps for AI
Taiwo Ojetayo (Workday), Mike Moone (Workday) Unit Economics
Breakout
Level: 300
Location: Breakout A
4:15 PM
- 5:00 PM
Amazon Web Services Content Session 2
Breakout
Location: AWS Stage
4:15 PM
- 5:00 PM
Beyond the Hype: Building and optimizing a GenAI solution for FinOps
Sanjna Srivatsa (Tanzu CloudHealth), Darien Schettler (Tanzu) Architecting for Cloud
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: CloudHealth Stage
4:15 PM
- 6:00 PM
Enabling and Adopting FOCUS™ Chalk Talk (Interactive Workshop)
Data Ingestion, Reporting & Analytics
Chalk Talk
Location: San Diego A
4:15 PM
- 6:00 PM
FinOps-Aware Product Decisions Chalk Talk (Interactive Workshop)
FinOps Practice Operations
Chalk Talk
Location: San Diego C
4:15 PM
- 4:35 PM
Connecting AI to Your FinOps Data: APIs, MCPs, and Real-world Insights from Block
Brooke McKim (Vantage), Youssef Ibrahim (Block) FinOps Practice Operations
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Breakout B
4:45 PM
- 5:05 PM
Driving cost optimization at scale
Deeja Cruz (Datadog) FinOps Tools & Services
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Breakout B
5:15 PM
- 6:00 PM
Cloud Efficiency Insights & Strategies: Salesforce’s COIN Score Journey
George Parker (Salesforce), Will Forrester (Salesforce) Unit Economics
Breakout
Level: 300
Location: Breakout B
5:15 PM
- 6:00 PM
Scaling Efficiently with Unit Economics
Erin Odenweller (Reddit), Chase Sturgill (Reddit) Unit Economics
Breakout
Level: 300
Location: Breakout C
5:15 PM
- 6:00 PM
FinOps for AI
Mike Fuller (FinOps Foundation), Rob Martin (FinOps Foundation)
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Breakout D
5:30 PM
- 7:30 PM
Sponsor Reception
Networking

Wednesday June 4

8:00 AM
- 9:30 AM
Day 2 Keynote
Keynote
10:00 AM
- 10:45 AM
Transforming Databricks Cost Management Data into the FOCUS™ Format: A Practical Guide
Cory Syvenky (Teck Resources Limited) Reporting & Analytics, Data Ingestion
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Breakout A
10:00 AM
- 10:45 AM
Measuring Business Value of All Things Cloud (Including AI)
Swapna Samuel (BMO), Natasha Xu (BMO) Reporting & Analytics, Unit Economics
Breakout
Level: 300
Location: Breakout C
10:00 AM
- 10:45 AM
Maximizing Cloud Cost Efficiency: CIA’s Cloud Journey
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Breakout B
10:00 AM
- 10:45 AM
Microsoft Content Session 1
Breakout
Location: Microsoft Stage
10:00 AM
- 10:45 AM
Google Cloud Content Session 1
Breakout
Location: Google Cloud Stage
10:00 AM
- 10:45 AM
IBM Cloudability Content Session 1
Breakout
Location: IBM Cloudability Stage
10:00 AM
- 10:20 AM
Solving the puzzle of Kubernetes costs through automation & contextual visualization
Ryan Pugatch (DoiT), Sebastian Amrogowicz (DoiT) Workload Optimization
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Breakout D
10:00 AM
- 11:45 AM
Cloud Sustainability Chalk Talk (Interactive Workshop)
Cloud Sustainability
Chalk Talk
Location: San Diego A
10:00 AM
- 11:45 AM
AI for FinOps Chalk Talk (Interactive Workshop)
FinOps Tools & Services
Chalk Talk
Location: San Diego C
10:30 AM
- 10:50 AM
Breaking the Ceiling: How AI and Automation Are Bolstering the Next Generation of FinOps
Kyle Campos (CloudBolt) FinOps Practice Operations
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Breakout D
11:00 AM
- 11:45 AM
Scaling Cloud Cost Efficiency: Enterprise FinOps Strategies for Sustainable Savings
Nicole Savona (Evernorth), Dever Carrison (Evernorth) Workload Optimization, Policy & Governance
Breakout
Level: 300
Location: Breakout D
11:00 AM
- 11:45 AM
Improving Forecasting and Reporting with Demand Drivers
Thomas Hammer (Nubank) Forecasting, Reporting & Analytics
Breakout
Level: 300
Location: Breakout A
11:00 AM
- 11:45 AM
How Intuit Optimizes Kubernetes
Gina Berg (Intuit), Alfred Tan (Intuit) Workload Optimization
Breakout
Level: 300
Location: Breakout B
11:00 AM
- 11:45 AM
Amazon Web Services Content Session 1
Breakout
Location: AWS Stage
11:00 AM
- 11:45 AM
A FinOps Journey of A FinOps Solution
Cathal Cleary (Tanzu CloudHealth), Rob Curtis (CloudHealth) FinOps Practice Operations
Breakout
Level: 100
Location: CloudHealth Stage
11:00 AM
- 11:45 AM
Oracle Session 1
Breakout
Location: Oracle Stage
11:00 AM
- 11:20 AM
Kyndryl and Sysco: Top 5 Strategies to Secure Executive Sponsorship for FinOps
Zeb Ahmed (Kyndryl), Prasshant Sharrma (Sysco) FinOps Education & Enablement
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Breakout C
11:30 AM
- 11:50 AM
Shadow Waste Uncovered: Detecting & Remediating Hidden Cloud Costs
Aviv Revach (Adaptive6), Jeff Hyatt (Ticketmaster) Architecting for Cloud
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Breakout C
2:00 PM
- 2:45 PM
Meta's Approach to Optimizing On-Prem Infrastructure Spend and ROI-Driven Decision Making
Amit Mookerjee (Meta), Lu Zhang (Meta) Architecting for Cloud, Workload Optimization
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Breakout A
2:00 PM
- 2:45 PM
FinOps as [free] Code: Cost Savings in Action
Mandy Pearce (Verint) Workload Optimization, Policy & Governance
Breakout
Level: 300
Location: Breakout C
2:00 PM
- 2:45 PM
Invisible Optimization: The ML Cost Efficiency Breakthrough
Paul Guarino (Fidelity Investments), Arun Aithal Subbanna (Fidelity Investments), Bhargav Tumu (Fidelity Investments)
Breakout
Level: 300
Location: Breakout D
2:00 PM
- 2:45 PM
Microsoft Content Session 2
Breakout
Location: Microsoft Stage
2:00 PM
- 2:45 PM
Google Cloud Content Session 2
Breakout
Location: Google Cloud Stage
2:00 PM
- 2:45 PM
IBM Cloudability Content Session 2
Breakout
Location: IBM Cloudability Stage
2:00 PM
- 2:45 PM
Flexera Content Session 1
Breakout
Location: Flexera Stage
2:00 PM
- 3:45 PM
FinOps Policy and Governance Chalk Talk (Interactive Workshop)
Policy & Governance
Chalk Talk
Location: San Diego A
2:00 PM
- 3:45 PM
Adopting FinOps Chalk Talk (Interactive Workshop)
FinOps Education & Enablement, FinOps Practice Operations
Chalk Talk
Location: San Diego C
2:00 PM
- 2:20 PM
Effective Savings Rate 2.0: Expanding the Ultimate Rate Optimization Metric
Erik Carlin (ProsperOps), Eric Mulartrick (Boomi) Rate Optimization
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Breakout B
2:30 PM
- 2:50 PM
The End of FinOps As We Know It: Real-Time AI, Unit Economics, and the $2 Trillion Cloud
Erik Peterson (Cloudzero) Workload Optimization
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Breakout B
3:00 PM
- 3:45 PM
Mastering FinOps: Long-Term Cloud Forecasting & Strategic Finance Partnerships
Jennifer Alaniz (Indeed), Matthew Tomlinson (Indeed) Forecasting
Breakout
Level: 300
Location: Breakout C
3:00 PM
- 3:45 PM
Cloud Cost Chaos to Collaboration: A Playbook for Engineering Leaders
Luke Briscoe (Monzo Bank), Selda Kao (Monzo Bank) Allocation, Unit Economics
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Breakout B
3:00 PM
- 3:45 PM
Public Sector Breakout Session
Breakout
Location: Breakout D
3:00 PM
- 3:45 PM
Google Cloud Content Session 2
Breakout
Location: Google Cloud Stage
3:00 PM
- 3:45 PM
To Optimization and Beyond
Lucas Paratore (CloudHealth)
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: CloudHealth Stage
3:00 PM
- 3:45 PM
Oracle Session 2
Breakout
Location: Oracle Stage
3:00 PM
- 3:20 PM
Scaling FinOps Governance: Win Now and Win Long Term
Lindbergh Matillano (Avalara), Sonny Shi (Stacklet)
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Breakout A
3:30 PM
- 3:50 PM
Flying High with FinOps: How United Airlines is Scaling Cloud Cost Efficiency with Harness
Ravitej Yadalam (Harness)
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Breakout A
4:15 PM
- 6:00 PM
Value through Optimization Chalk Talk (Interactive Workshop)
Workload Optimization
Chalk Talk
Location: San Diego A
4:15 PM
- 6:00 PM
Public Sector Budgeting and Forecasting Chalk Talk (Interactive Workshop)
Chalk Talk
Location: San Diego C
4:15 PM
- 5:00 PM
Hybrid Cartography: Mapping to Optimize Application Footprints in Disney Technology
Chris Christiansen (Disney), Amit Patel (Disney) Workload Optimization
Breakout
Level: 300
Location: Breakout C
4:15 PM
- 5:00 PM
Productizing FinOps for the Public Sector
Nikkia Young (Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond) FinOps Practice Operations
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Breakout D
4:15 PM
- 5:00 PM
Scaling Smart: Practical Cost Optimization Without Sacrificing Reliability
John Williams (Epic Games) Workload Optimization
Breakout
Level: 300
Location: Breakout A
4:15 PM
- 5:00 PM
Amazon Web Services Content Session 2
Breakout
Location: AWS Stage
4:15 PM
- 5:00 PM
Flexera Content Session 2
Breakout
Location: Flexera Stage
4:15 PM
- 4:35 PM
Who You Gonna Call? WasteBusters - Closing the FinOps Loop Across Azure and AWS
Taylor Houck (PointFive)
Breakout
Level: 200
4:45 PM
- 5:05 PM
Scaling Intelligently: CloudOps & FinOps in Harmony
Michael Arkoosh (Vega Cloud), Lisa B. Harwood (Vega Cloud)
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Breakout B
6:00 PM
- 11:00 PM
FinOps X Official Party (Marriott Marquis)
Networking

Thursday June 5

Early Coffee & Chat (Badge Required)
Networking
Closing Networking Breakfast (Badge Required)
Networking