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Sunday June 1

Early Hotel Check-in

Monday June 2

8:00 AM
Pre-Con Badge Pick-Up
Pre-Con
Location: Marina Foyer
8:00 AM
- 10:00 AM
Pre-Con Networking Coffee & Pastries (Pre-Con Ticket Required)
Networking
Pre-Con
Location: Marina Foyer
10:00 AM
- 10:50 AM
Building a "FinOps Tiger Team" Chalk Talk Interactive Workshops (Pre-Con Ticket Required)
David Lambert (Adobe), Lian Zhou (Verizon) FinOps Practice Operations
Chalk Talk
Pre-Con
Location: Marina Ballroom E
10:00 AM
- 10:50 AM
Unit Economics Chalk Talk Interactive Workshop (Pre-Con Ticket Required)
Brian Chukwu-Smith (Equifax), Elliott Devenport (Equifax), Nick Deinzer (Anaconda, Inc.) Unit Economics
Chalk Talk
Pre-Con
Location: Marina Ballroom F
10:00 AM
- 10:50 AM
FinOps Scopes: AI Interactive Workshop Chalk Talk (Pre-Con Ticket Required)
Swami Narayanan (REA Group)
Chalk Talk
Pre-Con
Location: Marina Ballroom G
11:00 AM
- 11:50 AM
FinOps-Aware Engineering (Pre-Con Ticket Required)
Stuart Hamilton (Freddie Mac), Noel Crowley (Fidelity Investments), Thilo Uttendorfer (Allianz Technology)
Chalk Talk
Pre-Con
Location: Marina Ballroom F
11:00 AM
- 11:50 AM
FinOps Scopes: Data Center Interactive Workshop Chalk Talk (Pre-Con Ticket Required)
Prashant Vithlani (Samsung), Angel Alves (Saint-Gobain), Martin Thompson (ITAM Forum) Workload Optimization, FinOps Practice Operations
Chalk Talk
Pre-Con
Location: Marina Ballroom G
11:00 AM
- 11:50 AM
Optimizing for Value Chalk Talk (Pre-Con Ticket Required)
Naren Bhakthavatsalu (SAP Signavio & LeanIX), Robert Jenkins (SAP America) Architecting for Cloud
Chalk Talk
Pre-Con
Level: 200
Location: Marina Ballroom E
12:00 PM
- 2:00 PM
Pre-Con Networking Lunch (Pre-Con Ticket Required)
Networking
Pre-Con
Location: Marina Terrace
12:00 PM
- 7:00 PM
FinOps eXec (Application Required)
Pre-Con
2:00 PM
- 2:50 PM
Shadow Waste and Optimizing Beyond the Obvious Chalk Talk (Pre-Con Ticket Required)
Aviv Revach (Adaptive6)
Chalk Talk
Pre-Con
Location: Marina Ballroom E
2:00 PM
- 2:50 PM
Understanding and Applying Unit Economics in the Public Sector Chalk Talk (Pre-Con Ticket Required)
Lisa Taylor (Formerly U.S. Government) FinOps Practice Operations
Chalk Talk
Pre-Con
Location: Marina Ballroom F
2:00 PM
- 2:50 PM
FinOps Scopes: ITAM Marketplace Consumption Gameshow (Pre-Con Ticket Required)
Mike Barry (TQL), Stephen Alford (TQL), Matthew Miller (TQL) Intersecting Disciplines
Chalk Talk
Pre-Con
Location: Marina Ballroom G
3:00 PM
- 3:50 PM
Building Executive Buy-In Chalk Talk (Pre-Con Ticket Required)
Kevin Krueger (Edward Jones), Diane Kozobolis (Lockheed Martin) Reporting & Analytics
Chalk Talk
Pre-Con
Location: Marina Ballroom E
3:00 PM
- 3:50 PM
FinOps Tooling: Build vs. Buy Chalk Talk (Pre-Con Ticket Required)
Tommy Nguyen (Liftoff Mobile), Jinsoo Park (Mercari, Inc.) FinOps Tools & Services
Chalk Talk
Pre-Con
Location: Marina Ballroom F
3:00 PM
- 3:50 PM
FinOps Scopes: SaaS Interactive Workshop Chalk Talk (Pre-Con Ticket Required)
Prachi Jain (Manulife), Brad Payne (PointClickCare) Licensing & SaaS
Chalk Talk
Pre-Con
Location: Marina Ballroom G
3:30 PM
- 7:30 PM
FinOps X Badge Pick Up
Networking
Location: Expo Hall
4:00 PM
- 7:00 PM
Welcome Reception (All Badged Attendees)
Networking
Location: Expo Hall
6:30 PM
- 8:30 PM
Sponsor Event: AWS Social Mixer at FinOps X (Registration required)
Networking
7:00 PM
- 9:00 PM
Sponsor Event: Evening by the Bay: A Microsoft Experience (Registration required)
Networking

Tuesday June 3

6:45 AM
- 7:30 PM
FinOps X Badge Pick Up
Location: Expo Hall
7:00 AM
- 11:00 AM
Coffee in the Expo Hall
Networking
Location: Expo Hall
7:00 AM
- 8:00 AM
Breakfast in the Expo Hall
Networking
Location: Expo Hall
8:00 AM
- 9:30 AM
Day 1 Keynote: Evolution of FinOps: Cloud+ Scopes, Optimization, SaaS, FOCUS 1.2 Launch, Cloud VP Panel (AWS, Microsoft, Google, Oracle)
J.R. Storment (FinOps Foundation), Ema Patki (Align Technology), Anthony “TJ” Johnson (MGM Resorts International), Thomas Hammer (Nubank), Priyanka Pandey (Delivery Hero), Lorant Kiss (Delivery Hero), Keena Blunschi (American Express), Scott Hunter (Microsoft), Shawn Alpay (FinOps Foundation), James Greenfield (AWS), Pravir Gupta (Google), Manan Syal (Oracle)
Keynote
Location: Keynote Stage
9:00 AM
- 9:30 AM
Keynote Cloud Panel – VPs Product/Eng from AWS, Microsoft, Google, Oracle Cloud
Keena Blunschi (American Express), Pravir Gupta (Google), James Greenfield (AWS), Manan Syal (Oracle), Scott Hunter (Microsoft)
Keynote
Location: Keynote Stage
9:30 AM
- 10:00 AM
Snack Break in the Expo Hall
Networking
Location: Expo Hall
10:00 AM
- 11:45 AM
Observability Chalk Talk (Interactive Workshop)
Pavan Malladi (Motorola Solutions), Troy Washburn (Motorola Solutions) FinOps Practice Operations, Reporting & Analytics
Chalk Talk
Location: Chalk Talk F
10:00 AM
- 11:45 AM
FinOps for Data Center Chalk Talk (Interactive Workshop)
Prashant Vithlani (Samsung), Angel Alves (Saint-Gobain), Martin Thompson (ITAM Forum)
Chalk Talk
Location: Chalk Talk G
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
Transforming Databricks Cost Management Data into the FOCUS™ Format: A Practical Guide
Cory Syvenky (Teck Resources Limited) Reporting & Analytics
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Breakout B
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
Maximizing AI Value: A Customer Journey from Foundation to Design and Management (Registration required)
Vikram Desai (Microsoft), Abdeslam Menacere (Microsoft) FinOps Practice Operations
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Microsoft Stage
10:00 AM
- 10:45 AM
Navigating the FinOps Waters: Take a Swim through Barracuda's FinOps Journey
Cody McDaniels (Barracuda), Sam Barbeau (Flexera)
Breakout
Location: Flexera Stage
10:00 AM
- 10:45 AM
FinOps Fundamentals on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
James DeLoid (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure)
Breakout
Location: Oracle Stage
10:00 AM
- 10:20 AM
Cloud Optimization for Elasticity and Performance at the Lowest Cost with IBM Turbonomic
Ryan Strehlke (IBM) Workload Optimization
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Breakout D
10:25 AM
- 10:45 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
Achieving 30% Cloud Cost Savings: Lockheed Martin’s FinOps Success Story
Diane Kozobolis (Lockheed Martin), Yuriy Prykhodko (Amazon Web Services)
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: AWS Stage
11:00 AM
- 11:45 AM
FinOps in the Trenches: Real-World Tactics for Today's Top FinOps Priorities
Taiwo Ojetayo (Workday), Gordon Douglass (SAP), Kevin Kranz (CME Group), Andre Ellis (Google Cloud), Matthew Orr (Google Cloud), David Dinh (Google Cloud)
Breakout
Location: Google Cloud Stage
11:00 AM
- 11:45 AM
FinOps Meets GenAI: Optimizing the Cost of Intelligence
Malino Oda (IBM Cloudability), Andrew Midgley (Apptio)
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
11:25 AM
- 11:45 AM
Overcoming Resistance to Action Through Visibility and Accountability in FinOps
Tayo Oseni-Alexis (Tesco), Jon Thompson (Virtasant)
Breakout
Level: 100
Location: Breakout C
12:00 PM
- 2:00 PM
Lunch & Networking
Networking
Location: Marina Terrace
12:00 PM
- 2:00 PM
Sponsor Event: nOps Exclusive FinOps X Lunch (Registration required)
Networking
Location: Marina Kitchen
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
Drive Rate Optimization and Cost Efficiencies with Azure Pricing Offers and Tools (Registration required)
Evelyn Padrino (Microsoft), Kyle Ikeda (Microsoft) Rate Optimization
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Microsoft Stage
2:00 PM
- 2:45 PM
Cloudability FinOps Hackathon - Part 1
Joe Dahlquist (IBM Cloudability)
Breakout
Location: IBM Cloudability Stage
2:00 PM
- 2:45 PM
How to Calculate Your ESR & Talk to Your Friends About It
Sanjna Srivatsa (CloudHealth), Carolyn Zakrzewski (Hearst) Rate Optimization
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: CloudHealth Stage
2:00 PM
- 2:45 PM
Adopt FinOps Practices to Maximize Value on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Ramesh Venkat (Oracle), Soline Plichta (IBM Cloudability)
Breakout
Level: 100
Location: Oracle Stage
2:00 PM
- 3:45 PM
FinOps for AI Chalk Talk (Interactive Workshop)
Sarah Keller (Uber), Brent Segner (Capital One), Tyrus Edwards (U.S. Army)
Chalk Talk
Location: Chalk Talk G
2:00 PM
- 3:45 PM
FinOps for SaaS Chalk Talk (Interactive Workshop)
Prachi Jain (Manulife), Brad Payne (PointClickCare) Licensing & SaaS
Chalk Talk
Location: Chalk Talk F
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
2:25 PM
- 2:45 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
Making Every Bean Count: The Starbucks Forecast Journey
Ben Linares (Starbucks), David Rogan (Starbucks) Forecasting
Breakout
Level: 300
Location: Breakout D
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
Unlock CUD Value: Updates to Google Cloud Spend-Based CUDs
Alfonso Hernandez (Google Cloud), Yasmin Mowafy (Google Cloud)
Breakout
Location: Google Cloud Stage
3:00 PM
- 3:45 PM
“It Depends”: FinOps Strategies for Every Stage of the Business
Steve Evans (Chegg), Jay Litkey (Flexera)
Breakout
Location: Flexera Stage
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
3:25 PM
- 3:45 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
3:45 PM
- 4:15 PM
Snack Break in the Expo Hall
Networking
Location: Expo Hall
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
Improving Forecasting and Reporting with Demand Drivers
Thomas Hammer (Nubank) Unit Economics, Forecasting
Breakout
Level: 300
Location: Breakout A
4:15 PM
- 5:00 PM
Adapting Your FinOps Playbook for Generative AI Costs
Adam Richter ( Amazon Web Services ), Steph Gooch (AWS)
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: AWS Stage
4:15 PM
- 5:00 PM
Beyond the Hype: Building and Optimizing a GenAI Solution for FinOps
Sanjna Srivatsa (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)
Larry Advey (Twilio), Dhara Kansagara (BetaNXT), Graham Murphy (Technology One) Data Ingestion, Reporting & Analytics
Chalk Talk
Location: Chalk Talk G
4:15 PM
- 6:00 PM
FinOps-Aware Product Decisions / "Shift Left" Chalk Talk (Interactive Workshop)
Kimberly Schminke (Deltek), Gourav Kapoor (Deltek), Narciso Cerezo (BBVA), Brian Mothersole (Electronic Arts) FinOps Practice Operations
Chalk Talk
Location: Chalk Talk F
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)
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Breakout B
4:40 PM
- 5:00 PM
Driving Cost Optimization at Datadog 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
Creating Your FinOps for AI Scope
Mike Fuller (FinOps Foundation), Rob Martin (FinOps Foundation)
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Breakout D
5:15 PM
- 5:35 PM
Expanding Your Scope? Doing SaaS Management the FinOps Way
Ben Pippenger (Zylo), Ridge Fussell (The Home Depot) Licensing & SaaS
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Breakout A
5:30 PM
- 7:30 PM
Networking Reception in the Expo Hall
Networking
Location: Expo Hall
5:40 PM
- 6:00 PM
Automated Workload Optimization: How Northwestern Mutual Reduced Kubernetes Waste Significantly in One Click
Heiko Zuerker (Northwestern Mutual), Peter Irwin (ScaleOps)
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Breakout A
7:00 PM
- 9:30 PM
Sponsor Event: Stacklet San Diego Food Tour with the FinOps Community (Registration required)
Networking
7:00 PM
- 11:00 PM
Sponsor Event: Finout FinOps After Dark FinOps X San Diego (Registration required)
Networking
Location: Bayside Lounge (TopGolf)
7:00 PM
- 10:00 PM
Sponsor Event: Third Annual 8-Bit After Party by ProsperOps, CloudZero and ScaleOps (Registration required)
Networking
Location: Pool South
7:30 PM
- 10:30 PM
Sponsor Event: Toast to the future of FinOps with Flexera (Registration required)
Networking
Location: Roy's
7:30 PM
- 10:00 PM
Sponsor Event: IBM Cloudability Sunset Views & Rooftop Conversations (Registration required)
Networking
7:30 PM
- 10:00 PM
Sponsor Event: PointFive Wastebusters: Airborne (Registration required)
Networking

Wednesday June 4

7:00 AM
- 11:00 AM
Coffee in the Expo Hall
Networking
Location: Expo Hall
7:00 AM
- 8:00 AM
Breakfast in the Expo Hall
Networking
Location: Expo Hall
8:00 AM
- 9:30 AM
Day 2 Keynote: FinOps for AI + AI for FinOps, FinOps for Executives, Cloud Feature Launches
J.R. Storment (FinOps Foundation), Mike Fuller (FinOps Foundation), Nishant Gupta (Salesforce), Brent Eubanks (Wayfair), Kimberly Floss (PepsiCo), Taiwo Ojetayo (Workday), John Phillips (AWS), Sarah McMullin (Google), Cyril Belikoff (Microsoft), Nick Armstrong (Oracle)
Keynote
Location: Keynote Stage
9:30 AM
- 10:00 AM
Snack Break in the Expo Hall
Networking
Location: Expo Hall
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 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
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 B
10:00 AM
- 10:45 AM
AI-Driven FinOps: Improving Azure Cost Efficiency With GitHub Copilot Agent Mode (Registration Required)
Trey Morgan (Microsoft), Yun Jung Choi (Microsoft) Workload Optimization, Architecting for Cloud, Onboarding Workloads
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Microsoft Stage
10:00 AM
- 10:45 AM
Accelerating FinOps workflows with Gemini Cloud Assist
Gautam Srikanth (Google Cloud), Tim Wright (Google Cloud)
Breakout
Location: Google Cloud Stage
10:00 AM
- 10:45 AM
Chasing The Last Mile: Operationalizing Resource Optimization for Maximum Savings
Dhanabalaji (Bala) Kaliamurthy (IBM Cloudability), Maddy Yeazel (IBM Cloudability)
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)
Jason DiDomenico (Discover Financial Services), Tammy Burnitt (UIPath), Vik Saluja (Mastercard), Bindu Sharma (Teradata) Cloud Sustainability
Chalk Talk
Location: Chalk Talk G
10:00 AM
- 11:45 AM
Adopting FinOps Chalk Talk (Interactive Workshop)
Eric Mulartrick (Boomi), Mike Graff (Dolby Laboratories), Flavia Trevisani (Canada Revenue Agency) FinOps Education & Enablement, FinOps Practice Operations
Chalk Talk
Location: Chalk Talk F
10:25 AM
- 10:45 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
Maximizing Cloud Cost Efficiency: CIA’s Cloud Journey
Cyndy Johnson (Federal Government), Tonia Bledsoe (Federal Government)
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Breakout D
11:00 AM
- 11:45 AM
Advancing to Unit Economics Including FinOps for AI
Taiwo Ojetayo (Workday), Mike Moone (Workday) Unit Economics
Breakout
Level: 300
Location: Breakout A
11:00 AM
- 11:45 AM
What’s New with AWS Cost Optimization
Rick Ochs (Amazon Web Services), Jimmy Yang (AWS), Liam Greenamyre (AWS)
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: AWS Stage
11:00 AM
- 11:45 AM
A FinOps Journey of a FinOps Solution
Cathal Cleary (CloudHealth), Rob Curtis (CloudHealth) FinOps Practice Operations
Breakout
Level: 100
Location: CloudHealth Stage
11:00 AM
- 11:45 AM
TriNet’s FinOps Journey on OCI & Oracle FinOps Advisory Services
Cody Sanders (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure), Wade Durdin (TriNet)
Breakout
Level: 100
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
11:25 AM
- 11:45 AM
Shadow Waste Uncovered: Detecting & Remediating Hidden Cloud Costs
Aviv Revach (Adaptive6), Jeff Hyatt (Ticketmaster) Architecting for Cloud, Workload Optimization
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Breakout C
12:00 PM
- 2:00 PM
Lunch & Networking
Networking
Location: Marina Terrace
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
FinOps in the Datacenter: Meta’s Approach to Infrastructure Optimization 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
Invisible Optimization: The ML Cost Efficiency Breakthrough
Paul Guarino (Fidelity Investments), Bhargav Tumu (Fidelity Investments)
Breakout
Level: 300
Location: Breakout D
2:00 PM
- 2:45 PM
How the Microsoft Marketplace Accelerates FinOps for SaaS and AI Workloads (Registration Required)
Kristyn Maddox (Microsoft), Jaisson Mailloux (Kyndryl) Licensing & SaaS
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Microsoft Stage
2:00 PM
- 2:45 PM
FinOps Meets DevOps Google Cloud Customer Panel
Sarah McMullin (Google), Tim O’Brien (Walmart), Roy Gibbs (Cardinal Health), Frank Dice (Major League Baseball)
Breakout
Location: Google Cloud Stage
2:00 PM
- 2:45 PM
Cloudability FinOps Hackathon - Part 2
Joe Dahlquist (IBM Cloudability)
Breakout
Location: IBM Cloudability Stage
2:00 PM
- 2:45 PM
AI Dreams Big – FinOps Keeps the Receipts
Kimberly Floss (PepsiCo), Lisa Gerger (Northrop Grumman)
Breakout
Location: Flexera Stage
2:00 PM
- 3:45 PM
FinOps Governance, Policy, and Automation Chalk Talk (Interactive Workshop)
Sara Gadallah (Atlassian), Eddie Atkinson (Atlassian), Beatrice Gagliardo (Intesa Sanpaolo) Policy & Governance
Chalk Talk
Location: Chalk Talk G
2:00 PM
- 3:45 PM
Public Sector Budgeting and Forecasting Chalk Talk (Interactive Workshop)
Lisa Taylor (Formerly U.S. Government), Nikkia Young (Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond)
Chalk Talk
Location: Chalk Talk F
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
2:25 PM
- 2:45 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
How Intuit Optimizes Kubernetes
Gina Berg (Intuit), Alfred Tan (Intuit) Workload Optimization
Breakout
Level: 300
Location: Breakout D
3:00 PM
- 3:45 PM
Outcomes Without Overages: Engineering Value While Keeping Costs Grounded
Lucas Paratore (CloudHealth), Riley Jenkins (Domo)
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: CloudHealth Stage
3:00 PM
- 3:45 PM
Driving FinOps Success Through Collaboration: Oracle’s Cross-Team Approach to Evolving OCI
Lisa Black (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure), James DeLoid (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure), Cody Sanders (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure), Megan Walitsch (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure)
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) FinOps Practice Operations
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Breakout A
3:25 PM
- 3:45 PM
Flying High With FinOps: How United Airlines is Scaling Cloud Cost Efficiency With Harness
Ravitej Yadalam (Harness), Seli Cerda (United Airlines) FinOps Practice Operations
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Breakout A
3:45 PM
- 4:15 PM
Snack Break in the Expo Hall
Networking
Location: Expo Hall
4:15 PM
- 6:00 PM
AI for FinOps Chalk Talk (Interactive Workshop)
Rich Young (Warner Leisure Hotels), Madoc Batters (Warner Leisure Hotels), Will Carlson (Boomi) FinOps Tools & Services
Chalk Talk
Location: Chalk Talk F
4:15 PM
- 6:00 PM
Optimizing for Value Chalk Talk (Interactive Workshop)
Andrew Quigley (Northwestern Mutual), Heiko Zuerker (Northwestern Mutual), Aditya Seth (Booking.com) Workload Optimization
Chalk Talk
Location: Chalk Talk G
4:15 PM
- 5:00 PM
Hybrid Cartography: Mapping to Optimize Application Footprints in Disney Technology
Chris Christiensen (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
New AWS FinOps Tools for Cost Analysis and Management
Shubir Kapoor (Amazon Web Services), Bowen Wang (Amazon Web Services)
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: AWS Stage
4:15 PM
- 5:00 PM
Splunking Into the World of Cloud Cost Data
David Owens (Splunk), Colin Jack (Flexera)
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Flexera Stage
4:15 PM
- 4:35 PM
Snowflake Optimization & the Future of Cloud Efficiency
Taylor Houck (PointFive), Mike Graff (Dolby Laboratories) Workload Optimization
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Breakout B
4:40 PM
- 5:00 PM
CloudOps with a FinOps-first mindset
Michael Arkoosh (Vega Cloud), Lisa B. Harwood (Vega Cloud) FinOps Education & Enablement
Breakout
Level: 100
Location: Breakout B
6:00 PM
- 10:00 PM
FinOps X Official Party (Marriott Marquis)
Networking
Location: Keynote Stage

Thursday June 5

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