Thursday June 20
9:45 AM
Navigating FinOps: Builing a Lasting Culture for Financial Success
FinOps Practice Operations
Janel Jensen (Paramount)
Breakout B
Taking FinOps to the Next Level: Beyond Optimization
Workload Optimization
Ziva Tubul (Wix)
Dvir Mizrahi (Wix)
Breakout A
Simplifying FinOps in a Complex Business
Invoicing & Chargeback
Jarred Clore (Cisco)
Lucas Paratore (VMware)
Breakout C
Making Cloud Sustainability Actionable with FinOps
Cloud Sustainability
Vik Saluja (Mastercard)
Mike Jaco (Mastercard)
Breakout D
Aligning Duolingo's Cloud Architecture with Strategic Business Goals
Unit Economics
Erik Peterson (Cloudzero)
Vitor Pellegrino (Duolingo)
Breakout E
Chalk Talk: Managing the FinOps Practice
Rachel Palmarozzi (Electronic Arts)
Chalk Talk F
Chalk Talk: Optimizing Cloud Usage & Costs
Chalk Talk G
10:45 AM
How to Leverage Engineering to Optimize Workloads and Fleet Management
FinOps Practice Operations
Jennifer Hays (Fidelity Investments)
Bob Rosum (Fidelity Investments)
Pete Davies (Fidelity Investments)
Zachary Stitham (Fidelity Investment)
Breakout A
Scaling Economies: Walmart's Approach for Breathing Optimization
Workload Optimization
Andy Dumich (Walmart)
Breakout B
Cost Governance: Public Cloud Cost and Private Cloud Cost
Forecasting
Dinesh Sonawane (Workday)
Don Rudish (Workday)
Breakout C
Empowering Engineers to Take Action (Hearst)
Workload Optimization
Willy Sennott (Vega Cloud)
Breakout D
Standardizing Cross-FinOps Persona Communication
Reporting & Analytics
Teresa Meade (Reddit)
Walter King (Reddit)
Breakout E
Lessons Learned from "CCC": PepsiCo's Internal FinOps Service
FinOps Tools & Services
Kimberly Floss (PepsiCo)
Grand Ballroom
1:00 PM
FinOps Ambassadors on Adopting FinOps
Deana Solis (Smarsh)
Daniel Eisenberg (Capital One)
Eric Mulartrick (Boomi)
Breakout A
Breaking the Iron Triangle: Finding New Opportunities for FinOps Value
FinOps Education & Enablement
Brian Chukwu-Smith (Equifax)
Breakout C
FinOps & ITAM: How to Collaborate and Succeed
Licensing & SaaS
Keith Hiszem (Cardinal Health)
Brian Adler (Flexera)
Breakout D
Chalk Talk: Quantifying the Value of the FinOps Practice
Chalk Talk F
Chalk Talk: AI for FinOps
Chalk Talk G
FinOps' Role in System Design Lifecycle in the Public Sector
Al Himler (U.S. Office of Personnel Management)
Breakout E
2:00 PM
Build vs Buy? Why Not Both? The Linux Foundation Story
FinOps Tools & Services
Marie Burke (VMware)
Breakout A
Cloud Forecasting at Disney
Forecasting
Breakout B
Implementation of Unit Economics for Automotive Industry
Unit Economics
Sudip Mitra (Volvo Cars)
Breakout D
Journey to the Center of FinOps with Duolingo, Instructure, and Ticketmaster
FinOps Practice Operations
Jeff Hyatt (Ticketmaster)
Tiffany Taggart (Instructure)
Breakout E
What is FOCUS and How to Adopt It
Mike Fuller (FinOps Foundation)
Grand Ballroom
3:15 PM
Hybrid Cloud Hacks: Use FinOps to Unlock Innovation
Cloud Policy & Governance
Anthony Dasari (Kyndryl)
Ximena Carillo (NextEra Energy)
Mike Melo (LifeLabs)
Breakout A
Fannie Mae's Journey to Advanced Showback and Chargeback
Invoicing & Chargeback
Jennifer Samolyk (Fannie Mae)
Breakout C
FinOps Foundation Training & Education Session
FinOps Education & Enablement
Stacy Case (FinOps Foundation)
Breakout E
Chalk Talk: Planning, Estimating, Forecasting
Becky Canterbury (Shutterstock)
Chalk Talk F
Riley Jenkins (Domo)
Chalk Talk G
Driving Profitability with Invoice Bots, Custom Rates, and GAAP at Uber
Reporting & Analytics
Sarah Keller (Uber)
Chavis Richardson (Uber)
Grand Ballroom
Evolving with Giants: Steering Legacy Apps in the Cloud Era
Licensing & SaaS
Taylor Houck (NBC Universal)
Breakout B
Unit Economics: Cloud Cost Metrics that Matter to the Business
Unit Economics
Kimberly Schminke (Deltek)
Gourav Kapoor (Deltek)
Breakout C
How Anomaly Detection and Unit Economics Fuel Growth at Palo Alto Networks
Anomaly Management
Breakout D
Cloud Data Analysis & Statistics for the FinOps Practitioner
Reporting & Analytics
Victoria Levy (Alteryx)
Breakout E
6:30 PM
USS Midway (Offsite)
Friday June 21
8:00 AM
Main Keynote - Cloud Announcements
Grand Ballroom
9:45 AM
Chargeback Walk to Run: Improving Granularity and Driving Cloud Adoption
Allocation
Nicole Gauer (Evernorth)
Sergio Armenta (Evernorth)
Breakout B
A Programmer's Guide to Cloud Cost Conversations
FinOps Education & Enablement
Ian Foster (Marsh McLennan)
Breakout D
Optimizing for Billions: Coinbase's Approach to AWS Cost Efficiency
Sara Reddy (Coinbase)
Tiberiu Oprisiu (Coinbase)
Breakout E
Anomaly Detection with Looker on Google Cloud
Anomaly Management
Leslie Nolan (CME Group)
Kevin Kranz (CME Group)
Breakout A
Chalk Talk: Framework 2024 TAC Panel
Noel Crowley (Fidelity Investments)
Courtney Bormann (General Mills)
David Lambert (Adobe)
Kim Wier (Target)
Chalk Talk F
10:45 AM
Building a FinOps Culture of Collaboration
Swapna Samuel (BMO)
Natasha Xu (BMO)
Breakout A
The Engine and the Fire: Cloud FinOps at Toyota
Workload Optimization
Kishore Jonnalagedda (Toyota North America)
Jayson Hill (Toyota North America)
Breakout C
Chasing Actionability and Engineering Engagement in FinOps
FinOps Practice Operations
Federica Teodori (Riot Games)
Breakout E
Building a Unified View of Cloud Costs at Citi
Allocation
Amit Kinha (Citi)
Grand Ballroom
1:00 PM
Chalk Talk: Public Sector Workshop
Chalk Talk G
Navigating Cloud Cost Optimization Challenges at American Airlines
Workload Optimization
Breakout C
Normalization of Multi-Cloud Data Sets for Cloud Cost Management
Reporting & Analytics
Breakout D
Unleashing Comprehensive and Agile Data Models for FinOps (Salesforce)
George Parker (Salesforce)
Dhanush Devaraj (Salesforce)
Breakout E
Cloud Sustainability Panel
Cloud Sustainability
Natalie Daley (HSBC)
Mike Rosenberg (Nubank)
Bindu Sharma (Guidewire)
Breakout A
Engineering and Finance - How to Navigate FinOps Between the Organizations
FinOps Practice Operations
Jenny Tang (Apple)
Sukhvinder Kumar (Apple)
Grand Ballroom
Project Maverick: Navigating & Optimizing Cloud Spend at Adobe
Data Ingestion
Karthik Pallapothu (Adobe)
Ryan Thorpe (Adobe)
Breakout D
Achieving Exceptional Cloud Efficiency with Strategic Resource Optimization
Workload Optimization
Andrew Midgley (Apptio)
Sam Keller (Hyland)
Breakout A
GenAI & FinOps
Reporting & Analytics
Joshua Collier (Grammarly)
Jason Rhoades (Intuit)
Breakout B
Mike Fuller (FinOps Foundation)
Grand Ballroom
3:15 PM
Applying the FinOps Framework to SaaS at Scale
Licensing & SaaS
Amy Ashby (Under Armour)
Lindbergh Matillano (Avalara)
Breakout E
If You Can Buy It, You Can Optimize It
Workload Optimization
Andrew Feig (JPMorgan Chase)
Craig Shine (JPMorgan Chase)
Breakout C
Chalk Talk: Optimization Beyond the Obvious
Brad Payne (PointClickCare)
Dany Daya (Etsy)
Kate Ferguson (Liberty Mutual Insurance)
Chalk Talk F
Creating Internal Managed FinOps Services for Your Maturing Enterprise
FinOps Practice Operations
Michael Bragalone (Capital One)
Ben Sleichter (Capital One)
Nicole Yegorina (Capital One)
Grand Ballroom
Distilling Cloud Anomalies into Golden Alerts
Anomaly Management
Usha Ganesh (Global Payments)
Breakout E
Podwatcher and Podcost: How Aurora Built a Kubernetes Chargeback System
Allocation
Martin Velez (Aurora)
Breakout D
Sponsor event: 2nd Annual FinOps X 8-Bit After Party (ProsperOps, CloudZero, Xosphere)
Pool South
Sponsor event: Flexera & SoftwareONE