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Sunday June 7

4:00 PM
- 7:30 PM
Early Registration & Badge Pickup
Location: Grand Foyer

Monday June 8

7:00 AM
- 7:00 PM
Registration & Badge Pickup
Location: Grand Foyer
8:00 AM
- 10:00 AM
Pre-Con Breakfast (Pre-Con Ticket Required)
Networking
Pre-Con
Location: San Diego Foyer
9:30 AM
- 11:00 AM
Shift Up: Executive Strategy Alignment Chalk Talk (Pre-Con Ticket Required)
Daniel Cronin (Mastercard), Dan Spira (News Corp), Prasshant Sharrma (Sysco) Executive Strategy Alignment
Chalk Talk
Pre-Con
Level: 200
Location: San Diego B
9:30 AM
- 11:00 AM
Practitioner Re-Certification (SOLD OUT, Pre-Con Ticket Required)
Jonathan Morley (FinOps Foundation)
Pre-Con
Location: Torrey Pines 1
9:30 AM
- 11:00 AM
FinOps Framework: Expanding the FinOps Practice Chalk Talk (Pre-Con Ticket Required)
Rob Martin (FinOps Foundation), Vasilio Markanastasakis (FinOps Foundation)
Chalk Talk
Pre-Con
Level: 200
Location: San Diego C
9:30 AM
- 11:00 AM
FinOps & ITFM Intersection Chalk Talk (Pre-Con Ticket Required)
Dean Oliver (FinOps Foundation) Intersecting Disciplines
Chalk Talk
Pre-Con
Level: 200
Location: San Diego A
11:15 AM
- 12:45 PM
AI for FinOps Chalk Talk (Pre-Con Ticket Required)
Mike Graff (Dolby), Eric Mulartrick (Boomi, LP), Flavia Trevisani (Public Sector)
Chalk Talk
Pre-Con
Level: 200
Location: San Diego A
11:15 AM
- 12:45 PM
Adopting FinOps Chalk Talk (Pre-Con Ticket Required)
Ashwin Jain (American Express), Nik Kozlov (Bonterra), Cyndy Johnson (CIA)
Chalk Talk
Pre-Con
Level: 200
Location: San Diego B
11:15 AM
- 12:45 PM
FinOps for Data Center Chalk Talk (Pre-Con Ticket Required)
Alick Jacklin (Kraken), Jason Ward (CH Robinson), Alessandro Bellini (Max Mara)
Chalk Talk
Pre-Con
Level: 200
Location: San Diego C
12:00 PM
- 7:00 PM
FinOps Exec: AI Value Executive Summit (Invite only)
Jennifer Hays (Fidelity), Nishant Gupta (Salesforce), Richard Steck (Adobe), Natalie Daley (HSBC), Charlie Flynn (BlackRock), Pooja Kumar (Prudential Financial), Sonali Niswander (MetLife)
Networking
12:45 PM
- 2:15 PM
Pre-Con Networking Lunch (Pre-Con Ticket Required)
Networking
Pre-Con
Location: Marina Terrace
2:15 PM
- 3:45 PM
FinOps for SaaS & Software Chalk Talk (Pre-Con Ticket Required)
Anthony Johnson (MGM Resorts), Bindu Sharma (Teradata), Peter Crenshaw (IEM) Licensing & SaaS
Chalk Talk
Pre-Con
Level: 200
Location: San Diego C
2:15 PM
- 3:45 PM
Shift Left Chalk Talk (Pre-Con Ticket Required)
Martin Velez (Aurora), Ziva Tubul (Wix), Barbara Gaspar (BBVA)
Chalk Talk
Pre-Con
Level: 200
Location: San Diego A
2:15 PM
- 3:45 PM
Optimization Beyond the Obvious Chalk Talk (Pre-Con Ticket Required)
Tanjiha Mahmud (Canada Life), Brad Payne (PointClickCare), Arbidha Babul (CAT)
Chalk Talk
Pre-Con
Level: 200
Location: San Diego B
2:15 PM
- 3:45 PM
The AWS Frugal Architect GameDay: Hands-on challenges for applying FinOps principles
Matt Berk (AWS)
Pre-Con
Level: 300
2:15 PM
- 4:00 PM
Google Cloud: Your FinOps Practice with Agentic AI & Delivering Measurable ROI with Agentic Transformation
Pathik Sharma (Google Cloud), David Dinh (Google Cloud), Eva Dong (Google Cloud)
Pre-Con
Level: 300
4:00 PM
- 7:00 PM
🌴 OFFICIAL FinOps X Welcome Reception Party - Food, Drinks, Talks, Interviews, Conversations in the Expo Hall 🎉
Paul Abruzzo (Nvidia), Simar Arora (Snowflake), Sadhana Bala (Databricks)
Networking
Location: Expo Hall
5:00 PM
- 5:10 PM
Cost-Aware Cultures for GenAI (Nvidia)
Paul Abruzzo (Nvidia)
Level: 200
Location: Expo Hall
5:12 PM
- 5:22 PM
Fewer Tokens, Better Outcomes: A Practitioner's Guide to AI FinOps on Snowflake
Simar Arora (Snowflake)
Level: 200
Location: Expo Hall
5:24 PM
- 5:34 PM
One Budget, Many Meters: How Leading Teams Govern Data Platform Costs
Sadhana Bala (Databricks)
Level: 200
Location: Expo Hall
7:00 PM
- 9:00 PM
Sponsor Party: Microsoft Customer Event
Networking
Location: Roy's
7:00 PM
- 9:00 PM
Sponsor Party: A Waterfront Warm-Up with DoiT & SELECT
Networking
7:00 PM
- 9:30 PM
Sponsor Party: AWS Customer Party Hosted by the Product Team
Bradford Lyman (Amazon Web Services), Rick Ochs (AWS), Stephanie Gooch (AWS), Adam Richter (AWS), Matt Berk (AWS), Jerry Rapisarda (AWS), Gleb Shaviner (AWS)
Networking
Location: Grand Terrace

Tuesday June 9

7:00 AM
- 8:15 AM
Breakfast in the Expo Hall
Networking
Location: Expo Hall
8:20 AM
- 10:00 AM
⭐ Day 1 Keynote: The Wild West of AI, Token Economics and the New Job of FinOps ⭐
J.R. Storment (FinOps Foundation), Frederik Pohl (SAP), Courtney Totten (Shutterstock), Cyril Belikoff (Microsoft), Pooja Kumar (Prudential Financial), Mike Eisenstein (Accenture), Maida Nazifi (SAP), Bradford Lyman (Amazon Web Services)
Keynote
Location: Keynote Stage
10:00 AM
- 10:30 AM
Snack Break in the Expo Hall
Networking
Location: Expo Hall
10:30 AM
- 11:15 AM
The "Frozen" Metric: Avoiding the KPI Trap in Enterprise FinOps
Raymond Dao (Capital One), Lauren Brown (Capital One) KPIs & Benchmarking
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Breakout C
10:30 AM
- 11:15 AM
From Centralized Data Lakes to Data Mesh: Driving Cost Accountability and Scalable Governance in Enterprise Data Platforms
Naveena Vadlamudi (JPMorgan Chase), Andrew Feig (JPMorgan Chase)
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Breakout B
10:30 AM
- 11:15 AM
Making FOCUS Work in Practice: Lessons from Elo’s FinOps Journey Beyond Cloud
Lucas Saraiva (Elo), Keenan Dolan (IBM Cloudability)
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Breakout D
10:30 AM
- 11:15 AM
Governing AI Costs and Proving ROI
Rob Fleischer (NRG Energy), Kevin Wade (SHI)
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Breakout A
10:30 AM
- 11:15 AM
Building Autonomous FinOps Agents for Cost Optimization
David Dinh (Google Cloud), Alfonso Hernandez (Google Cloud) Usage Optimization
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Keynote Stage
10:30 AM
- 12:00 PM
AI for FinOps Chalk Talk
Mike Graff (Dolby), Eric Mulartrick (Boomi, LP), Flavia Trevisani (Public Sector)
Chalk Talk
Level: 200
Location: Chalk Talk E
10:30 AM
- 12:00 PM
Adopting FinOps Chalk Talk
Ashwin Jain (American Express), Nik Kozlov (Bonterra), Cyndy Johnson (CIA)
Chalk Talk
Level: 200
Location: Chalk Talk F
11:30 AM
- 12:15 PM
Running FinOps at Scale With a Small Team: Inside Our Operating Model, Automations, and Monthly Cadences
Isabella Paez (World Kinect Corporation) FinOps Practice Operations
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Breakout A
11:30 AM
- 12:15 PM
From Specialist Bottleneck to AI-Powered Scale: AI as a Force Multiplier for FinOps Democratization
JC Griffin (Grainger) Reporting & Analytics
Breakout
Level: 300
Location: Breakout D
11:30 AM
- 12:15 PM
Oracle and Paramount: Embedding FinOps Culture to Drive Executive Decisions
Janel Jensen (Paramount), Cody Sanders (Oracle)
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Breakout B
11:30 AM
- 12:15 PM
How to Make Usage Optimization a Boardroom Topic
Thomas Hammer (Nubank), Alon Arvatz (PointFive) Usage Optimization
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Breakout C
11:30 AM
- 12:15 PM
AWS FinOps Feature Launches and Enhancements
Rick Ochs (AWS), Letian Feng (AWS)
Breakout
Level: 300
Location: Keynote Stage
12:00 PM
- 1:45 PM
Sponsor Lunch: nOps Exclusive FinOps X
Networking
Location: Marina Kitchen
12:15 PM
- 1:45 PM
Lunch & Networking
Networking
Location: Marina Terrace
12:45 PM
- 12:55 PM
Implementing Full Stack AI Cost Attribution
Safi Siddiqui (Mavvrik)
Level: 200
Location: Expo Hall
12:57 PM
- 1:07 PM
Why FinOps Needs Forecasts That Actually Hold
Aishwarya Korde (FastBridge Fiber)
Level: 100
Location: Expo Hall
1:09 PM
- 1:19 PM
FOCUS Semantic Layer
Beau Nelford (Anglepoint)
Level: 200
Location: Expo Hall
1:45 PM
- 2:30 PM
Regaining Control Over Databricks Costs: A FinOps & Engineering Journey
Philippe Galeano (Thales), Simon Prevoteaux (Thales)
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Breakout A
1:45 PM
- 2:30 PM
Beyond the Tokens: Building the CTO’s AI Control Plane
Frederik Pohl (SAP), Maida Nazifi (SAP)
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Breakout D
1:45 PM
- 2:30 PM
Microsoft Customer Breakout (details TBD)
Breakout
Location: Breakout C
1:45 PM
- 2:30 PM
Flexera Technical Session (details TBD)
Breakout
Location: Keynote Stage
1:45 PM
- 2:30 PM
Optimizing for Value: FinOps at Cummins
Hemraj Yadav (Cummins), Kevin Smith (IBM) Usage Optimization
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Breakout B
1:45 PM
- 3:15 PM
Shift Left Chalk Talk
Martin Velez (Aurora), Ziva Tubul (Wix), Barbara Gaspar (BBVA)
Chalk Talk
Level: 200
Location: Chalk Talk F
1:45 PM
- 3:15 PM
Optimization Beyond the Obvious Chalk Talk
Tanjiha Mahmud (Canada Life), Brad Payne (PointClickCare), Arbidha Babul (CAT)
Chalk Talk
Level: 200
Location: Chalk Talk E
2:45 PM
- 3:30 PM
Managing Capacity at the Feature Level
James Kneeland (Meta), Joshua Louie (Meta)
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Breakout C
2:45 PM
- 3:30 PM
QuickBooks’ FinOps Journey in the AI Era
Eran Lador (Intuit), balachandra maddina (Intuit)
Breakout
Level: 300
Location: Breakout B
2:45 PM
- 3:30 PM
FinOps Has a Data Cloud Problem
Vijay Kurra (Tenable), Amit Kinha (DoiT)
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Breakout D
2:45 PM
- 3:30 PM
Google Customer Breakout (details TBD)
Breakout
Location: Breakout A
2:45 PM
- 3:30 PM
Earning a Seat at the Executive Table: Positioning FinOps as a Strategic Business Enabler
Alex Aryeh (Accenture), Jessica Rodeck (Accenture) Executive Strategy Alignment
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Keynote Stage
2:45 PM
- 2:55 PM
Correlating AI Expenses with Business Outcomes
Cassio Melo (Meilynx) KPIs & Benchmarking, Unit Economics
Level: 200
Location: Expo Hall
2:57 PM
- 3:07 PM
Cost Attribution for Meta Monetization
Manasi Khanuja (Meta)
Level: 100
Location: Expo Hall
3:09 PM
- 3:19 PM
The Human OS of FinOps
Dippu Kumar Singh (Fujitsu) FinOps Practice Operations
Level: 200
Location: Expo Hall
3:21 PM
- 3:31 PM
Why Tools Alone Aren't Enough
Lee Wagner (OpenOps) Automation, Tools, & Services
Level: 200
Location: Expo Hall
3:30 PM
- 4:00 PM
Snack Break in the Expo Hall
Networking
Location: Expo Hall
4:00 PM
- 4:45 PM
Surviving Chargeback without Tagging
Jordi Espasa Clofent (AVIV)
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Breakout A
4:00 PM
- 4:45 PM
Building FinOps for a World That Might Not Need You
Rick LaFaver (DraftKings), Erik Peterson (CloudZero)
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Breakout C
4:00 PM
- 4:45 PM
How Estée Lauder Shifted FinOps Left All the Way to the AI Code Generator
Lex Towne (Estee Lauder), Hassan Khajeh Hosseini (Infracost)
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Breakout B
4:00 PM
- 4:45 PM
FinOps + ITFM: One Version of the Truth, Two Speeds of Value
Dean Oliver (FinOps Foundation)
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Breakout D
4:00 PM
- 5:30 PM
FOCUS Implementation Chalk Talk
Karl Kraft (Walmart), Afreen Bano (bp), Cameron Lane (Indeed), Sylvain Barbot (Intact)
Chalk Talk
Level: 200
Location: Level 1 Foyer
4:00 PM
- 5:30 PM
FinOps for SaaS & Software Chalk Talk
Anthony Johnson (MGM Resorts), Bindu Sharma (Teradata), Peter Crenshaw (IEM) Licensing & SaaS
Chalk Talk
Level: 200
Location: Chalk Talk E
4:00 PM
- 5:30 PM
FinOps For Data Center Chalk Talk
Alick Jacklin (Kraken), Jason Ward (CH Robinson), Alessandro Bellini (Max Mara)
Chalk Talk
Level: 200
Location: Chalk Talk F
5:00 PM
- 5:45 PM
AI for FinOps: From Hype to Helpful
Dann Berg (Squarespace)
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Breakout D
5:00 PM
- 5:45 PM
FinOps for Observability: Taming Telemetry Tsunamis
Rich Young (Warner Hotels), Madoc Batters (Warner Hotels) Allocation, Usage Optimization
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Breakout C
5:00 PM
- 5:45 PM
Eliminating Shadow Waste in Data Cloud Platforms
Velu Natarajan (GoodRx), Yuga Chaparala (GoodRx)
Breakout
Level: 300
Location: Breakout A
5:00 PM
- 5:45 PM
When Building FinOps Tooling Finally Makes Sense
Jennifer Samolyk (Fannie Mae), Bala Sundaram (Fannie Mae)
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Breakout B
5:45 PM
- 7:00 PM
🌴 OFFICIAL Happy Hour Reception - Food, Drinks, Interviews, Conversations in the Expo Hall 🎉
Networking
Location: Expo Hall
7:00 PM
- 10:00 PM
Sponsor Party: 4th Annual 8-Bit After Party by ProsperOps, Flexera, SHI & Pay-i
Networking
Location: Pool South
7:00 PM
- 10:00 PM
Sponsor Party: Adaptive6’s A Night at The Forbidden Castle
Networking
Location: Marina Kitchen
7:00 PM
- 10:00 PM
Sponsor Party: Finout's FinOps After Dark
Networking
Location: Coronado Terrace
7:00 PM
- 10:00 PM
Sponsor Party: PointFive's Cruiseliner Voyage
Networking
7:00 PM
- 9:30 PM
Sponsor Party: Stacklet’s FinOps Food Tour
Networking

Wednesday June 10

7:00 AM
- 8:15 AM
Breakfast in the Expo Hall
Networking
Location: Expo Hall
8:20 AM
- 10:00 AM
⭐ Day 2 Keynotes: AI for FinOps from Alerts to Agents ⭐
Sonali Niswander (MetLife), Mike Fuller (FinOps Foundation), William Lobig (IBM Cloudability), Sarah McMullin (Google Cloud), Nicholas Armstrong (Oracle), Becky Trevino (Flexera), Ishita Vyas (FinOps Foundation), Shawn Alpay (FinOps Foundation)
Keynote
Location: Keynote Stage
10:00 AM
- 10:30 AM
Snack Break in the Expo Hall
Networking
Location: Expo Hall
10:30 AM
- 11:15 AM
FOCUS as the Backbone: Making Multi-Cloud FinOps Reporting Boring
Rohit Mishra (Avaloq)
Breakout
Level: 300
Location: Breakout B
10:30 AM
- 11:15 AM
Personalized FinOps for Data Cloud Platforms
Josh Anness (84.51°) Reporting & Analytics
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Breakout C
10:30 AM
- 11:15 AM
50 Years of FinOps: The More Things Change, The More They Stay the Same
Sanjna Srivatsa (CloudHealth), Sangini . (Applied Materials)
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Breakout D
10:30 AM
- 11:15 AM
Microsoft Technical Session (details TBD)
Breakout
Location: Keynote Stage
10:30 AM
- 11:15 AM
From On-Demand to Optimized: Your Guide to Smarter Cloud Commitment Strategies
James Hamilton (PubNub), Sarah Hussainy (Archera) Rate Optimization
Breakout
Level: 100
Location: Breakout A
10:30 AM
- 12:00 PM
Shift Up: Executive Strategy Alignment Chalk Talk
Daniel Cronin (Mastercard), Dan Spira (News Corp), Prasshant Sharrma (Sysco)
Chalk Talk
Level: 200
Location: Chalk Talk E
10:30 AM
- 12:00 PM
FinOps for Data Cloud Platforms Chalk Talk
Chinni Krishna Abburi (Communities Foundation of Texas), Mara Lambert (7-Eleven), Lindbergh Matillano (Avalara)
Chalk Talk
Level: 200
Location: Chalk Talk F
10:30 AM
- 10:40 AM
Start Small to Bring Simplicity into FinOps
Borja Martinez (StitcherAI)
Level: 200
Location: Expo Hall
10:42 AM
- 10:52 AM
What FinOps-Mature DevOps Leaders do Differently
Esmira Bayramova (Cast AI)
Level: 200
Location: Expo Hall
10:54 AM
- 11:04 AM
FinOps-as-Code
Seshadri Reddy Kommepalli (Equifax)
Level: 200
Location: Expo Hall
11:06 AM
- 11:16 AM
Intro to the Cloud Efficiency Hub
Jason DiDomenico
Level: 100
Location: Expo Hall
11:30 AM
- 12:15 PM
How Gerdau Unified Multi-Cloud + SaaS with Automated Allocation and Unit Economics at Scale
Thais Minelvino Dos Santos (Gerdau) Allocation, Unit Economics
Breakout
Level: 300
Location: Breakout D
11:30 AM
- 12:15 PM
How Bayer Eliminates Inefficiencies in Cloud, Code, and AI Workloads with Adaptive6
Michael Aideloje (Bayer), Aviv Revach (Adaptive6)
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Breakout C
11:30 AM
- 12:15 PM
Embedding FinOps into Everyday Decisions at Global Scale
Joseph Bitar (ExxonMobil), Guy Berenstein (Flexera)
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Breakout B
11:30 AM
- 12:15 PM
Oracle Technical Session (details TBD)
Breakout
Location: Keynote Stage
11:30 AM
- 12:15 PM
Onboarding Your AI Hire
Mike Fuller (FinOps Foundation)
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Breakout A
12:15 PM
- 1:45 PM
Lunch & Networking
Networking
Location: Marina Terrace
12:45 PM
- 12:55 PM
Multi-Cloud FOCUS Data Ingestion
Arjun Kaushal (Trident Consulting)
Level: 200
Location: Expo Hall
12:57 PM
- 1:07 PM
Making Unit Economics Actionable
Anastassia Storozhev Unit Economics
Level: 200
Location: Expo Hall
1:09 PM
- 1:19 PM
Designing Human-AI Workflows That Actually Work
Aaron Soto (SHI)
Level: 200
Location: Expo Hall
1:45 PM
- 2:30 PM
Turning AI Cost Data into Strategic Decision Insights
Becky Canterbury (Shutterstock), Courtney Totten (Shutterstock)
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Breakout D
1:45 PM
- 2:30 PM
Cloud Was Just the Beginning: Extending FinOps to On-Prem at Scale
Ron Tatro (Target), Alex Kadavil (Target) Data Ingestion, Allocation, Reporting & Analytics, Unit Economics
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Breakout A
1:45 PM
- 2:30 PM
AI Cost Observability in Practice: Allocating and Optimizing Token Spend
Gaurang Mavadiya (Demandbase), Rem Baumann (Vantage)
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Breakout B
1:45 PM
- 2:30 PM
Managing Cloud and AI Spend In the Age of Converging Disciplines
Rachael Wilson (Save A Lot), Abhishek Roy (ServiceNow) Intersecting Disciplines
Breakout
Level: 100
Location: Breakout C
1:45 PM
- 2:30 PM
FinOps for Autonomous Systems
Erik Onnen (IBM)
Breakout
Level: 300
Location: Keynote Stage
1:45 PM
- 3:15 PM
FinOps Assessments Chalk Talk
Victoria Levy (SailPoint), Andrew Quigley (Northwestern Mutual), David Lambert (Adobe) FinOps Assessment
Chalk Talk
Level: 200
Location: Chalk Talk E
1:45 PM
- 3:15 PM
FinOps for AI Chalk Talk
Josh Collier (Superhuman), Paulo Araujo (PayPal), Phuong Nguyen (Atlassian)
Chalk Talk
Level: 200
Location: Chalk Talk F
2:45 PM
- 3:30 PM
Hitting Every Note: A Playbook for Vendor Management, Rightsizing & Cost Clarity
Hannah Wells-Rhoades (Sweetwater Sound)
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Breakout B
2:45 PM
- 3:30 PM
saveMoney(): The Developer's Guide to Unit Economics
Hrushikesh Pokala (Equifax)
Breakout
Level: 300
Location: Breakout C
2:45 PM
- 3:30 PM
When Your DIY FinOps Tool Stops Scaling: Signals, Tradeoffs, and the RFP Playbook
Mick Laksanakorn (Lyft) Automation, Tools, & Services
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Breakout A
2:45 PM
- 3:30 PM
Advanced AI Optimization with AWS and Capital One
Brent Segner (Capital One), Stephanie Gooch (AWS), Adam Richter (AWS)
Breakout
Level: 300
Location: Breakout D
2:45 PM
- 2:55 AM
Hybrid Cost Transparency
Yuya Miyahara (Sony)
Level: 100
Location: Expo Hall
2:57 PM
- 3:07 PM
ITFM Lessons for AI’s Non-Linear Cost Curve
Janine Pickard-Green (MagicOrange)
Level: 200
Location: Expo Hall
3:09 PM
- 3:19 PM
The Incremental Path to Shifting FinOps Left
Ali Khajeh-Hosseini (Infracost) Governance, Policy & Risk
Level: 200
Location: Expo Hall
3:21 PM
- 3:31 PM
Managing Data & AI Costs in the Public Sector
Chinni Krishna Abburi (Communities Foundation of Texas)
Level: 200
Location: Expo Hall
3:30 PM
- 4:00 PM
Snack Break in the Expo Hall
Networking
Location: Expo Hall
4:00 PM
- 4:45 PM
The Cost of Cognition: Why Your AI Budget Will Break in the Agentic Era
Kuntal Patel (Palo Alto Networks), Abhinav Lad (Palo Alto Networks) Forecasting, Budgeting
Breakout
Level: 300
Location: Breakout D
4:00 PM
- 4:45 PM
Engineering a Cost per Feature Capability with OpenTelemetry
Irena Nikolova (Canva), Japan Patel (Canva)
Breakout
Level: 300
Location: Breakout A
4:00 PM
- 4:45 PM
Spreadsheets to Autopilot: UiPath's Multi-Cloud Rate Optimization
Tammy Burnitt (UiPath), Erik Carlin (ProsperOps) Rate Optimization
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Breakout B
4:00 PM
- 4:45 PM
Agentic Governance That Developers and FinOps Leaders Love
Brent Eubanks (Wayfair), Sonny Shi (Stacklet)
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Breakout C
4:00 PM
- 5:30 PM
Risk, Policy, & Governance Chalk Talk
Martin Thompson (ITAM Forum), Omkar Gokhale (Salesforce), Savina Stoykova (TP ICAP) Governance, Policy & Risk
Chalk Talk
Level: 200
Location: Chalk Talk E
4:00 PM
- 5:30 PM
Unit Economics Chalk Talk
Dever Carrison (The Cigna Group), Nicole Savona (Evernorth Health Services), Matt Tomlinson (Indeed), Anastassia Storozhev Unit Economics
Chalk Talk
Level: 200
Location: Chalk Talk F
4:00 PM
- 5:30 PM
Engaging Optimization: Getting it Done Chalk Talk
Noel Crowley (Fidelity), Paul Guarino (Fidelity), Evan Ochs (Ticketmaster), Rachel Palmarozzi (Electronic Arts) Usage Optimization
Chalk Talk
Level: 200
Location: Level 1 Foyer
5:00 PM
- 5:45 PM
Maximizing Financial Efficiency Through FinOps
Sarah Oshingbade (Checkout)
Breakout
Level: 100
Location: Breakout A
5:00 PM
- 5:45 PM
From Reactive to FinOps Autonomous Optimization: AWS Infra Resource Rightsizing with Agentic AI
Anuthama Chandrasekaran (S&P Global), Guruprasad Ramamoorthy (S&P Global)
Breakout
Level: 300
Location: Breakout C
5:00 PM
- 5:45 PM
FOCUS as the Data Layer for AI-Enabled FinOps
Matt Cowsert (FinOps Foundation), Mike Fuller (FinOps Foundation)
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Breakout B
6:00 PM
- 10:00 PM
🪩🌴 OFFICIAL FinOps X Closing Party - Poolside - Sponsored by IBM Cloudability ☁️🍹
Networking

Thursday June 11

8:00 AM
- 11:00 AM
☕ Closing Networking Breakfast: Poolside with J.R. & FinOps Staff (Badge Required) 🥐
Sam Benson (FinOps Foundation), Steve Trask (FinOps Foundation), Mike Payne (FinOps Foundation), Suha Shim (FinOps Foundation), Joe Daly (FinOps Foundation), Ishita Vyas (FinOps Foundation), Rodolfo Silva (FinOps Foundation), Dean Oliver (FinOps Foundation), Jessica Brandes (FinOps Foundation), Beau Nelford (FinOps Foundation), Sara Whitehead (FinOps Foundation), James Newton (FinOps Foundation), Tom Sharpe (FinOps Foundation), Andrew Nhem (FinOps Foundation), Joaquin Prado (FinOps Foundation), Shawn Alpay (FinOps Foundation), Matt Cowsert (FinOps Foundation), Natalie Bergman (FinOps Foundation), Samantha White (FinOps Foundation), Mike Fuller (FinOps Foundation), Rob Martin (FinOps Foundation), Vasilio Markanastasakis (FinOps Foundation), Kevin Emamy (FinOps Foundation), Jonathan Morley (FinOps Foundation)
Networking
Location: Pool South