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Monday November 11

Technical Advisory Council Meeting (Invite Only)

Location:

FOCUS Maintainer Meetings (Invite Only)

Location:
12:40 PM
- 2:20 PM

AWS User Group: Cost Allocation with Manoj Jayadevan (Invite only)

Manoj Jayadevan (AWS)
Location:
3:00 PM

Event Badge Pickup and Hotel Check-in

Location: Main Lobby
3:00 PM
- 5:30 PM

FinOps Foundation Office Hours - Ask Us Anything!

Location: W Lounge
4:00 PM
- 7:00 PM

Swag Pickup and Silver Sponsor Reception

Location: Mega Room
7:00 PM

Welcome Reception

Networking
Location: COYA

Tuesday November 12

9:00 AM
- 10:30 AM

Day 1 Keynote: The Evolution of FinOps, FinOps+Sustainability, FinOps for AI, FOCUS, Cloud Panel

J.R. Storment (FinOps Foundation), Pierre-Emmanuel Nuiry (STMicroelectronics), Jimin Li (Microsoft), John Phillips (AWS), Natalie Daley (HSBC), Neven Drljević (European Parliament), Chris Reed (Priceline), Anne Johnston (Capital One)
Keynote
Location: Great Room
11:00 AM
- 11:45 AM

From Vancouver to Sydney: Empowering a Flock of 2,000 Engineers

Carlos Galán (Just Eat Takeaway), Hitesh Patel (Just Eat Takeaway)
Breakout
Location: Studio 3

Address Carbon Footprint with FinOps

Ferran Grau Horta (Adevinta) Cloud Sustainability
Breakout
Level: 300
Location: Studio 2

Strategic Unit Economics at Adobe Campaign

Neha Malhotra (Adobe), Ramana Ganesan (Adobe) FinOps Practice Operations
Breakout
Level: 300
Location: Great Room
11:00 AM
- 12:45 PM

FOCUS Adoption Interactive Chalk Talk

Marc Perreaut (Amadeus), Clément Leroux (GitLab)
Chalk Talk
Limited Space Location: Breeze
11:00 AM

Ask the Expert: Microsoft products and solutions for FinOps (Apply to attend)

Michael Flanakin (Microsoft), Ritesh Kini (Microsoft), Arthur Clares (Microsoft)
Location: Breeze 1 Meeting Room
12:00 PM
- 12:45 AM

Scaling FinOps at Mercedes-Benz

Svetlana Schwarzkopf (Mercedes-Benz Group AG)
Breakout
Level: 100
Location: Studio 3
12:00 PM
- 12:45 PM

Stay Informed: Achieving Cost Efficiency with AWS Cloud Financial Management Solutions

Anne Johnston (Capital One), Rick Ochs (Amazon Web Services)
Breakout
Location: Great Room

Fueling Sustainability Goals at Mastercard in Every Stage of FinOps

Vik Saluja (Mastercard), Josh Bauman (Apptio)
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Studio 2
12:40 PM
- 2:20 PM

AWS User Group: Cost Reporting with Roy Wolman (Invite only)

Roy Wolman (Amazon Web Services)
Location:

Lunch

Networking
Location:
2:30 PM
- 3:15 PM

The Cloud Costs of Roasting Your Chicken

Kristina Kondrashevich (Electrolux), Gang Luo (Electrolux) Unit Economics
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Great Room

Get Focused on FOCUS™ 1.1

Rob Martin (FinOps Foundation), Alex Hullah (GoldmanSachs)
Breakout
Location: Studio 2

Multi-Cloud Showback & Chargeback as a Driver for Action

Narciso Cerezo (BBVA) Invoicing & Chargeback
Breakout
Level: 300
Location: Studio 3
2:30 PM
- 4:15 PM

Planning & Budgeting Interactive Chalk Talk

Lucas Paratore (Tanzu CloudHealth), Jag Sodhi (Wm Morrisons Supermarket)
Chalk Talk
Limited Space Location: Studio 7

Adopting FinOps Interactive Chalk Talk

Carlos Almajano (Deloitte), Alberto Gonzalez Leon (Naturgy)
Chalk Talk
Limited Space Location: Breeze
3:30 PM
- 4:15 PM

FOCUS™ for Datacenter: Stories from the Front Lines

Michael Kearns (Virtasant), Alexander Johansson (UnitedHealth Group)
Breakout
Level: 300
Location: Studio 3

How to Approach Product Design with Cost

Philippe Galeano (Thales AVS) Architecting for Cloud
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Studio 2

Shift FinOps Left: Cost-Aware Product Decisions

Richard Steck (Adobe), Lisa Black (Oracle), Michael Flanakin (Microsoft), Rick Ochs (Amazon Web Services), Alfonso Hernandez (Google Cloud)
Breakout
Location: Great Room

Break

Networking
Location:
4:45 PM
- 5:30 PM

Integrating GenAI with Infrastructure as Code

Rich Young (Warner Leisure Hotels), Madoc Batters (Warner Leisure Hotels) Architecting for Cloud
Breakout
Level: 300
Location: Studio 3

The FinOps Journey to Superior Unit Economics

Brian Lupson (Iron Mountain), Reggie Kelley (PwC) Unit Economics
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Studio 2
4:45 PM
- 6:30 PM

Unit Economics & the Quantify Business Value Domain - Chalk Talk

Bhavna Halai (Invesco), Nilofar Bhurawala (Smarsh)
Chalk Talk
Limited Space Location: Breeze

Cost-Aware Product Decisions Interactive Chalk Talk

Ruben Vander Stockt (FinOps Foundation), Pascal Zwikirsch (Usercentrics), Mark Wilson (Walgreens Boots Alliance)
Chalk Talk
Limited Space Location: Studio 7
5:45 PM
- 6:30 PM

Public Sector: Challenge Accepted!

Jan Simons (RheinEnergie AG) FinOps Practice Operations
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Studio 3

FinOps and FOCUS™ Best Practices at STMicroelectronics

Pierre-Emmanuel Nuiry (STMicroelectronics)
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Studio 2
5:45 PM
- 7:30 PM

Sponsor Networking Reception

Networking
Location: Great Room Foyer
7:00 PM
- 10:00 PM

Apptio Happy Hour – Connect & Unwind at Noxe, W (Registration required)

Networking
Location: NOXE

Harness Exclusive Networking After-Party at FinOps X Europe (Registration required)

Networking
Location: Julieta's
7:30 PM
- 10:30 PM

Wind down with Flexera and Synyega at bellissima Velissima! (Registration required)

Networking
Location: Velissima
8:00 PM
- 10:30 PM

Finout FinOps After Dark - FinOps X Europe 2024 (Registration Required)

Networking
Location: Pez Vela

Wednesday November 13

7:00 AM
- 8:30 AM

Sustainable FinOps and Pastries with IBM Cloudability and Deloitte (Registration required)

Networking
Location: Breeze
9:00 AM
- 10:30 AM

Day 2 Keynotes: Culture of FinOps, Sustainability in Action, FOCUS 1.1 Launch, Maintainer Panel, Cloud Announcements

Udam Dewaraja (FinOps Foundation), Shawn Alpay (FinOps Foundation), Cyril Belikoff (Microsoft), Rick Ochs (Amazon Web Services), Frederic Mingot (Renault Group)
Keynote
Location: Great Room
11:00 AM
- 11:45 AM

Implementing FOCUS for Cloud Cost Exchange between European Union Institutions

Neven Drljević (European Parliament), Julian Radu (European Parliament) Data Ingestion
Breakout
Level: 300
Location: Great Room

Driving Accountability Through Outsourced Responsibilities

Sandra Viedersone (Fortum), Bruno Almeida (Fortum)
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Studio 2

Elasticity by Design: Reducing Waste and Maximizing Savings at Coinbase

Stephen Arthur (Coinbase), John Skinner (ProsperOps) Rate Optimization
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Studio 3
11:00 AM
- 12:45 PM

Cloud Sustainability Interactive Chalk Talk

Hans de Kruif (ABN AMRO Bank N.V.), Mathijs Hendriks (Rabobank)
Chalk Talk
Limited Space Location: Studio 7

Optimization Beyond the Obvious Interactive Chalk Talk

Wuming Zhang (Bank for International Settlements – BIS), Cédric Weider (Helvetia Versicherungen Schweiz)
Chalk Talk
Limited Space Location: Breeze
11:00 AM

Ask the Expert: Microsoft - Building an AI-powered Fabric workspace for FinOps (Apply to attend)

Michael Flanakin (Microsoft), Thierry Houy (Microsoft)
Location: Breeze 1 Meeting Room
12:00 PM
- 12:45 PM

FinOps Success Is a Team Sport

Julián Debenedetti (ASML), Jeremy Chaplin (Flexera) FinOps Education & Enablement
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Studio 2

Moving from Cloud Cost Police to Cloud Cost Orchestrator

Krisztian Borbely (Amadeus) Budgeting
Breakout
Level: 300
Location: Studio 3

Implementing AI Transformation: the Essentials of Balancing Efficiency and Sustainable Growth

Evelyn Padrino (Microsoft), Francesco Sodano (Microsoft), Ritesh Kini (Microsoft), Sonal Gupta (Carlsberg)
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Great Room
12:40 PM
- 2:20 PM

AWS User Group: Optimization Automation with Rick Ochs (Invite only)

Rick Ochs (Amazon Web Services)
Location:

Lunch

Networking
Location:
2:00 PM

Ask the Expert: Microsoft - Elevate your cloud sustainability approach on Azure (Apply to attend)

Ritesh Kini (Microsoft)
Location: Breeze 1 Meeting Room
2:30 PM
- 4:15 PM

FinOps Framework Conversations with the Technical Advisory Council Interactive Chalk Talk

Bindu Sharma (Teradata), Tom Cross (Aer Lingus) FinOps Practice Operations
Chalk Talk
Limited Space Location: Breeze

Vas & Rob Focus on FOCUS™ Data (Interactive Chalk Talk)

Rob Martin (FinOps Foundation), Vasilio Markanastasakis (FinOps Foundation) Reporting & Analytics, Data Ingestion
Chalk Talk
Limited Space Location: Studio 7
2:30 PM
- 3:15 PM

The Ultimate Business Value Indicator for Senior Leaders

Anderson Oliveira (AXA and Timestamp Portugal)
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Studio 2

Mastering FinOps for SaaS Optimization

Chris Reed (Priceline)
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Great Room

Automating Anomaly Investigation with AI

Benjamin van der Maas (Johnson & Johnson), Jan Peeters (Johnson & Johnson)
Breakout
Location: Studio 3
3:30 PM
- 4:15 PM

Carbon ≠ Energy ≠ Cost

Dany Daya (Etsy) Cloud Sustainability
Breakout
Level: 300
Location: Great Room

Growing FinOps Self-Sufficiency in Development Teams

Ekaterina Zemlyakova (Align Technology)
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Studio 2

How Nubank Contextualizes Cloud Usage Patterns to Empower Engineering Cost Efficiency

Alon Arvatz (PointFive), Mike Rosenberg (Nubank) FinOps Practice Operations
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Studio 3

Break

Networking
Location:
4:45 PM
- 6:30 PM

AI for FinOps Interactive Chalk Talk

Kyle Campos (CloudBolt), Rich Young (Warner Leisure Hotels) FinOps Practice Operations
Chalk Talk
Limited Space Location: Breeze

Scope of FinOps Interactive Chalk Talk

Kevin George (Specsavers), Juan van Heerden (Lloyds Banking Group), Christian Stöffler (SAP SE)
Chalk Talk
Limited Space Location: Studio 7
4:45 PM
- 5:30 PM

OLX's Reinvention of TBM with FinOps for Digital Platforms

Pedro Veloso (OLX Group), Dominika Pach (OLX Group) Intersecting Disciplines
Breakout
Level: 300
Location: Studio 3

Let's Extend FOCUS: Defining the Future of Private Cloud Cost Management

Kumar Yarlagadda (Heineken Group AG)
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Studio 2
5:00 PM
- 8:00 PM

Fiesta Española: Microsoft Happy Hour with a Spanish Twist (Registration required)

Networking
Location: Great Room Terrace
5:30 PM
- 7:30 PM

AWS Meetup and Social Mixer (Apply to attend)

Networking
Location: Breeze 3 Meeting Room
5:45 PM
- 6:30 PM

Building the Foundation for Chargeback before the Cloud Spend Happens

Vesa Manninen (OP Financial Group)
Breakout
Location: Studio 3

The Real Value of FinOps Data

Shahen Bokhari (TP ICAP) FinOps Practice Operations
Breakout
Level: 200
Location: Studio 2
7:00 PM

FinOps X Europe Official Party (Badge Required)

Networking
Location:

ProsperOps Exclusive VIP Section at the FinOps X Europe Official Party (Registration required)

Networking
Location: FIRE

Thursday November 14

7:30 AM
- 10:00 AM

Closing Informal Networking Breakfast (Badge Required)

Location:

Times/dates of agenda items may change. More details will be added to the agenda closer to the event and as speakers are confirmed.