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  • Intro (27)
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Cloudability TotalCost: Tracking your KPIs

Maddy Yeazel

Apptio
Building KPIs in TotalCost: How to build and track a COIN metric KPI With Cloudability Total Cost and track in Apptio BI

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Cloud Financial Management
  • Tuesday, Oct 24
  • 11:15 am
  • 45 Minutes
  • Breakout Session
  • Intro
  • Apptio

The Anatomy of a Cloud Migration & FinOps/TBM Transformation

Dzmitry Ramaniuk
Manager, Site Reliability Engineering
Apptio
Hear about Apptio Targetprocess’s journey through a massive migration from legacy IBM bare-metal data centers to AWS Cloud. Learn how we tackled the overall complexity of this project to transform our operations, adopting FinOps/TBM practices and optimizing our cloud spend.

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Cloud Financial Management
  • Tuesday, Oct 24
  • 11:15 am
  • 45 Minutes
  • Breakout Session
  • Advanced
  • Partner

Takeda’s Journey to Achieving Complete Cloud Chargeback

Trevor Christie

Takeda
Join us for an enlightening session as we explore Takeda’s journey towards achieving complete cloud chargeback. Discover the guidance and valuable lessons they have learned, as well as the pitfalls to avoid, in implementing a robust chargeback system for their cloud infrastructure. Gain insights into the benefits of cloud chargeback,…

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Cloud Financial Management
  • Tuesday, Oct 24
  • 11:15 am
  • 45 Minutes
  • Breakout Session
  • Advanced
  • Apptio

Cloudy with a Chance of Containers…Getting Visibility On EBS costs in EKS clusters

Brock Bylovas
Sr Software Engineer
Apptio
Kubernetes has become the standard orchestration service for running containerized workloads on the cloud. However it can be hard to know how those workloads use storage and drive costs. This session will focus on how EBS is used with EKS clusters and the tools Apptio provides to make sense of…

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Cloud Financial Management
  • Tuesday, Oct 24
  • 2:00 pm
  • 45 Minutes
  • Breakout Session
  • Intro
  • Partner

Understand & Optimize Cloud Spend with FinOps

Sean Halligan
Director, FinOps
Maryville Consulting Group
Tressa McClung
VP, IT Enabling
GM Financial
Learn about the best practices and common pitfalls to avoid when standing up and maturing your FinOps practice. Understand the quick wins that can set your program up for success while establishing credibility within your organization.

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Cloud Financial Management
  • Tuesday, Oct 24
  • 2:00 pm
  • 45 Minutes
  • Breakout Session
  • Intro
  • Apptio

Take TBM to the Next Level with FinOps

Marisa Banigan
Sr. Director, Product Marketing
Apptio
Discover how organizations can establish a robust FinOps capability within the framework of Technology Business Management (TBM) to effectively manage cloud costs. Learn how to align oversight and governance with TBM principles to build out a comprehensive FinOps strategy. Gain insights into implementing cost transparency, optimizing resource allocation, and driving…

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Cloud Financial Management
  • Tuesday, Oct 24
  • 2:00 pm
  • 45 Minutes
  • Breakout Session
  • Intermediate
  • TBM Council

Intelligent Cloud Adoption and Unit Economics

Ankur Sharma
IT Finance
Freddie Mac
Jennifer Bishop
IT Finance TBM Manager
UPS
Intelligent cloud adoption and unit economics are hollow concepts unless these are anchored on business value. Value conversations as TBM defines these are designed to create a collaborative exchange of ideas that result in better business outcomes for the organization. This breakout session will provide tangible actions to deliver cloud…

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Cloud Financial Management
  • Tuesday, Oct 24
  • 2:00 pm
  • 45 Minutes
  • Breakout Session
  • Intermediate
  • Apptio

Cloud Unit Economics: The Secret to Translating Cloud Cost to Value

Maddy Yeazel

Apptio
Daniel Westfahl

Apptio
As cloud adoption accelerates and spend increases, determining unit economics for your cloud program becomes increasingly important for measuring the success – and ultimately, the delivered value- of your cloud strategy. This session will walk you through how unit economics can unlock the exact cloud costs consumed per business deliverable…

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Cloud Financial Management
  • Tuesday, Oct 24
  • 3:00 pm
  • 45 Minutes
  • Breakout Session
  • Intermediate
  • Partner

Uniting Cross Functional Teams for FinOps Success

Parker Nancollas
Senior FinOps Consultant
SoftwareOne
Achieving FinOps success requires a cohesive, cross-functional effort that brings together various personas within an organization. This session dives into the essential steps for building a FinOps team that bridges the gap between finance, procurement, security, IT, and business owners. Discover how each role contributes unique expertise and value to…

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Cloud Financial Management
  • Tuesday, Oct 24
  • 3:00 pm
  • 45 Minutes
  • Breakout Session
  • Advanced
  • Apptio

Cloud Cost Allocation: Strategies for Tagging and Mapping Costs

Alex Long
Principal Solutions Consultant, Cloud
Apptio
Best practices for building and automating business mappings and tagging

Tracks:

Cloud Financial Management
  • Wednesday, Oct 25
  • 11:15 am
  • 45 Minutes
  • Breakout Session
  • Intro

Getting FinOps Right in a Cloudy World

Tracy Woo
Principal Analyst
Forrester
Guest speaker Forrester Principal Analyst Tracy Woo explores how Cloud has become part of most enterprise organizations’ IT strategies, but despite its widespread use, successful cloud management can be incredibly difficult. She explores the challenges of operationalizing cloud and explains how to create a successful cloud management plan.

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Cloud Financial Management
  • Wednesday, Oct 25
  • 11:15 am
  • 45 Minutes
  • Breakout Session
  • Apptio

Bridging the Gap: Cloud FinOps in the Tech Industry for Marginalized Communities

Leiyian David Motongo
FinOps Consultant
Apptio
In the session, Leiyian dives into the exciting potential of how Cloud FinOps is empowering marginalized communities in the tech industry. By tackling some of the main obstacles that marginalized communities are faced with in the tech industry and focusing on solutions. Leiyian will provide his take on why FinOps…

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Cloud Financial Management
  • Wednesday, Oct 25
  • 11:15 am
  • 45 Minutes
  • Hands-On Lab
  • Advanced
  • Apptio

Cloudability: Tagging Strategy and Compliance Hands-On Lab – Session 1

Justin Kean
Senior Instructor
Apptio
This class is designed for Cloudability users who want to take a deeper dive into cloud tagging. We’ll talk about the importance and challenges of tagging, how to set a tagging strategy, and how to check compliance with that strategy. Learners will participate in hands-on activities and walk away with…

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Cloud Financial Management
  • Wednesday, Oct 25
  • 2:00 pm
  • 90 Minutes
  • Breakout Session
  • Intro
  • Apptio

The Future is Hybrid… Whether You Like It or Not.

Margaret Dawson
Chief of Staff to the CEO and Communications Officer
Apptio
Public cloud is absolutely a vital part of a next-generation architecture and needed to achieve digital leadership. But no application is an island. When pursuing this cloud-first strategy, many organizations don’t take the time to develop a smart cloud strategy or application assessment process. For any workload, there are dependencies…

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Cloud Financial Management
  • Wednesday, Oct 25
  • 2:00 pm
  • 45 Minutes
  • Breakout Session
  • Intermediate
  • Apptio

Beyond Basic Cloud Spend Management

Greg Holmes
AVP Solutions, EMEA
Apptio
In this session, we will explore advanced concepts in cloud spend management, focusing on various issues related to its consumption. These include minimizing waste, understanding connected spend, managing risks, generating sustainability reports, and more.

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Cloud Financial Management
  • Wednesday, Oct 25
  • 2:00 pm
  • 45 Minutes
  • Breakout Session
  • Advanced
  • Apptio

Cloudability TotalCost: Ingesting and Modeling Data from Sources

Alex Gahrmann
Solutions Consultant
Apptio
Ingesting Data with Cloudability Total Cost- how to maximize your cloud program FINOPS

Tracks:

Cloud Financial Management
  • Wednesday, Oct 25
  • 2:00 pm
  • 45 Minutes
  • Breakout Session
  • Customer

Rolling Forecasts: Best practices, benefits, challenges and Implementation.

Vik Saluja

Mastercard
As cloud adoption grows and expands, so does the need for a reliable method of managing finances. As a result, for this visibility. most companies utilize a traditional budgeting process to track actuals vs forecast. Unfortunately, this process falls short as it does not react to what is happening during…

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Cloud Financial Management
  • Wednesday, Oct 25
  • 2:00 pm
  • 45 Minutes
  • Breakout Session
  • Intermediate
  • Apptio

Apptio Product Integration: Leveraging Data Across Apptio Products to Drive Value

Shuler Littleton

Apptio
Apptio products have some standard integrations built in. However, there are also some non-standard solutions for integration that can drive incredible value for your business. During this session you will learn common and new ways of integrating across Cloudability, Cost Transparency, IT Planning, and Targetprocess

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Cloud Financial Management
  • Wednesday, Oct 25
  • 3:00 pm
  • 45 Minutes
  • Breakout Session
  • Intro
  • Customer

Why Collaboration is the Key to FinOps Success

Eric Mulartrick
FinOps Lead
Boomi, LP
Nisha Raghava

Boomi
You’ll hear from Eric Mulartrick (Head of FinOps) and Nisha Raghava from Boomi (Sr. Manager of Financial Analysis) discussing why collaboration between finance and engineering is so important to get right on your FinOps journey.

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Cloud Financial Management
  • Wednesday, Oct 25
  • 3:00 pm
  • 45 Minutes
  • Breakout Session
  • Intermediate
  • Apptio

Going Green with the Cloud: Supporting Sustainability Initiatives with Your Cloud Program

Mallory Beaudreau
Customer Portfolio Director - EMEA
Apptio
An increased focus on sustainability is driving organizations to deploy measures that minimize environmental impact. Ensuring cloud applications are designed to help reduce environmental impact can help support this effort. This session explores considerations and best practices for supporting sustainability initiatives within your cloud program, including assessing and reporting on…

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Cloud Financial Management
  • Wednesday, Oct 25
  • 3:00 pm
  • 45 Minutes
  • Breakout Session
  • Intro
  • Customer

Achieving a Voice Throughout your Organization

Shawn Moore
Director of Technology Finance & Analytics
BECU
Kyle Dammann
Senior Customer Success Advisor
Apptio
Elisabeth Price
Senior Consultant
Apptio
BECU built out the framework and practice within an IT group, establishing best practices and reports. Our achievement of saving $5M though effective cloud cost management and averting a major issue was an extraordinary success. It brought about positive changes which jumpstarted the communication cycle and widespread adoption of TBM…

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Cloud Financial Management
  • Wednesday, Oct 25
  • 3:00 pm
  • 45 Minutes
  • Hands-On Lab
  • Advanced
  • Apptio

Cloudability: Tagging Strategy and Compliance Hands-On Lab – Session 2

Justin Kean
Senior Instructor
Apptio
This class is designed for Cloudability users who want to take a deeper dive into cloud tagging. We’ll talk about the importance and challenges of tagging, how to set a tagging strategy, and how to check compliance with that strategy. Learners will participate in hands-on activities and walk away with…

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Tracks:

Cloud Financial Management
  • Wednesday, Oct 25
  • 4:00 pm
  • 90 Minutes
  • Breakout Session
  • Advanced
  • Apptio

Cloudability and Cloudability Savings Automation: Committed Spend Best Practices

Matt Gerow
Manager, Principal Product Management
Apptio
Learn about the approaches managing and optimizing committed spend on AWS through Cloudability and Cloudability Savings Automation. Understand the tradeoffs and differences between different commitment types and how Cloudability Savings Automation can automatically deliver savings and flexibility for your organization in this deep dive session on commitments and strategies to…

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Cloud Financial Management
  • Wednesday, Oct 25
  • 4:00 pm
  • 45 Minutes
  • Breakout Session
  • Intro
  • Apptio

Cloud KPIs to Help Move the Needle

Kyle Dammann
Senior Customer Success Advisor
Apptio
Kris Rosiak
CS Sr. Strategy Advisor
Apptio
Highlight Cloud KPI dashboard that helps show some of the key metrics and how we can tie them together in a single view, and roll them up dynamically by Team/App/BU, COIN – Efficiency of Spend, BvA – Realized Savings, CUD/RI Coverage, Unit Economics

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Cloud Financial Management
  • Wednesday, Oct 25
  • 4:00 pm
  • 45 Minutes
  • Breakout Session
  • Intermediate
  • Apptio

Determining the Right Place for Your Workload

Soline Plichta

Apptio
Determining the right resource and cloud for a workload can be difficult, and teams are often left on their own to research costs and plan new workloads. This makes forecasting and understanding the financial impact of future workloads across the organization nearly impossible. This session will explore considerations for planning…

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Cloud Financial Management
  • Thursday, Oct 26
  • 11:15 am
  • 45 Minutes

Executive Strategy Forum Sessions

Meet face to face with some of the world’s foremost AI experts and practitioners. From those working in public and private sector AI strategy, governance and policy, to the executives that are making and applying AI technologies that are shaping the modern landscape.

Join Forrester industry analyst Tracy Woo and tech industry executives to exchange insight into the successes and failures of operating a tech organization in a hybrid world, where Agile and waterfall combine with private, public and multi-cloud strategies, creating operational challenges modern organizations must master. Meet your tech and finance executive peers, to exchange insight into how these modern obstacles are being addressed.

Who wouldn’t want to find 3% of their technology budget to be used differently – either for cost savings or to move from run the business to change the business? Even if you aren’t in cost cutting mode, you’re most likely still have budgets stuck in contracts, redundant services, or legacy infrastructure. Hear from leaders who have successfully uncovered millions of dollars to put into savings or redirected to strategic initiatives and transformation.

Digital innovation is driving organizations to adopt new technologies, delivery capabilities and operating models. Adoption of Agile methods and cloud services often figure prominently on the digital agenda, join our panel of executive industry practitioners and partners as they share insight into their journey from Project to Product.

Pressure from investors, customers, governments and regulators is driving the ESG agenda, and tech has a key role to play. Sustainability is increasingly linked to brand identity as regulatory compliance requirements become more demanding worldwide. Join us to explore the standards, approaches and solutions organizations are leveraging to mitigate the challenging environment of “Tech Sustainability”.

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Executive Strategy Forum Sessions

A look back at 10 years of TBM leadership and community building.

 
Speakers:
  • Eileen Wade, General Manager, TBM Council
  • Tom Murphy, VP IT & CIO, University of Pennsylvania

Innovating through technology is not new. For decades technology leaders have navigated the landscape of delivering competitive innovations that drive business value. CIOs have been known as “Transformational Leaders” and “Change Agents” – and this remains true today. However, what escalated seemingly overnight was the competing need to reconceptualize both employee and customer engagements that deliver anytime, anywhere experiences with minimal risk and a nimbleness rarely seen before. In this session, discussion leaders will share their own experiences and set up table engagements for attendees to answer various questions, including:

  • Is modernization the driving force behind the “Mega CIO”?
  • Is the “Mega CIO” a fit for all strategies?
  • Are executives with line-of-business backgrounds relegating professionals with technology-focused backgrounds to the executive sidelines?
  • If not the CIO, then who else is as uniquely positioned to understand and lead company and product strategy transformations?
Discussion Leader:
  • Les Ottolenghi, EVP & Chief Information and Technology Officer, Stride
  • Greg Douglass, Senior Managing Director, Global Technology Strategy & Advisory, Accenture
  • Rhonda Gass, CIO, Stanley Black & Decker

Public cloud strategies are often embraced for the promise of rapid scalability, on-demand agility, and best-in-class security, resiliency, and features. However, public cloud adoption presents significant financial challenges that, when not addressed, inhibit any firm’s ability to exploit the promises of public cloud. In this session, we’ll hear from leaders who are managing their cloud strategy with both TBM and FinOps, and how they are leveraging the maturity and rigor of TBM to align their organization’s capabilities and requirements. We’ll then break into small groups to discuss both challenges and approaches for building and launching a TBM-for-Cloud journey, including:

  • Defining a TBM-for-Cloud function with FinOps
  • Practices for tailoring FinOps to your organization based on goals and capabilities
  • Establishing company financial constructs and controls
  • Benefits of building a FinOps capability with the oversight and governance of TBM

 

Discussion Leader:
  • Nathan Besh, TBM-for-Cloud Evangelist, TBM Council
  • Melissa Croft, Managing Director, UBS
Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity in 2021 surpassed the level achieved before the global pandemic, with $5.1 trillion worth of M&A transactions being completed across multiple industries. Success is non-negotiable, so corporate boards look to technology leaders to articulate how a deal will lower costs, mitigate risk, and increase revenue. To achieve this, many leaders have found that TBM is their Rosetta stone for navigating the three key phases of M&A: due diligence, integration, and run/optimize. In this discussion hear from Jack Bischoff, Regional VP of the TBM Council, as he shares use cases gathered from across our membership on the ways global organizations are leveraging TBM to deliver successful M&A processes with transparency, including the ability to:
  • Better identify areas of synergistic opportunity, risk, activity, and expected outcomes
  • Prioritize critical decisions about people, organizational structure, major system consolidation, and standardization
  • Provide the capabilities that determine how the organization is running, where costs are, and how to prioritize and optimize activities that are realized
  • Establish an improvement loop that creates a repeatable M&A playbook

 

Discussion Leaders:
  • Jack Bischof, VP, Europe & Middle East, TBM Council

Delivering business value faster is a primary reason why many organizations are aggressively scaling Agile practices across their enterprise. At the same time these practices can conflict with traditional ways of working including planning, organizational, and funding models. Agile practices risk creating financial blind spots for both product teams who are expected to make decisions faster and with more autonomy than ever before, and their financial peers. In this session, hear from executives who are applying the rigor and guidance of TBM to Agile-at-scale so they can maximize their shift from projects-to-products quickly and transparently. Discussion topics will include:

  • Best practices for gaining company-wide support to make the shift
  • Experiences and challenges maintaining cost transparency alongside Enterprise Agile
  • Identifying and prioritizing opportunities for TBM and Enterprise Agile frameworks (SAFe, Spotify Model, Scrum of Scrums, etc.)
  • Prioritizing Agile-specific financial management solutions for TBM
 
Discussion Leader:
  • Carolyn Gehrke, TBM Product Manager, John Deere
  • Kathy Higgins, VP – Tech Business Management, Lowe’s Companies, Inc.
  • Justin Mann, TBM-for-Agile Evangelist, TBM Council

Financial management of your technology investments is critical, now more than ever in high-paced and increasingly financially constrained markets. Cloud, hybrid, and digital development of products and services is integral to your business. But the decentralized, federated nature of those technological advancements has made it more difficult than ever to get a clear, accurate picture of the total costs of delivering those products and services. Furthermore, once you have an accurate view of those total costs, concerns arise on the best way to understand and communicate how those costs drive value, specifically the profitability of those products. In this session, we would like to hear your thoughts on how you, your peers, and your organization sees the evolution of technology costs and the need to see the profitability of the products that incur those costs informing your future decision-making processes.

Discussion Leader:
  • Eugene Khvostov, SVP, Products, Apptio

To understand what drove the Great Resignation, Humu asked more than 90,000 employees across large, global organizations why they are (or are not) looking for new roles. Their biggest finding? For most would-be quitters, culture matters more than compensation.

Join Laszlo Bock, former CHRO at Google, and now Co-Founder of Humu – a software platform that combines technology and behavioral science to make managers and their teams more effective – as he leads an interactive session on the essential traits that drive high-performing teams and engaged employees, including:

  • The difference between team culture vs. team composition
  • The five top factors that make (or break) team performance and retention
  • How leadership can encourage managers to build a team culture worth sticking around for
Discussion Leader:
  • Laszlo Bock, Co-Founder & Chairman, Humu (Former CHRO at Google)

Agenda subject to change