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Strategic Portfolio Management is an approach that integrates planning, resourcing, and financial alignment. The result? Greater visibility into value realization and a clearer connection between work delivered and business impact. The IBM Targetprocess team actively monitors change drivers in the field of Strategic Portfolio Management. In this session, we’ll share…
- Breakout Session
- Strategic Portfolio Management
- Accelerating (Intermediate)
- Executive/Leadership, IT Finance or TBM Office, PMO or Product Leader
Join this session to explore how Technology Business Management (TBM) can accelerate your organization’s digital transformation—shifting IT from a cost center to a value-adding business partner through a dynamic, agile digital product investment model. Topics we’ll cover in this session: What is your Big Transformation Hypothesis? Define your Product Structure…
- Breakout Session
- Strategic Portfolio Management
- Ramping (Introductory)
- Executive/Leadership, IT Admin or Manager, IT Finance or TBM Office, PMO or Product Leader
Organizational Transformation is always a case study in change management. Attend this session to learn more about how focusing on words is a foundational element to getting all levels of the organization on the same page and accelerating your adoption of organizational change. This session will cover: The Telephone Game…
- Breakout Session
- Adopting & Ramping TBM Practices
- Ramping (Introductory)
- Executive/Leadership, IT Admin or Manager, IT Finance or TBM Office, PMO or Product Leader
Unpredictability is the new norm. The frequency and force of unexpected events hitting organizations is unprecedented. Technology managers using TBM are better equipped to navigate these events with a greater chance of success. One way to prepare for the unexpected is to adopt TBM. While TBM isn’t a tool for…
- Breakout Session
- Innovating with TBM
- Accelerating (Intermediate)
- Cloud Center of Excellence, Executive/Leadership, IT Admin or Manager, IT Finance or TBM Office, PMO or Product Leader
At IBM, we’ve extended the value of our FinOps practice by integrating it with TechOps, forming FinTechOps—a unified model that enhances outcomes for our teams and clients while aligning with enterprise strategy. This integrated approach enables us to unlock new capabilities through AI and automation, further advancing productivity, efficiency, and…
- Breakout Session
- FinOps
- Accelerating (Intermediate), Innovating (Advanced), Ramping (Introductory)
- Cloud Center of Excellence, Executive/Leadership, IT Admin or Manager, IT Finance or TBM Office, PMO or Product Leader
An overview of QBE’s TBM implementation journey covering successes and challenges, quick wins and longer-timeline accomplishments, accommodating regional differences while striving for global consistency, and finding and leveraging champions.
- Breakout Session
- IT Financial Management
- Innovating (Advanced)
- IT Finance or TBM Office
In today’s dynamic IT landscape, achieving comprehensive financial transparency and optimizing cost management are critical for organizations striving to maximize their IT investments. Increasingly, organizations are leveraging the leading platforms of ServiceNow and IBM Apptio for this goal. This breakout session will delve into the reality of integrating ServiceNow data…
- Breakout Session
- Adopting & Ramping TBM Practices, IT Financial Management
- Accelerating (Intermediate)
- IT Admin or Manager, IT Finance or TBM Office
FinOps teams face many challenges when establishing a means of addressing cost optimization opportunities. How can a small team address optimization for an entire organization in a scalable way? How can we set quantifiable expectations around spend efficiency? And how can we engage teams in a way that allows them…
- Breakout Session
- FinOps
- Accelerating (Intermediate), Innovating (Advanced)
- Cloud Center of Excellence
Apptio Customer Success is the Golden Ticket to driving value, business outcomes and success on your Apptio journey. Join us for this info-packed session to learn about how we partner with our customers along the way to ensure great outcomes, better stakeholder engagement and adoption, and faster time-to-value together!
- Breakout Session
- Adopting & Ramping TBM Practices
- Accelerating (Intermediate), Ramping (Introductory)
- Cloud Center of Excellence, Executive/Leadership, IT Admin or Manager, IT Finance or TBM Office, PMO or Product Leader
As cloud adoption scales, so does the need for financial accountability and operational efficiency. For Cloud Centers of Excellence (CCoEs), advancing FinOps maturity is critical to enabling sustainable, value-driven cloud operations. This session provides a strategic framework for assessing and elevating your organization’s FinOps maturity. We’ll explore the core capabilities…
- Breakout Session
- FinOps
- Accelerating (Intermediate), Ramping (Introductory)
- Cloud Center of Excellence, Executive/Leadership
As sustainability becomes a strategic imperative, IT leaders are under increasing pressure to measure, manage, and reduce the environmental impact of their technology footprint. In this session, we’ll explore how Apptio’s Technology Emissions Management (TEM) solution empowers organizations to operationalize GreenOps by integrating carbon transparency into everyday IT decision-making. Designed…
- Breakout Session
- Innovating with TBM
- Accelerating (Intermediate), Innovating (Advanced), Ramping (Introductory)
- Cloud Center of Excellence, Executive/Leadership, IT Admin or Manager, IT Finance or TBM Office, PMO or Product Leader
Mainframes remain mission-critical for many enterprises, yet their cost structures are often opaque, complex, and difficult to manage. In this session, we’ll explore how IBM Apptio’s Mainframe Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) solution brings clarity, control, and strategic insight to one of IT’s most significant cost centers. Designed for IT…
- Breakout Session
- IT Financial Management
- Accelerating (Intermediate), Innovating (Advanced), Ramping (Introductory)
- Cloud Center of Excellence, Executive/Leadership, IT Admin or Manager, IT Finance or TBM Office, PMO or Product Leader
As organizations expand TBM to every corner of the enterprise, demand for skilled practitioners and skills based training is accelerating. This session unveils the all new TBM Practitioner Certification (launching Jan 2026), and looks at the training, education, and career certification roadmap for TBM. Attendees will also get early insights…
- Breakout Session
- AI Value Realization
- Accelerating (Intermediate), Innovating (Advanced), Ramping (Introductory)
- Cloud Center of Excellence, Executive/Leadership, IT Admin or Manager, IT Finance or TBM Office, PMO or Product Leader
Innovation doesn’t wait, and neither should your finance function. We’re on a mission to make every dollar you invest in technology visible, traceable, and powerfully aligned with your strategic goals. In this session, we’ll move beyond static budgets to flexible funding frameworks that empower product teams, accelerate delivery, and unleash…
- Breakout Session
- Innovating with TBM, Strategic Portfolio Management
- Innovating (Advanced)
- Executive/Leadership, IT Finance or TBM Office, PMO or Product Leader
Join us for an exclusive look at the future of Apptio Planning as we unveil the next wave of enhancements designed to transform how technology and finance leaders plan, forecast, and make data-driven decisions. In this session, we’ll showcase upcoming capabilities that leverage AI and automation to streamline planning workflows,…
- Breakout Session
- IT Financial Management
- Ramping (Introductory)
- IT Admin or Manager, IT Finance or TBM Office
Modernizing the IBM Apptio Costing experience is about more than just a UI refresh—it’s about unlocking new value for both TBMAs and business users. In this session, we’ll share what we’ve learned from early beta customers and how those insights are shaping a more intuitive, efficient, and impactful experience. We’ll…
- Breakout Session
- IT Financial Management
- Innovating (Advanced)
- Executive/Leadership, IT Admin or Manager, IT Finance or TBM Office, PMO or Product Leader
Join us to explore how Apptio, an IBM company, is using AI to transform practices across the entire user journey, from day-to-day interactions to complex administrative workflows. In this session, we’ll showcase how Apptio is leveraging AI to deliver value to both end users and administrators. For End Users: AI-Powered…
- Breakout Session
- AI Value Realization, Innovating with TBM, IT Financial Management
- Accelerating (Intermediate), Innovating (Advanced)
- Executive/Leadership, IT Admin or Manager, IT Finance or TBM Office
With the rapid growth of platform adoption across the enterprise, how can platform service owners stay on top of costs and make smarter investment decisions—while also giving business consumers visibility into the value and cost of the platforms they rely on? Is it all worth it? Technology Business Management (TBM)…
- Breakout Session
- IT Financial Management
- Accelerating (Intermediate)
- IT Admin or Manager, IT Finance or TBM Office, PMO or Product Leader
As AI investments rapidly scale from pilot projects to enterprise-wide adoption, many organizations are left wondering: What’s the true cost of AI—and is it delivering value? In this session, we’ll explore how IBM Apptio Costing helps uncover the full financial picture of your AI investments, from infrastructure and token-based billing…
- Breakout Session
- AI Value Realization, IT Financial Management
- Accelerating (Intermediate)
- Executive/Leadership, IT Admin or Manager, IT Finance or TBM Office
As organizations increasingly adopt Kubernetes to power their modern cloud infrastructure, they face a new layer of complexity when managing cloud financial operations (FinOps). Traditional FinOps models often fall short in the dynamic, ephemeral world of containers and microservices. In this session, we’ll explore why Kubernetes creates unique FinOps challenges,…
- Breakout Session
- FinOps
- Ramping (Introductory)
- Cloud Center of Excellence, IT Finance or TBM Office
As Kubernetes adoption accelerates, many enterprises struggle to translate raw cost data into actionable financial operations that align with broader TBM and FinOps objectives. This session will provide a practical framework for how organizations are successfully operationalizing Kubecost through a FinOps Center of Excellence model. We’ll explore best practices for…
- Breakout Session
- FinOps
- Accelerating (Intermediate), Innovating (Advanced), Ramping (Introductory)
- Cloud Center of Excellence, Executive/Leadership, IT Admin or Manager, IT Finance or TBM Office, PMO or Product Leader
As organizations shift toward hybrid and cloud-native environments, traditional IT planning is no longer enough. To drive agility, accountability, and financial control across the technology landscape, IT leaders need a unified approach that brings together enterprise-wide budgeting and cloud-specific forecasting. In this session, we’ll showcase how IBM Apptio Planning and…
- Breakout Session
- FinOps, IT Financial Management
- Accelerating (Intermediate)
- Cloud Center of Excellence, IT Admin or Manager, IT Finance or TBM Office
As demand for cloud services accelerates, Managed Service Providers (MSPs) play an increasingly strategic role in delivering FinOps capabilities at scale. In this session, we’ll explore how partners can create new revenue opportunities to operationalize cost governance, provide chargeback, and deliver cloud optimization across multiple clients. You will learn how…
- Breakout Session
- FinOps
- Accelerating (Intermediate)
- Cloud Center of Excellence, Executive/Leadership, IT Admin or Manager, IT Finance or TBM Office
Generative AI is transforming how businesses operate—but it also brings new challenges when it comes to managing cloud costs. In this beginner-friendly session, we’ll break down the building blocks of running GenAI in the cloud, explain why these workloads are often so expensive, and introduce practical FinOps concepts to help…
- Breakout Session
- AI Value Realization, FinOps
- Accelerating (Intermediate)
- Cloud Center of Excellence, Executive/Leadership, IT Admin or Manager, IT Finance or TBM Office