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  • Breakout Session (66)
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  • TBM Council Standards Committee (5)
  • TBM Council Strategy Community (6)

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  • Adopting & Ramping TBM Practices (28)
  • AI Value Realization (8)
  • Elevating FinOps with TBM (1)
  • Extending TBM Beyond IT (5)
  • Financial Strategic Portfolio Management: SPM (9)
  • FinOps Practice & Innovation (15)
  • Hybrid Cloud Value Management (2)
  • Innovating with TBM (8)
  • ITFM & Financial Performance (10)
  • Risk, Security & Compliance Alignment (2)

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  • FinOps (20)
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  • IT Financial Management (20)
  • Strategic Portfolio Management (14)

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  • Manufacturing (55)
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  • TBM Adoption (57)
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  • TBM SPM & Agile (39)
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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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.
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…

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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…

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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!
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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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,…

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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…

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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…

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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)…

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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…

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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,…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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Monday Afternoon Keynotes

Technology is driving dramatic change, and faster than ever. Constant change is the norm and data is the new currency. The Council and TBM are modernizing to support the changes all organizations face. Join us to understand what this means for the global community, our standards, and the Council itself.

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Tuesday Morning Keynotes

As AI rapidly evolves and companies move from experimentation to production, assessing the potential, cost and viability for the organization, and scaling for impact, requires rich insight. Our experienced panelists will share and discuss critical success factors for AI and how the TBM discipline is becoming crucial to supporting successful AI investment and value management.

Visionary executive teams leverage strong TBM foundations and evolve their practices to support the enterprise in areas like product cost and profitability, sustainability, and shared functions. Join this experienced panel as they discuss their application of TBM to drive next-generation business and mission results beyond the traditional tech arena.

Hot off the presses! Deloitte, the TBM Council’s Ambassador ecosystem partner, will share its new digital transformation research: Which digital domains do high performers target? Which metrics and KPIs do they use? What digital success factors have they mastered? You don’t want to miss this insightful segment!

TBM and FinOps have been critical to the success of many tech organizations seeking to optimize costs, operationalize accountability, and create a value-based mindset. We’ve assembled a panel of leading experts to discuss the intersection of the two disciplines: Where do TBM & FinOps interact? How do their key stakeholders and processes differ, yet intersect to drive material benefits for organizations? If you operate in a hybrid world, you can’t afford to miss this discussion!

Many organizations approach TBM as a box to check—a set of tools, a process to follow—but that isn’t enough. In today’s environment, where agility, cost efficiency, and data-driven decision- making are no longer just nice-to-haves but absolute necessities, a superficial approach won’t cut it. The stakes are too high. The TBM Council’s Ambassador ecosystem partner, Maryville, will walk us through the benefits, tactics, and examples of successful transformation.

Wednesday Morning Keynotes

Apptio, the market leading TBM solution provider and founding underwriter of the TBM Council, will share a sneak peek into the future of TBM, FinOps, ITFM, and Portfolio Management. Discover the upcoming advancements you can leverage to take your capabilities to the next level.

Is your TBM practice designed for success? Is your organization supporting value-based decision making and the cultural change and insight needed to adopt modern technologies and efficient operations? Learn how our distinguished panelists established successful TBM practices, enabling a value-based culture of accountability to predictably deliver valued business outcomes.

Great leadership teams set out to address foundational issues when first adopting TBM, but they don’t stop there. They plot a roadmap and execute it over time, conquering one problematic area after another and creating value along their entire journey. Join our guests as they share intimate details of their journey, both the good and the bad, and its evolution over time (multiple use cases).

IT Financial Management, enabled by TBM, is elevating business value to new heights. CEOs, CDIOs, and boards of directors are reshaping their companies to gain a stronger competitive edge in the marketplace. Tech organizations are revamping themselves, freeing up capital and redirecting funds to business transformation. A modern ITFM function is essential to measuring investment spend and value, and creating a mechanism for achieving target business outcomes.

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Morning Sessions

Ashley Petitt
Chairman of the TBM Council Board of Directors

Jack Bischof
General Manager of TBM Council

What future must public & private organizations prepare for as technology becomes embedded in organizational strategy, execution and operations, how can TBM help? Join in an insightful and provocative discussion with a panel of the world’s preeminent tech, strategy, AI, talent and CxO TBM Practitioners to find out!

How is TBM evolving to support modern organizations and a tech future that is coming at us faster than ever? This panel will provide a glimpse of how both new adopters and mature practitioners are supported by TBM modernization, enabling multi-dimensional value creation, and progression over time

TBM Adoption can create great benefits, and great change, but how do you manage the cultural change of TBM in an environment of constant change, transformation and increasing expectations? Explore this balancing act with a senior panel of world class leaders!

Afternoon Sessions

Digitalization is driving growth of hybrid cloud and bi-modal delivery models, creating both new opportunities and new challenges. How can organizations overcome the challenges, get ahead of the change, and design and drive better outcomes by linking business and technology strategies? Come see for yourself and interact with our executive panel!

Every organization begins their TBM journey with the intent to achieve specific valued outcomes. Over time, successful organizations mature their TBM capabilities and set their sights higher, toward new desired outcomes and new stakeholders. Join our distinguished panel to explore the form and evolution of “value” at their organizations over time.

The convergence of technology and business is driving a shift toward mutual imperatives, metrics and desired outcomes. Executive roles are coalescing and interoperating to a greater degree, and tech execs are earning a seat the table, with TBM. Engage in this panel discussion of how the CxO landscape is changing, and the role TBM is playing in career success.

Join this fireside chat in a discussion of the future of tech & business, TBM and the TBM Council.

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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)

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