Agenda for Cloud Center of Excellence

This curated agenda is customized for you. Discover best practices for avoiding wasteful cloud spend and understand more about how your fellow cloud leaders are implementing their FinOps journey. And this is just the beginning! More sessions will be added soon.

A curated collection of the best content for your role:

A 3-Phase Framework for FinOps Automation

Alex Long
Cloudability Guru
Apptio, an IBM Company
Lee Wagner
Founding Account Executive
OpenOps
Amit Saar
Co-founder and CEO at OpenOps
OpenOps
As organizations mature in their FinOps capabilities and scale their practice, the potential for wider cost reductions grows with it. As more teams across the organization are included, however, it can be increasingly challenging to collaborate. Join this session to learn how you can mature your organization’s FinOps practice by…

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  • Cloud Center of Excellence, Executive / Leadership

Accelerating Business Transformation with a Hybrid FinOps Approach

Nikhil Roychowdhury
Principal, Cloud Strategy and FinOps Leader
Deloitte Consulting
Matthew Ku
Managing Director, Technology Business Management Leader
Deloitte Consulting
As organizations increasingly adopt hybrid, multi-cloud architectures, technology leaders should take a holistic approach towards managing their technology investments. In this presentation, Deloitte leaders will make the case for a Hybrid FinOps approach, and share observations and leading practices of how to apply FinOps and TBM disciplines to the complexities…

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  • Breakout Session
  • Cloud FinOps
  • Intermediate
  • Partner
  • Executive / Leadership

Accelerating FinOps Maturity: A Strategic Roadmap for the Cloud Center of Excellence

Kyle Dammann
Customer Success Advisor
Apptio, an IBM Company
Kenny Shepard
Senior FinOps Consultant
Apptio, an IBM Company
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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  • Cloud Center of Excellence, Executive / Leadership

Apptio and AI: Enabling Customer Success

Volker Metten
VP, Product Management - Platform Services, Data, and AI
Apptio, an IBM Company
In this session, learn about how IBM Apptio and IBM Cloudability are leveraging AI to provide expert guidance, automate insights and action, and deliver industry benchmarks for TBM and FinOps practitioners.
  • Breakout Session
  • Innovation
  • Intermediate
  • Apptio
  • Executive / Leadership

Balancing Cloud and On-Premises Environments: A Model for Optimization and Parity

Sean Halligan
Director of FinOps
Maryville Consulting Group
Mark Andersen
SVP Cloud Platform Services
GM Financial
Vik Saluja
VP, FinOps, AI & Sustainability
Mastercard
Mike Jaco
VP Technology Product Optimization
Mastercard
Jarrett Robinson

GM Financial
Dive into the complexities of managing both cloud and on-premises environments and discover how to build a robust cost model for driving optimization and parity. This session explores the intricacies of balancing cost, performance, and scalability across hybrid infrastructure setups. Attendees will learn practical strategies for leveraging Apptio and other…

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  • Breakout Session
  • Cloud FinOps
  • Intermediate
  • Customer, Partner
  • IT Finance or TBM Office

Bringing FinOps, Agile and Tech Finance Together with TBM

Scott Russo
Senior VP, Technology and Data Solutions FP&A
FactSet
Sanjeev Acharya
VP, Portfolio and Program Management Technology
FactSet
Hitesh Chitalia
VP, Cloud Optimization
FactSet
FactSet owns all three of Apptio’s go-to-market products: IBM Apptio, Cloudability and Targetprocess. They will discuss their approach to implementation, adoption, and value for each of the key personas across Cloud FinOps, Agile and Portfolio Management, and IT Finance Management. FactSet’s FinOps team is using Cloudability to drive insights and…

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  • Breakout Session
  • Data Management
  • Intro
  • Customer
  • IT Finance or TBM Office

Building a FinOps Center of Excellence: Operationalizing Kubernetes Cost Management at Scale

Katelyn Harris
Head of Customer Success, Kubecost
Apptio, an IBM Company
Mike Murphy
Senior Technical Success Manager
Apptio, an IBM Company
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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  • Cloud Center of Excellence, Executive / Leadership, IT Admin or Manager, IT Finance or TBM Office, PMO or Product Leader

Enabling Cloud Financial Risk Management Through Policy-Driven FinOps

Victoria Levy
Sr. FinOps Engineer
Alteryx
As cloud adoption accelerates, organizations face mounting pressure to control unpredictable cloud spend and reduce financial risk. This session explores how aligning FinOps practices with the NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) can provide a structured, proven foundation for strengthening governance, defining enforceable policies, and operationalizing financial accountability across teams. By treating…

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  • Cloud Center of Excellence, Executive / Leadership, IT Admin or Manager, IT Finance or TBM Office, PMO or Product Leader

Explaining Cloud Cost Anomalies

Neha Gupta
Product Manager
Apptio, an IBM Company
Pavankumar Murali
Senior Research Scientist
IBM
Managing anomalies by detecting them proactively and sending alerts is critical for FinOps practitioners to manage unexpected cloud cost events and minimize business impact. To help customers understand the reasons behind anomalous spending events, prioritize them, and decide on mitigation strategies, explanations through root cause analysis and cost attribution need…

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  • Cloud Center of Excellence, Executive / Leadership, IT Admin or Manager, IT Finance or TBM Office, PMO or Product Leader

Extending FinOps Value with FinTechOps: Scalable Efficiency through AI and Automation

Pimmi Malhotra
Head of Cloud Office
IBM
Farrukh Ali
Sr. Customer Solutions Manager - Strategic Accounts
AWS
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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  • Cloud Center of Excellence, Executive / Leadership, IT Admin or Manager, IT Finance or TBM Office, PMO or Product Leader

FinOps and TBM Creating Receipts: Operational Rigor with a Financial Paper Trail

Gabrielle Scalf
Solution Consultant
Apptio, an IBM Company
In an era where Delivering Outcomes through Government Efficiency (DOGE) is redefining how agencies are measured, financial transparency and defensibility of spend are more critical than ever. This session explores how Technology Business Management (TBM) and FinOps can work together to create a robust “paper trail” that satisfies audit requirements…

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  • Cloud Center of Excellence, Executive / Leadership, IT Admin or Manager, IT Finance or TBM Office

GenAI in the Cloud: A FinOps Primer

April Gentile-Miserandino
Product Management
Apptio, an IBM Company
Keenan Dolan
Principal Product Manager
Apptio, an IBM Company
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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  • Cloud Center of Excellence, Executive / Leadership, IT Admin or Manager, IT Finance or TBM Office

How to Avoid Costly Waste on Your Cloud Transformation Journey

Sneha Varghese
Senior Technical Staff Member, Hyperscaler Center of Excellence
IBM
Christine Shortell
VP, CIO Strategy & Planning and Identity Services
IBM
Did your company move to cloud to minimize costs and effectively manage the demand fluctuations – only to still experience rising costs for your projects? Join this session to learn how IBM Cloudability provides increased visibility, collaboration, and accountability to avoid expensive cloud inefficiencies. The session will explore how IBM…

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  • Breakout Session
  • Cloud FinOps
  • Intermediate
  • Apptio
  • Cloud Center of Excellence

IBM Cloudability Governance: Bridging the Divide Between FinOps and Engineering

Soline Plichta
Senior Product Manager
Apptio, an IBM Company
From the perspective of engineers, FinOps initiatives often mean more work-reacting to requests to fix existing problems once spend has already happened. What if engineers could know about governance policies and cost impact before anything is deployed, and without having to go look for information on an internal wiki to…

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  • Cloud Center of Excellence, IT Admin or Manager, IT Finance or TBM Office, PMO or Product Leader

Keeping Cost Optimization Business-Aligned

Brian Becker
Global Head of Advisory & Consulting
NTT Data
Joseph Cupano
Global CTO, Cloud Strategy & Innovation
NTT Data
In today’s dynamic cloud landscape, FinOps has evolved beyond cost optimization to become a vital discipline for fostering financial accountability and efficiency. We will explore practical strategies for embedding business context into every FinOps decision, from resource provisioning and architecture design to budget forecasting and performance measurement. We will cover:…

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  • Cloud Center of Excellence, Executive / Leadership, IT Finance or TBM Office

Maximizing Returns: Driving Cloud Adoption Through Value Realization

Raji Bhimireddy
Director, Cloud FinOps
Prudential Financial
Cloud adoption transcends traditional cost metrics, unveiling profound strategic benefits that are vital for modern enterprises. By embracing the cloud, organizations gain enhanced security measures, mitigate risk, and unlock higher productivity. Additionally, the cloud offers unparalleled agility and speed to market, empowering businesses to respond swiftly to changing market dynamics…

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  • Breakout Session
  • Cloud FinOps
  • Advanced
  • Customer
  • PMO or Product Leader

Navigating FinOps Challenges in Kubernetes Environments

Katelyn Harris
Head of Customer Success, Kubecost
Apptio, an IBM Company
Mike Murphy
Senior Technical Success Manager
Apptio, an IBM Company
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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  • Cloud Center of Excellence, IT Finance or TBM Office

Overcoming the FinOps Challenges of AI and Sustainability

Greg Holmes
AVP Solutions
Apptio, an IBM Company
When faced with new challenges, how do you understand if your solution lies with existing or new technology? This session will use FinOps methodology to look at how organizations should track the cost, effectiveness, and sustainability of AI and other emerging technologies to solve modern business challenges.
  • Breakout Session
  • Cloud FinOps
  • Intermediate
  • Apptio
  • Cloud Center of Excellence

Sustainability: Driving Change by Integrating GreenOps, TBM, and FinOps

Ann Marie Chow
VP, Global Customer Operations
Apptio, an IBM Company
Mark Butcher
Director
Posetiv
In today’s world, the focus on environmental responsibility and sustainability has never been greater – but the same goes for cost efficiency. Companies are engaged in a nuanced balancing act, striving to reduce their carbon footprint while optimizing cloud to maximize its value to the business. From tracking baseline CO2…

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  • Breakout Session
  • Innovation
  • Intermediate
  • Apptio
  • Cloud Center of Excellence

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Achieve incredible cost efficiency with a Shift-Left approach to FinOps

Bala Kaliamurthy
Principal Product Manager
Apptio, an IBM Company
To overcome the challnges posed with applying FinOps to workloads after they are deployed, organizations should be seeking to get costing information to engineers as early in the cycle as possible. This requires providing the capabilities and insights teams need to prevent cost ineffiencies, anticipate cost impact, and integrate FinOps…

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  • Breakout Session
  • Cloud FinOps
  • Intermediate
  • Cloud Center of Excellence

Adapting FinOps Practices to Kubernetes

Kai Wombacher
Product Manager
Kubecost, an IBM company
Mike Macaluso
Director of Finance
Kubecost, an IBM Company
Kubernetes’ complexity and dynamic nature make It challenging to implement FinOps. Learn approaches and best practices when applying FinOps to K8s.
  • Breakout Session
  • Cloud FinOps, Innovation
  • Intermediate
  • Apptio
  • Cloud Center of Excellence

AI-Driven Vendor Selection Intelligence: Accelerating Value Across the TBM Landscape

Louise Baldwin
Co-founder & CEO
Archways AI
Transform how your organization evaluates and manages technology vendors, turning slow, fragmented processes into a unified system of decision intelligence and automated action. Join Archways AI to explore how GenAI is reshaping vendor evaluation, selection, and value creation across the TBM landscape of cloud, software, SaaS, SPM and other domains….

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  • Cloud Center of Excellence, Executive / Leadership, IT Finance or TBM Office

Amplifying Enterprise Orchestration with TBM-Enabled Operating Models

Konstantin Popov
VP, Enterprise Technology, Strategic Portfolio & Financial Management
Cprime/Vincerion
Disruption is relentless, yet most enterprises are still trying to respond with yesterday’s operating models. While organizations invest in agile teams, platforms, and AI, these initiatives often stall within legacy decision-making and funding structures designed for predictability, not orchestration that creates value. This session reveals how leading enterprises are building…

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  • Cloud Center of Excellence, Executive / Leadership, IT Admin or Manager, IT Finance or TBM Office, PMO or Product Leader

An Adventure in Starting Smart: How CNO Drove Smarter Tech Investments Without Boiling the Ocean

Lindy Quick
Agile Transformation Architect
CNO
Laura O'Brien
Senior Director, Agile Practice
CNO
Oona Ziegler
Director, Global Partnerships
Cprime
When CNO Financial set out to improve how technology investment decisions were made, it didn’t start with a mandate, a massive tool rollout, or a formal TBM office. It started with a question: How do we help leaders make better trade-off decisions that balance customer value, architectural integrity, and financial…

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  • Cloud Center of Excellence, Executive / Leadership, IT Admin or Manager, IT Finance or TBM Office, PMO or Product Leader

An Introduction to Commitments-Based Discounts

James Smith
Sr. Product Manager
Apptio, an IBM Company
In this session, we will introduce the fundamental concepts of commitment-based discounts in cloud cost management. Participants will learn about the different commitment types across the three major vendors including Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, Prepurchase Plans, and CUDs. Attendees will gain a clear understanding of how to leverage commitment-based discounts…

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  • Breakout Session
  • Cloud FinOps
  • Intro
  • Apptio
  • Cloud Center of Excellence

AWS Migration Stories and Holistic FinOps

Ryan Niksch
Solutions Architect
AWS
In this session we will dive into observations made by assisting in enterprise customer migrations, how customers are approaching the cost pillar of the AWS well architected frame work. We shall dive into stories of different customers taking different FinOps approaches diving into proactive and reactive customer stories.
  • Breakout Session
  • Cloud FinOps
  • Intro
  • Cloud Center of Excellence

Beyond “What We Spend”—Turning Vendor & Contract Data into Decisions

Jeff Bartelli
Technical Content Manager
TBM Council
Josh Roberto
North America Operations
YaRKEN
Traditional vendor reports answer only one basic question: “How much do we spend?” That is not a decision-support question and is insufficient for decision-making. To influence commercial outcomes, TBM and FinOps leaders need context; contracts, consumption, obligations, renewal risk, compliance, alternatives, and outcomes. Without this context, organizations negotiate blind, renew…

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  • Cloud Center of Excellence, Executive / Leadership, IT Admin or Manager, IT Finance or TBM Office, PMO or Product Leader

Bridging IT and Cloud: Unified Planning with Apptio Planning and Cloud Financial Planning

Ngoc Le
Principal Product Manager
Apptio, an IBM Company
Pete Goubert
Sr. Director, Product Management
Apptio, an IBM Company
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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  • Cloud Center of Excellence, IT Admin or Manager, IT Finance or TBM Office

Building a FinOps Solution for All

Jason Shaw
Sr. Product Manager - Turbonomic - Cloud and Containers Team
IBM
With the FinOps landscape constantly changing, new tools are entering the market every day, often purpose-built to solve niche problems. IBM Cloudability now brings together best-in-breed technology from IBM Cloudability and Turbonomic into an integrated market-leading solution that enables deeper insights, greater efficiency and enhanced value for every dollar spent….

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  • Breakout Session
  • Innovation
  • Intermediate
  • Apptio
  • Cloud Center of Excellence

Cloud Budgeting and Forecasting: Matching the Complexity and Pace of Cloud

Pete Goubert
Sr. Director, Product Management
Apptio, an IBM Company
Any planning process with measurable outcomes requires detailed collaboration, accountability and measurable results. When applied to the fast paced, complex nature of cloud, forecasting and planning with traditional tooling and ad-hoc processes simply fall short . Learn how to overcome these challenges as we explore best practices and considerations for…

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  • Breakout Session
  • Cloud FinOps
  • Intro
  • Cloud Center of Excellence

Cloudability Financial Planning and the journey at Standard Insurance

Shannon Maglaque
TBM Strategy & Planning Manager
The Standard
Learn how Technology Business Management (TBM) and Financial Operations (FinOps) disciplines are connected at Standard Insurance. The collaboration between TBM and FinOps teams enhances the overall output by sharing data and driving common strategic outcomes. Shannon Maglaque’s journey from a TBMA to a FinOps lead is highlighted, showcasing the natural…

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  • Breakout Session
  • Cloud FinOps
  • Intro
  • Customer
  • Cloud Center of Excellence

Cloudability: Aligning Personas to Dashboards

Justin Kean
Principal Instructor/FinOps Certified Instructor
Apptio, an IBM Company
Sabeeha Kutty
Senior Technical Instructor
Apptio, an IBM Company
Join us for hands-on training designed for Cloudability users who want to maximize value by ensuring their personas are aligned to the dashboards they use every day, so they see the data they care about even faster. Learners will participate in hands-on activities so they can go back to their…

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  • Hands-On Lab
  • Cloud FinOps
  • Intro
  • Apptio
  • Cloud Center of Excellence

Cloudability: Tagging Strategy

Justin Kean
Principal Instructor/FinOps Certified Instructor
Apptio, an IBM Company
Sabeeha Kutty
Senior Technical Instructor
Apptio, an IBM Company
Join us for hands-on training 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…

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  • Hands-On Lab
  • Cloud FinOps
  • Intro
  • Apptio
  • Cloud Center of Excellence

Cloudy with a Chance of Repatriation: Navigating the Real Cost of Hybrid IT with IBM Apptio Costing

Dieter Vangrunderbeek
Principal Product Manager
Apptio, an IBM Company
In today’s dynamic digital landscape, Hybrid IT is no longer an aspiration—it’s the operational norm. As applications shift between on-premises, private cloud, and public cloud environments, understanding the true financial impact of those migrations is critical to making smart, data-driven decisions. This session will explore how IBM Apptio Costing helps…

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  • Cloud Center of Excellence, Executive / Leadership, IT Admin or Manager, IT Finance or TBM Office

COIN (Cost Optimization Index Number): An Operational Guide

Kenny Shepard
Senior FinOps Consultant
Apptio, an IBM Company
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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  • Cloud Center of Excellence

Custom Data Configuration: Ingesting Third-Party & Hyperscaler Cost into Cloudability (FOCUS)

Ronen Kat
STSM, Manager, Core Tech for Data
IBM
Shuler Littleton
Delivery Practice Leader
Apptio, an IBM Company
Keenan Dolan
Principal Product Manager
Apptio, an IBM Company
This hands-on session is designed to guide users through the end-to-end configuration and ingestion of custom cost data using Cloudability’s FOCUS integration. As enterprises expand their cloud footprints beyond primary hyperscalers, capturing cost data from third-party platforms, SaaS providers, or non-standard billing systems becomes essential for accurate FinOps reporting. We…

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  • Cloud Center of Excellence, PMO or Product Leader

Drive your competitive advantage and scale your cloud managed services business with IBM Cloudability

Deniz Kaplan
Product Manager
Apptio, an IBM Company
Are you an MSP working through the challenges of the variable cost nature of cloud services while providing re-rated reporting, and billing customers at scale for cloud service costs? This session will focus on how IBM Cloudability can help managed service providers overcome those challenges while optimizing costs to grow…

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  • Breakout Session
  • Cloud FinOps
  • Intermediate
  • Cloud Center of Excellence

Driving Continuous Value with Apptio Customer Success

Joel Schalla
Manager, Customer Success
Apptio, an IBM Company
Rick Toth
Director, Customer Success
Apptio, an IBM Company
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!
  • Cloud Center of Excellence, Executive / Leadership, IT Admin or Manager, IT Finance or TBM Office, PMO or Product Leader

Driving Performance and Cost Efficiency Through Intelligent Automation in Hybrid Cloud Environments

Kevin Smith
Product Architect / WW Technical Sales Leader - Turbonomic and FinOps
IBM
Jason Shaw
Sr. Product Manager - Turbonomic - Cloud and Containers Team
IBM
As hybrid and multi-cloud environments grow more complex, IT and infrastructure teams face mounting pressure to assure application performance at scale, maintain efficiency, and enforce compliance—all while keeping costs within business expectations. Manual resource management often leads to overprovisioning, increased operational costs, missed SLAs, and reactive firefighting. In this session,…

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  • Cloud Center of Excellence, Executive / Leadership, IT Admin or Manager, IT Finance or TBM Office, PMO or Product Leader

Financialization of Strategy: SPM at an Inflection Point

Rodan Zadeh
Director of Products
Apptio, an IBM Company
As the SPM track lead, I’ll open with a brief orientation to the conference’s SPM program, mapping the breakout sessions across the three days so you can build a coherent learning path. I’ll highlight where to go for capitalization practices, Targetprocess execution, automation for CapEx orchestration, and spend-to-strategy alignment. Strategic…

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  • Cloud Center of Excellence, Executive / Leadership, IT Admin or Manager, IT Finance or TBM Office, PMO or Product Leader

FinOps at scale: centeralized visibilty, distributed responsibility with IBM Cloudability

Deniz Kaplan
Product Manager
Apptio, an IBM Company
Managing cloud costs for enterprise cloud organizations can pose challenges even for the largest and most robust IT organizations. In this session, we will learn how IBM Cloudability federates cloud costs can help large organiztions re-rate for chargeback, optimize costs, and distribute FinOps Capabilities across regions and other large business…

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  • Breakout Session
  • Cloud FinOps
  • Intro
  • Cloud Center of Excellence

FinOps Reimagined: Unlocking AWS Savings with Cloudability Savings Automation at IBM

Matt Gerow
Director, Product Management
Apptio, an IBM Company
Sneha Varghese
Senior Technical Staff Member, Hyperscaler Center of Excellence
IBM
As IBM scaled its AWS usage, unpredictable workloads and manual savings instruments management led to inefficiencies, underutilized commitments, and increased cloud costs. To overcome these challenges, the IBM Hyperscaler Center of Excellence deployed Apptio Cloudability Savings Automation (CSA), which introduced a data-driven, automated approach to managing AWS savings instruments. Instead…

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  • Cloud Center of Excellence, Executive / Leadership, IT Finance or TBM Office

FinOps-as-a-Service: Managing Multi-Tenant Cloud Costs

Ty Manzano
Director, Strategic Partner Solutions
Apptio, an IBM Company
Karol Witek
Senior Product Manager, IBM Cloudability MSP
Apptio, an IBM Company
Brian Becker
Global Head of Advisory & Consulting
NTT Data
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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  • Cloud Center of Excellence, Executive / Leadership, IT Admin or Manager, IT Finance or TBM Office

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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.

Details coming soon.

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.

Agenda subject to change

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.

Agenda subject to change

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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