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A curated collection of the best content for your role:

Accelerating Business Transformation with a Hybrid FinOps Approach

Mark Steckel
Cloud Strategy Specialist Leader
Deloitte Consulting LLP
As organizations increasingly adopt hybrid, multi-cloud architectures, leaders should take a holistic approach towards managing end-to-end hybrid cloud environments. Organizations should assess technology investments and decisions in a holistic manner by investing in comprehensive single-pane-of-glass views that provide insights from multiple dimensions (technology costs, labor spend, business value, etc) and…

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  • Breakout Session
  • Cloud FinOps
  • Intermediate
  • Partner
  • 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
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 Tech Finance Management. FactSet’s FinOps teams are using Cloudability to drive insights and…

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

Hear Us ROAR: Improving Optimization Visibility and Accountability Through the ROAR Report

Melissa Stewart
Cloud Application Developer
Bell Canada
At Bell Canada, many teams are making their way to the cloud. In an effort to provide visibility of available optimizations to reduce cloud expenditures, the team needed to make potential optimizations visible, and hold tenants accountable for their cloud spend. Enter the development of the ROAR report! Through Apptio…

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

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 Identity Services & IT Vendor Management
IBM
Pimmi Malhotra
CIO Hyperscaler COE & AI Enablement Leader
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

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

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 Practice
Apptio, an IBM Company
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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AI’s Role in the Future of Application Excellence

Bill Lobig
VP IBM Automation Product Management
Apptio, an IBM Company
Business today runs on an ever-growing landscape of applications across multiple cloud environments. The average enterprise uses over 6+ clouds, 130 SaaS applications, and thousands of physical assets from computers and devices to machinery, transport, and even workspaces. All this complexity creates tremendous inefficiency and exposure to vulnerabilities. Companies spend…

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  • Breakout Session
  • Operations and Automation
  • Intermediate
  • Cloud Center of Excellence

An Introduction to Commitments-Based Discounts

James Smith
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

Building a FinOps Solution for All

Casey Doran
VP, Product Management
Apptio, an IBM Company
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

From Peaks to Valleys: Navigating Volatile Cloud Costs with Commitment-Based Discounts and CSA

Nadeem Husain
Cloud Economist
CircleCI
CircleCI’s workloads exhibit a distinct seasonal pattern throughout the year and across developer working hours. In the daily cycle, workloads gradually ramp up in the morning, peak during the afternoon, and wind down at night. Similarly, workloads escalate from Monday to Friday, with Wednesday being the peak day, followed by…

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

Going Beyond the CSP: Managing Third-Party Vendor Costs with Cloudability

Logan Fraser
Principal Solutions Consultant
Apptio, an IBM Company
Maddy Yeazel
Strategic Director, FinOps Solutions
Apptio
Alex Long
Principal Solutions Consultant, Cloud
Apptio, an IBM Company
With an increasing number of SaaS apps and services, incorporating a fully burdened cloud program cost into FinOps poses challenges. This session will show how Cloudability enhances FinOps capabilities by including Snowflake, DataDog, Databricks, MongoDB and FOCUS formatted cost data into the practice. We will walk through how to intelligently…

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

Identify Kubernetes Cost Inefficiency Using IBM Cloudability Container Insight

Peter Zuo
Sr Manager, Software Engineering
Apptio, an IBM Company
As a FinOps practitioner or DevOps engineer, it’s important to understand cost efficiencies, optimization opportunities, and how to identify cost-inefficient workloads in your Kubernetes clusters. Join this presentation for an introduction to three new KPIs: the cost efficiency score, utilization efficiency score and metrics efficiency in resources. Peter Zuo –…

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

Intelligent Cloud Adoption: Optimizing Cloud Decision Making

Ankur Sharma
IT Finance Director
Freddie Mac
Kyle Dammann
TBM Technical Advisor
Apptio, an IBM Company
Presented by TBM Council’s TBM-Cloud Strategy Community Join the TBM-Cloud Strategy Community as they unveil their new eBook, showcasing best practices for Intelligent Cloud Adoption. This eBook offers business leaders, technology experts, and finance professionals valuable insights and guidance for making informed cloud decisions. Each chapter provides a practical approach,…

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  • Strategy Community
  • Cloud FinOps
  • Intermediate
  • TBM Council
  • Cloud Center of Excellence, Executive/Leadership, IT Finance or TBM Office

Our Journey from Limited Visibility to Governance of Cloud Usage in Just 5+ Months

Pimmi Malhotra
CIO Hyperscaler COE & AI Enablement Leader
IBM
Nicholas Bozentko
Software Architect
IBM
Join this session to hear about IBM’s own use of IBM Cloudability. We’ll share our beginner’s journey, focused on continuous improvement to optimize cloud pend in just 5+ months. Learn from our strategic approach and tailor it to your needs to begin or improve your cloud governess journey to achieve…

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

Revolutionizing Financial Analytics: Make Your Cloud Data Dance with IBM Cloudability & Apptio BI

Sneha Varghese
Senior Technical Staff Member, Hyperscaler Center of Excellence
IBM
Christine Shortell
VP, CIO Identity Services & IT Vendor Management
IBM
Pimmi Malhotra
CIO Hyperscaler COE & AI Enablement Leader
IBM
Join this session focused on the challenges and opportunities associated with managing cloud spend across an enterprise and leave ready to rein in cloud costs using IBM Cloudability and Apptio BI. How can you see your cloud costs at a granular level, tailored to your needs? IBM Cloudability shows how…

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

Strategies for Maximizing the Value of Commitments-Based Discounts

James Smith
Product Manager
Apptio, an IBM Company
This advanced session dives deeper into strategies for managing cloud commitments to achieve optimal cost efficiency. We’ll explore practical approaches to monitoring, adjusting, and renewing commitments, ensuring you get the most out of your investments. Additionally, we’ll discuss upcoming IBM Cloudability functionalities designed to help manage commitments at scale, providing…

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

The Next Stage In FinOps: FinOps for Private Cloud, Cloud Sustainability, and Cloud Unit Cost Economics

Tracy Woo
Principal Analyst
Forrester
Forrester Principal Analyst Tracy Woo explores how FinOps plays a major role in cloud operations. She’ll explain how FinOps has expanded beyond public cloud cost management to become cloud strategy for organizations, delving into emerging trends like FinOps for private cloud, Cloud sustainability, and Cloud Unit Cost Economics. She’ll close…

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

Unpacking the Data from Your Databricks Costs

Alex Long
Principal Solutions Consultant, Cloud
Apptio, an IBM Company
This session takes a deep dive into Databricks reporting within the IBM Cloudability. Attendees will understand the cost of Databricks jobs and clusters, how DBCUs are being consumed, and potential ways to optimize.
  • Breakout Session
  • Cloud FinOps
  • Intermediate
  • Apptio
  • Cloud Center of Excellence

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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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