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Mohammad Attieh
Senior Digital Transformation Consultant & Platform Solution Architect
Cprime
Grant Williams
Senior Finance Director TBM
Ahold Delhaize
Discover how a leading digital technology company partnered with Cprime to develop a digital transformation roadmap that integrates cost with work, simplifies resource allocation, and streamlines budget management. Learn how they use IBM Apptio and IBM Targetprocess to implement a cost model based on Agile team outputs, transitioning from time…

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Konstantin Popov
VP, Enterprise Technology, Strategic Portfolio & Financial Management
Cprime/Vincerion
Dickerson Miles
Head of Economic Architecture
BNY Mellon
Join Cprime to explore how a top digital tech company embraced new ways of working by leveraging IBM Targetprocess. Find out how centralizing budgeting and integrating with cloud Jira enhanced delivery transparency, prioritized product funding, automated reporting, driving agility and visibility in the digital era.
Mohammad Attieh
Senior Digital Transformation Consultant & Platform Solution Architect
Cprime
Sarah Ricardo
Enterprise Transformation Director
Citizens Bank
Citizens Bank has built its Agile Delivery foundation on accelerated, customer-centric, and cost-efficient delivery driven by ruthless prioritization and a customer-first principle. As a nationally chartered financial institution, finding a way to implement a delivery model that adheres to regulatory control requirements while maintaining agility was equally important. Over a…

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Konstantin Popov
VP, Enterprise Technology, Strategic Portfolio & Financial Management
Cprime/Vincerion
Mahesh Keswani
EA Practice Lead
Cprime
AI, cloud computing, and digital-first customer demands are pushing enterprises to evolve, but outdated systems, homegrown solutions, and manual processes create friction between innovative teams and traditional functions like finance, hindering value delivery; to succeed, leaders must align technology, resources, and investments with their overall strategy. The three-legged stool of…

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Konstantin Popov
VP, Enterprise Technology, Strategic Portfolio & Financial Management
Cprime/Vincerion
Senior Business and IT stakeholders involved in digital transformation, agile adoption, and transitioning from project to product business architecture often face challenges aligning project-based funding models with product-driven initiatives, hindering scalability and adoption. This presentation explores the strategy and process, supported by IBM Apptio products, to align enterprise finance with…

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Rob DeLaubell
Director, IT Program Management
The Hartford
The Hartford’s goals were to better Agile-align their IT financials (change the conversation from “project” to “product”), and decouple their IT financials from the time tracking system (aspiring not to be a time tracking organization). However, they capitalize a material amount of labor cost incurred for internally developed software, and…

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Ted Plowman

Rego Consulting
Megan Spychalski

Chicago Trading
This session explores Chicago Trading’s creation of a Technology Business Management (TBM) journey map. You’ll learn how Chicago Trading leveraged TBM to optimize their technology investments and align them with their business goals. The session will explore the specific steps and the benefits they achieved.
Ben Foster
Principal Business Systems Analyst (IT Business Manager)
Red Hat
Andrew Schneider

Red Hat
Madeline Leetz
Principal Business Systems Analyst (IT Business Manager)
Red Hat
Learn about the unique structure of Red Hat’s TBMO, where three business managers act as trusted advisors to IT leadership, managing large, complex budgets and spearheading enterprise wide spend efficiency programs. Explore the crucial role of IT Business Managers in fostering effective technology and financial management practices within the enterprise….

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Raji Bhimireddy
Director, Cloud FinOps
Prudential Financial
Tom Ockenhouse
Lead Cloud Engineer, Cloud FinOps
Prudential
Cost optimization is not a mere afterthought. Rather, it should be an integral part of the entire application lifecycle, beginning right from the architecture phase. A strategic approach to cost estimation during the initial stages of application development ensures efficiency and cost-effectiveness. As we progress into the development phase, it…

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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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Jeff Barschaw
Director of Agile Practices
Rego Consulting
Hollie Potts
Principal Strategic Advisor-Technology Business Management
Rego Consulting
Anita Selman
Sr. Manager, Technology Business Management
Lowe’s Companies Inc.
This session offers practical solutions to financial challenges faced in enterprise agile environments. Participants will learn best practices for budgeting, forecasting, capitalization, and labor cost allocation, as well as both short-term tactical advice and longer-term strategic insights. The session covers topics such as: participatory budgeting flipping the iron triangle funding…

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Sneha Varghese
Senior Technical Staff Member, Hyperscaler Center of Excellence
IBM
Christine Shortell
VP, CIO Identity Services & IT Vendor Management
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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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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Luis Dinis
TBM Architect
St.Jude/ALSAC
Editable reports in IBM Apptio are providing organizations with a powerful tool to improve their data management.  By allowing users to directly modify data within the application, they eliminate the need for cumbersome external data uploads. We all know Apptio is the best-in-class TBM platform. But it’s powerful data ETL…

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Tim Pietro
Vice President of Business Development
Rego Consulting
Hollie Potts
Principal Strategic Advisor-Technology Business Management
Rego Consulting
Struggling to get leadership buy-in for your TBM journey? This session will help tackle one of the most common challenges to IT transformation – CULTURE. Tim Pietro, a TBM Council Standards Committee Member, will discuss: how to navigate governance & change leadership solutions to common challenges best practices for a…

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Craig Lee
Senior Business Manager
Stanford Health Care
Michelle Fanner
Executive Director, Business Operations
Stanford Health Care
This session is a detailed case study on Stanford Health Care’s IBM Apptio and TBM journey. Stanford Health Care has used Apptio and TBM best practices to improve IT investment, optimization, and operational decisions. The session will cover how Stanford Health Care has deployed IBM Apptio Costing, Planning, and Cloudability…

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Adam Mitchell
CTO
Seven Four Digital
Having Technology Business Management (TBM) in the boardroom and a fusion of Agile methodologies across your portfolios demands a subtle re-evaluation of success metrics. This talk delves into the pivotal task of crafting Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and metrics tailored to Agile TBM endeavors, with a spotlight on practical examples….

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David Roush
Manager, Global TBM
QBE
Learn about QBE’s TBM journey and how it has: Leveraged showback for costing applications, business services, and technical services Produced showback bills for business areas Supported an IT modernization program Continued to mature its cost model and expand its use
Joel Soutenare
Solutions Consultant
Apptio, an IBM Company
This session will demonstrate how IBM Apptio Costing Essentials enables organizations to quickly and easily gain visibility into their IT and technology costs. Organizations will learn how they can focus on business outcomes and maximizing the value from every dollar, while moving away from manual, error-prone spreadsheets. A full product…

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Dieter Vangrunderbeek
Sr. Product Manager
Apptio, an IBM Company
With more than 55% of Fortune 100 companies having both IBM Apptio + ServiceNow, it’s imperative to have these two systems integrated bi-directionally. Come along to hear how the latest product developments can help you unlock valuable benefits on both sides.
Dieter Vangrunderbeek
Sr. Product Manager
Apptio, an IBM Company
Combining Turbonomic with IBM Apptio Costing allows your organization to identify, quantify and action continuous cost and performance optimizations. Discover how you can empower your stakeholders to collaborate and realize potential saving opportunities across your Hybrid IT estate.
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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Lauren Bateman
TBM Finance Lead
FedEx
In today’s dynamic business landscape, transparency and accountability in financial management are paramount for organizational success. This session will delve into practical strategies for promoting transparency and accountability in financial practices within Technology Business Management (TBM) frameworks. Participants will explore methods for enhancing cost visibility across the organization, empowering stakeholders…

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Enda Magennis
Head of Finance - Technology, Data, Security & Fraud
NatWest
Lisa Scrimger
Performance & Business Management Manager
NatWest
NatWest has spent over 10 years maturing their TBM practice, which allows them to have extremely robust planning and costing processes that drive additional value. NatWest has strived for continuous improvement over the years, and C-level buy-in from the start has been one of their keys to success. The session…

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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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