FinOps X 2023 has ended

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FinOps X 2023

3:00pm PDT

Early Registration & Badge Pick-Up Registration Desk

5:00pm PDT

Welcome Networking Reception South Pool Patio

7:00am PDT

Breakfast Outdoor Terrace Registration & Badge Pick-up Registration Desk

8:30am PDT

Welcome - FinOps in 2023 - J.R. Storment, Executive Director, FinOps Foundation Grand Ballroom

8:50am PDT

Two Sides of the FinOps Coin : RJ Hazra (CFO) and Scott Johnson (CIO) at Equifax Grand Ballroom

9:10am PDT

Sustaining FinOps at Run Stage: Natalie Daley, IT COO for Cloud at HSBC Grand Ballroom

9:25am PDT

Engineers & FinOps Culture: Biba Helou - Managing Director at JPMorgan Grand Ballroom

9:40am PDT

FinOps Data at Walmart Scale and FOCUS - Tim O'Brien (Walmart) + Udam Dewaraja (FinOps Foundation) Grand Ballroom

10:00am PDT

VPs of Cloud Billing Panel - Google Cloud, Microsoft, Oracle Together Grand Ballroom

10:30am PDT

What's next - J.R. Storment & Mike Fuller of FinOps Foundation Grand Ballroom

10:45am PDT

Break for Snacks & Coffee Expo Hall

11:00am PDT

Cloud Budget & Forecast Process - Atlassian Use Case - Sara Gadallah & Brett Whittingham (Atlassian) Breakout B Risky Business: Implementing Cloud Governance to Drive Business Value - Courtney Bormann & Joshua Moe (General Mills, Inc.) Breakout D Top 3 Lessons Learned from Adopting Cloud FinOps at Scale on Google Cloud - CME, SAP, Equifax join Eric lam & Bruce Warner (Google Cloud) Breakout A Why Automation Is the Key to Reducing Your Cloud Bill - Brent Segner & David Cahan (Capital One) Breakout C Chalk Talk: KPIs with David Lambert (Adobe) & Ravi Gupta (EY) Chalk Talk F Chalk Talk: Sustainability with Bindu Sharma (Guidewire) & Keith Knowles (Envisor by Senturus) Chalk Talk E

11:40am PDT

It's Not Just Cloud: How FinOps Tools and Practices Can Help Control Licensing and Other Costs - Charlie Wolfe (Expedia Group) Breakout C Strategies and Best Practices for Managing Cloud Cost Data at Scale - Michael Flanakin, Trey Morgan, Gabriel Esparza-Romero & Tanuja Shah (Microsoft) Breakout A Strategies for Troubleshooting Cost Anomalies & Trends - Amy Ashby (Under Armour) Breakout B Swimming Upstream While Saving Money: FinOps Lessons From Walmart - Tim O’Brien (Walmart, Inc.) Breakout D

12:10pm PDT

Lunch--Grand Ballroom or Outdoor Terrace Grand Ballroom

1:10pm PDT

Advanced Approach to Prepay Amortization and Rate Blending - Jason Rhoades (Intuit) Breakout A Building a Savings & Avoidance Program - Anthony Johnson (box) Breakout B Driving Intelligent Investment Decisions with Unit Economics and Product Profitability - Marisa Banigan (Apptio Cloudability) & David Van Hoven (HERE Technologies) Breakout C NonStop FinOps: Lessons from Automating $100 Million in Cloud Savings - Rahul Subramaniam (CloudFix) Breakout D Chalk Talk : Cloud Acquisition & Procurement for Public Sector / Government - Nate Cost (Enterprise Cloud Management Agency US Army) & Paul Puckett (Clarity) Chalk Talk F Chalk Talk: Pitching to Your Executive - Trevor Chistie (Takeda) & Mike Eisenstein (Accenture) Chalk Talk E

1:50pm PDT

Beyond Visibility - Measuring FinOps Program Performance - Lee Ditiangkin (Nvidia) & Jon Thompson (Virtasant) Breakout A Get Results in an Imperfect World: The Pyramid of FinOps Needs - Petri Kallberg & Jakub Holak (Nordcloud) Breakout D Introduction to FOCUS (FinOps Cost and Usage Spec) - Mike Fuller & Udam Dewaraja (FinOps Foundation) Breakout B Putting Reporting in the Path of Different Personas - Kate Ferguson (Liberty Mutual Insurance) Breakout C

2:30pm PDT

Build vs Buy: Why UKG Chose to Build its own Cloud Cost Management Solution - Peter Crenshaw (UKG) Breakout D Effective Savings Rate – The Ultimate Rate Optimization Metric - Eric Mulartrick (Boomi) & Erik Carlin (ProsperOps) Breakout B Moneyball in the Cloud: Winning with FinOps at Palo Alto Networks - Zhen Cao & Gunjan Patel (Palo Alto Networks) Breakout C No PO! The Path to Eliminating POs, Streamlining Invoice Processing, and Automating Cost Allocation - Jenna Gegg & Omkar Gokhale (Salesforce) Breakout A Chalk Talk : FinOps as Code (AL/ ML) - Brent Eubanks (box) & Bailey Caldwell (McKinsey & Company) Chalk Talk F Chalk Talk : Unit Economics - Maneesha Asundi (Mr. Cooper) & Parker Nancollas (SoftwareOne) Chalk Talk E

3:00pm PDT

Break for Snacks Expo Hall

3:30pm PDT

Critical Maneuvers to Drive FinOps Actions in a Complex Enterprise - Willy Sennott & Janel Jensen (Vega) Breakout C Driving Accountability Through Automation of Cloud FinOps Controls - Wallace Suleiman (SAP) Breakout A Evaluative Approach of Hashing Out “Maturity Assessment” and Building Real Time Data Driven FinOps Advisory Reporting - Gayathiri Srinivasan (HCL) Breakout B Intercompany Chargeback: Our Journey to Profitable Cost Allocation - Kara Mosley (Koch Industries, Inc.) Breakout D Chalk Talk: Architecting for Cost Efficiency - Rachel Palmarozzi (EA) & Joshua Bauman (EA) Chalk Talk E

4:10pm PDT

Automating Efficiency in a Multi-Cloud Environment - Michelle Martinez & Sid Sonrexa (Paypal) Breakout A Capturing the Value of Cost Allocation - Brian Chukwu-Smith (Equifax) Breakout B Driving a FinOps Culture Change via Planning - Kevin Wehde & Darla Washington (American Airlines) Breakout D FinOps as a Product - Kim Wier & Ron Tatro (Target Corporation) Breakout C

4:50pm PDT

FinOps Ambassador Discuss Jump Starting FinOps Career - Melanie Edwards (Carrier) & Michelle Dupuis (Walgreens) Breakout B FinOps in Government Fireside Chat : Challenges and Solutions to Optimize Cloud$/Citizen - Melvin Brown ll & Al Himler (OPM - US Office of Personnel Management) Breakout A FinOps Success Stories - Optimization Beyond Rightsize - Eran Lador Breakout C Multi-Cloud Waste Visualization and Automated Clean Up at Adobe - Ken Anderson & Matthew Kruse (Adobe) Breakout D

5:20pm PDT

Meet FinOps Foundation Ambassadors & Technical Advisory Council (TAC) The "Let's Talk" Window in the Expo Hall Sponsor Networking Reception in Expo Hall Expo Hall

7:15pm PDT

FinOps The Board Game - Play or Spectate Torrey Pines 3

7:30pm PDT

Official Sponsor Evening Event - CloudFix (External Registration Required) Callie Restaurant (Offsite) Official Sponsor Evening Event - IBM Turbonomic (External Registration Required) TBA Official Sponsor Evening Event - ProsperOps (External Registration Required) TBA

7:00am PDT

Breakfast Expo Hall Registration & Badge Pick-up Expo Hall

8:00am PDT

Billing is Thrilling with Google Cloud - User Group Hosted by Google Cloud Breakout D Customize your FinOps Journey - User Group Hosted by Deloitte Breakout B Optimize Your Cloud Investment in Microsoft Azure - User Group Hosted by Microsoft Breakout A Ambassador Breakfast w/ Joe Daly & Ruben Vander Stockt (FinOps Foundation) Outdoor Terrace Invite Only: Executive Breakfast Forum -- South Tower Marina Kitchen Private Dining

9:00am PDT

Day 2 Keynotes - Doing FinOps - Mike Fuller, CTO, FinOps Foundation Grand Ballroom

9:10am PDT

FinOps Education and the Future of Certification - Stacy Case, VP Professional Development at FinOps Foundation Grand Ballroom

9:16am PDT

Engineering Tech Talent and FinOps Teams - Kim Wier, Director of Engineering at Target Grand Ballroom

9:25am PDT

How Adobe Leveraged FinOps to Launch Firefly - Richard Steck, Sr Director of Engineering at Adobe Grand Ballroom

9:37am PDT

Government FinOps Adoption & Challenges - Melvin Brown, Deputy CIO, US OPM Grand Ballroom

10:00am PDT

Lightning Vendor Showcase - 3 min rapid fire product demos! Grand Ballroom

10:45am PDT

Break for Snacks Expo Hall

11:00am PDT

Effective Adoption of FinOps for your Organization - Amanda Dalton & Nik Jethi (Deloitte) Breakout C FinOps Governance & Policy for the Onboarding of Workloads - Andrew Feig & Beth Marki (J.P. Morgan Chase) Breakout D FinOps in the Federal Space: VA’s Journey to Cloud Optimization - Sue Speck (Department of Veterans Affairs) Breakout A Inspiring 140 Years Old Company to Implement FinOps - Anastasija Jakovleva (FLSmidth) Breakout B Chalk Talk : Cloud Policy & Governance - Lindbergh Matillano (Avalara) & Kapil Thangavelu (Stacklet) Chalk Talk F Chalk Talk : Social Aspects of FinOps - Anthony Johnson (box) & Jesse DeRose (Independent Consultant) Chalk Talk E

11:40am PDT

FinOps and IT Asset Management: Collaboration is Key to Your Optimization Goals - Brian Adler & Jeremy Chaplin (Flexera) Breakout B Optimizing SQL in the Cloud - Dan Ortman & Parker Nancollas (SoftwareOne) Breakout D Rolling Forecast: Benefits, Challenges, Best practice, and Implementation - Vik Saluja (Mastercard) Breakout C Scorecards: Cloud Optimization Index (COIN) Score and How Nationwide Uses It - Julia Harvey & Audrea Ratliff (Nationwide) Breakout A

12:10pm PDT

Lunch - Dine + Demo: Lightning Vendor Showcase - 2 min rapid fire product demos! (Grand Ballroom) Grand Ballroom Lunch - Outdoor Terrace Outdoor Terrace

1:25pm PDT

AutoMagic App Budgets - James Barney (Ally Financial) Breakout B Fidelity Leadership Explore Container KPIs - Geoff Langfield & Veera Kishore Goduguluri (Fidelity) Breakout D How FinOps Can Help Drive Your Sustainability Goals - Jaisson Mailoux & Hrishikesh Sardar (Kyndryl) Breakout C Shifting FinOps Left in the Development Cycle - Lucas Paratore (VMware) & Usha Ganesh (Global Payments) Breakout A Chalk Talk: Cost Allocation - Larry Advey (Twilio) & Deeja Cruz (Datadog) Chalk Talk F Chalk Talk: Selecting a Tool - Vas Markanastasakis & Rob Martin (FinOps Foundation) Chalk Talk E

2:05pm PDT

GreenOps in Action - Paul Guarino (Fidelity) Breakout C Run then Crawl: Speed running FinOps Maturity at a New and Less Mature Organization - Stephen Arthur (Coinbase) Breakout D The Architecture and Content of a FinOps Data Lake to Enable Advanced BI - Lóránt Kiss (Amadeus) Breakout A Unlocking FinOps Success with Collaboration - Patrick Raymond & James Jackson (Ternary) Breakout B

2:45pm PDT

Adopting FinOps at Scale - Benjamin Coles (Apple) Breakout A How Tealium Drives High Performing, Cost Effective Workloads - Ricardo Ibarra & Capen Brinkley (Spot by NetApp) Breakout B How to Integrate Cloud and on Premise Reports: Lessons and Learnings from Grupo Boticário Journey - Claudia Seffrin (Grupo Boticario) Breakout C Kubecost Fireside Chat: How Global Companies Manage FinOps at Scale? - Trenton Truitt (Kubecost) , Parag Bhardwaj (American Airlines) & Ganesh Janakiraman (Broadcom) Breakout D Chalk Talk : Cost Optimization - Courtney Bormann (General Mills) & Sarah McMullin (Google Cloud) Chalk Talk F Chalk Talk: Cloud Forecasting - Anders Hagman (formerly Spotify) & Ilia Semenov (Cloudthread) Chalk Talk E

3:15pm PDT

Break for Snacks Expo Hall

3:45pm PDT

Deciphering Azure Amortized Cost: A guide to Mastering Cloud Financial Management - Tammy Burnitt & Jacob Brown (Shell) Breakout A Digital Transformation Meets Talent Transformation - Carol Richmond & Ebele Kemery (J.P. Morgan & Chase Co) Breakout B Future of FinOps Panel with TAC (Technical Advisory Council) Breakout D When Automation is too Late (or How I Learned to Love the Deploy Script) - Eric Mulartrick & Will Carlson (Boomi, Inc.) Breakout C Chalk Talk : Commitment Based Discounts Chalk Talk - Kate Ferguson (Liberty Mutual) & John Mcloughlin (VMware) Chalk Talk E Chalk Talk : Implementing FinOps at Agency Level Public Sector / Government - Sarah Kula (Canadian Institute for Health Information) & Marit Hughes (Deloitte) Chalk Talk F

4:25pm PDT

Are You Serious About FinOps? Go Get the Executive Buy-in - Leslie Nolan & Jonathan Morley (CME Group) Breakout B Budgeting in the Cloud: From Confusion to Clarity - Brad Payne & Dave Chodos (PointClickCare) Breakout A Empower Cloud Engineers with Cost Conscious Decision Making - Mike Routier (Choice Hotel International) Breakout C Is it a Savings or a Spend Reduction? - Alee Whitman (Disney) Breakout D

6:00pm PDT

FinOps Certified Professional Gathering-Hangar Bay Terrace USS Midway (Offsite) Women in FinOps Gathering-Hangar Bay Terrace USS Midway (Offsite) Aircraft Carrier FinOps Awards & Celebration at Sunset-USS Midway USS Midway (Offsite)

7:45pm PDT

FinOps Award Presentation--Flight Deck Stage USS Midway (Offsite)

9:00am PDT

Private Session at Sea - Governing Board, TAC, Ambassadors, Speakers, Staff Only Marriott Marquis Dock