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FinOps X 2022

3:00pm CDT

Early Registration & Badge Pick-Up - Level 4 JW Marriott JW Marriott : Level 4

5:00pm CDT

Evening Welcome Gathering (Community Sponsorship by Cloud Native Computing Foundation) Ellis

7:30am CDT

Registration & Badge Pick-up - Level 4 JW Marriott JW Marriott : Level 4

8:45am CDT

Keynote Hall opens - Grab a good seat! JW Marriott: Lone Star Ballroom D/E

8:55am CDT

FinOps is Life - J.R. Storment (FinOps Foundation) JW Marriott: Lone Star Ballroom D/E

9:20am CDT

Keynote: State of FinOps 2022 with Rakinder Sembhi (Deloitte), Alee Whitman (Disney) and Deana Solis (Smarsh) JW Marriott: Lone Star Ballroom D/E

9:40am CDT

Keynote by Chandu Thota, Google Cloud's VP of Engineering, Commerce/Billing JW Marriott: Lone Star Ballroom D/E

9:55am CDT

Enterprise Keynote : William Bryant & Benjamin Coles (Apple) with Ashley Hromatko (FinOps Foundation) JW Marriott: Lone Star Ballroom D/E

10:10am CDT

How PROS Engineers Used Automation to Achieve their FinOps Goals - Alex Costa (PROS) & AJ Nish (IBM) JW Marriott: Lone Star Ballroom D/E

10:20am CDT

FinServe & FinTech Panel : MC : Jen Hays (Fidelity), Panel : Andrew Feig (JP Morgan), Bruno Schaefer (Nubank), Zach Stitham (Fidelity) JW Marriott: Lone Star Ballroom D/E

10:45am CDT

Break - Including Snacks JW Marriott: Lone Star Ballroom Foyer

11:00am CDT

A practical use of Unit Economics - Anthony "TJ" Johnson (Box) JW Marriott : Lone Star Ballroom B And Then There Was FinOps: Creating and scaling your cloud-native FinOps Practice - Dann Berg (DataDog) JW Marriott : Room 302 FinOps not FinOOPS: General Mills’ Adoption from RFP to What is Next - Josh Moe & Courtney Bormann (General Mills) JW Marriott : Lone Star Ballroom C Introducing OpenCost : Monitoring the Cost of Containers - Webb Brown (Kube Cost) & Chris Aniszczyk (CNCF) JW Marriott : Room 301

11:40am CDT

5 Lessons Learned from Operationalizing FinOps: Customer Insights on their FinOps Journey - Peter Irwin (Spot by NetApp) JW Marriott : Room 301 Culture, Adoption, and Executive Sponsorship…. What’s your strategy? - Candace Dubois & Dan Ortman (SoftwareOne) JW Marriott : Room 302 CURating your FinOps Journey - Alee Whitman JW Marriott : Lone Star Ballroom B The non-technical side of FinOps - Mike Rosenberg (Nubank) JW Marriott : Lone Star Ballroom C

12:10pm CDT

Lunch JW Marriott : Griffin Hall - 2nd Floor

1:10pm CDT

Enabling a Culture of Cloud Cost Transparency - Vik Saluja (Cigna) JW Marriott : Lone Star Ballroom C Fidelity's KPI Journey - Zachary Stitham & Noel Crowley (Fidelity) JW Marriott : Lone Star Ballroom B From Crawl to Run: Mastering Allocation of Cloud, Containers, and Beyond - Bala Kaliamurthy (Apptio Cloudability) JW Marriott : Room 301 What is the Impact of Multi-Cloud's on FinOps? - Idaliz Baez (RealOps.io) JW Marriott : Room 302

1:50pm CDT

Revisiting the false-decision trap; Finops at scale and the union of internal and external tooling - James Jackson & Patrick Raymond (Ternary) JW Marriott : Room 302 The cheapest, most expensive cost in all the land: How Domo gets engineering to take action - Riley Jenkins (Domo) JW Marriott : Lone Star Ballroom C The Committed Resource Journey - Josh Bauman (EA) JW Marriott : Lone Star Ballroom B Why being sustainable could transform your FinOps Practice - Mark Butcher (Posetiv) JW Marriott : Room 301

2:30pm CDT

Creating a Culture Focused on Governance - Lucas Paratore (CloudHealth by VMware) & Jenna Gegg (Salesforce) JW Marriott : Room 302 Invisible Journey to FinOpsX - Deana Solis (Smarsh) JW Marriott : Room 301 Key ingredient to FinOps is Data Ingestion & Normalization - Jason Rhoades (Intuit) JW Marriott : Lone Star Ballroom B You still need a budget, but you don’t need to use dollars - Matt Tomlinson (Indeed) JW Marriott : Lone Star Ballroom C

3:00pm CDT

Break - Including Snacks JW Marriott: Lone Star Ballroom Foyer

3:30pm CDT

Driving Visibility, Accountability and Transparency with Data by Jenna Gegg (Salesforce) JW Marriott : Room 302 A Framework for Automating & Measuring Usage Based Optimization (Bindu Sharma, FireEye) JW Marriott : Room 301 A Journey to the Datalake: How the Pearson Team automated away spreadsheets from their AWS Bill Processing - James Regennitter & Abhash Bhandary (Pearson) JW Marriott : Lone Star Ballroom C The OPTICS around cost visibility - Steph Gooch (AWS) JW Marriott : Lone Star Ballroom B

4:10pm CDT

Developing an approach to handle your shared costs - Parker Nancollas (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) JW Marriott : Lone Star Ballroom B FinOps & IT Asset Management, The Partnership for Success - Brian Adler & Jeremy Chaplin (Flexera) JW Marriott : Room 301 How Chevron Engineers Leveraged Automation to Accelerate their FinOps Adoption - Jimmy Herbert (IBM Turbonomic) & Jacob Hernandez (Chevron) JW Marriott : Room 302 Teamwork x Success - Ryan Lafazan & Lian Zhou (Verizon) JW Marriott : Lone Star Ballroom C

4:50pm CDT

Devs don't speak finance: A software engineer's perspective on FinOps (Gabe Hege) JW Marriott : Room 301 Resource Utilization & Efficiency - Eric Mulartrick (Boomi) JW Marriott : Lone Star Ballroom B Successful Finance and FinOps collaboration - Teresa Meade (Atlassian) JW Marriott : Room 302 Sustainability and GreenOps Panel JW Marriott : Lone Star Ballroom C

5:30pm CDT

Sponsor Showcase & Onsite Reception JW Marriott: Lone Star Ballroom Foyer

7:00pm CDT

FinOps Party : Awards, Networking, and Music Speakeasy - 412 Congress Ave

8:00am CDT

In-Person FinOps Certified Practitioner Training (Pre-Registration Required) JW Marriott : Lone Star Ballroom C

9:00am CDT

Ambassador Meetup (Closed Session) Speakeasy : Kabaret TAC Meetup (Closed Session) Speakeasy : Kabaret

9:45am CDT

Day 2 Welcome Speakeasy : Ballroom (Stage Side)

10:00am CDT

Building reports from CSP billing data - delays and other "perks" - Diana Mileva (Atlassian) Speakeasy : Ballroom (Stage Side) Chalk Talk : Adopting FinOps led by Eric Lam & Bruce Warner (Google) Speakeasy : Ballroom (Window Side) Chalk Talk : Forecasting led by Amanda Dalton (Deloitte) Speakeasy : Kabaret Chalk Talk : Sustainability led by Mark Butcher (Posetiv) and Stephen Dick (BetterCloud) Speakeasy : Mezzanine A

10:10am CDT

FinOps for SaaS spend by Udam Dewaraja (Citi) Speakeasy : Ballroom (Stage Side)

10:15am CDT

Meet the pods : Come talk with FinOpsPod & The Keys to AWS Optimization Speakeasy : Kabaret

10:20am CDT

Automating Cloud Cost Governance via Code, Lindbergh Matillano (Avalara) & Kapil Thangavelu (Stacklet.io) Speakeasy : Ballroom (Stage Side)

10:30am CDT

Unlocking Cloud Cost Aware Culture in the Enterprise - Venkatesh Perumal (CoreStack) Speakeasy : Ballroom (Stage Side)

10:40am CDT

6 things to build your FinOps career - Michelle Dupuis (EBSCO) Speakeasy : Ballroom (Stage Side)

10:50am CDT

Break Speakeasy : Ballroom (Stage Side)

11:00am CDT

Chalk Talk : Advancing Careers led by Stacy Case (FinOps Foundation) Speakeasy : Kabaret Chalk Talk : Automation Speakeasy : Mezzanine A Chalk Talk : Reservation Planning led by Josh Bauman (EA) Speakeasy : Ballroom (Window Side)

11:10am CDT

FinOps From the Top Down and from the Bottom Up: Collaborating Together For Organizational Cloud Transformation - Scott Shulman, Contino Speakeasy : Ballroom (Stage Side)

11:20am CDT

IT Asset Management (ITAM) and FinOps - Ron Brill (Anglepoint) Speakeasy : Ballroom (Stage Side)

11:30am CDT

Building a FinOps culture to accelerate digital transformation in your organization - Dumebi Oti (Google) Speakeasy : Ballroom (Stage Side)

11:40am CDT

5 lessons learned about chargeback - Melanie Edwards (FinOps Practitioner) Speakeasy : Ballroom (Stage Side)

11:50am CDT

How Easy it is to Get Engineers to Action - Evan Orgel (ServiceNow) Speakeasy : Ballroom (Stage Side)

12:00pm CDT

Governing Board Meeting (Closed Session) Speakeasy : Kabaret Lunch Speakeasy : Ballroom (Stage Side) Women in FinOps Lunch Speakeasy : Ballroom (Window Side)

1:30pm CDT

Enterprise Partners (Closed Session) Speakeasy : Kabaret HCA Healthcare and Credit Karma Journey to Adopting Cloud FinOps with Google - Lindsay Sherman (HCA Healthcare), Nash Ramar (Credit Karma), and Eric Lam (Google) Speakeasy : Ballroom (Stage Side) Chalk Talk : ITFM/ TBM led by Alex Hullah Speakeasy : Mezzanine A Chalk Talk : Open Billing led by Udam Dewaraja (Citi) Speakeasy : Ballroom (Window Side) Chalk Talk : Unit Economics led by Erik Peterson (CloudZero) Speakeasy : Kabaret

2:00pm CDT

Cash flow risks associated with commitment-based discounts - Aditya Datta (Cloudwiry) Speakeasy : Ballroom (Stage Side)

2:10pm CDT

Leveraging Cost Categories to build AWS chargeback reports - Mike Graff (Dolby) Speakeasy : Ballroom (Stage Side)

2:20pm CDT

The Five Elements of an Effective FinOps Training Program - Gina Berg (Intuit) Speakeasy : Ballroom (Stage Side)

2:30pm CDT

Break Speakeasy : Ballroom (Stage Side) Chalk Talk : Containers led by Roi Rav-Hon (Finout) Speakeasy : Kabaret Chalk Talk : Data Efficiency led by Jason Nadeau (Project N) Speakeasy : Kabaret Chalk Talk : Framework led by Vas Markanastasakis (FinOps Foundation) Speakeasy : Ballroom (Window Side)

2:40pm CDT

Five ways to forecast your cloud spend - Frank Contrepois (Strategic Blue) Speakeasy : Ballroom (Stage Side)

2:50pm CDT

DIY FinOps: Jump Start Your FinOps Journey (Without Breaking the Bank!) - Joel Proctor (Bluearch.io) Speakeasy : Ballroom (Stage Side)

3:00pm CDT

No more “Death by Tagging” - Jeff Harris (Yotascale) Speakeasy : Ballroom (Stage Side)

3:10pm CDT

The Truth is Out There - Jay Litkey & Colin Jack (Snow Software) Speakeasy : Ballroom (Stage Side)

3:20pm CDT

Process, Process, Process - Control the chaos or it Controls you - Josh Varney (Splunk) Speakeasy : Ballroom (Stage Side)

3:40pm CDT

Chalk Talk Recap Speakeasy : Ballroom (Stage Side)

4:00pm CDT

Closing Networking Reception Speakeasy : Ballroom (Window Side)

6:15pm CDT

Boat Cruise - Invite Only (Community Sponsorship by Cloud Native Computing Foundation) X Cruise : Hyatt Regency Boat Dock