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:

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

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
Director, TBM Cloud Economics
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

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
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
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

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

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

Building a FinOps Solution for All

Jason Shaw
Product Manager - Turbonomic
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
Senior 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
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
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

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

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

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

Fueling Sustainability Goals at Mastercard in Every Stage of FinOps

Juan Jose Jarillo
Senior Strategic CS Advisor
Apptio, an IBM Company
Vik Saluja
Director, TBM Cloud Economics
Mastercard
As collaboration between FinOps and Sustainability teams continues to grow, practitioners are seeking defensible data, building new processes, and amending their practices to accommodate. In this session, learn the best practices you can build into each FinOps phase – Inform, Optimize and Operate – and hear firsthand how Mastercard has…

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  • Breakout Session
  • Cloud FinOps
  • Intro
  • Apptio, 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, an IBM Company
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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  • Breakout Session
  • 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
Director - IT Finance - Platform and Infrastructure, FinOps and TBM
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

Optimizing AI Kubernetes Costs With GPU Monitoring

Chip Zoller
Staff Product Manager
Kubecost, an IBM company
Cloud spending on AI soars while teams struggle to become cost-efficient. Learn tools & techniques to continuously monitor GPU costs and efficiency.
  • Breakout Session
  • Cloud FinOps
  • Intermediate
  • Apptio
  • Cloud Center of Excellence

Our Journey from Limited Visibility to Governance of Cloud Usage in Just 10+ 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 spend in just 10+ 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

Planning cost efficient workloads in a complex cloud world

Soline Plichta
Product Manager
Apptio, an IBM Company
Determining the right resource and cloud for a workload can be a challenge. This is increasingly true as rapid advances, seemingly endless choices, and AI workloads requiring GPUs across multiple clouds. This is compounded by complex cost structures that often include custom pricing and differ across cloud platforms. Cloud teams…

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  • Breakout Session
  • Cloud FinOps
  • Intro
  • 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

TBM Modernization: TBM & FinOps Integration with Taxonomy 5.0

Vik Saluja
Director, TBM Cloud Economics
Mastercard
Justin Mann
Head of Research & Standards
TBM Council
This session will provide attendees with an in-depth blueprint for integrating FinOps with their TBM practices using the latest TBM standards including Taxonomy 5.0. Topics covered will include tactical recommendations for integrating data strategies as well as a meta-level merging of teams, principles, and governance strategies that can persist over…

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  • Strategy Community
  • Cloud FinOps, IT Financial Management
  • Intermediate
  • TBM Council
  • Cloud Center of Excellence, IT Finance or TBM Office

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

Translate Costs to Value with Cloud Unit Economics

Maddy Yeazel
Strategic Director, FinOps Solutions
Apptio, an IBM Company
As cloud adoption accelerates and spend increases, cost structures become more complex posing challenges when trying to determine the value cloud investments bring. This session will walk you through principles and strategies of unit economics, and how metrics can unlock the exact cloud costs consumed per business deliverable and other…

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

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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.

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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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