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FinOps Fridays

by Apptio, an IBM Company

Hosted by Hunter Willis, Senior Product Marketing Manager at Apptio, an IBM Company, FinOps Fridays is a video series covering a range of topics across the journey to cloud, from pre-migration to cloud-native. It dives into the technical and cultural challenges that organizations face on their unique journeys as they build their financial discipline required for cloud.

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Episodes

  1. Managing AI Costs in the Age of Tokenomics

    Maddy Yeazel of IBM Cloudability joins Hunter Willis to break down tokenomics: why tokens change forecasting, attribution, and ownership for FinOps teams.

  2. Don't Automate Empathy: AI's Role in the Future of FinOps

    FinOps veteran Chase Bennett joins Hunter Willis to explore why FinOps is a people-first profession, and why empathy is the one thing AI should never automate.

  3. Scaling FOCUS Across Cloud, SaaS, and AI

    Explore what's new in FOCUS 1.3, how organizations are operationalizing the spec, and what's ahead on the roadmap—straight from the FinOps Foundation.

  4. Navigating FinOps Maturity in the Age of AI

    Hear how FinOps practices are evolving and meeting the demands of AI-first organizations.

  5. Building Cost Governance for AI Workloads

    Learn how FinOps practices are evolving to meet the demands of AI-first organizations.

  6. Cross-Functional Strategies for Successful FinOps Adoption

    FinOps expert Idaliz Baez shares tips to align strategy, drive team buy-in, integrate tools, and drive value with unit economics.

  7. Optimizing for Cost Efficiency and Carbon Reduction

    Learn how to optimize cloud costs and reduce carbon footprint through FinOps practices.

  8. Operationalizing FinOps for Sustained ROI

    Learn how to apply enterprise-level best practices, take your strategy beyond tooling, and leverage the FinOps Framework to mature your program.

  9. Change Management Strategies for Navigating FinOps Maturity

    Discover change management strategies that fuel FinOps adoption and maturity — from securing buy-in at every level to setting OKRs to measure success.

  10. Breaking Down Data Silos with FOCUS

    Learn how FOCUS™ (FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification) helps standardize billing data, remove silos, and synthesize actionable insights.

  11. Transparency, Accountability, and Efficiency

    Expert guidance on increasing cost transparency, accountability, and efficiency to level up your FinOps practice.

  12. Building Alignment Across FinOps Stakeholders

    Discover how FinOps can unite teams across your organization with a shared interest in cloud cost savings and data transparency.

  13. Managing Cost Effective Cloud Migrations

    Learn about cloud migration and cloud cost optimization pitfalls, workarounds, and best practices to help you maximize value from the get-go.

  14. Using Data to Build Credibility for FinOps

    Explore strategies for overcoming hurdles for buy-in, the role data plays in building credibility, and tips for applying FinOps principles across organization-wide cost centers.

  15. Commitments, Allocation and Gamification

    Hear best practices for commitment spend strategies with guidance on gamifying processes, cost allocation, and unit economics.

  16. Contextual Collaboration and FinOps

    Are you getting the full picture in your FinOps conversations?

  17. FinOps: The Collaborative Journey

    Recommendations for accelerating your FinOps journey from a veteran with over 13 years in cloud and operations

  18. FinOps and Sustainability - Part 2

    In this episode of FinOps Fridays, we continue to explore the intriguing relationship between FinOps and Sustainability.

  19. FinOps and Sustainability - Part 1

    We kick off an exciting conversation about the dynamic partnership between FinOps and Sustainability, focusing on what this means in the realm of IT.

  20. FinOps the Engineering Way Part 2

    Nathan Besh and Dvir Mizrahi explore roadblocks and how to overcome them in your FinOps journey

  21. FinOps the Engineering Way Part 1

    Nathan Besh and Dvir Mizrahi explore engineering-driven FinOps adoption in this FinOps Fridays episode

  22. Forecasting Part 2

    With the whats and whys of forecasting covered in the first part, Dieter Matzion and Nathan Besh pick up the pace to get a level deeper into the topic and look at the “Hows” in the second part of episode 11 of FinOps Fridays.

  23. Forecasting Part 1

    The next episode of FinOps Fridays is all about forecasting.

  24. Talking Talent in FinOps Part 2

    Nathan Besh and Ashley Hromatko discuss what careers in FinOps look like what skills are necessary to be successful.

  25. Talking Talent in FinOps Part 1

    Nathan Besh and Ashley Hromatko discuss the growing need for talent in FinOps.

  26. Metrics that matter: Unit Economics Part 3

    The third and last part this FinOps Fridays episode discusses what the final picture of unit economics looks like and the challenges and roadblocks you should be aware of.

  27. Metrics that matter: Unit Economics Part 2

    This episode of FinOps Fridays digs further into unit economics, exploring its execution.

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

Hosted by Hunter Willis, Senior Product Marketing Manager at Apptio, an IBM Company, FinOps Fridays is a video series covering a range of topics across the journey to cloud, from pre-migration to cloud-native. It dives into the technical and cultural challenges that organizations face on their unique journeys as they build their financial discipline required for cloud.

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Apptio, an IBM Company

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