Venue
W Barcelona
W Barcelona, Plaça Rosa Del Vents 1, Final, Pg. de Joan de Borbó, 08039 Barcelona, Spain

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Event Date Mon Nov 11 CST - Thu Nov 14 CST (6 months ago)
In your timezone (EDT): Mon Nov 11 1:00am - Thu Nov 14 1:00am
Location W Barcelona
Plaça Rosa Del Vents 1, Final, Pg. de Joan de Borbó, 08039 Barcelona, Spain
Region Americas
Details

Situated on the stunning beachfront along the famous Barceloneta boardwalk, the W, Barcelona stands as a beacon of excitement in this dynamic city. The event takes place against the backdrop of panoramic views of the beach and the Mediterranean Sea, close to Barcelona’s renowned attractions like the Gothic Quarter, Las Ramblas, and the Picasso Museum.

This foundation has secured exclusive use of this spectacular hotel, ensuring attendees can enjoy specially negotiated rates and the convenience of staying close to all the event’s activities.

Speakers

2024 Speakers

Tim O’Brien
Senior Director of Engineering, Cloud Cost Management at Walmart

Sarah Keller
Head of Global Technical Sourcing and Supply Chain at Uber

Chavis Richardson
Director, Head of Infrastructure, Cloud, and Mobile Finance at Uber

Keena Blunschi
Head of Global Infrastructure Product Services at American Express

Noreen Dever
SVP, CFO Enterprise Services at American Express

Amit Zavery
VP/GM and Head of Platform at Google Cloud

James Greenfield
Vice President, Commerce Platform at AWS

Srivatsan Kidambi
Vice President of Engineering at Microsoft

Kimberly Floss
IT Senior Director at PepsiCo

Kim Wier
Director Of Engineering at Target

Michael Flanakin
Principal Product Management Lead, FinOps Technical Advisory Council member at Microsoft

Sarah McMullin
Product Lead, Cloud FinOps at Google

Rick Ochs
AWS Cloud Optimization Product Management lead at Amazon Web Services

John Phillips
GM / Director, AWS Insights and Optimizations at Amazon Web Services

J.R. Storment
Executive Director at FinOps Foundation

Mike Fuller
CTO at FinOps Foundation

Stacy Case
VP of Professional Development at FinOps Foundation

Jenny Tang
Cloud FinOps Engineer at Apple

Sukhvinder Kumar
Site Reliability Engineer at Apple

Yuriy Prykhodko
Principal Technical Account Manager at Amazon Web Services

Steph Gooch
Sr. Optimization Solution Architect Advocate at AWS

Larry Advey
Manager of FinOps at Twilio

Elly Rauch
Manager, Cloud FinOps at Disney

Swapna Samuel
Head, Central Cloud FinOps at BMO

Natasha Xu
Senior Manager, Technology Performance Management at BMO

Andy Dumich
Director, Product Management - Cloud FinOps at Walmart

Janel Jensen
VP Transformation Management and Delivery at Paramount

Teresa Meade
Senior Manager Technology Finance at Reddit

Walter King
Staff Software Engineer at Reddit

Nicole Gauer
Public Cloud FinOps Senior Manager at Evernorth

Sergio Armenta
Cloud Engineering Advisor at Evernorth

Gourav Kapoor
Director, Cloud Architecture & FinOps at Deltek

Amy Ashby
FinOps Lead at Under Armour

Victoria Levy
Cloud Cost Optimization Engineer at Alteryx

Federica Teodori
Senior Manager, CCoE and Governance at Riot Games

Martin Velez
Staff Software Engineer at Aurora

Joshua Collier
FinOps Engineer at Grammarly

Al Himler
Leading Cloud Center of Excellence at U.S. Office of Personnel Management

Dan Jacobs
Acting Chief Technology Officer at U.S. Office of Personnel Management

Ian Foster
Cloud Financial Analyst at Marsh McLennan

Karthik Pallapothu
Principal Product Manager at Adobe

Ryan Thorpe
Senior Manager, Cloud Development at Adobe

Jennifer Hays
Head of Engineering Efficiency & Assurance at Fidelity Investments

Amit Kinha
Head of Cloud Financials & FinOps at Citi

George Parker
Director, Capacity Planning at Salesforce

Dhanush Devaraj
Software Engineer, LMTS at Salesforce

Lindbergh Matillano
Director, Cost Optimization at Avalara

Jason Rhoades
Development Manager at Intuit

Tiberiu Oprisiu
Staff Software Engineer at Coinbase

Dinesh Sonawane
Vice President, FinOps at Workday

Don Rudish
Director, Software Engineering at Workday

Matthew Weingarten
Lead Data Engineer at Disney

Michael Bragalone
Lead Software Engineer, FinOps at Capital One

Nicole Yegorina
Senior Associate Product Manager at Capital One

Ben Sleichter
Senior Finance Manager, Cloud Analytics at Capital One

Sara Reddy
Software Engineer at Coinbase

Andrew Feig
FinOps Strategy and Practice Lead at JPMorgan Chase

Craig Shine
Executive Director at JPMorgan Chase

Brian Chukwu-Smith
Site Reliability Engineer at Equifax

Elliott Devenport
Senior Manager, FP&A at Equifax

Rachel Palmarozzi
Senior Manager, Cost Optimization at Electronic Arts

Brad Payne
Sr Manager FinOps at PointClickCare

David Lambert
Cloud Efficiency Engineering Manager at Adobe

Courtney Bormann
Senior Manager, FinOps & Cloud Governance at General Mills

Jayson Hill
Sr. Principal Engineer at Toyota North America

Noel Crowley
Director of Cloud FinOps at Fidelity Investments

Zachary Stitham
Cloud Business Management Office at Fidelity Investment

Bob Rosum
VP of Cloud Platform Engineering at Fidelity Investments

Pete Davies
Head of Archiecture and Core Engineering (ACE) at Fidelity Investments

Deana Solis
Senior FinOps Engineer at Smarsh

Eric Mulartrick
FinOps Lead at Boomi

Usha Ganesh
Director, Cloud Business Office at Global Payments

Leslie Nolan
Executive Director at CME Group

Kevin Kranz
Director, FinOps at CME Group

Mike Jaco
Vice President, FinOps at Mastercard

Vik Saluja
FinOps and Compliance Manager at Mastercard

Becky Canterbury
Senior Manager, Business Operations & Cloud FinOps at Shutterstock

Brian Adler
Sr. Director, Cloud Market Strategy at Flexera

Keith Hiszem
Senior Engineer, Server Software License and Compliance Management at Cardinal Health

Andrew Midgley
Principal Product Marketing Manager at Apptio

Sam Keller
Senior Cloud Engineer at Hyland

Erik Peterson
Founder, Director, and CTO/CISO at Cloudzero

Vitor Pellegrino
Site Reliability Engineer at Duolingo

Lucas Paratore
Senior Product Line Manager at Tanzu CloudHealth

Jarred Clore
Cloud FinOps Delivery Leader at Cisco

Paolo Sellari
Senior Product Manager, Cloud at Tangoe

Dawn Preston
Product Owner, Cloud at Tangoe

Bob Clasen
Principal Group Lead, Computer Engineer at MITRE

John Gallivan
Lead Secure Systems Engineer at MITRE

Ziva Tubul
Finance Engineer Expert,

Dvir Mizrahi
Head of Financial Engineering (FinOps) at Wix

Jennifer Samolyk
Cloud FinOps Manager at Fannie Mae

Chuck Mountz
Cloud Infrastructure, Director, Technology Engineering at Fannie Mae

Shon Harris
CloudOps Technical Alliance Leader at Spot

Jeff Hyatt
Senior Architect, Cloud Optimization at Ticketmaster

Tiffany Taggart
Engineering Finance Operation Manager at Instructure

John Platt
CTO at Stormforge

Kyle Campos
Chief Technology Officer at CloudBolt

Ximena Carrillo
IT Technology Leader at NextEra Energy

Erik Carlin
Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer at ProsperOps

Hitesh Chitalia
VP, Director Cloud Optimization at FactSet

Gokul Naidu
Program Leader, Cloud Economics at SAP

AJ Nish
Head of Product at IBM Turbonomic

Chandra Narayanaswami
Distinguished Research Scientist, IBM TJ Watson Res Center at IBM

Willy Sennott
EVP FinOps at Vega Cloud

Parker Nancollas
FinOps Practice Lead at SoftwareOne

Sunil Bhargava
SVP, Global Cloud Services at Kyndryl

Marie Burke
Director of Product Marketing at Ternary

Rudy Grigar
Director of Cloud Services at Linux Foundation

Shah Ahmadzai
at Linux Foundation

Natalie Daley
Head of Cloud Economics and FinOps - HSBC CTO COO at HSBC

Bindu Sharma
Senior Manager, FinOps at Guidewire

Mike Rosenberg
Senior Director Of Engineering at Nubank

Zhen Cao
Senior Manager, Product Operations (Cloud Finance) at Palo Alto Networks

Kuntal Patel
Manager, Cloud FinOps at Palo Alto Networks

Taylor Houck
FinOps Specialist at NBC Universal

Parag Bhardwaj
Principal Cloud Architect at American Airlines

Aswanidutt Dasara
Senior Engineer at American Airlines

Pavan Tallapragada
Senior Engineering Manager at Zoom

Nick Konstantinou
Senior Cloud Cost Analyst at Zoom

Conrad Meneide
VP, Infra and Cloud at Kenvue

James Taylor
Cloud Business Architect at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Shannon Gray
Cloud Strategy, FinOps FSI Lead, Quantum SME at Deloitte

Colin Maynard
Director, Cloud Platform Engineering & Operations at TELUS Health

Vitaly Belyasov
Head of FinOps at Align Technology

Brent Eubanks
FinOps Architect at Wayfair

James Barney
Director, Cloud Foresight Engineering at Ally

Lydia Lewin
FinOps Product Manager at John Deere

Charlie Wolfe
Product Manager, Cost Transparency at Expedia Group

Diane Kozobolis
Cloud Architect at Lockheed Martin

Riley Jenkins
Sr. SRE/FinOps Architect at Domo

Kate Ferguson
Data Analyst at Liberty Mutual Insurance

Anthony “TJ” Johnson
Senior Cloud FinOps Lead at MGM Resorts International

Max Blaze
Senior Staff Operations Engineer at Duolingo

Tammy Burnitt
Senior IT Manager, FinOps and Network Services Capacity Management at Shell

Sarah Kula
Manager, Cloud Business Office at Canadian Institute for Health Information

Rhett Rothberg
Cloud Broker at U.S. Coast Guard

Jason Sanghi
Site Reliability Engineer at Iterable

Nick Deinzer
Finance Manager at Hashicorp

Rupa Patel
Sr Product Manager at Google Cloud

Shruthi Nambi
Product Manager at Google Cloud

Gautam Srikanth
Product Manager at Google Cloud

Alfonso Hernandez
Sr Product Manager at Google Cloud

Yubing Luo
Eng Manager at Google Cloud

Karanjit Cheema
Eng Manager at Google Cloud

Pathik Sharma
Cloud Cost Optimization Lead, Cloud FinOps, Digital Transformation Practice at Google

Benjamin Coles
Infrastructure Services & FinOps at Apple

Eric Lam
Head of Cloud FinOps at Google

Bruce Warner
Practice Lead, Cloud FinOps and Office of the CFO at Google

Wallace Suleiman
Vice President of Multi Cloud Engineering at SAP

Pathik Sharma
Cloud Cost Optimization Lead, Cloud FinOps, Digital Transformation Practice at Google

Benjamin Coles
Infrastructure Services & FinOps at Apple

Eric Lam
Head of Cloud FinOps at Google

Bruce Warner
Practice Lead, Cloud FinOps and Office of the CFO at Google

Wallace Suleiman
Vice President of Multi Cloud Engineering at SAP

Sponsors & Partners

2024 Sponsors

PLATINUM SPONSORS:
• Google Cloud
• Microsoft
• Aws

GOLD SPONSORS:
• Vmware Tanzu Cloud Health
• Deloitte
• Virtasant
• Cloudability
• One
• Spot
• IBM
• Flexera
• Ternary
• Kyndryl
• Prosper Ops
• Vega
• Tangoe
• Cloud Volt
• Cloud Zero
• Oracle Cloud

SILVER SPONSORS:
• Adaptive
• Anodot
• Cast
• Cloud Keeper
• Cloud Native
• Cloud Saver
• Data Dog
• Density
• Finout
• Focus
• Harness
• Greenpixie
• Infracost
• Lucidity
• Magic Orange
• Maryville
• Open text
• Point Five
• Stacklet
• Vertice
• Zesty

BRONZE SPONSORS:
• Anchera
• Cloud Monitor
• Do it
• Granica
• Kubecost
• Loft
• Nops
• Pelanor
• Platform
• Scale Ops
• Sedai
• Surveil
• Xosphere
• Yarken