FinOps Foundation October '22 Summit: Stories and perspectives on how Finance works with FinOps

Huge thanks to our community for joining us for our October '22 Summit. We heard from folks who make up our Finance persona as they delivered their perspectives on FinOps. Presenters from organizations like J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. and Koch Industries explained how FinOps and Finance teams work together to advance commitments, forecast, and chargeback cloud spend.

We were joined by Andrew Feig and Beth Marki, and they shared their FinOps journey at J.P. Morgan Chase & Co..

Kara Mosley of Koch Industries shared her perspective as an IT Finance Manager on how Finance supports centralizing reservations and the journey of moving FinOps from Infrastructure to Finance to Business.

Pedro Veloso from OLX Group shared insights on how his finance team cooperates with IT and Ops teams on financial optimization, how they orchestrate unit economics KPIs, ways they improve the use of cloud computing services, and provide support when negotiating vendor contracts to bridge the gap between IT and Finance.

We also heard from Brian Adler from Flexera who discussed the intersection of FinOps and IT Asset Management (ITAM).

From our Working Groups, we got a sneak peek at the new Cloud Forecasting Playbook by WG leader Alison McIntyre of Lloyds Bank, and some updates on the Social Aspects of FinOps WG by Anthony (TJ) Johnson of Box.

00:00 Introduction
06:35 Who's part of the Finance persona in FinOps?
20:07 J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. FinOps Certification Milestone & Enterprise Highlight
40:10 Brian Adler of Flexera: The Intersection of FinOps and ITAM
49:56 Kara Mosley of Koch Industries: Centralizing - More Than Optimizing CUDs
01:04:53 Community Highlights
01:08:45 Pedro Veloso, OLX Group: Bridging the Gap Between Finance and Tech
01:27:58 Cloud Forecasting completes their Working Group sprint!
01:32:27 General Working Group Statuses and Updates

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