As organizations increasingly adopt modern data cloud platforms to power data analytics and AI workloads, they are faced with challenges – new pricing models, a lack of visibility, and optimization complexities – that traditional IaaS/SaaS FinOps practices can’t handle. On August 14 at 8am PT, we’ll dive into FinOps for Data Clouds and cover:
- Community updates: FinOps X Days, FinOps X Recordings
- Introduction to Foundation’s new India FinOps Lead
- New training: FinOps Certified: FinOps for AI
- Introduction to FinOps for Data Clouds with Dean Oliver (FinOps Foundation)
- FinOps Enabled Executive Decisions and introducing FinOps eXec Forums
- Sneak peek into FOCUS 1.3
- Simar Arora (Snowflake) sharing how to drive efficiency in the AI data cloud
- Daniele Packard (Finout) on bringing FinOps principles to data platforms by mapping familiar practices to new spend models and usage patterns.
- 25 mins of Q/A & networking at the end