FinOps for Data Clouds: FinOps Foundation Virtual Summit

August 14, 2025 @ 8:00 am, America/Los Angeles (PDT)

FinOps for Data Clouds: As organizations increasingly adopt data cloud platforms (Snowflake, Databricks, Microsoft Fabric, Google BigQuery, AWS Redshift, etc) to power data analytics and AI workloads they are faced with challenges – new pricing models, a lack of visibility, and optimization complexities – that require going beyond traditional IaaS/SaaS FinOps practices.

On August 14 at 8am PT, we’ll dive into FinOps for Data Clouds and cover:

  • Community updates: FinOps X Days (Amsterdam, Sao Paulo, etc), FinOps X Breakout Recordings and new Members intros
  • Working Group Outputs: FinOps for Data Clouds (FinOps Foundation)
  • Strategies for applying FinOps to Data Clouds at Glencore (FTSE 100) by Sudama Prasad (Glencore)
  • Driving Efficiency in the AI Data Cloud: Simar Arora and Doug Gallagher (Snowflake)
  • New AI training: FinOps Certified: FinOps for AI
  • FinOps Enabled Executive Decisions (FEED) and FinOps eXec in person forums
  • FOCUS: What’s coming in 1.3 and latest on 1.2 support
  • Bringing FinOps principles to data platforms by mapping familiar practices to new spend models and usage patterns: Daniele Packard (Finout)
  • 25 mins of Q/A & networking at the end

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