presented by Kion & CloudZero
FinOps Weekly
Summit 2026
October 20 & 21, 2026
Stop Chasing Cloud Costs.
Start Driving Business Value.
The FinOps Weekly Summit 2026 is the one online event this year designed to give you the actionable playbooks you need to transform your FinOps practice. Move from reactive fire-fighting to strategic leadership by learning directly from the world’s top experts on unit economics, automation, and governance.
Don’t get left behind. This is where the future of FinOps is decided.
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Agenda
Day 1 - 23rd October
Keynote: Next Steps in FinOps
Victor Garcia
15:00
FinOps for AI
Gil Rozen
15:15
Cloud Rate Optimisation: Mastering Enterprise and Commitment Discounts
Donal Bourke
16:00
The Challenges of AI Costs: Bringing FinOps Discipline to LLMs and Beyond
Alon Shvo
16:20
A practical guide to shifting left in FinOps
Erik Norman
16:40
FinOps for Kubernetes: Bridging the Gap Between Costs and Code
Kim
17:00
Cloud Migration vs Cloud Exit Economics: Real-World ROI and Financial Models
Oleksiy (Alex) Pototskyy
17:40
From Billing Chaos to Clarity: Why FOCUS™ Matters for FinOps
Andrew Peter
18:00
FinOps for Management (places you didn't think to look)
Assaf Flatto
18:20
EKS Cost Optimization: Deciding Between EC2 and Fargate
Walid Battou
18:35
Small Footprint, Mighty Impact: FinOps Moves That Matter Early
Peter Crenshaw
19:00
How to Negotiate your Cloud Contract
Corey Quinn
19:20
FinOps 2.0 Panel: Evolving from Cost Management to Business Impact
Shannon Eldridge-Kuehn, Frank Contrepois, Dieter Matzion
19:45
Reserved for Resilience: FinOps Strategies for Capacity Assurance
Goutham Bandapati
20:30
Day 2 - 24th October
Keynote: FinOps for Everyone
Victor García
15:00
FinOps 3.0: Cost Intelligence for the AI Era
Amit Kinha
15:15
Maximizing Cost Efficiency of generative AI workloads
Yuriy Prykhodko
15:35
Opex Unmasked: How Manufacturing Plants Expose FinOps Blind Spots
Anderson Oliveira
16:00
Beyond the Bill: Building a Collaborative FinOps Culture for Cloud Excellence
Deepika Prabhakara | Hayley Kozak
16:20
AI Agents & MCP in Cloud Financial Management and CloudOps: Beyond the Hype
Jean Latiere | Thiago Mozart
16:40
From Single to Triple Pane of Glass: Why You Need More Panes
Larry Advey
17:00
How to save Millions on Cloud Spend
Sam Hogarth
17:45
Unlocking the secrets of FinOps Culture Change
Alison McIntyre | Dan Watson
18:05
FinOps is all Agentic Now
David Linthicum
18:30
How Early Budget Discipline Helps Avoid Runaway Spend
Venkat Krishnaiah
18:55
Focus Panel
Larry Advey | Andrew "Q" Quigley | Alexandra McCoy | Michael Flanakin
19:10
FinOps Hub 2.0 on GCP and AI-Driven Cost Forecasting + The AI FinOps Revolution:
Srinivasa Atta & Eric Lam
19:40
The Three phase framework for FinOps automation
Lee Wagner
20:20
Organizing Commitee
Damian Munafo
Founder
SmartClouds
Ariel Munafo
Founder
Globaltech
Victor Garcia
Founder
FinOps Weekly
Stephany Amaro
Community & Event Manager
SmartClouds
Carlos Villaseñor
Media Manager
SmartClouds
When is it happening?
Madrid
3:00 pm – 9:00 pm
London
2:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Jerusalem
4:00 pm – 10:00 pm
NY
9:00 am – 3:00 pm
Los Angeles
6:00 am – 12:00 pm