FinOps Weekly presents
Cloud Usage Optimization & Governance Summit
May 7th, 2025 | 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM EST
powered by Stacklet
Reducing waste and optimizing workloads is the #1 current priority for FinOps teams, according to the latest State of FinOps Report from the FinOps Foundation. The report also confirms a significant shift in focus: policy and governance at scale has emerged as the top priority for the next 12 months among Cloud and FinOps teams.
This evolution makes sense. While organizations have made strides in tackling cloud waste, many now recognize that without scalable policy and governance, those savings don’t stick.
The Cloud Usage Optimization & Governance Summit, presented by FinOps Weekly and powered by Stacklet, will explore this shift in depth—offering practical insights, proven best practices, real-world policy examples, and strategies for cross-functional collaboration between FinOps, engineering, and beyond.
Confirmed Speakers
Lindbergh Matillano
Director @ Avalara | Cloud Economist | FinOps Leader
Mandy Pearce
Engineer, Cloud Automation @ Verint | FinOps Certified
Van Wolfe
VP, Platform Engineering REPAY – Realtime Electronic Payments
Community Speakers
To Be Confirmed
Erik Norman
Alfonso San Miguel
Nilofar
Agenda / Tracks
11:00 AM – Welcome and Opening Remarks
11:05 AM – Keynote: Details Coming Soon
11:20 AM – Million-Dollar FinOps Policies: Real-World Examples That Drive Impact | Victor García & Lindbergh Matillano
11:40 AM – Preventing Waste by Design: Shift-Left and Runtime FinOps Governance | Van Wolfe
11:55 AM – Break
12:05 PM – Lightning Talk: Mean Time to Saving (MTTS): The Metric That Speeds Up Your Savings | Lindbergh Matillano
12:15 PM – Panel: Real-World FinOps Policy & Governance at Scale | Mandy Pearce, Bindu Sharma & Kapil Thangavelu
12:45 PM – Usage Optimization and Governance: An Engineer’s Perspective
1:05 PM – Collaborating for Cloud Control: How FinOps and Security Align on Governance
1:20 PM – The Art of the Possible: How AI Could Transform FinOps Policy, Governance, and Optimization | Sonny Shi, Suresh Veeragoni
1:35 PM – Sponsored Session: Stacklet | Sonny Shi
1:50 PM – Closing Remarks
When is it happening?
Madrid
05:00 pm – 08:00 pm
London
04:00 pm – 08:00 pm
Jerusalem
06:00 pm – 09:00 pm
Los Angeles
08:00 am – 11:00 am