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Cloud optimization has matured. Most organizations have captured the big wins — reserved instances, idle compute, basic rightsizing. But the next wave of cloud spend is already here, and it’s moving faster than traditional approaches can keep up with.
AI infrastructure is scaling across every layer of the cloud, GPUs, foundation models, training pipelines, inference endpoints, bringing new cost pressures and governance challenges that no established playbook covers yet. As the easy savings disappear, proactive policy and governance become the essential foundation for continuously capturing and preventing waste at scale.
The teams getting ahead are discovering, fixing, and preventing issues before they compound, translating leadership intent into tactical cloud policies, extending governance frameworks into AI workloads, and using automation to act at a speed and consistency no manual workflow can match. Continuous optimization isn’t a project. It’s a practice.
And the horizon is excellent possible before.
This virtual summit brings together FinOps practitioners, cloud and platform engineers, and industry thought leaders to share what proactive, continuous optimization and governance actually looks like in practice, across core cloud infrastructure and the AI workloads being built on top of it right now.
Practical. Forward-looking. Grounded in what real teams are doing today.

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Time (EST)
11:00 AM | Welcome: Five Numbers That Don‘t Lie About Cloud & AI in 2026 | Victor García and
Umair Khan
11:10 AM | The Chain of Intent: Top–Down FinOps in an AI–Driven Cloud | Frank Contrepois
11:25 AM | Cloud & AI Governance: Reality Check and the Road Ahead | Brent Eubanks (Wayfair), Lindbergh Matillano (Avalara), Victoria Levy (SailPoint).
12:00 PM | GPUs Don‘t Drift, They Burn: Optimization in Practice | Speaker to be announced
12:15 PM | Not All AI Is Equal: Governing Foundation and Custom Models in the Cloud | Speaker
to be announced
12:30 PM | From Rules to Reasoning: The Agentic Future of FinOps Governance | Adam Richter (AWS) and Sonny Shi
12:50 PM | Closing Remarks | Victor García
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11:00 am – 01:00 pm
Madrid
05:00 pm – 07:00 pm
London
04:00 pm – 06:00 pm
Jerusalem
06:00 pm – 08:00 pm
Los Angeles
08:00 am – 10:00 am
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