FinOps Fridays

Hosted by Hunter Willis, Senior Product Marketing Manager at Apptio, an IBM Company, FinOps Fridays is a video series covering a range of topics across the journey to cloud, from pre-migration to cloud-native. It dives into the technical and cultural challenges that organizations face on their unique journeys as they build their financial discipline required for cloud.

Navigating FinOps Maturity in the Age of AI

Hear how FinOps practices are evolving and meeting the demands of AI-first organizations.

11-21
21:21

Building Cost Governance for AI Workloads

Learn how FinOps practices are evolving to meet the demands of AI-first organizations.

10-31
20:23

Cross-Functional Strategies for Successful FinOps Adoption

FinOps expert Idaliz Baez shares tips to align strategy, drive team buy-in, integrate tools, and drive value with unit economics.

08-08
30:20

Optimizing for Cost Efficiency and Carbon Reduction

Learn how to optimize cloud costs and reduce carbon footprint through FinOps practices.

05-23
29:55

Operationalizing FinOps for Sustained ROI

Learn how to apply enterprise-level best practices, take your strategy beyond tooling, and leverage the FinOps Framework to mature your program.

04-25
35:13

Change Management Strategies for Navigating FinOps Maturity

Discover change management strategies that fuel FinOps adoption and maturity — from securing buy-in at every level to setting OKRs to measure success.

03-21
31:17

Breaking Down Data Silos with FOCUS

Learn how FOCUS™ (FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification) helps standardize billing data, remove silos, and synthesize actionable insights.

01-24
37:09

Transparency, Accountability, and Efficiency

Expert guidance on increasing cost transparency, accountability, and efficiency to level up your FinOps practice.

12-06
47:06

Building Alignment Across FinOps Stakeholders

Discover how FinOps can unite teams across your organization with a shared interest in cloud cost savings and data transparency.

11-22
21:56

Managing Cost Effective Cloud Migrations

Learn about cloud migration and cloud cost optimization pitfalls, workarounds, and best practices to help you maximize value from the get-go.

08-30
42:05

Using Data to Build Credibility for FinOps

Explore strategies for overcoming hurdles for buy-in, the role data plays in building credibility, and tips for applying FinOps principles across organization-wide cost centers.

07-26
56:30

Commitments, Allocation and Gamification

Hear best practices for commitment spend strategies with guidance on gamifying processes, cost allocation, and unit economics.

06-21
42:15

Contextual Collaboration and FinOps

Are you getting the full picture in your FinOps conversations?

05-10
55:37

FinOps: The Collaborative Journey

Recommendations for accelerating your FinOps journey from a veteran with over 13 years in cloud and operations

03-22
38:03

FinOps and Sustainability - Part 2

In this episode of FinOps Fridays, we continue to explore the intriguing relationship between FinOps and Sustainability.

12-01
27:47

FinOps and Sustainability - Part 1

We kick off an exciting conversation about the dynamic partnership between FinOps and Sustainability, focusing on what this means in the realm of IT.

11-17
27:45

FinOps the Engineering Way Part 2

Nathan Besh and Dvir Mizrahi explore roadblocks and how to overcome them in your FinOps journey

04-21
36:37

FinOps the Engineering Way Part 1

Nathan Besh and Dvir Mizrahi explore engineering-driven FinOps adoption in this FinOps Fridays episode

04-20
38:13

Forecasting Part 2

With the whats and whys of forecasting covered in the first part, Dieter Matzion and Nathan Besh pick up the pace to get a level deeper into the topic and look at the “Hows” in the second part of episode 11 of FinOps Fridays.

02-24
27:36

Forecasting Part 1

The next episode of FinOps Fridays is all about forecasting.

02-17
33:11

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