FinOps X
June 2026 · Selected Speaker at FinOps X, San Diego
Selected to speak at FinOps X 2026 on building a semantic layer for FOCUS.
I teach and present where operating detail matters: practitioner training, internal engineering conferences, public panels, and webinars that connect systems thinking to practical execution.
Recent Public Sessions
ITAM Forum
January 22, 2026 · ITAM Forum Online Summit: FinOps
Presented in the online FinOps summit focused on operating practice and cost discipline.
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Panel
November 14, 2025 · Executive Roundtable on AI Strategy and Business Impact
Invited panelist in Salt Lake City discussing AI strategy, executive questions, and business impact.
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ITAM Forum
November 6, 2025 · LISA Training at ITAM Forum Wisdom Unplugged
Taught LISA training in Newbury, UK with Chris Hayes and Ron Brill.
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Awards
November 7, 2025 · ITAM Excellence Awards Session at Wisdom Unplugged UK
Participated in the ITAM Excellence Awards session during the Wisdom Unplugged UK event week.
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FinOps X
June 3, 2025 · FinOps X Chalk Talk on Enabling and Adopting FOCUS
At Larry Advey's request, I joined the nearly two-hour chalk talk to help lead the session and support the discussion, even though I was not formally credited in the agenda listing.
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Sedai
October 9, 2024 · Sedai Forum: Kubernetes Development Environments at Bill.com
Presented on Kubernetes development environments and Bill.com's team spaces approach.
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ISC2
April 24, 2024 · ISC2 Meetup on Security and DevOps Collaboration
Spoke on how security teams and DevOps engineers can work together more effectively.
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November 14, 2025 · Executive Roundtable Post
October 22, 2025 · Wisdom Unplugged UK LISA Training Post
November 7, 2025 · ITAM Excellence Awards Session Post
FinOps X 2026 Speaker Media
This two-minute video was part of the FinOps X 2026 speaker application process for the semantic-layer-for-FOCUS session.
Teaching
NYIT
November 2025 · FinOps Practitioner Course at New York Institute of Technology
Co-taught the course with Chairman Ron Brill as part of NYIT experiential programming.
BYU
January 2025 · FinOps Practitioner Course at Brigham Young University
Taught the FinOps Practitioner course in a university setting with practitioner-oriented delivery.
November 2025 · NYIT FinOps Practitioner Course
January 2025 · BYU FinOps Practitioner Course
Internal Conferences and Webinars
- 2021 NICE internal tech conferences: talks on Jenkins coded pipelines and graph theory with Neo4j.
- 2021 NICE hackathon leadership: led a cloud graph-mapping project that won its category.
- September 16, 2025: Anglepoint webinar on FinOps and ServiceNow cloud operations. LinkedIn post
- May 20, 2025: Anglepoint webinar on FinOps, ITAM, and SaaS optimization. LinkedIn post
- March 26, 2025: Anglepoint webinar on AI spend and cloud cost management. LinkedIn post
- October 21, 2024: Anglepoint webinar on cloud cost management operating practice. LinkedIn post