Finops Excellence Summit 2026

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From Blind Spot to Bottom Line: The State of AI FinOps in 2026

speakers

J.R. Storment

Founder & Executive Director

Jyoti Bansal

CEO

Follow the Token: Trace AI Costs to Business Outcomes

speakers

Jet Semrick

Field Engineer

Swapna Samuel

MD & Head, FinOps & Value Management

Zach Johnson

Head of FinOps and Cloud Platforms for the Splunk business unit at Cisco

Patrick Brogan

Founder & Executive Director

Governed by Design: Building the FinOps Operating Model AI Spend Demands

speakers

Linde-Marie Ferreira

Head of FinOps

Mark Cullen

Head of Cloud FinOps

Will Hargreaves

VP of FinOps/Strategy

Adam Westgarth

FinOps Advisory Director

Fix the Foundation Before AI Spend Scales

speakers

Sherri Wooldridge

Manager, FinOps

Paul Kennedy

Technical Lead

Eric Santelices

Vice President of Engineering

Kelsey Rosen

Senior Product Marketing Manager

Left of the Bill: When Cost Guardrails Move Into the Pipeline

speakers

Mark-David McLaughlin, Ph.D.

Head of Security Architecture and Engineering

Sagar Veerla

Director of Software Engineering

Sanjay Nagaraj

SVP Engineering

What Every Token Is Really Buying You: From Smaller Bills to a Faster Yes

speakers

Eric Lam

Head of Cloud FinOps

Jeff Merlin

SVP, Finance