Free Tech Talks: Building a Bridge Between ITAM and FinOps
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About this event
As technology and customer expectations continue to evolve, understanding how ITAM and FinOps can best collaborate and support each other can be the key to unlocking business success.
For most organisations across the globe, hybrid infrastructure that is both on-premises and in the cloud is the way forward. Both areas have their own specialisations, quirks, and growth paths – ensuring you are combining all the available resources, knowledge, and skills within your organisation is how you can realise the maximum savings, growth, and advancement.
Join ITAM Review, Snow Software and the FinOps Foundation in this free Tech Talk series of 3 x 20 sessions as we bring you insights from FinOps practitioners, data on focus areas, and a breakdown of key topics such as Unit Economics, sustainability, and stakeholder engagement.
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Webinar Part 1: When ITAM met FinOps
Our speakers discuss how ITAM and FinOps can support each other to grow and succeed as inter-dependent business units. They cover topics including governance, cloud marketplaces, BYOL, defining ROI on cloud migration projects, managing vendor relationships as a team, and shared goals.
Release date: Thursday 20th October 2022, 11am local time
Webinar Part 2: ITAM + FinOps: Greater than the sum of their parts
ITAM & FinOps share many goals and, in this session, our speakers look at how joint efforts can lead to greater success across areas such as forecasting, container management, and breaking down silos. They also consider how FinOps brings new opportunities through speed, scale, and specialization.
Release date: Thursday 27th October 2022, 11am local time
Webinar Part 3: Look who’s talking Unit Economics
In this session our speakers discuss Unit Economics: what is it and why does it matter to ITAM, to FinOps, and to the wider business? While it may be new or unfamiliar terminology, they consider whether ITAM is already doing it without knowing it and how to elevate the practice alongside FinOps?
Release date: Thursday 3rd November 2022, 11am local time
Who should attend
- SAM & ITAM professionals
- CIOs
- ITSM professionals
- Finance professionals
- Vendor management professionals
Agenda
Webinar Part 1: When ITAM met FinOps
Our speakers discuss how ITAM and FinOps can support each other to grow and succeed as inter-dependent business units. They cover topics including governance, cloud marketplaces, BYOL, defining ROI on cloud migration projects, managing vendor relationships as a team, and shared goals.
Webinar Part 2: ITAM + FinOps: Greater than the sum of their parts
ITAM & FinOps share many goals and, in this session, our speakers look at how joint efforts can lead to greater success across areas such as forecasting, container management, and breaking down silos. They also consider how FinOps brings new opportunities through speed, scale, and specialization.
Webinar Part 3: Look who’s talking Unit Economics
In this session our speakers discuss Unit Economics: what is it and why does it matter to ITAM, to FinOps, and to the wider business? While it may be new or unfamiliar terminology, they consider whether ITAM is already doing it without knowing it and how to elevate the practice alongside FinOps?
Speakers
Rich Gibbons, ITAM Services Director, The ITAM Review
Rich has almost 15 years’ experience in the world of IT and software licensing, having been both a software sales manager for a VAR and a Microsoft licensing endorsed trainer.
A Northerner renowned for his shirts, Rich is a fan of most films, Hip-Hop, travel, football in general (and specifically MUFC), Marvel and reading as many books as possible. Finding ways to combine these with software licensing is always fun.
Colin Jack, Global Solutions Architect – Cloud Management & FinOps Team Lead, Snow Software
I joined Snow Software through the acquisition of Embotics Corporation which was a cloud automation company. Over 25 years experience in IT ranging from Administrator, Architect, IT Manager and FinOps leader.
Ashley Hromatko, Director of Operations, FinOps Foundation
Ashley Hromatko is the Director of Operations at the FinOps Foundation. She leads the Enterprise Member Program, which works with organizations to build, strengthen and accelerate large-scale Enterprise adoption of FinOps Practices. Ashley was a charter foundation member and a volunteer that served on the original Governing Board and Technical Advisory Council. Before joining the Foundation, Ashley built and led a global FinOps practice for a large education company, Pearson. She is passionate about accelerating the adoption, advancing capability maturity, and growing talent around FinOps.
Why you should attend
- Cost – This Webinar is FREE.
- Convenience -You can participate in the webinar from a location of your choosing. No travelling/ travel costs involved.
- Interaction – You have the opportunity to communicate and ask questions with the presenter and peers.
Testimonials and reviews
“Good info, great speakers! I’ll be sharing the recording with my colleagues on our infrastructure team. These sessions are always engaging. I started watching them sessions for the ITAM knowledge, ideas, growth, value; but I find that I am now also watching to get speaker and interacting with presenters tips from Rich! Amazing job, love it. Thanks for hosting these. Can’t wait for Wisdom!!”
“This was excellent ! I am going to go back and re-watch OnDemand. Love all segments presented.”
“I found the information informative and am looking forward to being able to reference it on demand. In particular the information about where in organizations cloud SW was being managed and I agree that ITAM can (and should) provide thought leadership in that space.”
‘Really good & interactive’
‘Great presentation! Thanks so much for putting these together.’
‘Thanks this is well-aimed and helped me to think about next steps I should be taking’.
‘The session was very informative with excellent examples’
“I got some information at the webinar today that is going to assist me in a negotiation this afternoon”