Dallas Workshop: FinOps Governance for AI & Cloud Infrastructure

Date: April 8th – 4:00 PM to 7:00 PM

Venue: The Westin Galleria Dallas Liberty – 13340 Dallas Pkwy, Dallas, TX 75240

Overview:

Join us for a hands-on workshop designed for Cloud Operations and FinOps teams responsible for governing and optimizing usage in the AI era- especially high-cost, fast-moving AI workloads and infrastructure like GPUs, AWS Bedrock, Google Vertex AI, Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Foundry, and more.

What You’ll Learn:

• Core FinOps governance concepts: policies, hierarchical models, and rollout strategies
• How to understand and govern cloud AI infrastructure services and their optimization points
• Real-world approaches to staging enforcement, handling exceptions, and choosing when to notify, remediate, or automate
• AI-specific governance challenges and where traditional FinOps approaches need to evolve

What’s Included:

• Structured content and peer discussion with other practitioners
• Real-world examples and case studies
• Hands-on exercise using Stacklet to operationalize governance policies in real cloud and AI environments
• Certificate of completion

Agenda (High level)
03:30 PM – Early Bird Coffee & Networking
04:00 PM – Workshop Begins
07:00 PM – Workshop Ends (followed by Optional Dinner)

Course Instructor: Frank Contrepois
Frank Contrepois is a FinOps expert and strategist who helps organizations navigate cloud economics with clarity and context. With 20+ years across engineering, leadership, and governance, he focuses on the real-world, human challenges of FinOps – not just the data.”

Limited space available – exclusively for Cloud Platform, Operations, and FinOps teams