Seattle Workshop: FinOps Governance for AI & Cloud Infrastructure

Date: April 30th – 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM PST

Venue: Thompson Seattle -110 Stewart St, Seattle, WA 98101

Overview:

Join us for a unique, MBA-style workshop built around case studies — designed for Cloud Operations and FinOps teams responsible for governing and optimizing usage in the AI era. You’ll work through fictional company scenarios, discuss with your peers, and present your recommendations, covering 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:

• MBA-style case studies you’ll analyze, discuss, and present with your peers
• Structured content and peer discussion with other practitioners
• Hands-on exercises to operationalize governance policies in real cloud and AI environments
• Certificate of completion

Agenda (High level)
02:30 PM – Early Bird Coffee & Networking
03:00 PM – Workshop Begins
06:00 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