Cloud Optimization 2025, Amsterdam

This year, there is more pressure than ever on IT teams to do more, with less! Launch more innovative products and deliver more performance, while spending less money on cloud technology and emitting less carbon dioxide!

It's a tough ask, particularly since everyone is now looking for resource-hungry GenAI-enabled systems that promise amazing leaps in productivity but risk blowing a big hole in the IT budget!

Cloud Optimization 2025 addresses these challenges from the FinOps, GreenOps and DevOps/GenAI standpoints. We're putting expert industry thought leaders together with engineering, finance and business people to come up with approaches that work.

Here's the agenda:

17:00 Reception
17:20 Introduction & Welcome
17:30 Training Workshops (choose the workshop that interests you most)

• FinOps - Shifting Left for Better Outcomes
  Bringing FinOps, GreenOps and Engineering teams together at the design stage to create workloads with optimized performance and efficiency at the start.
• GreenOps - Finding Sustainability initiatives that motivate teams and deliver high business impact
  Evaluating optimization initiatives according to both sustainability impact and business (revenue and cost) impact to find those that maximize team motivation and business value
• DevOps - AI-powered personalize automations for Cloud Optimization
  Leveraging AI tools to streamline cloud optimization by automatically detecting waste, notifying the owner for approval and eliminating unnecessary resources - in minutes

18:00 Spotlight talks from industry thought leaders and IT practitioners
- Alessandro Vozza, CNCF Ambassador, Environmental Sustainability
- Shantinath Patil, ABN Amro
- Rajat Mital, Xebia
- Martin van der Linden and Kees C Bakker, Wehkamp
- Roni Karp, wiv.ai
- Kevin Leslie, Greenpixie
19:00 Interactive Group Session
19:15 Refreshments and Informal Networking
20:00 Close

Come along and learn how to meet the challenge of doing more with less in 2025!