Don't Miss These 6 Google Cloud FinOps Sessions at Next '23

Google Cloud Next ‘23 kicks off on August 29-31 and is one of our favorite times of the year because it brings together a global community of builders, innovators, developers, learners, and leaders shaping the future of cloud computing. 

Packed with three days of in-person and global digital broadcasts, you’ll find content and experiences to help you face your cloud challenges head on. But with all that Next ‘23 has to offer, you may be wondering where to begin. 

If you want to learn from industry experts and real-world customers on how to achieve financial resilience, optimize your costs on Google Cloud, and create efficient solutions to maximize your value, then look no further than the following six Next ‘23 sessions - a specially curated playlist of sessions from the Google Cloud Consulting FinOps Practice.

Here are the curated breakout sessions to attend at Next ‘23 for the cloud FinOps professionals:

ARC 212: Unlock Cloud value for everyone using Google Cloud FinOps tools

Learn from Cloud Billing product leadership about Google Cloud’s advanced technology investments that are helping customers understand and allocate their cloud costs, establish efficient spend, and ensure no-cost surprises. This session will explore new FinOps data, tooling, and program releases designed to maximize cloud value while informing future FinOps product investments.

OPS204: Control cost and build financial resilience with automation: An SAP story

As customers continue to expand their footprint in the cloud, it becomes ever more challenging to manage the multi-cloud environment, balancing between complexity and cost. Join this session to learn how SAP builds automation across a key set of cloud FinOps capabilities through their centralized multi-cloud governance team. You’ll also learn about the newly launched Cloud Billing Pricing API and how it supercharges FinOps, cost governance and guardrails with automation for SAP, and best practices for making decisions to build versus buy to accelerate FinOps capabilities.

ARC213: Use Looker to empower Cloud financial decisions and FinOps

Learn how CME is implementing advanced cost driver discovery through Google Cloud Billing's detailed export and Looker to visualize insights and allocate costs. Hear how they achieve cost optimization and business process savings while streamlining with existing internal tools.

ARC211: Optimize your Google Cloud costs with data-driven approaches

Want to do more with less? Managing ongoing economic headwinds and financial uncertainty while innovating for business value – all on a tight budget while keeping your team motivated – are huge tasks. Learn directly from real-world enterprises like CME Group, Priceline, and General Mills who have successfully challenged the status quo and saved their companies millions, and embraced adoption of cloud FinOps at scale.

ANA101: Optimize your data and analytics costs

As organizations accelerate digital transformation programs, they’re capturing and analyzing more data than ever before – and it’s only going to increase exponentially going forward. For data leaders, managing these unpredictable data requirements could become expensive. In this session, you’ll learn cost-saving strategies from various customers and how to use the intelligent financial-operation capabilities from Google Cloud to control, plan, forecast, and optimize data analytics and AI costs effectively.

ARC104: Create a FinOps culture change through automation

Learn how Equifax, Palo Alto Networks, and Globo created a FinOps culture to empower engineers and architects to think about cost and value at all stages of the application life cycle. In this session, we dive deeper to understand how FinOps automation plays a critical role to create an outsize impact on business outcomes.

And that’s just the beginning! You'll have the opportunity to learn from thought leaders across the industries, connect with other cloud FinOps professionals, and learn about Google Cloud latest FinOps products announcements and service offerings. If you're a cloud FinOps professional, Google Next '23 is the event for you. 

Register today to save your spot! I hope to see you there!