Episode 47 Benjamin van der Maas: Using AI to Scale FinOps

Benjamin van der Maas discusses how his team is using AI to scale their FinOps efforts. Topics covered include the necessary groundwork for effective AI implementation, the importance of domain expertise, and how AI can streamline reporting and analysis. The conversation also touches on AI's role in sustainability and the potential challenges of relying on large language models (LLMs).

• Automating Anomaly Investigation with AI - YouTube
• FinOps Certified: FinOps for AI
• Benjamin van der Maas | LinkedIn

Episode 46 Brad Payne: Integrating FinOps and Business Strategy

Brad Payne, who leads the FinOps team at PointClickCare, shares how his team tackled cloud cost challenges not by jumping straight into optimization — but by focusing first on allocation and unit economics. That shift helped them uncover how cloud costs connected to specific products, customers, and revenue — sparking deeper collaboration with finance, pricing and packaging, and product teams. This resulted in FinOps moving beyond infrastructure to influence real business decisions.

• FinOps Certified: FinOps for AI
• Brad Payne | LinkedIn

Episode 45 Kim Wier & Ron Tatro - Revisiting FinOps as Product, 3 Years Later

Kim Wier & Ron Tatro return to share how their FinOps products have evolved over the last 3 years at Target. They share success and challenges they have had with forecasting both public and private clouds, the impact the introduction of AI has had, and how they provide cost, stability and tech debt information to over 5,000 developers. And they make it all sound approachable!

• FinOps as a Product - Kim Wier & Ron Tatro - YouTube
• Ron Tatro | LinkedIn
• Kim Wier | LinkedIn