AITP Chicago Meeting - Applying FinOps best practices to Modern IT.

You're Invited to an Informational presentation and discussion.

Host: Alden Hutchison, Principal, Cyber Risk & Data Protection, RSM US LLP

Topic: Applying FinOps best practices to foster a cost-conscious culture in modern IT.

Summary

In today’s AI-first and Cloud/SaaS-driven enterprises, organizations often struggle to balance speed with financial accountability. They frequently lack visibility, ownership, and cultural alignment around costs. In this session, Shyam Kumar, CEO of CloudNuro and FinOps Certified Practitioner, shares how FinOps best practices help build a cost-conscious culture across modern IT. Drawing from real-world experiences across enterprises, we will discuss how to operationalize cost transparency, establish shared accountability across engineering, finance, and business teams, and build a sustainable culture of cost awareness.

Attendees will gain practical insights into implementing FinOps frameworks, leveraging data to drive behavior change, and aligning technology investments with measurable business outcomes.

By attending this session, you will leave with concrete, actionable strategies to implement FinOps best practices and successfully build a cost-conscious culture in your organization.

Specifically, you will:

• Master practical methods to operationalize cost transparency across your cloud, SaaS, and AI infrastructure, giving you and your teams clear, real-time visibility into spending.
• Establish shared accountability frameworks that align engineering, finance, and business teams so cost management becomes a shared responsibility rather than a point of friction.
• Drive sustainable behavior change by leveraging data and proven techniques that shift organizational mindset from “speed at all costs” to intelligent, financially disciplined decision-making.
• Learn how to align technology investments directly with measurable business outcomes, ensuring every dollar spent on cloud, AI, and modern IT delivers clear value.
• Apply real-world lessons from enterprises that have successfully adopted FinOps, including pitfalls to avoid and winning tactics that deliver results even in fast-moving environments.

You will walk away equipped with immediately usable insights, frameworks, and approaches that help your organization balance innovation speed with financial accountability—reducing waste, improving efficiency, and fostering a culture where cost consciousness becomes a natural part of how modern IT operates.

This is a high-impact, practitioner-led session designed for professionals who want more than theory—they want tangible ways to drive meaningful change in their organizations.

Presenter:  Shyam Kumar, CEO, CloudNuro Corp | https://www.cloudnuro.ai

Shyam Kumar is the Co-Founder and CEO of CloudNuro Corp, a Chicago-based AI-driven Unified FinOps platform that helps organizations gain visibility, governance, and accountability across cloud, SaaS, and AI spending. A recognized technology leader and member of the Forbes Business Development Council, Shyam founded CloudNuro to help enterprises and public-sector agencies optimize technology investments through AI and automation. He works closely with enterprise customers to apply FinOps best practices that improve transparency, strengthen security and compliance, and ensure technology delivers measurable value. CloudNuro was the winner of the Chicago Innovation Awards 2025. Shyam is a FinOps-certified professional and industry thought leader.

Presenter: Khan Tran

Khan Tran is the CTP-Advisory at CloudNuro. He is a seasoned executive with over 30 years of experience leading IT and engineering organizations across diverse sectors. Renowned as a transformative leader, he has spearheaded mission-critical initiatives at Fortune 100 companies and mid-market private-equity-backed enterprises. His expertise spans product innovation, technology start-ups, new product introduction, M&A integration and divestiture, organizational transformation, and go-to-market strategies for AI products. Khan brings FinOps expertise to customers and partners.

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Water, Soft Drinks and Lite Refreshments will be Served

Registration will close 2 days in advance of the event.  Bring an ID for building security - The elevator will go to floor 33 reception, then you'll walk up the stairs to floor 34

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