Atlanta FinOps Speaker Event

"Why your AWS bill is still growing like the national debt" - Caleb Hurd

Caleb Hurd is a FinOps Manager at a Tech Company and the founder and principal consultant at CostOps.cloud, where he helps companies wring waste out of their cloud bills. He came to FinOps the long way around — starting as a software developer and moving through DevOps and security engineering before building and leading Chick-fil-A's first SRE team and later helping run Citrix Cloud. That engineering lineage shapes his take on FinOps: the best cost decisions are made by the people closest to the code.

"Three AI Use Cases Making Headlines: A Board-Level View" - Sundeep Goel, Mavvrik.AI, CEO & Co-Founder

Tokens, inference, and agent costs. A year ago, these never came up in board meetings. Now they're showing up in investor calls and exec reviews everywhere.

We'll dive into three of the most common discussion topics: how AI is quietly eroding pricing and margin before anyone notices, why code assist is where enterprises first feel real bill shock, and what boards and investors actually want to see when they ask about unified AI spend visibility.

We'll share what we're seeing in the field and open it up for discussion, so you leave with a framework for getting ahead of these conversations before your CFO, board, or manager ask the question first.

Sundeep Goel is the Co-Founder and CEO of Mavvrik, helping organizations govern AI and infrastructure costs and connect those investments to business outcomes. He has guided teams at Adthena, Procore, NetSuite, Accenture, Oracle, and IBM through major growth stages and successful exits, giving him firsthand insight into how technology choices shape financial performance. In his spare time, Goel is an avid traveler who enjoys tennis, golf, and lake time in Austin.

Agenda

​6:00 – 6:20 PM — Networking and Dinner

​6:20 – 6:25 PM — Welcome and Community Updates

6:25 – 6:40 PM — BlueAlly Overview: Hear from a premier Atlanta based IT services and solutions provider on how they are helping clients navigate AI.

​6:40 – 7:00 PM — "Why your AWS bill is still growing like the national debt" - Caleb Hurd, FinOps Manager, Tech Company

​7:00 – 7:30 PM — Three AI Use Cases Making Headlines: A Board-Level View, Sundeep Goel, Mavvrik.AI, CEO & Co-Founder

​7:30 – 8:00 PM — Networking and Wrap-up

Special thanks to this month's event sponsors: Blue Ally Technologies, and Mavvrik.AI

We look forward to seeing you there!

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Host or Publisher Muthuraman Annamalai