Leveraging FinOps for AI

Boards are demanding 10% cost cuts. CFOs are calling for emergency budget freezes. Cloud spend keeps ballooning—without a clear ROI story. And 55% of business leaders still don’t have the information they need to make smart technology investment decisions.

If that sounds familiar, you’re not alone.

Worldwide IT spend is projected to reach $6.15 trillion in 2026—and as much as $923 billion of that will be wasted. The issue isn’t the technology itself. It’s the disconnect between what IT spends, what it delivers, and what the business actually values.

In this on-demand session, Wayne Kaplan—IBM’s Americas Sales Leader for Technology Business Management, IT Financial Management, IT Asset Management, and Strategic Portfolio Management—walks through how leading organizations are closing that gap using the TBM (Technology Business Management) framework.

You’ll learn how companies like IBM and Wells Fargo have used TBM and ITFM to drive 8–10% annual efficiency gains, eliminate $115M in redundant software costs, and reduce application TCO by 25%—all while accelerating investments in cloud and AI.

Whether you’re a CIO working to shift the perception of IT from cost center to value driver, a CFO pushing for transparency, or an IT finance leader tired of rebuilding fragile Excel models every quarter, this session provides a practical framework to connect every dollar of technology spend to measurable business outcomes.

This isn’t a vendor pitch—it’s a C-suite conversation about how to lead.

🎯 What You’ll Learn

• Why the traditional model is broken—and how spreadsheets and BI dashboards may be costing more than they save
• How TBM establishes a shared language across Technology, Finance, and Business teams—eliminating the blame game
• The difference between FinOps and ITFM—and why both are essential to understanding the true cost of IT
• How to calculate true IT service TCO and unit economics—and confidently answer, “What are we actually getting for what we’re spending?”
• Real-world results: how IBM reduced $115M in software costs and achieved ~9% cost reduction across a $2.5B IT portfolio
• A practical Crawl / Walk / Run roadmap to get started and avoid common implementation pitfalls

👥 Who Should Watch

This session is built for senior technology and finance leaders, including:

• CIOs and CTOs balancing cost pressure with transformation goals
• CFOs and Finance Leaders seeking real visibility into technology ROI
• VP / Directors of IT Finance responsible for planning and forecasting
• Infrastructure, Cloud, and Operations leaders managing rising costs
• IT Strategy and Planning leaders building the case for TBM or ITFM

If you’ve ever been asked, “Can you cut 10% of your IT budget by next quarter?”—and didn’t have a clear, data-backed answer—this webinar is worth your time.

Questions? email us at 321gangleads@sodiuswillert.com.