FinOps

Presenters Carlos Gonzalez de Villaumbrosia Diya Jolly Source Product School podcast 🚀 The Future of SaaS: From Clicking Buttons to Conversational Insights In the rapidly evolving world of software, we are witnessing a fundamental shift in how humans interact with technology. According to Diya Jolly, the Chief Product and Technology Officer at Xero, the era of clicking buttons all over a dashboard is ending. Instead, SaaS is transforming into a space where users primarily review insights and engage in natural conversations with their data. ...

Presenters Shweta Vohra Joseph Stein Source InfoQ podcast 🚀 Agentic Systems Without Chaos: Building the Next-Gen AI Operating Model If your team has AI running in a proof of concept but struggles to deploy it reliably in production, you are navigating the most critical gap in modern engineering. In this episode of the Next Generation Playbook for AI, Shweta Vohra sits down with industry veteran Joseph Stein to decode how we move from simple chatbots to autonomous agentic systems without descending into architectural chaos. ...

Presenters Kunal Das Hrittik Roy Source ArgoCon Europe 2026 🚀 From Over-provisioned to Optimized: Automating FinOps with GitOps In the world of Kubernetes, over-provisioning isn’t just a mistake—it is a structural reality. We often treat it as a “safety tax” to ensure our applications run 24/7, but that tax is becoming increasingly expensive. At a recent talk, Hrittik Roy (Platform Advocate at Loft Labs and CNCF Ambassador) and Kunal Das shared a provocative truth: your massive cloud bill isn’t an architecture problem; it is an automation problem. ...

Presenters Dan Garfield Revital Barletz Antonela Cukurin Gabriel Quennesson Source ArgoCon Europe 2026 🚀 Beyond the Code: Navigating the Cultural Shift to GitOps In the world of cloud-native technology, we often spend our days obsessing over application sets, API rate limits, and directory structures. But as any seasoned engineer will tell you, the hardest part of digital transformation isn’t the software—it’s the people. Recently, Dan Garfield (VP of Open Source at Octopus Deploy and Argo Maintainer) sat down with Antonela Cukurin (Novo Nordisk) and Gabriel Quennesson (Michelin) to discuss the reality of adopting GitOps at a massive scale. From regulated pharma environments to global manufacturing giants, the consensus is clear: GitOps is a cultural revolution disguised as a technical workflow. ...

Presenters Alexander Matyushentsev Source ArgoCon Europe 2026 🚀 The Evolution of Argo CD: A Year of Scale, Security, and OCI Magic In the fast-paced world of Cloud Native technology, few projects command as much attention and community passion as Argo CD. At a recent gathering, Alexander Matyushentsev, co-founder of Akuity and a founding engineer of the Argo project, took the stage to synthesize a whirlwind year of development. With over a decade of experience in workflows and CD, Alexander highlights that the project’s strength lies not just in its code, but in its massive, vibrant community. 🌐 ...