FinOps For SaaS
Join us for a practical exploration of how FinOps can help organisations take control of their SaaS spending. As software subscriptions grow across cloud environments, applying FinOps principles can unlock significant cost savings and improve financial accountability.
In this session, we’ll look at how FinOps supports effective SaaS management—enabling teams to track, optimise, and govern software costs across multiple providers. You’ll learn how to identify waste, improve licence utilisation, and align contracts with real usage to maximise value.
What you’ll gain:
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Smarter SaaS management: Learn how FinOps principles can help you monitor, control, and optimise subscription costs while maintaining compliance.
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Cost-saving tactics: Discover how to uncover unused, underutilised, or duplicate licences and reduce unnecessary spend.
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Better contract outcomes: Gain insights into SaaS contract negotiation strategies, including volume discounts and rightsizing licensing models.
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Unified cost governance: Understand how to integrate SaaS financial oversight into broader cloud cost management to get a complete view of IT spend.
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A culture of accountability: Explore practical ways to embed FinOps into your organisation and drive continuous improvement through collaboration and ownership.
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Speakers
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Abhi RoySr. Outbound Product Manager, ServiceNowAbhi Roy is a Senior Outbound Product Manager at ServiceNow, where he drives Go-to-Market for Cloud Cost Management and the Cloud+ strategy. He works at the intersection of FinOps and IT Asset Management (ITAM), helping enterprise organizations expand the scope of FinOps to include SaaS, on-prem, and AI workloads on top of the traditional public cloud hyperscalers. Abhi has partnered with the FinOps Foundation and led multiple thought leadership sessions, including speaking at FinOps X 2025, on modernizing FinOps through automation, hybrid visibility, and cross-functional alignment between ITAM and cloud teams.
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AJ WittITAM Industry Analyst, The ITAM Forum
AJ is an ITAM Industry Analyst at the ITAM Forum. He was previously a Software Asset Manager for Carnival UK, operators of the P&O & Cunard cruise lines. Coming from a background in IT Infrastructure, technical operations, IT Security & Compliance, AJ is well-placed to share his experience of how dynamic SAM teams can build mutually-beneficial stakeholder engagement.
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Gary McAllisterSr. Product Marketing Manager, Flexera
Gary McAllister is a Senior Product Marketing Manager at Flexera, focused on SaaS Management and the convergence of ITAM and FinOps. He has built his career in IT asset management, financial operations, and cloud software, with an emphasis on product marketing, customer outcomes, and helping organisations gain visibility, control, and value from their technology investments.
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Julien RoemersSenior Solution Sales Engineer, USU
Julien is an accomplished Senior Solution Sales Engineer at USU with over 15 years of hands-on experience in optimizing IT costs for large enterprises. His passion and expertise lie in helping IT leaders to understand, manage and reduce their IT costs, whether it’s IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, software or telecom costs. With extensive expertise in consulting, software implementation, operations and sales, he offers tailor-made solutions and is available to customers and prospects as a competent contact person. Julien has a deep understanding of the current challenges in cloud cost management and FinOps.
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Lucas HendricksSenior FinOps Consultant, SHI
Lucas Hendricks is a Senior FinOps Consultant based in Austin, Texas, whose career has traversed web application development, systems administration, ITOps, and DevOps. He’s led professional services engagements across storage, server, network, and high-performance computing deployments, driven technology sales efforts, and now specializes in cloud FinOps consulting. Outside the office, Lucas can be found spiking volleyballs, hunting down the best comfort food, diving into video games, savoring freshly brewed coffee, or perfecting scratch-made baked goods—from artisan breads and cheeses to pizzas, pastas, pastries, and pies.
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Parker NancollasFinOps Practice Lead, North America, SoftwareOne
As both a Practitioner and a Consultant, I’ve worked with companies at various stages of FinOps maturity to build and elevate their practices. I’ve contributed to the FinOps community by teaching certification courses as a certified FinOps Instructor, co-developing the FinOps Certified Professional course, and sharing innovative strategies at industry conferences. Through these experiences I know that achieving significant value from FinOps doesn’t need to take years—it can happen quickly, and being part of that transformation has been incredibly fulfilling.
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Ryan HardcastlePrincipal Consultant ITAM, Noventiq Northern Europe
Seasoned IT Asset & Configuration Manager with a 18+ year track record of delivering innovative solutions across diverse industries. Proven ability to lead teams, optimize technology investments, and mitigate risks. Skilled in hands-on technical problem-solving and data-driven decision-making, delivering high-quality solutions that align with business objectives.
Top skills: IT Asset Management, Software Asset Management, FinOps, Flexera One, Flexera SaaS Manager
