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Join our TBM Council Strategy Communities to solve industry challenges, share best practices, and access exclusive resources like our document library and curated events. Each community is powered by a bi-weekly workgroup of 4–10 professionals and guided by expert Chairs and Executive Sponsors, ensuring all collaborative content and publications remain strategically aligned with high-level TBM priorities. Explore our groups and join below.

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TBM Adoption Strategy Community

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Banking Strategy Community

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CFO of IT Strategy Community

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Cloud and Infrastructure Community

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Data for TBM Strategy Community

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Government Strategy Community

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Insurance Strategy Community

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TBM Maturity Strategy Community

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SPM & Agile Strategy Community

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Virtual Community Engagement

Our Communitiy workgroups host monthly online events for the broader TBM Community. Make sure to learn about them in our “events” section. 

TBM Community Open Forums are monthly, member-driven sessions designed by the community, for the community. Each session features in-depth “How-to” presentations that break down complex TBM topics into actionable steps, alongside insightful panels featuring seasoned TBM professionals. Whether you are looking to refine your cost models or hear how industry leaders are navigating digital labor, these forums provide the technical depth and professional perspective needed to elevate your TBM practice.

TBM Virtual “Coffee Chats” are casual, member-led meetups designed to be a relaxed way to hang out, swap ideas, and connect with the TBM community. These are not webinars, there are no slides and no demos, just real conversations about the topics that matter most. Grab your favorite brew, settle in, and get ready to spark meaningful discussions and learn from the collective experience of your peers.

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Currently Active Special Interest Groups

Special Interest Groups (SIGs) are less formal than Strategy Communities, designed to foster conversation and knowledge sharing through virtual communities in TBM Connect. Each SIG is led by a dedicated professional passionate about the subject matter and driven to organically grow the group’s membership through informal virtual meet-ups and cohort meetings.

As each SIG develops, the Council may convert them into Strategy Communities.

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TBM Executive Enablement

The TBM Executive Enablement Special Interest Group advances how TBM is used by senior leaders to drive business outcomes, not just cost transparency. This cohort focuses on redefining executive reporting, outcome-based value narratives, and decision-ready dashboards that align IT, finance, and business strategy. Join us to help shape how TBM shows up in the C-suite, collaborate with peers operating at enterprise scale, and play a meaningful role in elevating TBM as a strategic decision framework—not just a reporting discipline.

In 2026, the cohort is developing standards and insights around executive-level TBM dashboards, persona-based value narratives (CEO, CFO, CIO), and repeatable models for value realization and optimization, enabling leaders to move from insight to action with confidence.

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Business Relationship Management

Join us in this member community dedicated to business relationship management professionals and those exploring the vital intersection of TBM and BRM disciplines. Our collaborative focus includes shaping business demand through showback and chargeback, navigating the complexities of fixed versus variable costs, and defining the nuances of business value and value realization. Together, we work to capture and align business demand during the IT and technology planning cycles to drive strategic outcomes.

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Healthcare

Join your peers from healthcare providers and payers as well as pharmaceuticals, device makers and other healthcare focused organizations to discuss TBM-related challenges, share TBM best practices and strategies for addressing those challenges, and grow their professional networks by connecting with industry peers.

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Not seeing your area of interest? Learn more about our previously active SIGs. If you are interested in reinvigorating one of these groups (or starting a new one), please drop us a note at info@tbmcouncil.org.

Shana Berger

Children's Health

Adoption Strategy Community

The TBM Adoption Strategy Community brings together professionals from technology, finance, and business to facilitate successful and lasting adoption of Technology Business Management.  This group develops, maintains, and enhances a rapidly growing pool of content to support TBM value positioning, implementation planning, road mapping, and stakeholder engagement for both executives and practitioners across every area of the organization.  

 The work of this community garners a high degree of interest from the TBM Board of Directors, Executive Sponsors, and member community.  The resulting content is regularly leveraged by other TBM Strategy Communities, including industry-vertical workgroups (Healthcare, Banking, Public Sector, etc) to reinforce adoption in their respective communities.  

 Join us to contribute to these and other exciting areas, expand your professional connections, and play a vital role in advancing the adoption of TBM.

What we're working on:

The TBM Adoption community is focused on asset development and evangelism through the creation of written materials and interactive sessions. Key initiatives include partnering with the TBM Council on an Adoption EBook, developing OCM templates, and hosting monthly “coffee chats” and open forum sessions to share best practices.

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Executive Sponsor

Fumbi Chima

Boeing Employees' Credit Union (BECU)

Workgroup Chairs

Amy Byalick

Johnson Controls

Monica Braun

Houston Methodist

Workgroup Members

Adam Chen

Accenture US

Ben Dirnberger

Apptio, an IBM Company

Dominik Holasek

HPE

Filip Landsberg

Johnson Controls

Jon Sober

Rrebos Consulting

Kasey Murzyn

Sun Stream Services

Stephanie Geltrude

Formerly at Aflac

Trae Baker

Rego Consulting

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Banking Strategy Community

The TBM-Banking community empowers banking and financial services leaders to drive business value and innovation through the application of Technology Business Management (TBM) standards. We aim to transform business value decision-making by leveraging the TBM framework, best practices, and promoting adoption to directly link the impact of technology investments with business outcomes and value in the highly competitive banking sector. Our community is also dedicated to building strong networks, fostering knowledge sharing, and actively growing our membership to amplify these efforts.

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Executive Sponsor

Coming Soon

Workgroup Chairs

Clerin Fernandez

Nomura

Enda Magennis

NatWest

Workgroup Members

Abraam Polos

Bank of Montreal

Christine Lester

M&T Bank

Daniel Donalson

Texas Capital

David Adelkhanov

Dipesh Gandhi

Barclays

Jon Lightman

ISG

Kasy Wang

Morgan Stanley

Kris Rosiak

Apptio

Kyle Castro

Navy Federal

Vipin Ghelani

Bank of Montreal

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CFO of IT Strategy Community

The CFO of IT role is the nexus of IT and Finance, and the mission of this community is to define the future state vision of IT finance in corporate enterprises and establish a roadmap for executing that vision. The community is open to leaders and senior practitioners from corporate finance, IT finance, TBM, and related disciplines. The role of the CFO of IT and his/her core competencies: (Investment Manager, Agent of Change, Voice of the Business, Technology Controller and Cost Optimizer) becomes essential in optimizing Business Agility. 

What we're working on:

The CFO of IT community is brainstorming a suite of templates and tools designed to enhance financial storytelling and strategic decision-making. Their work includes developing practical assets like Executive Narrative templates and Stakeholder Influence Maps, alongside guides for dashboards and CFO of IT Storytelling Playbooks that contrast cost versus value focus.

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Executive Sponsor

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Workgroup Chairs

Andy Moore

State Farm Insurance

Lisa Stalter

Workgroup Members

Adrian Rivas

The Walt Disney Company

Andi Fisher Colwill

U.S. Department of Commerce

Chrys Warren

Micron Technology, Inc.

David Petko

David Petko

U.S. Bank

Elizangela Gusmao

Brink's

Jeri Koester

Jennifer Bishop

UPS

Juan Jose Jarillo

Apptio

Keith Barthelmeus

Brink's

Koen de Vos

Ahold Delhaize

Neelam Saini

County of Santa Clara

Peter van Loon

It's Value

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Cloud & Infrastructure Strategy Community

The Cloud and Infrastructure Community is focused on enhancing cost visibility and optimization across cloud, hybrid, data center, and platform infrastructure using TBM. The community integrates related disciplines like capacity, service, and asset management to further amplify technology infrastructure value realization and efficiency.

What we're working on:

The Cloud & Infrastructure Community is working on mapping Cloud Apps to TBM Taxonomy 5.0. This group will also host community sessions on the alignment of TBM and Finops.

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Executive Sponsor

Coming Soon

Workgroup Chairs

Vik Saluja

MasterCard

Workgroup Members

Jeri Koester

Jennifer Bishop

UPS

Kevin Wehde

Apptio, an IBM Company

Marc Soares

Liberty Mutual

Michelle Dupuis

Presidio

Rushabh Shah

MasterCard

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Data for TBM Strategy Community

This community will work to identify and define the data TBM needs to expedite adoption, outline best practices and guides to enhance TBM and overall data maturity, and provide a forum for shared problem-solving in the field.

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Executive Sponsor

Workgroup Chairs

Workgroup Members

Adrian Rivas

The Walt Disney Company

Andy Oakley

Legal & General

Ericka Norman

Toyota

Matthew Erickson

HUB International

Michael Enslein

Tenet Healthcare

Scott Erben

Cleveland Clinic

Simon Voisey

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Government Strategy Community

The Government Strategy Community brings together professionals from federal, state/provincial, and city/local government agencies with the mission to advance TBM thought leadership and increase the impact and value of technology across public agencies. This group maintains and enhances the State and Federal extensions to the TBM Taxonomy that delivers transparency in technology spend, mappings to the NIST framework for cybersecurity, and is currently working to develop cost models for common digital security mandates. 

Join us to contribute to these and other exciting areas, expand your professional connections, and play a vital role in advancing TBM within government operations. 

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Executive Sponsor

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Workgroup Chairs

Kelly Bent

HumanTouch LLC

Robert Davenport

US Department of Energy

Workgroup Members

Andi Fisher Colwill

U.S. Department of Commerce

Ayanna Rice

Ayanna Rice

U.S. General Services Administration

Katie McAteer

United States Army

Tony Agent

Apptio

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Insurance Strategy Community

The Insurance Industry Strategy Community brings together technology, finance, and business leaders to advance how Technology Business Management (TBM) is applied across the insurance sector. Our goal is to make technology investments more transparent, effective, and collaborative—driving innovation and greater business value across the industry.

In 2025, the team produced the How Insurance Companies are Leveraging TBM eBook and launched the TBM in Insurance Survey, which measures adoption, maturity, and the impact of TBM practices on technology and business outcomes. Together, these efforts strengthen industry benchmarks and guide the next phase of TBM growth in insurance.

Join us to contribute to these and other exciting areas, expand your professional connections, and play a vital role in advancing TBM and technology value management across the Insurance industry. 

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Executive Sponsor

Coming Soon

Workgroup Chairs

Matthew Erickson

HUB International

Nathan Batchelder

Nathan Batchelder

Liberty Mutual

Workgroup Members

David Roush

QBE

Pat Roan

State Farm

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TBM Maturity Strategy Community

The TBM Maturity Strategy Community brings together professionals from technology, finance, and business to aid organizations in maturing every aspect of Technology Business Management. This includes maturing of core TBM capabilities and processes, data models, advanced value management practices, and more. This team’s work will continue to accelerate and gain increased visibility as TBM expands and modernizes. 

This space is for TBM Council members who are beginning their TBM Adoption journey to post questions and learn from those who are further along in their TBM Adoption journey. If you have experience in TBM Adoption, please share your success stories, tips, and best practices here.

Join us to contribute to these and other exciting areas, expand your professional connections, and play a vital role in maturing TBM in your organization and throughout the industry. 

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Executive Sponsor

Coming Soon

Workgroup Chairs

Tiago Nascimento

Rego Consulting

Workgroup Members

Ericka Norman

Toyota

Harry Traylor

T. Rowe Price

Jon Sober

Rrebos Consulting

Matt Temple

Apptio, an IBM Company

Reid Solomon

Rego Consulting

Summer Gu

IBM

Timothy Thakadiyil

CVS

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SPM & Agile Strategy Community

The Strategic Portfolio Management community is focused on creating scaffolding that TBM members can utilize to help ensure that your organization’s enterprise investments are optimized for delivering value. 

The goal of this group is to help your organization increase their speed and quality of adaptive data-driven decision making, resulting in alignment of your investment portfolio with your organization’s overall strategic goals and objectives.

Join today to contribute your expertise and gain valuable insights, helping you and your peers confidently align investments with your organization’s strategic success. 

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Executive Sponsor

Workgroup Chairs

Kaarina Bourquin

The Standard

Workgroup Members

Jason Hrckso

Standard Insurance

Maxim Danilevsky

Cprime

Sanjeev Acharya

FactSet

Yuliya Oberman

Apptio, an IBM Company

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TBM Executive Enablement SIG

The TBM Executive Enablement Special Interest Group advances how TBM is used by senior leaders to drive business outcomes, not just cost transparency. This cohort focuses on redefining executive reporting, outcome-based value narratives, and decision-ready dashboards that align IT, finance, and business strategy. Join us to help shape how TBM shows up in the C-suite, collaborate with peers operating at enterprise scale, and play a meaningful role in elevating TBM as a strategic decision framework—not just a reporting discipline.

Special Interest Group Leader

Jacqueline Kendrick

Apptio, an IBM Company

What we're working on:

In 2026, the cohort is developing standards and insights around executive-level TBM dashboards, persona-based value narratives (CEO, CFO, CIO), and repeatable models for value realization and optimization, enabling leaders to move from insight to action with confidence.

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Business Relationship Management SIG

This community is for business relationship management professionals or those who are interested in the intersection of TBM and the BRM discipline and practices. Focus areas include but are not limited to: shaping business demand with showback or chargeback; addressing the fixed/variable cost challenge; describing business value and value realization; and capturing business demand during IT/tech planning.

Special Interest Group Leader

Sara Scheu

Marshfield Clinic Health System

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Coming Soon

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Healthcare SIG

Join your peers from healthcare providers and payers as well as pharmaceuticals, device makers and other healthcare focused organization to discuss TBM-related challenges, share TBM best practices and strategies for addressing those challenges, and grow their professional networks by connecting with industry peers. This group developed the first Healthcare TBM Taxonomy extensions in 2019, one for providers and one for payers. In 2023, the community refreshed the Providers extension and released 7 Healthcare KPIs for measuring, optimizing, and communicating the efficiency and impact of technology investments and operations on healthcare and patient outcomes.

Special Interest Group Leader

Shana Berger

Children's Health

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Red Hat built the world’s largest enterprise open-source software company, growing into a multi-billion-dollar firm before being acquired by IBM Corp. This open-source heritage often placed the value of technology in the product and engineering realm rather than with IT. Thus, not surprisingly, Red Hat’s TBM journey started with a new CFO wanting to know why IT costs were so high. Through the TBM framework and discipline, Red Hat IT successfully delivered cost transparency of all IT spend and then became a model for technology spend planning and forecasting. The IT team added the FinOps discipline to its capabilities and is now managing a broad hybrid cloud portfolio. However, TBM and FinOps have remained in the realm of IT only, until now. Red Hat’s current CIO, Jim Palermo, is driving TBM, FinOps, and Enterprise Agile Management across the company based on IT’s success and through the lens of value stream management. in this session, Jim will walk through Red Hat’s TBM journey and its current transformation to an operational business architecture framework built on value streams aligned to business outcomes.

Speaker:

  • Jim Palermo, VP, CIO, Red Hat

When the team at Tenet Healthcare made the decision to move towards a model that provided more accurate financial transparency, they looked to TBM practices and solutions. Join Paola Arbour, EVP and CIO at Tenet healthcare as she answers the question “why TBM?”, including what Tenet was trying to solve with the TBM Taxonomy, the effectiveness of their KPIs, and how building support and momentum across the entire company was critical to their successful TBM adoption. In this session, Paola will also share how Tenet continues to evolve their use of TBM, including for mergers, acquisitions, and divestiture activity, as well as segmenting cost structures.

Speaker:

  • Paola Arbour, EVP & CIO, Tenet Healthcare

Data driven decision making has been a key to longevity and delivering best in class service to State Farm’s customers over the past 100 years. Recently, State Farm decided to use a managed services company for the day-to-day support of their Infrastructure Services. Today’s technology leaders need to be able to make real-time, informed decisions to help ensure technology investments are meeting their customer’s needs, while continuing to support company long-term goals. Ashley Pettit, SVP & CIO at State Farm, will be joined by Randy McBeath, Enterprise Technology Executive, and Andy Moore, Technology Director, and together they will share how TBM aided in State Farm’s analysis and decision to move to a managed service provider.

Speakers:

  • Ashley Pettit, SVP & CIO, State Farm Insurance
  • Andy Moore, Technology Director, State Farm Insurance
  • Randy McBeath, Enterprise Technology Executive, State Farm Insurance

There is fast evolution occurring in the overall technology spend and value management market, with the advancements of cloud, Kubernetes, AI/ML, and other innovations. At the same time, we are seeing vast changes in the roles of the CIO, CFO, and business/digital leadership. In addition, TBM is intersecting with other disciplines and frameworks, such as Cloud FinOps, Agile engineering, and portfolio resource management. How is this affecting the TBM discipline, the TBM Council, and Apptio? For one, TBM is moving down market, becoming more accessible to all sizes and maturity of organizations, with easier ways to get started and a faster time to value. Cloud FinOps, meanwhile, is advancing and adding capabilities previously in TBM to the cloud cost management space. Join Apptio CEO Sunny Gupta as he explores the evolving TBM landscape and how he believes it will bring even greater opportunity and value to organizations worldwide.

Speaker:

  • Sunny Gupta, Co-Founder & CEO, Apptio

In today’s challenging economic times it is critical that CFOs, CIOs, and CTOs speak the same language when it comes to the value of technology spend. Having a single source of truth that everyone can feel confident in, track progress continuously throughout the year with shared insights, and analyzing options for resourcing and funding in order to reduce waste is where TBM deepens their partnership. In this discussion, join members of the TBM Council Board of Directors as they discuss the pivotal conversations and steps taken to collectively adopt TBM practices across the organization, including responding to naysayers and gaining allies.

Panelists:

  • George Maddaloni, EVP, CTO, Operations, Mastercard
  • Laura Walsh, CIO, Smithfield Foods
  • RJ Hazra, SVP & CFO, Technology & Security, Equifax
  • Moderated by Chad Doiran, Managing Director, Tech. Strategy & Advisory, Accenture

Fumbi Chima has led technology teams across multiple organizations throughout her esteemed career, including retail, manufacturing, media, and financial services. As a turnaround and high growth leader, Fumbi has leveraged TBM as a foundational practice to bring repeatable processes, purchasing guidelines, and cost/resource savings. Now at Boeing Employe Credit Union (BECU) serving more than 1.2 million members, Fumbi is driving their digital transformation with a clear vision and strategy to optimize their public-cloud with TBM and Cloud-FinOps, adopt a product model, and set the groundwork for future innovation and growth. Join Fumbi and Larry Blasko, President, Field Operations at Apptio, as they discuss the lessons Fumbi has learned along her TBM journey, and where this transformation leader sees the evolution of TBM taking the Technology industry.

Speakers:

  • Fumbi Chima, Chief Technology & Transformation Officer, BECU
  • Larry Blasko, President, Field Operations, Apptio

Technology leaders have a unique opportunity to transform their organizations into environmental champions with sustainable business practices. In this session, Neal Ramasamy, CIO at Cognizant and Phil Alfano, Field CTO at Apptio will share how TBM can be leveraged to achieve comprehensive visibility into real-time data-driven tracking to ensure company goals and actions are being met to achieve a sustainable future.

Speakers:

  • Neal Ramasamy, CIO, Cognizant
  • Phil Alfano, Field CTO, Apptio

For McGraw Hill, having a transparent framework that drives smart investment strategies and a common language across this 135-year-old company is critical. Known as one of the “big three” education publishers, McGraw Hill must stay ahead of their competitors with innovation and value delivery. Join Yuliya Oberman, Finance Director for McGraw Hill Education and Eileen Wade, General Manager of the TBM Council as they discuss how TBM is essential to McGraw Hill’s enterprise resource strategies and digital transformation journey.

Speakers:

  • Yuliya Oberman, Finance Director, McGraw Hill Education
  • Eileen Wade, General Manager, TBM Council

In this fireside chat, Matt Yanchyshyn, GM, AWS Marketplace & Partner Engineer at AWS will join incoming General Manager of the TBM Council, Jack Bischof, for a discussion on best practices for building successful TBM practices focused on cloud financial management. Including a deep dive into the nuances, learnings, and milestones that the world’s 9th largest insurance company is achieving on their Cloud FinOps journey.

Speakers:

  • Matt Yanchyshyn, GM, AWS Marketplace & Partner Engineering, AWS
  • Jack Bischof, Incoming General Manager, TBM Council

Hear from Ajay Patel, COO at Apptio and Zubin Irani, CEO at Cprime as they discuss how the intersection of TBM and enterprise agile planning is a critical strategy for organizations to adopt if they want to drive business growth more efficiently, in real-time, and keep up with the speed of change that today’s organizations face.

Speakers:

  • Ajay Patel, COO, Apptio
  • Zubin Irani, CEO, Cprime

Join Origin Energy’s Adrian Thivy, GM, Enterprise Technology Services, as he shares how TBM is creating complete confidence in their spend-to-value ratios across IT and the broader company, allowing a rapid response to the market forces driving significant pressure on the “cost to serve” customers. A finalist for the 2022 TBM Council Award for TBM Pacesetter, hear how their TBM practice was built in record time, including lessons learned as they developed business capabilities and managed a significant cloud migration and transformation.  

Session topics will include:  

  • Establishing a clear purpose and common goals that drive cross-functional understanding
  • Utilizing an adaptative governance framework to ensure accountability across all stakeholders 
  • Leveraging TBM and ServiceNow CSDM to deliver a transparent, flexible, and sustainable model in a shorter time frame
  • How bespoke logic has dramatically improved transparency of cost more than 90%


Presented by:

  • Adrian Thivy, GM, Enterprise Technology Services, Origin Energy 

Many organizations aspire for a cloud-native posture, however few have the time, resources and budget to transform into 100% public cloud operations. Equifax has broken through those barriers to modernize its infrastructure globally — driving faster innovation for customers, more business agility, and stronger cybersecurity. Hear from Manav Doshi, GM, Technology Solutions on how the Equifax team is rebuilding a century-old company, with a real-time approach to optimizing cost and revenue growth in the cloud.

 

Presented by:

  • Manav Doshi, GM, Technology Solutions, Equifax 

Transport for NSW is the winner of the 2022 TBM Council Award for TBM Pacesetter, which recognizes significant progress and value with TBM in a relatively short period of time. In this session, hear how the merger of Roads and Maritime Services (RMS) and Transport for New South Wales resulted in the fastest consolidation of TBM data, models, and reports into a single TBM practice. Hear from Poonam Kataria, Sr. Manager of TBM, as she shares how TBM is driving Transport’s three key strategic outcomes: connecting a customer’s whole life; successful places for communities; and enabling economic activity.

Session topics will include: 

  • Utilizing the TBM Taxonomy to align M&A practices and drive behavioural change 
  • How the right level of support sets the right culture and TBM processes
  • Driving change in the organization based on data-driven facts

Presented by: 

  • Poonam Kataria, Sr. Manager, TBM, Transport for NSW 

Discuss how TBM supports visibility of investments across the enterprise to support setting best practices and standards for managing the impact of environmental, societal, and governance strategies by IT departments and organizations.

The TBM Council Standards Committee has built out TBM integration models with other IT disciplines, including Enterprise Agile and Product Thinking, as well as ServiceNow CSDM. Current findings will be shared to drive group discussion, experience, and feedback. 

Public cloud strategies are often embraced for the promise of rapid scalability, on-demand agility, and best-in-class security, resiliency, and features. However, public cloud adoption presents significant financial challenges that, when not addressed, inhibit any firm’s ability to exploit the promises of public cloud.  

To address these challenges, customers need to simultaneously resolve current inefficiencies and build capability to ensure avoidance of waste in the long term.  

In this session we discuss a detailed framework combining TBM-Cloud with FinOps, allowing customers to understand how to implement a program to overcome these challenges and financially succeed in the cloud. 

Session discussion topics include: 

  • A detailed view of the activities required to implement a TBM-Cloud with FinOps Journey 
  • Detail the flow of information required for each task 
  • Provide guidance on which activities should be performed when

 

Presented by:

  • Nathan Besh, TBM-Cloud Evangelist, TBM Council 

Project to Product Transition

Outcome-focused development via agile transformation

For organizations looking to transition from projects to products, TBM can help organize resources and outcomes into value streams – the specific sets of activities that align to business outcomes.

Accelerating Cloud Adoption

Drive measurable outcomes with your cloud strategy

For organizations trying to accelerate their cloud journey, TBM provides a way to map a plan and measure the outcomes from cloud migration to cloud cost management to cloud optimization.

Morning Sessions

A look back at 10 years of TBM leadership and community building.

Speaker:

  • Ashley Pettit, SVP & CIO, State Farm Insurance

Introduced more than 10 years ago, Technology Business Management (TBM) was born out of the need for CIOs to have a management system to drive their technology operating strategy. At its core, the TBM discipline gives visibility into technology spend to provide common ground and enable a collaborative partnership across teams for prioritizing resources and achieving business outcomes. In this session, the TBM Council Standards Committee Chair, Atticus Tyson will share how over the past few years TBM has evolved to ensure leaders are able to accelerate digital initiatives, embrace the cloud, and communicate today’s complex technology landscape. TBM enables organizations to frequently and quickly evaluate projects, platforms, and investments to address the needs of the modern enterprise.

Speaker:

  • Atticus Tysen, SVP Product Development, Chief Information Security & Fraud Prevention Officer, Intuit

Atticus Tyson and Phil Alfano will guide the group through an executive discussion to capture “What is digital success to you?”. Is it how your organization creates new business capabilities? The elimination of legacy processes and systems? Funding innovation? Or all of the above as long as it drives an improved customer experience? Discuss with your table mates, as an overall group, and capture learnings and takeaways to bring back to your own team.

Speakers:

  • Atticus Tyson, SVP Product Development, Chief Information Security & Fraud Prevention Officer, Intuit
  • Phil Alfano, Field CTO, Apptio

How does a 170-year-old financial institution deliver a new, fully modernized technology strategy while supporting 24×7 service to their customers across a multitude of platforms, including point-of-sale, mobile, and web services? Mike Brady, Nicole Holmes, and Chad Schmidt will share how at Wells Fargo, they are creating a Technology Infrastructure team founded in the TBM discipline and responsible for aligning with internal partners to adopt an automation first approach for accelerating the delivery of services and deploying enhancements at speed. All while remaining compliant, secure, and agile.

Speakers:

  • Mike Brady, EVP, Technology Infrastructure, Wells Fargo
  • Nicole Holmes, EVP, CFO for Technology, Wells Fargo
  • Chad Schmidt, SVP, Technology Finance Modernization, Wells Fargo

It’s been two years since the World Health Organization declared Covid-19 a global pandemic. To re-imagine employee and customer experiences, every company was forced to speed up their shift to digital from multi-year project plans to instead creating, executing, and delivering new business models in a matter of weeks. As we emerge from this crisis, we recognize this shift is not slowing down but exponentially increasing as businesses continue to respond to societal expectations of anytime, anywhere. In this session, Sunny Gupta will share how the companies best positioned to quickly respond to changing market conditions and hyper competition have a holistic view of their technology spend so they can be agile in their investment decisions, use the cloud as a competitive advantage, and align their resources to product delivery models and continuously measure value.

Speaker:

  • Sunny Gupta, Co-Founder & CEO, Apptio

Afternoon Sessions

Spinning up a cloud-native posture is a desired strategy for many organizations, however few have the time, resources, and budget to achieve 100% public cloud operations. In 2018, Equifax set a 5-year goal to achieve this, striving to provide their customers with faster innovation, more flexible business agility, and stronger cybersecurity. Hear from RJ Hazra, SVP & CFO, Technology on the lessons and successes the Equifax team has found along their journey, and what remains as they cross into their final year of their company-wide digital transformation.

Speaker:

  • RJ Hazra, SVP & CFO, Technology & Security, Equifax

The cloud is a significant shift in computing and companies need to get maximum value from it. FinOps is the evolving cloud financial management practice that empowers organizations to track and maximize cloud spend and enable tech, finance, and business teams to collaborate on data-driven spending decisions. In this talk, J.R. Storment, Executive Director of the FinOps Foundation will explore the intersection between TBM and the FinOps practice and the benefits achieved. Session discussion topics include: 

  • Creating a culture of ownership over cloud usage and spend
  • The most important challenges to tackle for delivering products faster while gaining financial control and predictability
  • FinOps organization structures in large and small organizations from the State of FinOps 2022 report

 

Speaker:

    • J.R. Storment, Executive Director, FinOps Foundation

In this engaging conversation, executive leaders will share both the challenges and best practices realized on their journey to embrace product-based innovation.

Session discussion topics include:

  • Achieving results as you shift from a projects-to-products innovation model
  • Maximizing CIO/CFO partnerships in this new paradigm
  • Building your innovation strategy around value streams, stable teams, and a high degree of customer centricity

Speakers:

  • John Wilson, VP, IT Costing & Performance Management, MetLife
  • Kaarina Bourquin, Director, Strategy & Portfolio Operations & Technology, The Standard
  • Moderated by Toyan Espeut, Chief Customer Officer, Apptio

Session abstract coming soon

Speakers:

    • Brendan Kinkade, VP, Build ISV, Technology & Hybrid Cloud, IBM
    • Moderated by Phil Alfano, Field CTO, Apptio Foundation

TBM empowers hundreds of decision makers with the facts they need to execute a digital strategy faster, without bias, and in alignment across business units. This includes technology consumers, service and application owners, LOB CIOs, enterprise PMOs, compliance leaders, budget coordinators, and many more. What are the fundamentals of developing and executing a successful TBM practice? In this session, experienced practitioners will share the lessons and foundations they’ve learned delivering business value for their organizations with TBM.

Session discussion topics include:

  • Fundamentals of proper support and sponsorship across key stakeholders
  • Demonstrating how and why TBM is core to strategy and a digital operating model
  • Developing, educating, and enabling your core team
  • Implementing or enhancing the necessary TBM processes

Speakers:

    • Jeri Koester, CIO, Marshfield Clinic Health System
    • Latrise Brissett, Managing Director, Global IT, Accenture
    • Leslie Scott, VP & CIO, IT Enterprise Services, Stanley Black & Decker
    • Moderated by Jason Byrd, Managing Director, Technology Strategy & Advisory, Accenture