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Webinars and field notes
for the room where the budget lives.

No gated whitepapers, no maturity-curve infographics. Two things: live and on-demand webinars with the operators doing the work, and field notes — narrative essays on what's actually keeping CTOs, CISOs and CIOs up at night, told through the enterprise vendors living it.

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Webinars

Sit in the room, not the recording.

One live session a month with a named operator, plus a library of replays you can actually finish — each one tied to a real program a vendor ran.

Live · Jun 18 · 11:00 ET

The Cloud + AI Cost Equation: what the FinOps dashboard won't show you

Every CIO has the cost dashboard. Almost none of them can explain the line that doubled last quarter. We pull apart a real consolidation — where the spend hid, which workloads were quietly subsidising the AI bill, and the three questions that turned the curve.

Featuring the platform & FinOps team behind a Snowflake consolidation

Dana OlufemiVP Platform Engineering
Priya RamanHead of FinOps
Format45 min + live Q&A
ForCIO · VP Infra · FinOps
Registered1,240
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Field notes

Six stories from the edge of the org chart.

Not trend reports. Essays. Each one starts with something that actually happened to a CTO, CISO or CIO — and ends somewhere you didn't expect. Each names the vendor at the center of it.

Field note 01 9 min read

The chatbot nobody approved

A security chief goes looking for a data leak and finds three hundred employees who'd quietly hired an assistant. The breach wasn't the model. It was the silence around it.

with Palo Alto Networksread →
Field note 02 10 min read

The bill that grew in the dark

The invoice doubled and nobody could say why. A CIO stopped asking what things cost and started asking who decided — and found the answer was nobody.

with AWSread →
Field note 03 8 min read

The road you pave is the road they take

A CTO tried to make 600 engineers do the right thing with a policy. It failed. Then he tried something quieter — and discovered governance is mostly a paving problem.

with HashiCorpread →
Field note 04 9 min read

Everyone was already inside

A CISO spent a decade building a taller wall. Then a contractor's laptop walked straight through it, and she realized she'd been defending the wrong thing the whole time.

with Cloudflareread →
Field note 05 11 min read

What the demo doesn't tell you

The agent demo got a standing ovation. Eleven weeks later it was quietly turned off. The gap between a thing that works on stage and a thing you can trust on Tuesday.

with Databricksread →
Field note 06 10 min read

The twelve-year-old app that runs the company

Everyone wanted to replace it. Nobody dared. A CIO's quiet rebellion against the rewrite — and the case for modernizing the thing you're afraid to touch, one layer at a time.

with Red Hatread →
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