How FinOps Finds and Fixes Hidden Waste

A 25-minute working session for the people who own the Azure invoice. We’ll break down why cloud waste keeps creeping back even after you’ve cleaned it up — and provide a live demo on how one leading insurance firm cut cloud waste by 35% and saved $58,200 a year.

What You’ll Get 

• Why Azure costs become difficult to control as cloud environments scale—and the questions every team should be able to answer.  
• What FinOps actually means and why cloud cost shouldn’t sit with Finance alone.  
• How FinOps turns Azure cost data into action: visibility → optimization → better business decisions.  
• What to look for in your Azure environment: unused resources, inefficient utilization, cost allocation gaps, governance issues, and optimization opportunities.  
• Inside the Enkaytech FinOps Hub: Cost Summary, Rate Optimization, Workload Optimization, Invoicing & Chargeback, Policy & Governance, Cost Management, and Data Ingestion reports.  
• A real-world Azure FinOps story: how a mid-market insurance organization uncovered hidden waste and reached $58,200 in projected annual savings.  
• Live FinOps Hub demo + Q&A with the Enkaytech team. 

Who Should Attend

• CFOs & Finance Leaders who need to explain cloud spend to the board without waiting on Engineering for every number 
• CIOs, CTOs & IT Directors accountable for cloud cost without owning every resource that drives it 
• Cloud, DevOps & FinOps Leads who pull the reports and are tired of finding the same waste twice 
• Cloud Architects, DevOps Engineers & Azure Teams who make the day-to-day resource decisions that ultimately show up on the Azure invoice. 

Best fit: organizations running Azure across multiple subscriptions or teams, spending $10K+/month, with no dedicated FinOps practice in place yet. 

Speaker Introductions 

1. Nicole Daffe — SME, Enkaytech

Leads client strategy on Enkaytech’s FinOps and cloud advisory engagements, helping organizations move from reactive cost-cutting to a repeatable, continuous cost-management practice. 

2. Ashwini Mulgund — Technical Manager, Enkaytech

Leads technical delivery for Azure cost, governance, and FinOps implementations—including the engagement featured in this session —from initial assessment through measurable results.