Track 2

ITFM gets complicated when cost, consumption, and accountability span multiple bureaus. Leaders across the Department of Commerce will share how they’re coming together around TBM, FinOps, and strategic portfolio management as a single source of truth – creating shared language and visibility that works across diverse mission needs. Learn how to harmonize data and investment governance and move from reporting to action with a consistent view of spend, value, and performance.

AI spend is volatile – token use and pricing can spike fast. This session explores how FinOps helps agencies monitor, forecast, budget, and optimize AI cloud costs, improve cost attribution with tagging and alerts, and build showback or chargeback approaches that support governance. Attendees will also learn how to bake FinOps readiness into contracts, starting with people and process before tools.

Most AI return on investment discussions capture infrastructure, token, and licensing costs, but they exclude or undervalue productivity gains, workforce capacity shifts, and mission acceleration. In this session, learn how a mature TBM baseline and the Autonomous Work Equivalent concept can translate those impacts into defensible unit metrics that stand up to scrutiny.