Bridging the Gap: FinOps Strategies That Align Engineering and Finance

Bridging the Gap: FinOps Strategies That Align Engineering and Finance
September 30, 2025, 10am PT | 1pm ET Cloud costs can be a contentious subject for finance and engineering teams. Finance wants to control spending, while engineering feels they?re doing everything they can to deliver performant software under constrained resources. The result? Resentment, anger, and no resolution to the actual problem of controlling cloud spending or giving developers the resources they need to be successful. In this live webinar, two FinOps specialists, Patrick Brogan and Ben Linares ? one with a finance focus, the other with a technical background ? from Harness will join our host, Chris Pirillo. Together, they?ll break down common challenges and share what it takes to align priorities and drive collaboration across teams. We'll explore where teams often get stuck, what?s working today, and how automation can help organizations manage cloud spend more effectively. Highlights Why finance and engineering so often have misaligned priorities and the #1 thing each should do differently. How to get a FinOps program off the ground. The best ways to measure your FinOps maturity ? and the subtle signs the program is not working. How to use automation to support your FinOps program. By registering, you consent to receiving email communication from The New Stack and Harness. You may opt out at any time.