We're back to our usual format of 3 speakers + Q&A followed by networking.

18:30: Doors open 19:00 Welcome by Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino (organiser since 2011) 19:10 James Harding, Green Custard 19:30 Max Park 19:50 Philip Steele, Octopus Energy 20:10 Networking 21:00 End of event and move to nearby pub

There will be drinks (including non-alcoholic) and nibbles.

About our sponsors: Green Custard is an award-winning AWS IoT specialist consultancy that helps organisations design, build, and scale secure cloud-connected products and solutions. With deep expertise across IoT architectures, data lakes, ML and agentic AI our IoT expertise spans from product innovation to smart factory innovation. We have full stack capability from embedded & mobile to cloud-native development. Green Custard partners with clients to deliver on their business outcomes whether modernising legacy devices, unlocking new value from existing data, or accelerating the delivery of production-ready solutions. Customers trust Green Custard for its technical excellence, pragmatic delivery, and we are proud of our customer success.

Aqua Libra is redefining sustainable hydration through innovative, low-impact dispensing technology. Beyond its zero-sugar infused drinks, the brand has pioneered solutions such as the Aqua Libra Flavour Tap, a digitally controlled dispensing system that delivers chilled, filtered water with natural flavours on demand. By removing the need for single-use bottles and reducing transport emissions, the Flavour Tap enables offices, venues, and public spaces to offer great-tasting drinks with a dramatically smaller environmental footprint. Aqua Libra’s approach blends sustainability, smart technology, and convenience to meet the growing demand for healthier, greener beverage options.

About our host: British Computing Society is a professional body and a learned society that represents those working in information technology, computing, software engineering, computer engineering and computer science, both in the United Kingdom and internationally.

The meetup will be held at 25 Copthall Ave, London EC2R 7BP, NOT their Southampton Row location.

Our Fintech London meetup has arrived! We are delighted to be partnered with our hosts Rise, Created by Barclays, with an exciting duo of speakers lined up.

Format of the meetup event will be as follows:

6pm – 6:30pm - Networking on arrival coupled with food and drinks provided by ReVybe IT and Zeti.

6:30pm - 7:45pm - 2X 25 minute speakers lined up with 10-15 minute break in-between

7:45pm onwards - Networking (carries on in the afterwards for anybody who wants to have a few drinks or just socialise at Flight Club Shoreditch)

1 Daniel Bass - Co-Founder and CTO @ Zeti

Daniel is currently the Co-Founder and CTO of Zeti, the green Fintech scaleup revolutionizing the world of transport finance for good. He is the Author of "Beginning Serverless Architectures with Microsoft Azure" and "Advanced Architectures with Microsoft Azure." Daniel is also a speaker at Microsoft Build, ServerlessDays Rome, and many others.

Title: How green is your Fintech?

Daniel will be taking us through his personal journey with building a green Fintech in London.

With sustainability at the top of everyone's agenda, this talk will guide you through how to evaluate your own businesses environmental impact and how to reduce it, with a particular focus on the decisions that developers and architects can make. He will discuss the impact of cloud versus on-premise, serverless vs IaaS and even large vs small teams.

2 Ryota Sawada - Principal Engineer @ Civo

Ryota is a Principal software engineer and previously the founding engineer and CTO of one of Japans fastest-growing Fintech businesses, "UPSIDER".

He is experienced working with Kubernetes and Istio, building technology teams, products, and platforms for the last 7/8 years whilst being involved in the "DevOps" realm.

Title: Five Years in Fintech: A Journey Seen and Future Foreseen

Ryota will be talking about:

• Severe outage due to GCP network release

• Network instability due to unforeseen events and extreme limitation

• Why consistency is key

• Hiring challenges within a Fintech start-up

P.S. Please provide full name and email address for access to the Rise London event space.

Address: Rise London, 41 Luke St, London EC2A 4DP

Our growing appetite for compute power and data are already increasing carbon emissions and depleting electricity and clean water supplies. As our use of cloud and AI grows and grows, we need to ensure this growth does not damage the planet we are all living on.

Join us and your peers in the Sustainable Cloud community at our next FinOps Connect Meetup, hosted by Capgemini in London. A packed agenda will feature expert speakers and interactive breakout sessions, looking closely at how we can use FinOps and GreenOps strateges to grow the green cloud.

The agenda will feature: - Keynote address - Lightning talks from a number of expert speakers - Interactive Breakout Sessions focusing on areas of particular interest - Informal networking over refreshments

Come and join us on 10 July and become part of the community that is growing the green cloud!

Welcome to FinOps in Leeds 2024! We're going to take a look at how enterprises in the North East are responding to the challenges of rapidly-growing cloud usage and spend.

First off, we have short, 'Lightning Talks' from local FinOps practitioners, bringing you up to date on what is happening on the Leeds FinOps scene and describing FinOps tactics you might use in your own organisation.

After the lightning talks, there will be 3 Focus Sessions allowing a more in-depth and interactive look at some of the key FinOps challenges that organisations are tackling in 2024.

We will conclude with refreshments and informal networking.

3:00 - 3:30 Registration 3:30 - A word from our hosts, PWC (Reggie Kelley) 3:35 'FinOps at the Speed of Cloud & AI' by Mike Bradbury, UK Meetup Organizer 3:50 Lightning Talks from local FinOps practitioners 4:10 Focus Sessions: - Cloud Economics and Sustainability - Going Green and Frugal! - FinOps - Technology value under presssure - Accelerating FinOps adoption with hackathons and gamification 5:30 Refreshments and Informal networking 6:30 Close

PWC's office is not the easiest to find. The address is Central Square, Wellington St, but in fact the office building is set back from the road and surrounded by a pedestrian area. You may find this video helps to identify the right building! https://maps.app.goo.gl/jR6T165U9WdHhBXA9

Welcome to FinOps in Leeds 2024! We're going to take a look at how enterprises in the North East are responding to the challenges of rapidly-growing cloud usage and spend.

First off, we have short, 'Lightning Talks' from local FinOps practitioners, bringing you up to date on what is happening on the Leeds FinOps scene and describing FinOps tactics you might use in your own organisation.

After the lightning talks, there will be 3 Focus Sessions allowing a more in-depth and interactive look at some of the key FinOps challenges that organisations are tackling in 2024.

We will conclude with refreshments and informal networking.

3:00 - 3:30 Registration 3:30 - A word from our hosts, PWC (Reggie Kelley) 3:35 'FinOps at the Speed of Cloud & AI' by Mike Bradbury, UK Meetup Organizer 3:50 Lightning Talks from local FinOps practitioners 4:10 Focus Sessions: - Cloud Economics and Sustainability - Going Green and Frugal! - FinOps - Technology value under presssure - Accelerating FinOps adoption with hackathons and gamification 5:30 Refreshments and Informal networking 6:30 Close

PWC's office is not the easiest to find. The address is Central Square, Wellington St, but in fact the office building is set back from the road and surrounded by a pedestrian area. You may find this video helps to identify the right building! https://maps.app.goo.gl/jR6T165U9WdHhBXA9