FinOps and AI Economics Event
FinOps for AI: From Consumption to Cost, Control and Business Value
One prompt, one answer, one predictable cost. That era is ending.
AI is moving from single prompts to autonomous agents that plan, call tools, trigger other agents and loop until the job is done. At the same time, organisations are adopting a growing mix of models, platforms, Copilot services and AI licensing models, making it harder to understand where consumption occurs, who owns it and what it actually costs.
Join us for a morning of practical sessions exploring the evolving discipline of Tokenomics, the total cost of AI, agentic workloads and enterprise-wide FinOps.
Together, we will examine how organizations can build traceability from AI consumption and cost to accountable ownership, informed decisions and measurable business value.
From AI Consumption to Business Value: The State of Tokenomics
This session explores how Tokenomics is broadening the FinOps conversation beyond AI consumption and cost toward ownership, traceability and measurable business value. We will examine key findings from the State of Tokenomics 2026 and the emerging frameworks and capabilities organisations need to manage AI economics.
Speaker: Ahlam Alame, Senior Strategic Advisor, Atea AS
Total Cost of AI, beyond the token bill
Token spend is only part of the picture. Based on real customer examples, we'll look at both token consumption and AI license costs to build a complete view of the Total Cost of AI (TCA), so you know what you're really paying for and where the money goes.
Speaker: Bjørn Sigurd Hove, Lead Architect, Vivicta AS
FinOps for Agentic AI
Traditional FinOps wasn't built for autonomous, multi-step agents. This session unpacks why agentic AI breaks conventional cost attribution and budgeting, and introduces cost per action and cost per outcome as new unit economics. You'll learn how FinOps, engineering and platform teams can build governance guardrails together, and leave with a practical framework for extending FinOps to agentic workloads.
Speaker: Sonal Gupta, founder and CEO, MitraNord AS
Sneak preview of what's coming out at Ignite around FinOps for AI and new capabilities - Microsoft
AI FinOps is moving from showing what AI consumed to helping organizations govern what AI costs and whether it is worth funding. Today, the controls and data exist across Microsoft 365, Azure, Foundry and GitHub, but they remain fragmented. What is coming is better APIs, cross-platform attribution, forecasting, anomaly detection, optimization recommendations, and stronger links between spend and outcomes. The goal is not another token dashboard. It is controlled, attributable, and evidence-backed AI-investment.
Speaker: Zackery Olinske, Ent. Cloud Solution Architect & Tim Ervik, Ent. AI Business Process Lead, Microsoft Norway
Building FinOps in a large enterprise at scale
A practical session sharing the journey, experiences, successes, challenges, and key learnings from implementing and maturing a FinOps practice.
Speaker: Sandeep Ashtekar, Global IT Service Delivery & Enterprise Architecture, Aker Solutions
Who should attend:
FinOps practitioners, platform and engineering teams, AI developers, finance and controlling, and leaders responsible for AI investments. If you're running AI in production, or about to, this is for you.
Agenda:
08:30 Doors open, registration and networking
09:00 Welcome and greetings from the FinOps and AI Economics Steering Committee
09:10 From AI Consumption to Business Value: The State of Tokenomics - Ahlam Alame, Atea AS
09:30 Total Cost of AI, beyond the token bill – Bjørn Sigurd Hove, Vivicta AS
10:00 Short break
10:10 FinOps for Agentic AI – Sonal Gupta, MitraNord AS
10:40 Sneak preview of what's coming out at Ignite around FinOps for AI- Zackery Olinske & Tim Ervik, Microsoft Norway
11:10 Short break
11:20 Building FinOps in a large enterprise – Sandeep Ashtekar, Aker Solutions
11:50-12:00 Q&A
📍 Microsoft Norway, Dronning Eufemias Gate 71,
0194 Oslo
🗓️ 20th October 2026, 08:30–12:00
🎟️ Free. There will also be virtual live streaming through Microsoft Teams.
Leave with frameworks you can put to work on Monday. See you there!
Regards,
FinOps and AI Economics Steering Committee