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Jennifer Hays

SVP Fidelity Wealth - Head of Engineering Excellence & Technology Strategy Execution

Fidelity Investments

Natalie Daley

Director - Global Head of Cloud Economics & FinOps

HSBC

FinOps adapts to AI spend as token economics reshape enterprise budgets

As generative AI accelerates from a product experiment into a core enterprise operating cost, FinOps is evolving rapidly to manage AI spend, introducing a layer of complexity that traditional cloud budgets have never fully prepared practitioners to handle.Token economics are forcing organizations to rethink not just how they measure spend, but what costs even count — from inference and database throughput to developer hardware and workforce transformation

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News Break with Jennifer Hays, Fidelity Investments & Natalie Daley, HSBC

Jennifer Hays

SVP Fidelity Wealth - Head of Engineering Excellence & Technology Strategy Execution Fidelity Investments

Natalie Daley

Director - Global Head of Cloud Economics & FinOps HSBC

In this interview from FinOps X 2026, Jennifer Hays, head of engineering excellence and technology strategy execution at Fidelity Investments, joins Natalie Daley, director and global head of cloud economics and FinOps at HSBC, to talk with theCUBE's John Furrier and theCUBE Research's Paul Nashawaty about how FinOps is evolving from cloud cost control into an enterprise-wide discipline for governing AI investment and token economics. Daley traces FinOps's journey from cloud spend to Kubernetes to broader infrastructure and now to AI — underscoring the dual m... Read more

News Break with Jennifer Hays, Fidelity Investments & Natalie Daley, HSBC