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AI spending is no longer confined to a single budget, business unit, or vendor contract. As AI adoption accelerates, organizations are discovering that traditional financial controls weren’t designed for consumption-based models, token usage, and rapidly expanding AI ecosystems. In this webinar, we explore why procurement is uniquely positioned to lead the AI FinOps conversation, the risks of delaying governance, and the practical frameworks enterprises are adopting to bring visibility, accountability, and cost control to AI investments before spending outpaces oversight.

What You’ll Learn:

• Why AI spending is creating new governance challenges across IT, finance, procurement, and business units

• The role procurement should play in AI FinOps and why waiting for finance or IT to lead can be costly

• Common AI cost management mistakes that create budget overruns, duplicate spending, and vendor sprawl

• How leading enterprises are assigning ownership and accountability for AI consumption

• Practical frameworks for governing AI costs while still enabling innovation and business adoption

Meet the Speaker:

Jim Hussey, SaaS Optimization & SAM Advisory Practice Lead, NPI

Jim Hussey has been a part of the technology sourcing and technology vendor management community since 2000, and currently leads NPI’s SaaS Optimization & SAM Advisory Practice. He is a significant contributor to best practices across Technology Vendor Management (VMO), Technology Third Party Risk Management (TPRM), Software Asset Management (SAM) and SaaS Governance & Optimization operations (SaaSOps). He has published numerous books on these topic, most recently The Survival Guide to SaaS Optimization, A Practical Guide to SaaS Governance & Optimization