FinOps X 2026 has wrapped up and this recap will help you catch up on what happened throughout the session. The headline takeaway: AI spend has officially jumped from an engineering-level concern to a boardroom-level one. This year’s event ran four days (June 8 to 11) at the Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina, pulled in more than 2,500 practitioners and packed in 260+ speakers across keynotes, breakout sessions, chalk talk workshops and lightning talks.