Cost Management and ROI
About the track
Uber spent their 2026 AI budget in four months, OpenAI cut Luna prices by 80% at the end of July, and open source models are being used much more due to exploding costs. AI usage is continuing to grow, yet leaders are struggling to quantify the ROI on their multi-billion dollar investment. This track is for engineering managers and above who are managing budgets for AI.
Talks cover the types of AI budgets for different kinds of projects (productivity, cost reduction, process transformation), debugging and optimizing your AI costs, and demystifying the cost consoles in hyperscalers and model providers. Speakers are finance and technology leaders who’ve optimized AI costs. You’ll leave knowing how to create an ROI plan for your projects, plus a checklist of model optimizations.
Track host
Dave Scharbach
Executive Director, TMLS
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Summit (2 days).
MLOps World | GenAI Summit 2026 is a two days of case studies, workshops, and expo on taking AI/ML and agentic systems into production – at the Etter-Harbin Alumni photo – full-bleed hero or browse files.