Top 4 Insights Every FinOps Leader Needs Going into 2026 ft. Alon Arvatz

What did the world’s top FinOps practitioners learn in 2025? What should you change in your practice heading into 2026?

In this episode of FinOps in Action, I sit down to talk through key takeaways from 2025. I look back on dozens of interviews with FinOps leaders across industries to surface the four most repeated and most impactful insights from this year. Whether you’re scaling a new FinOps practice or leveling up a mature one, these insights will help you drive deeper engineering alignment, stronger executive support, and more business value in 2026.

Here’s what we talked about:

• Why you should stop telling engineers what to do and empower them instead

• Why FinOps must be a top-down initiative

• How FinOps practitioners must think like salespeople

• Why FinOps is more than just cost savings… It’s about business value

Quote of the Show:

“Focus on business value. It’s really important. It makes the conversation a lot easier, a lot more mature, but don’t forget to optimize cost.” - Alon Arvatz

Connect with Alon:

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alon-arvatz/

In this special year-end episode of FinOps in Action, host Alon Arvatz reflects on the most important lessons from a year of conversations with FinOps leaders across industries. From empowering engineers instead of policing them, to securing executive buy-in before driving change, Alon distills four recurring insights that define successful FinOps programs in 2025.