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# Leading through infrastructure investment decisions


- **Date:** Thursday, Jul 10, 2025
- **Time:** 10:50–11:20 (30 min)
- **Room:** Airstream 1
- **Event:** World Congress 2025
- **Tags:** cloud, leadership, platform engineering, product management, scalability, software architecture

## Description

Many organizations face the challenge of delivering more with limited budgets while also meeting the increasing demands of their customers for innovative products and improved service.

For engineering leaders, this means carefully prioritizing engineering work and investments in technical projects while also considering the need to develop new technologies. However, choosing which engineering work to prioritize involves making effective budgetary tradeoffs and identifying the most impactful investments for the business. 

This session will explore practical tools such as SLOs, KPI Trees, and the FinOps culture to make cost management a shared responsibility across the organization. It will also focus on influencing without direct authority, driving transparency, and integrating cost optimization into the engineering culture. 

## Speaker

### [Italo Vietro](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@italo-vietro)

VP of Platform at Babbel


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- [Hidden efficiency - How to enable your non-engineers as a CTO](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2025/sessions/493-hidden-efficiency) — Andi Stryz
- [Why Understanding Infrastructure Makes You a Better Developer](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2025/sessions/615-why-understanding) — Angelika Shvets
- [Overcoming bottlenecks of Platform Teams](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2025/sessions/532-overcoming) — Candost Dagdeviren
- [Modern software architectures](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2025/sessions/540-modern-software) — David Tielke