Open Source In Finance Forum London 2022: Full Schedule

July 13, 2022 | London, England
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7:30am BST

Registration & Badge Pick-up

Wednesday July 13, 2022 7:30am - 5:00pm BST
2nd Floor Foyer - Galleria

Registration & Badge Pick-up

9:00am BST

Keynote: Gabriele Columbro, Executive Director, FINOS with guests Kim Prado, FINOS Vice Chair; Hilary Carter, The Linux Foundation; Kris West, Cosaic & Rob Moffat, FINOS

Speakers

Rob Moffatt

Senior Architect, FINOS

Rob Moffat is a seasoned IT professional living in the UK. Over the last twenty years, he has worked at many of the top-tier investment banks in London on regulatory and transformation IT projects. Most recently he has been an advocate for the Symphony platform and the transformational... Read More →

Gab Columbro

Executive Director / General Manager, FINOS / Linux Foundation Europe

Gabriele is an open source technologist at heart. He spent over 15 years building developer ecosystems to deliver value through open source across Europe and the US. He thrives on driving innovation both contributing to open source communities and joining commercial open source ventures... Read More →

Hilary Carter

SVP Research & Communications, Linux Foundation

Hilary Carter is a writer, researcher, and team leader, producing engaging, decision-useful insights that broaden the understanding of open source and emerging technologies and their impact on business, government, and society. She has contributed to books and numerous research reports... Read More →

Kris West

Principal Engineer, Cosaic

Kris is the Principal Engineer at Cosaic with a focus on Finsemble, the smart desktop platform and FDC3 desktop agent. Kris is also a Lead-maintainer of FDC3. A multi-skilled Technical Director and Product Owner, Kris holds a deep understanding of modern web, desktop & mobile application... Read More →

Kim Prado

CIO, US Capital Markets, I&CB and office of the COO, BMO Capital Markets

Opening Remarks pdf

Wednesday July 13, 2022 9:00am - 9:35am BST
Enterprise 1 & 2

Keynote Sessions

Session Slides Attached Yes

9:40am BST

Keynote: Jim Zemlin, Executive Director, The Linux Foundation

Speakers

Jim Zemlin

Executive Director, The Linux Foundation

Jim Zemlin’s career spans three of the largest technology trends to rise over the last decade: mobile computing, cloud computing, and open source software. Today, as executive director of The Linux Foundation, he uses this experience to accelerate innovation in technology through... Read More →

2 Jim Zemlin FINOS London Event pdf

Wednesday July 13, 2022 9:40am - 10:00am BST
Enterprise 1 & 2

Keynote Sessions

Session Slides Attached Yes

10:00am BST

Keynote: Open Finance: An Open Source View - Declan O'Gorman, Head of Enterprise Engineering, NatWest

Open ecosystems, sharing and collaboration arent always words synonomous with the world of Finance. With the arrival of Open Banking and Open Finance, join Natwest to explore how the Open Source mindset and culture is helping one of the UKs largest banks to challenge traditional approaches and deliver value to innovative internal propositions, existing value streams and external ecosystem participants via www.bankofapis.com.

Speakers

Declan O'Gorman

Head of Enterprise Engineering, NatWest

Declan O’Gorman leads Enterprise Engineering for Natwest Group Bank, enabling tens of millions of customers to engage with their financial needs in a safe and secure manner using modern platforms, patterns and approaches. He oversees the banks Engineering & Devops practice as well... Read More →

3 Declan O'Gorman Open Finance An Open Source View pdf

Wednesday July 13, 2022 10:00am - 10:15am BST
Enterprise 1 & 2

Keynote Sessions

Session Slides Attached Yes

10:20am BST

Keynote: Regulation Innovation - Moderated by Jane Gavronsky, CTO, FINOS with Jennifer Lassiter, The Digital Dollar Project; Anna Wallace, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; Francesca Hopwood Road, Bank for International Settlements - BIS

Speakers

Jane Gavronsky

CTO, Linux Foundation/FINOS

Jane is a senior technology leader with extensive experience in delivering transformative, data-focused technology in the Financial Services industry. Most recently, Jane was Managing Director at Credit Suisse, where she was the Global Head of Reference Data Technology Services. In... Read More →

Jennifer Lassiter

Executive Director, The Digital Dollar Project

Jennifer is an entrepreneur, business leader, and advisor to policymakers, leaders, and financial organizations across the world. She is recognized for her unique ability to bring together diverse stakeholders to identify and achieve shared outcomes addressing complex regulatory and... Read More →

Anna Wallace

SPO Consumer Protection and RegTech, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Anna is the Senior Program Officer at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Her role is to leverage technology to enable financial regulators in managing the risks posed by emerging financial services models without impeding the innovation required to drive financial inclusion. Anna... Read More →

Francesca Hopwood Road

Centre Head, Bank for International Settlements – BIS

Francesca joined to lead the BIS Innovation Hub London Centre in February 2022. She previously headed up the Financial Conduct Authority’s RegTech and SupTech programme of work, leading a department of 50 data scientists, engineers, technologists and business change and comms specialists... Read More →

Wednesday July 13, 2022 10:20am - 10:45am BST
Enterprise 1 & 2

Keynote Sessions

10:50am BST

Keynote: Open Source Technology as a Starting Point to Greater Access and Inclusion - Keesa C. Schreane, Author

The Open Source tech space is to be celebrated as an example of how free flow and open information leads to great diversity and access!

In this talk, we will discuss how corporates are embracing changes, such as participating in open source, building DEI programs, and acting socially responsible by enhancing participation in ESG
The talk will outline why Open Source leaders should take an active role in shifting the corporate paradigm towards bringing groups of diverse participants together to mind gaps in existing code, and how Open Source leaders can do this.

Participants will leave with clarity on how open source can be a model for their corporations' inclusion and social responsibility practices and how they can directly influence their corporations' policies and approach to be marketplace leaders.

Speakers

Keesa C. Schreane

Author

Keesa C. Schreane, author of Gambling on Green: Uncovering the Balance among Revenues, Reputations, and ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance)(Wiley Sept 2022) and Corporations Compassion Culture: Leading Your Business toward Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, is a business strategist, commentator, and speaker. Her specialties include global business leadership, ESG (environmental, social, and governance) competitive advantages, as well as supply chain risk analysis and sustainable finance.She is founder, executive producer, and host... Read More →

Wednesday July 13, 2022 10:50am - 11:05am BST
Enterprise 1 & 2

Keynote Sessions

11:20am BST

Break

Wednesday July 13, 2022 11:20am - 11:50am BST
2nd Floor Foyer - Galleria

Breaks / Networking / Special Events

11:50am BST

How Fintech ClearBank Leverages Open Source to Accelerate Crypto Payments through their Cloud API Infrastructure - James McLeod, FINOS & Steven Hawkins, ClearBank

In this fireside chat James McLeod, FINOS Director of Community, and Steven Hawkins, Head of DevOps Transformation at ClearBank, explore how fintech ClearBank leverages open source to provide a Cloud API platform that provides clearing services to fintechs, crypto platforms, banks and credit unions, allowing FSIs to focus on providing the best service for their customers.

During this chat James and Steven explore how fintechs leverage the culture and benefits of open source in financial services and how FINOS engages fintechs, crypto providers and challenger banks to accelerate open source within a highly regulated industry that joins all banks and fintechs together.

Speakers

Steven Hawkins

Head of DevOps Transformation, ClearBank

An adaptable and excellent collaborator with proven leadership qualities. Effective in introducing and presenting new ideas and processes. Highly motivated individual with a strong work ethic. Consistently delivers high-quality output to demanding schedules.Specialist knowledge in... Read More →

James McLeod

Wednesday July 13, 2022 11:50am - 12:20pm BST
Enterprise 1

Data / Risk / Models

11:50am BST

Reducing the Barrier to Entry for Blockchain by Leveraging the Capabilities of Kubernetes - Duncan Johnston-Watt & Csilla Zsigri, BTP

We motivate the discussion with an introduction to the Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) Landscape, an open source initiative modelled on the CNCF Landscape, before focusing on the increasing importance of Kubernetes as the bedrock in this increasingly complex world. Kubernetes is the perfect environment in which to deploy blockchain solutions. Yet the complexity of blockchain deployments, added to the complexity of Kubernetes deployments, is often a barrier to adoption of this technology. Our talk will focus on how we address this by automating the deployment and management of DLTs from the Hyperledger Foundation on Kubernetes, overlaying support for the open source smart contract language, Daml, from Digital Asset. We will showcase the benefits of this approach highlighting our work in the insurance and financial services arena. We will close with a call to action encouraging the audience to explore this for themselves.

Speakers

Duncan Johnson-Watt

CEO & Co-Founder, Paravela

Currently focused on launching Paravela, a startup based here in Riyadh to take advantage of the tremendous opportunities in the Kingdom and contribute to Vision 2030. Paravela is an enterprise data management company that enables the secure sharing of critical information about the... Read More →

Csilla Zsigri

VP Strategy, BTP

Csilla is VP of Strategy at BTP, a GBBC Ambassador, and a regular blogger and speaker on the subject of blockchain and associated technologies. Csilla created and curates the DLT Landscape, an open-source market segmentation initiative, inspired by the growing complexity of the evolving... Read More →

Wednesday July 13, 2022 11:50am - 12:20pm BST
Engage

Hot Topics 2 / Cloud / Payments / Blockchain

11:50am BST

How to Be a Good Corporate Citizen in Open Source - Dawn Foster, VMware

Collaboration in open source projects is important for companies, but it can be difficult to strike the right balance between the needs of the company and the open source project. This can create friction and put pressure on employees who participate on behalf of their company when the needs of the individual, the company, and the community are not aligned. This talk will focus on ways to create this alignment and help all of us be successful together. Communities are a critical component of open source projects, and the way that people participate can reflect positively or negatively on the person and organization that they represent. The majority of work in some projects, like Kubernetes, is done by people working for a wide variety of organizations, and the success of many projects requires participation from these companies. The talk contains three major sections: 1) Dynamics of collaboration in open source projects between individuals, companies, and communities. 2) Strategies for participating in ways that will benefit your company, your employees, and the community. 3) Tips for being a good corporate citizen as you contribute to open source projects.

Speakers

Dawn Foster

Director of Data Science, CHAOSS

Dr. Dawn Foster works as the Director of Data Science for CHAOSS where she is also a board member / maintainer. She is co-chair of CNCF TAG Contributor Strategy and an OpenUK board member. She has 20+ years of experience at companies like VMware and Intel with expertise in community... Read More →

GoodCorpCitizenOSS OSSF pdf

Wednesday July 13, 2022 11:50am - 12:20pm BST
Interact

Open Source People + Policies

Session Slides Attached Yes

11:50am BST

FDC3 in the Wild - Real World Use Cases that Help Evolve the Standard - Eugene Sorenson, Cosaic & Robert Friend, Symphony

Many firms are becoming familiar with the universal open-source FDC3 standard and understand how it is integral to interoperability between financial applications. However, firms may not be aware of real world use cases that are being solved for today. In this presentation, we discuss how FDC3 is used in the wild, with special guest Symphony to discuss how FDC3-connected applications have helped to solve their end user pain points. +See workflows live action workflows presented by Symphony +Hear from Chief Product Officer Eugene Sorenson how clients are embracing the standard +Understand how, as an application provider, you can benefit from becoming FDC3-enabled to help your clients

Speakers

Eugene Sorenson

Chief Product Officer, Cosaic

A twenty-year veteran of product management and UX design, Eugene most recently managed the business strategy for Bloomberg’s foundational applications product suite and led the initiative to revolutionize the charting and technical analysis application... Read More →

Robert Friend

Senior Director of Solution Architecture, Symphony

TBC

FDC3 in the Wild (1) pdf

Wednesday July 13, 2022 11:50am - 12:20pm BST
Integrate 1

Standards + Regulations

Session Slides Attached Yes

12:25pm BST

Data Platforms Made Easy - Introducing TRAC D.A.P. - Martin Traverse & Greg Wiltshire, Accenture

With TRAC D.A.P. we introduce a radically new approach to building data platforms for highly regulated industries, that combines the power, flexibility and insight of modern analytic tools with Total Repeatability, Audit and Control (TRAC). In this talk, we will present the design approach we used to develop the TRAC platform, which can be useful to anyone who is looking to build or improve platforms for model development and execution. We'll look at how the new architectural paradigm can change the business, by re-drawing the boundary between business and technology to allow truly independent ownership and delivery. We'll also be covering the TRAC D.A.P. software itself, which is now part of FINOS under an Apache license. TRAC D.A.P. is a complete implementation of a platform built on these principles and available for free to anyone who needs a modern, powerful environment for model development and execution. The talk will include a demo.

Speakers

Martin Traverse

Technical Architect, Accenture

Martin is a technical architect specialising in Risk Data Platforms and High Performance Computing. Over the last few years he has developed a radically new approach to analytic data architecture. As well as delivering this architecture for one of the UK's leading banks, he regularly... Read More →

Greg Wiltshire

Risk Modeller, Accenture

Greg joined Accenture in 2022 to work on the TRAC D.A.P. proposition. Prior to this he was he was at Lloyds Banking Group as a modelling lead working on IFRS9 and capital risk, leading a team of risk modellers, data scientists and engineers to modernise how the Group performs analytics... Read More →

Wednesday July 13, 2022 12:25pm - 12:55pm BST
Enterprise 1

Data / Risk / Models

12:25pm BST

Mission Critical Data, and Evaluating the Community in OSS Tech - Mick Semb Wever, The Apache Software Foundation

Apache Cassandra is used in the critical path of most Global Banks yet one might ask why it’s so important in so many financial institutions.

A modernised, cloud native data platform is table stakes as we face new challenges and possibilities. Today, we see this in open banking, cryptocurrencies, data governance, etc. requiring faster, more automated, and accountable data applications at lower operational overheads. While we broadly utilise open source tech to solve these challenges around speed, elasticity, cost and operational overhead, and data governance - is open source really up to the task? Are communities involved in these technologies ready to continuously deliver?

In this session Mick Semb Wever, PMC Chair for Apache Cassandra and Services Leader at DataStax, will discuss how Apache Cassandra, having established itself as THE NoSQL database over the last decade, has re-energised its community and feature development and talk about how ING, Capital One, Visa, ACI, UBS and many others, leverage open source for real-time payments, fraud detection and KYC. This will be backed up with working code examples and demo applications the audience can use for themselves.

Speakers

Mick Semb Wever

Principal Architect, DataStax, The Apache Software Foundation

Apache Cassandra Committer and PMC Member.Principal Architect in Professional Services, DataStax, where as part of a global team we provide expert advice on Apache Cassandra and global data platforms. 20+ years engineering with Open Source software, massive Distributed Legacy Systems... Read More →

Mission Critical Data, and Evaluating the Community in OSS pdf

Wednesday July 13, 2022 12:25pm - 12:55pm BST
Engage

Hot Topics 2 / Cloud / Payments / Blockchain

Session Slides Attached Yes

12:25pm BST

The Challenges of Deploying Real-time AI for Finance and how Open Source can help - Nava Levy, Redis

Real-time AI/ML use cases for Financial Services are on the rise, but deploying them at scale reliably and cost effectively is challenging. In this talk we will see how open source software for machine learning operations (MLOps) and Feature Stores in particular, are helping address these challenges. We will also explore a few case studies in production, in which tools such as open source Feast together with open source Redis are deployed in FinTech companies for real-time use cases such as fraud detection and lead scoring.

Speakers

Nava Levy

AI/ML Developer Advocate, Redis

Bio: Nava is a Developer Advocate for Data Science and MLOps at Redis. She started her career in tech with an R&D Unit in the IDF and later had the good fortune to work with and champion Cloud, Big Data, and DL/ML/AI technologies just as the wave of each of these was starting. Nava... Read More →

Final PDF OSFF Deploying Real time AI in Finance Nava Levy Redis pdf

Wednesday July 13, 2022 12:25pm - 12:55pm BST
Enterprise 2

Hot Topics: Security / AI / Payments

Session Slides Attached Yes

12:25pm BST

How to Grow and Maintain Open-source Community and Ecosystem for the Long-term - John Samuel, Erlang Solutions

RabbitMQ is the world's most deployed Open-Source message broker and has become ubiquitous in fintech systems. Whilst there are a variety of reasons companies choose Open Source solutions from ease of use to talent attraction, one common theme is the benefits which Open Source technologies provide for dealing with change and volatility. To deliver on this promise, Open Source technologies require robust and committed communities. This talk will outline how community is at the heart of why companies choose Open Source, the responsibility of companies to work with community and how fostering community growth benefits companies in the long run.

Speakers

John Samuel

Project Manager & Head of RabbitMQ, Erlang Solutions

John Samuel directs the middleware innovation team at Erlang Solutions. He is an evangelist for RabbitMQ as an open-source technology solving some of the key pain points in FS. He is part of the programming committee for the RabbitMQ Summit. A pragmatic technologist, he has worked... Read More →

Wednesday July 13, 2022 12:25pm - 12:55pm BST
Interact

Open Source People + Policies

12:25pm BST

What’s new with FDC3 v2.0? - Kris West, Cosaic & Riko Eksteen, Adaptive Financial Consulting

The last year has been an incredibly busy one for the FDC3 community, culminating in the release of the recently completed FDC3 2.0 Standard. This is the first major revision to the Standard since the v1.0 release in 2019 and there are many new features and developments to share. In this presentation, FDC3 experts and co-lead maintainers Kris West and Riko Eksteen will walk you through some of the most recent additions and how they help FDC3 adopters to both tackle new use-cases and improve on existing ones. They’ll be presenting an overview of: +How FDC3 has evolved from context sharing and intents to supporting complex workflows with transactions and feeds. +New Intents (actions) and Context definitions supporting real-world workflows. +The new app directory standard, enabling vendors and firms to publish their apps to run on any Desktop Agent. +The new and improved Standards portal website. +What's next for FDC3. This thirty minute presentation will make sure you’ve got all the information you need about the newest updates to FDC3. Please join us!

Speakers

Kris West

Principal Engineer, Cosaic

Riko Eksteen

Head of Desktop Strategy at Adaptive Financial Consulting, Adaptive Financial Consulting

With 20 years of experience in technology and financial services, and knowledge and skills spanning multiple technologies and disciplines, including front-end, back-end, and everything in between, Riko is passionate about the transformative power of people and technology for financial... Read More →

Wednesday July 13, 2022 12:25pm - 12:55pm BST
Integrate 1

Standards + Regulations

12:55pm BST

Lunch Break

Wednesday July 13, 2022 12:55pm - 1:55pm BST
2nd Floor Foyer - Galleria

Breaks / Networking / Special Events

1:55pm BST

An Open Source Architecture for Modernizing Market Risk Management - Aric Rosenbaum & Marius Bogoevici, Red Hat

In today’s environment, financial institutions face challenges that include: * New and more complex calculations due to regulatory demands (i.e., FRTB) and climate risk * Explosive data growth and the need to move and analyze this data * Limited on-premise compute capacity * Need to improve time to value by accelerating model deployment to production To help solve these challenges, Marius Bogoevici and Aric Rosenbaum have worked with industry experts and market leaders to design a forward-thinking, open source solution to better address current challenges and prepare for future needs. Based on real-world use cases, we will show how an open source market and credit risk calculation architectural framework: * Scales risk management by leveraging the hybrid cloud to perform new and more complex calculations in less time at a lower TCO * Accelerates development and deployment of risk models via modern DevSecOps practices * Responds in real-time to market / alternate data via an event driven architecture * Improves risk management by orchestrating and automating the many pre/post-calculation steps * Improves auditability and transparency with flexible rules-based decisioning

Speakers

Aric Rosenbaum

Chief Technologist, Global Financial Services & Governing Board Member, FINOS, Red Hat

Aric serves as the Chief Technologist on Red Hat's Global FSI team, where he helps clients meet their strategic priorities through the use of open source technology. Prior to joining Red Hat, he led large, digital transformation projects at Goldman Sachs’ Investment Management Division... Read More →

Marius Bogoevici

Chief Architect, Red Hat

Marius is a Chief Solutions Architect in the Financial Services team at Red Hat, where he acts as trusted advisor on industry trends, technology strategy, and best practices to more than 30 Fortune 500 banks in the US and Canada. Using his expertise in modern application development... Read More →

OSF Modernizing Market Risk pdf

Wednesday July 13, 2022 1:55pm - 2:25pm BST
Enterprise 1

Data / Risk / Models

Session Slides Attached Yes

1:55pm BST

An Introduction to FinOps - Ben de Mora, FinOps Foundation

A discussion about how Cloud has changed the IT spending model, and how we must change to benefit from the new reality brought about by highly variable IT spend.

Speakers

Ben

Education Principal, FinOps Foundation

FinOps Certified ProfessionalBuilt a FinOps Practice across major US & EU Video Streaming Platform in Cloud, reduced cloud spend by over $13mExperienced FinOps Foundation Instructor & Course DeveloperExperienced Scrum Master (PSM) & ScaledAgile Scrum Master (SAFe)Consulted with Enterprise-sized... Read More →

Ben de Mora FinOps Intro Content pdf

Wednesday July 13, 2022 1:55pm - 2:25pm BST
Engage

Hot Topics 2 / Cloud / Payments / Blockchain

Session Slides Attached Yes

1:55pm BST

Hacking the Cloud Native Renaissance: Lowering Risk of Kubernetes Adoption - Andrew Martin, Control Plane

Cloud native technologies like Kubernetes and containers promise easy workload migration, enhanced segmentation of workloads, and faster patching. But the declarative configuration paradigm also widens opportunities for misconfiguration, and security testing is key to hardening and keeping a system secure.

In this talk, ControlPlane CEO Andrew Martin details lessons learned from 9 years of container-based consulting with real hacks against cloud native systems: from the open-source supply chain and contributor risk, through zero-day container breakouts, to cloud account compromise.

Speakers

Andrew Martin

CEO, ControlPlane

Andrew has an incisive security engineering ethos gained building and destroying high-traffic web applications. Proficient in systems development, testing, and operations, he is at his happiest profiling and securing every tier of a cloud native system, and has battle-hardened experience... Read More →

Wednesday July 13, 2022 1:55pm - 2:25pm BST
Enterprise 2

Hot Topics: Security / AI / Payments

1:55pm BST

How to get them to Commit? - Elena Lape, Theta Labs

You are the full package. You solve their problems, seamlessly integrate with their existing life, and provide the security they need. If only they could see it and decide to commit... We're talking about developers' git commits to open source projects, of course. Getting contributor buy-in for new open source projects is hard. This challenge is multiplied 1000x in highly regulated, 'buttoned up' industries such as finance. Projects in this space require specific knowledge, which most developers won't have. But more importantly — newer, neither widely adopted nor recognized projects coming from the money people are just not perceived as very exciting. Especially as they're unlikely to be something that developers can use on their fun hobby projects outside of work. So why would they be motivated to dig deeper into the ecosystem? Ex-GitHubber turned developer relations strategist, Elena will unveil the secrets of how developers evaluate an open source project, what tips them over the edge to join its community, what makes folks see your value beyond an open code repository, and what ultimately motivates them to contribute to your software.

Speakers

Elena Lape

Co-Founder, Holographic, Inc.

Elena helps develper tool companies win the hearts of developers. As a developer experience consultant and an open source engineer, Elena is an expert at building technical communities, creating powerful developer relations strategy, and organizing large scale tech events & hackathons... Read More →

Wednesday July 13, 2022 1:55pm - 2:25pm BST
Interact

Open Source People + Policies

1:55pm BST

Regulation Innovation - Stories from the Trenches - Jennifer Lassiter, The Digital Dollar Project; Anna Wallace, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; Leo Labeis, REGnosys & Moderated by Jane Gavronsky, Linux Foundation/FINOS

Speakers

Jane Gavronsky

CTO, Linux Foundation/FINOS

Jennifer Lassiter

Executive Director, The Digital Dollar Project

Anna Wallace

SPO Consumer Protection and RegTech, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Leo Labeis

Founder and CEO, REGnosys

Leo (Laurent-Olivier) Labeis is the Founder & Chief Executive Officer of REGnosys.With 15 years’ experience in delivering innovative solutions to securities trading businesses, Leo’s core expertise is in the transformational impact of technology and regulation across the financial... Read More →

Wednesday July 13, 2022 1:55pm - 2:25pm BST
Integrate 1

Standards + Regulations

2:30pm BST

Consuming Legend Data Models & Services Using BI, Python/ML & other Tools - Andrew Ormerod & John Pentelow, Goldman Sachs

Join Andrew Ormerod and John Pentelow from Goldman Sachs to learn about consuming Legend data models & services using Business Intelligence (BI), Machine Learning (ML), and other tools. The whole world is not model based, which is why we need tabular slices of data to integrate with those tools. This session will focus on Legend's capability to project slices of data in order to integrate with business intelligence and analytics tools. Andrew and John will discuss the TDS protocol, how it translates to query execution plans, and how it is being used within the firm. They will also demo integrations with Pandas, Trino, and other custom integrations.

Speakers

Andrew Ormerod

Managing Director, Goldman Sachs

Andrew manages the global Business Intelligence (BI) Platform team at Goldman Sachs, which is responsible for operating and building the ecosystem of tooling for the firm's core BI products. He is also responsible for the Data Governance tooling platform within the Legend ecosystem... Read More →

John Pentelow

Vice President, Goldman Sachs

John is a Vice President and senior developer in the Legend Engineering team at Goldman Sachs and is responsible for a number of the applications and protocols within the Legend ecosystem. John joined the firm in 2012 after earning a Bsc from the University of Bath.

Wednesday July 13, 2022 2:30pm - 3:00pm BST
Enterprise 1

Data / Risk / Models

2:30pm BST

Building an Open Source Payment System - Sebastian Javier Marchano, Taler System

Faster than credit card transactions, more efficient than Bitcoin, as private as email and free as GPL. GNU Taler is a payment system that you can install, modify and use for payments, withdrawals, tips and more. In this workshop, we will start with the basic concepts and components of GNU Taler and later jump into building a payment system from the command line. In the process, we will see how it can get integrated with the current bank's API, and test the experience of selling and buying with digital money. In the end, you will learn that a digital payment system is possible without compromising people's privacy or creating a digital asset in a distributed ledger.

Speakers

Sebastian Javier Marchano

Developer, Taler System

Currently working as developer in GNU Taler, mainly doing web development.Previously worked as CTO of a tech bootcamp, lead the tech team building a trading platform and build a community around ReactJS in Buenos Aires.I like going into tech talks and organize them, some of the talks... Read More →

osff london taler pdf

Wednesday July 13, 2022 2:30pm - 3:00pm BST
Engage

Hot Topics 2 / Cloud / Payments / Blockchain

Session Slides Attached Yes

2:30pm BST

Open Source Sustainability and our Corporate Social Responsibility - Colin Eberhardt, Scott Logic

Modern software is increasingly complex, made up of hundreds or thousands of open source components, hidden in deeply nested dependency trees. Just how much do we know about these components that are an integral part of our products? What are the risks associated with their usage, and our exposure? Within the financial services industry, most often the solution is to build up a robust defense against these perils. Security scans, license checkers – this helps create a walled garden, but ultimately harms the wider open source ecosystem. This talk will take a closer look at the make-up of modern software supply chains; we’ll look at where this code comes from, who authored it and how it is distributed; ultimately asking ourselves the question, is this sustainable? Despite numerous efforts to address this challenge, via crowdfunding, sponsorship & highlighting critical infrastructure projects, the problem is growing. To solve it, we need a reset in how we view this precious and fragile asset. Much like the environment, grassroots activism can only go so far; to make a difference, large corporations need to wake up to their responsibility and make genuine and tangible commitments.

Speakers

Colin Eberhardt

CTO, Scott Logic

I am the CTO of Scott Logic, a growing UK-based software consultancy that tackles challenging software problem. I'm a keen open source advocate, and a frequent personal contributor. I am a board member of FINOS, and chair both the Technical Oversight Committee and the newly-formed... Read More →

Wednesday July 13, 2022 2:30pm - 3:00pm BST
Enterprise 2

Hot Topics 2 / Cloud / Payments / Blockchain

2:30pm BST

Open Source Metaverse - Josip Almasi, Open Computing Ltd.

Metaverse became a buzzword nowadays, and different sources estimate Metaverse market to reach $800B any time between 2024 and 2030. But, what's the point? How does the virtual economy work? And, what's the role of open source? Josip Almasi, VRSpace.org project lead, will attempt provide some of the answers. A self-hosted multi-user VR server, audio and video streaming are basic building blocks of VR-enabled web. AI characters provide added value, as advisors, tech support, salesmen etc. Communities of servers share the state of virtual worlds on a distributed immutable ledger, AKA blockchain. On-chain assets represented by Non-Fungible Tokens can be owned and traded, enabling a virtual economy. All this can be built, and is being built already, using exclusively open source software, and thanks to open standards, all building blocks are interchangeable.

Speakers

Josip Almasi

Director, Open Computing Ltd

IT professional for 30+ years, long time open source user, author and advocate. Built carrier on open source software and solutions, in finance, telecom, healthcare, and tech industries. VRSpace.org project lead. Occasionally lecturing on different aspects of open source, e.g. - Java... Read More →

vrspace why what how pdf

Wednesday July 13, 2022 2:30pm - 3:00pm BST
Interact

Open Source People + Policies

Session Slides Attached Yes

2:30pm BST

An Open Source Approach to Regulatory Reporting - Mosè Tronci & Georgina Bulkeley, Google

The Google Cloud Financial Services Industry Solutions team has released an open source blueprint solution for regulatory reporting, which can help transform the data supply chain in the regulatory reporting process to produce timely and reliable reports.
The solution leverages an open ecosystem of frameworks which allows leveraging the scalability and economics of cloud in an accessible and portable manner.
In this talk, the Google Cloud Financial Services Industry Solutions team will present the solution, the important role of open source, and areas where collaborators can get involved to further advance it.

Speakers

Mosè Tronci

Industry Solutions Architect, Financial Services Industry Solutions, Google

Mosè is a Industry Solutions Architect in Google’s Cloud Financial Services Industry Solutions team. In this role, he is responsible for creating solutions that address key needs in financial services leveraging Google Cloud’s infrastructure, and partnering with clients and consulting... Read More →

Georgina Bulkeley

Director of Financial Services Solutions, EMEA, Google

Georgina Bulkeley serves as the Director of Financial Services Solutions, EMEA at Google Cloud. In her role, Georgina is responsible for Banking, Insurance and Capital Markets clients’ Solutions across the region and regularly acts as a spokesperson for Google Cloud. Georgina... Read More →

Wednesday July 13, 2022 2:30pm - 3:00pm BST
Integrate 1

Standards + Regulations

3:00pm BST

Break

Wednesday July 13, 2022 3:00pm - 3:30pm BST
2nd Floor Foyer - Galleria

Breaks / Networking / Special Events

3:30pm BST

Real-time Trade Data Processing and Machine Learning at Giga-Scale with Hazelcast and FINOS Perspective. - John DesJardins & Neil Stevenson, Hazelcast

Trade volumes continue to grow, demanding more scalable solutions for real-time processing. The old approach was to throw hardware at the problem. However, that is no longer needed. Newer more efficient technologies enable smaller, more manageable clusters while handling extreme workloads. Hazelcast, the Open Source real-time data platform, can process billions of events per second with modest compute resources. Meanwhile, FINOS Perspective provides an ideal framework for real-time data visualization. In this session, you will learn how to architect and build the fastest data processing applications that scale linearly, and combine streaming trade data with reference and contextual data and supporting machine learning. Unifying data-in-motion and data-at-rest with real-time ML opens new use-cases across front and back office. We will take you through the end-to-end framework and an example Trade application, built on Hazelcast. We will also show how you can leverage SQL to further explore the operational data in the solution including querying Kafka topics and key-value data on the in-memory data store. Attendees will also get access to the Github sample application shown.

Speakers

John DesJardins

Chief Technology Officer, Hazelcast

John DesJardins is CTO at Hazelcast, the Open Source real-time data platform. He is also an active speaker, and brings expertise in large scale computing across Big Data, Internet of Things, Machine Learning and Cloud. He also has over 25 years of experience in architecting and implementing... Read More →

Neil Stevenson

Principal Architect, Office of CTO, Hazelcast

With over 30 years of industry experience, Neil has designed, developed, debugged, and supported software systems for numerous customers large and small. Initially, a C and assembler programmer, most of the last 20 years have been Java-based, with a focus on distributed systems, data... Read More →

Wednesday July 13, 2022 3:30pm - 4:00pm BST
Enterprise 1

Data / Risk / Models

3:30pm BST

Proactive and Polymorphic Adaptation of Multi-cloud Deployments - Alicja Reniewicz, 7bulls.com & Pawel Skrzypek, Omphalos Fund

During the session, entitled: “Proactive and polymorphic adaptation of multi-cloud deployments”, Alicja & Pawel will present how to implement Multi-Cloud native strategies using an advanced open-source framework. Such framework allows for Cloud-agnostic Cross-Cloud deployment and optimized management of a Cloud application based on flexible monitoring, context-aware maximization of the application owner’s utility of the deployed application, and autonomic reconfiguration based on the application’s current execution context. During this session, speakers will provide a practical introduction to Multi-Cloud application modelling, configuration, deployment, and adaptation. All stages of the Cloud deployment planning and designing process will be shown. Also, all the key steps in the deployment and autonomic application management will be demonstrated.

Speakers

Alicja Reniewicz

Technical Team Leader, 7bulls.com

Alicja Reniewicz is a full stack developer (in technologies related to web applications: Java, Spring, Spring Boot, Angular, Bootstrap, Angular Material, HTML5, CSS), responsible for: code integration and maintenance (Docker, CI/CD configurations), using of cloud services also in... Read More →

Pawel Skrzypek

Architect, 7bulls.com

Paweł Skrzypek is a highly experienced architect of ICT systems, with extensive knowledge of machine learning and Big Data solutions. Chief Multi-Cloud Architect at 7bulls.com, working on www.morphemic.cloud and other cloud computing projects, focusing on multi-cloud and serverless approach. In the MORPHEMIC project, Paweł is responsible for supervising the development of the whole platform and results evaluation. Paweł has over 20 years of experience in the field... Read More →

Wednesday July 13, 2022 3:30pm - 4:00pm BST
Engage

Hot Topics 2 / Cloud / Payments / Blockchain

3:30pm BST

Why Proprietary Investment Research Platforms won't Last - Didier Rodrigues Lopes, OpenBB

Today's investment research platforms are proprietary and come bundled with a full suite of services. This means that your business has to develop complementary solutions on top of these platforms. The most well known investment research platforms are expensive and do not offer a custom solution to fit your business's needs. OpenBB offers the first open source, fully customisable investment research platform that your company can tailor to their own needs, all built off of GitHub's top investment research platform: OpenBB Terminal.

Speakers

Didier Rodrigues Lopes

CEO, OpenBB

As a young investor, I saw that new trading platforms such as Robinhood, Coinbase and Binance received a lot of attention. Excited about investing, I looked for research tools but didn't find anything really helpful. I found a large number of sites offering various investment data... Read More →

Wednesday July 13, 2022 3:30pm - 4:00pm BST
Enterprise 2

Hot Topics: Security / AI / Payments

3:30pm BST

Leveraging your Organization's OS Engagements to Recruit and Retain. - Chris Howard, EPAM Systems

In this session, Chris will share how both Open Source Software and Open Source Program Office's developed within organizations can, and should, play a key role in attracting and retaining talent. With the year on year growth in enterprise OSS adoption and an increasing expectation from candidates and employees to be working closely with open source; this talk will share some of the initiatives, tools and processes that have been used successfully to attract diverse and passionate individuals into organizations. Additionally, methods to retain employees through recognition and reward of their own open source activity and transparency in policies and contracts concerned with employee contribution and IP rights sheds insight into how to minimise unnecessary complications of recruitment and onboarding.

Speakers

Chris Howard

Head of the Open Source Program Office, EPAM Systems

Chris has 15 years’ experience consulting for varied organisations in delivering their digital transformation programmes. At EPAM he is Head of the Open Source Program Office supporting employees and clients with their consumption, contribution and maturity in Open Source. He regularly... Read More →

OSFF 2022 ChrisHoward Presentation v1 pdf

Wednesday July 13, 2022 3:30pm - 4:00pm BST
Interact

Open Source People + Policies

Session Slides Attached Yes

3:30pm BST

Breaking New Ground in RegTech Through Open Source TechSprint Innovation - Minesh Patel, REGnosys

To be added shortly.

Speakers

Minesh Patel

Chief Technology Officer, REGnosys

Minesh is a hands-on technology lead and polyglot developer with over 20 years’ track-record of delivering innovative solutions at several tier-1 investment banks with well-written, easily maintainable and automated software.Minesh started his career in finance at Morgan Stanley... Read More →

Wednesday July 13, 2022 3:30pm - 4:00pm BST
Integrate 1

Standards + Regulations

4:05pm BST

Timebase CE, with Connectivity to Crypto Exchanges - Matthew Gorelik, EPAM Systems

In this session, Matt will talk about TimeBase Community Edition and how the Open Source Community can leverage this technology to build their own analytical models, data visualizations, and unique applications. TimeBase has been the time-series data warehouse and messaging middleware underpinning Deltix/EPAM Real-Time Computing Lab technology for over fifteen years. In this talk, Matt will share some of the reasoning behind submitting this technology to the open source community, and discuss the developments to the product inspired by the community. Additionally, there will be discussion surrounding easy-of-use and integration into existing solutions.

Speakers

Matthew Gorelik

Product Manager of Digital Asset Technology, EPAM Systems

I am product manager of digital asset technology at EPAM Systems within a business unit called the Real-Time Computing (RTC) lab. I come from a software engineering background specializing in algorithmic trading. I am interested in expanding the FinTech Open Source community and generating... Read More →

TimeBase CE OSFF 2022.07.13 pdf

Wednesday July 13, 2022 4:05pm - 4:35pm BST
Engage

Hot Topics 2 / Cloud / Payments / Blockchain

Session Slides Attached Yes

4:05pm BST

OSPOs in Finance: Ways to Overcome Industry Barriers to Accelerate OS Adoption - Ana Jiménez Santamaría, TODO Group

Open Source Program Offices and similar initiatives serve many organizations to provide strategy and alignment on top of the organization's open source efforts. However, each organization has specific industry barriers, and that also applies to those OSPOs being formed in the finance sector. During this talk, Ana will share some remarks from The Evolution of OSPOs study, introducing the OSPO Model and how it can be aligned with FINOS' OS Maturity Model (OSMM). The audience will also be able to have a glance at some corporate archetypes, responsibilities, and roles an OSPO can adopt and some real examples of organizations within the finance sector implementing an OSPO.

Speakers

Ana Jimenez Santamaria

Senior OSPO Program Manager, The TODO Group

Ana is the OSPO Program Manager at the TODO Group, a LF project and an open community of practitioners who aim to create and share knowledge and collaborate on practices, tools, and other ways to run successful and effective Open Source Program Offices. Formerly she worked at Bitergia... Read More →

Wednesday July 13, 2022 4:05pm - 4:35pm BST
Interact

Open Source People + Policies

4:05pm BST

Prepping the Bar: Insights from Cleaning and Labeling a Cocktail Dataset - Jevon Beckles, Scott Logic

Many businesses are keen to embark on data projects but don’t know where or how to start. Regardless of whether you intend to visualise the data or perform advanced analytics, it is first important to clean the data and, in most cases, provide appropriate labels for data modeling. This presentation highlights some basic considerations for cleaning and labeling data using a personal project of the author.

Speakers

Jevon Beckles

Lead Developer, Scott Logic

Jevon is an experienced software consultant with a background in Electrical & Computer Engineering. Having developed his early career in research and hardware-software systems, he now focuses his energies on delivering value to clients with a partnership mindset. Jevon is an active... Read More →

Wednesday July 13, 2022 4:05pm - 4:35pm BST
Integrate 1

Standards + Regulations