Open Source in Finance Forum London 2025: Full Schedule

24 June 2025 | London, England
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08:00 BST

Registration + Badge Pick-up

Tuesday June 24, 2025 08:00 - 18:15 BST

Ground Floor (near Main entrance)

Tuesday June 24, 2025 08:00 - 18:15 BST
Ground Floor (near Main entrance)

Registration / Breaks / Networking / Special Events

09:00 BST

Keynotes To Be Announced

Tuesday June 24, 2025 09:00 - 10:30 BST

Churchill

Tuesday June 24, 2025 09:00 - 10:30 BST
Churchill

Keynote Sessions

10:30 BST

Break + Networking

Tuesday June 24, 2025 10:30 - 11:00 BST

Solutions Showcase

Tuesday June 24, 2025 10:30 - 11:00 BST
Solutions Showcase

Registration / Breaks / Networking / Special Events

10:30 BST

Solutions Showcase

Tuesday June 24, 2025 10:30 - 19:15 BST

Pickwick (Floor 1)

Tuesday June 24, 2025 10:30 - 19:15 BST
Pickwick (Floor 1)

Solutions Showcase

11:00 BST

Leveraging Modern Agentic AI Platforms for Financial Services Automation and Innovation - Jochen Papenbrock, NVIDIA

Tuesday June 24, 2025 11:00 - 11:30 BST

Churchill

Modern Agentic AI platforms offer a transformative solution for financial services, enabling automation, data analytics and decision making. This presentation will explore the application of Agentic AI blueprints, including API-driven microservices for model customization, RAG, safeguarding, deployment, and inference, in finance, leveraging open source and community models such as the Llama, Mistral, and DeepSeek model families. We will discuss how these tools can automate complex tasks, analyze large data sets, and improve decision making.

Blueprints and similar reference architectures provide a foundation for building custom AI agents that can reason and act autonomously. The open models are available under an open source license, allowing for customization and deployment in different environments.

This presentation will highlight the potential of Agentic AI to revolutionize financial services, including task automation, enhanced data analysis, and improved decision making. Relevant open source tools and models will be presented and their application in financial systems will be demonstrated.

Speakers

Jochen Papenbrock

Head of Financial Technology EMEA, NVIDIA

Jochen has spent the last 25 years in various roles on the topic of AI in financial services, as a thought leader, implementer, researcher, and ecosystem shaper. He works with executives, data scientists, developers, partners, and communities in the global NVIDIA ecosystem. At NVIDIA... Read More →

Tuesday June 24, 2025 11:00 - 11:30 BST
Churchill

An Open Source AI Powered Industry

11:00 BST

DORA: How To Balance Compliance With Innovation - Monica Sasso, Red Hat

Tuesday June 24, 2025 11:00 - 11:30 BST

Gielgud

The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) is a game-changer for the EU financial services industry, establishing uniform ICT risk management, incident reporting, and third-party risk regulations. Unlike previous sector-specific frameworks, DORA mandates a horizontal implementation across entire firms, ensuring a ‘Minimum Viable Bank’—continuity of critical services amid disruption.
DORA aligns with the financial sector’s shift toward decentralised technology models, where hybrid cloud adoption has introduced operational complexity. While regulatory compliance may seem burdensome, DORA presents an opportunity: fostering a tech-first mindset, enhancing resilience, and driving strategic modernization. However, challenges remain—smaller firms may struggle with costly penetration testing, while managing fourth- and fifth-party risks requires increased supply chain visibility.
A successful DORA implementation hinges on open hybrid cloud platforms, enabling interoperability, scalability, and AI-driven innovation. Rather than a regulatory checkbox, DORA should be seen as an industry-wide resilience strategy, securing financial services for the future.

Speakers

Monica Sasso

Global Financial Services Digital Transformation Lead, Red Hat

Monica supports customers in adopting open source & hybrid cloud for business transformation, focusing on digital transformation, operational resilience, and compliant infrastructure. As the Asset & Wealth Management business lead, she brings experience from top global firms like... Read More →

Tuesday June 24, 2025 11:00 - 11:30 BST
Gielgud

Mutualizing Risk and Compliance in the Open

11:00 BST

Open Source in Finance: Maintaining the New Strategic Stack - James McLeod, NatWest Group

Tuesday June 24, 2025 11:00 - 11:30 BST

Albert

Open Source in financial services has entered a pivotal new phase. No longer just individual tools and formation projects, key FINOS projects are forming a connected, strategic layer in banking technology stacks and the interdependencies are growing.

This talk explores how projects like Git Proxy, FDC3, the Common Domain Model, Common Cloud Controls, and AI Readiness are building momentum across the industry and how they increasingly rely on each other. What’s emerging is a shared, collaborative infrastructure built by and for the financial services industry.

But with that adoption comes responsibility. We’ll unpack why financial services firms need to invest in contributing to FINOS projects and why it’s important for teams and internal stakeholders to know the Open Source embedded in their systems.

We’ll also highlight the growing importance of Open Source training across the industry, particularly in security and software supply chain practices as fundamental skills for modern engineers.

This is a call to action for more contributors, more maintainers, and more champions. The Open Source stack in finance is no longer optional. It’s infrastructure.

Speakers

James McLeod

Open Source Program Lead, NatWest Group

James is the Head of Open Source at NatWest Group and passionately believes that embracing open source is crucial for the continuous transformation and future development of financial services engineering.

Tuesday June 24, 2025 11:00 - 11:30 BST
Albert

Supercharge Your Open Source Journey

11:00 BST

Open Eyes, Open Source: Mission-critical Trade Surveillance Powered by TimeBase FINOS Project - Michael Gavronsky, EPAM Systems & Asis Mohanty, Deutsche Bank

Tuesday June 24, 2025 11:00 - 11:30 BST

Olivier

Effective trade and market surveillance represents a cornerstone of financial market integrity, providing the foundation of trust upon which the entire financial system depends.
Given huge and ever-growing volumes of heterogeneous time-series trade and market data coming from different sources in real-time, being able to capture and effectively process in-memory, real-time, and historical time-series data has become a key component for any effective surveillance solution.
We plan to present and demonstrate how Timebase was leveraged in the following case studies
• Mission critical trade surveillance solution that addresses bank’s trading and regulatory compliance
• Demo that examines a market manipulation event to showcase Timebase out of the box capabilities in solving market surveillance challenges

Speakers

Michael Gavronsky

V.P. Financial Services Consulting, EPAM Systems

Technology executive with 25+ years of experience, currently driving AI solutions enablement & growth at EPAM Systems. My expertise lies in financial data platform technologies and enterprise digital evolution.

Asis Mohanty

Director, Deutsche Bank

Over 16 years of professional experience in requirement analysis, design, development and deployment of business applications in various Compliance projects (Trade Surveillance, Brokerage compliance and AML. KYC)

Tuesday June 24, 2025 11:00 - 11:30 BST
Olivier

The Business Case for Open Source

11:00 BST

FDC3 for the Web: The Next Evolution in Financial Application Interoperability - Julianna Langston, interop.io

Tuesday June 24, 2025 11:00 - 11:30 BST

Abbey

FDC3 has revolutionized interoperability in financial services, but until now, its full potential has been limited to desktop containers. FDC3 2.2 changes that by bringing FDC3 to the web for seamless app-to-app communication across any platform for a true “write once, run anywhere” experience—no extensions, no workarounds, just frictionless interoperability.

In this session, we'll explore why this shift matters, what’s new in FDC3 2.2, and how firms can adopt it to streamline workflows and reduce IT complexity. Attendees will get a firsthand look at FDC3 for the Web in action, including real-world use cases and a live demo, along with insights into what’s next for the standard.

Speakers

Julianna Langston

UI & Accessibility Specialist, interop.io

Julianna works with the io.connect team @ interop.io as Senior Software Engineer and has worked on multiple FDC3 related User interfaces including our Channel Selectors and Intent Resolver. She's also an expert wrangler of build and testing systms. In her spare time, Julianna maintains... Read More →

Tuesday June 24, 2025 11:00 - 11:30 BST
Abbey

The Open Connective Tissue of Financial Services

11:00 BST

CDM Extension for Property Collateral & Physical Hazard Risks - Johnny Mattimore & David Kelly, MKM Research Labs

Tuesday June 24, 2025 11:00 - 11:30 BST

Burton / Redgrave

The current CDM delivers meaningful workflow and cost benefits for banks. Given the material increase in existing and future exposure that banks have to physical risk events on property assets, extending the CDM will provide comprehensive foundation data fields to support end-to-end workflows for the integration of physical hazards like flood, fire and wind.

This CDM extension will enable banks to reduce the time and costs to deliver reporting, deep analytical insights for transactions and portfolios, as well as advanced risk simulation for scenario and stress testing. This will also support the transfer risk using the concept of Physical Risk Swaps for hedging and wider financial product creation to meet different risk appetites in the financial ecosystem.

To achieve this, we are extending the CDM and integrating it with the valuable components that feed solutions for existing Catastrophe Risk used widely for insurance and repurposing them with new components, including NVIDIA's AI Platforms, to create bank specific solutions.

This will be a unique Open Source solution at high speed, large scale and low cost to address current and future Physical Risks faced by banks.

Speakers

David Kelly

Chief Scientific Officer, MKM Research Labs

To complete

Johnny Mattimore

Mr, MKM Research Labs

Johnny Mattimore has over 35 years in financial services. He originally trained as a mathematician and markets economist. He worked for the first half of his career in investment banking and the second half of his career in hedge funds. In recent years, he has focussed on the integration... Read More →

Tuesday June 24, 2025 11:00 - 11:30 BST
Burton / Redgrave

Ushering a New Era with the Common Domain Model

11:40 BST

Practical Use of AI Agents in Finance With Example - Ranadip Chatterjee, Google

Tuesday June 24, 2025 11:40 - 12:10 BST

Churchill

Gen AI agents and agentic architectures are the talk of the day. But, in practice, how do we get real business benefits from this hyped tech? Here we go through a practical example in Financial Services on how agents can be used for real business benefits. Includes a demo of a real world usecase.

Speakers

Ranadip Chatterjee

Global FSI Solution Architect, Google

Ranadip has spent more than 20 years exploring and helping FSI clients leverage real value from leading edge technologies. He has worked as a consultant and architect with major FSI businesses in London. In his current role as one of 3 Global FSI Solution Architects in Google Cloud... Read More →

Tuesday June 24, 2025 11:40 - 12:10 BST
Churchill

An Open Source AI Powered Industry

11:40 BST

Trust but Verify: Fixing Broken Licensing Compliance in SBOMs - Abdullah Garcia, J.P. Morgan

Tuesday June 24, 2025 11:40 - 12:10 BST

Victoria

Ensuring licensing compliance with SBOMs isn’t just about identifying declared licenses: it requires verifying the integrity of the listed components. Without validation through identity assertions and cryptographic hashes, SBOM license data can be incomplete, misleading, or outright incorrect. This session explores how to enhance trust in SBOM-driven compliance by integrating integrity checks, ensuring the software components match their declared identities. Attendees will gain insights into best practices for verifying SBOM data, mitigating legal and security risks, and improving compliance workflows. Join me to learn why an SBOM without integrity verification is meaningless—and how to fix it.

Speakers

Abdullah Garcia

Senior Lead Cybersecurity Architect, J.P. Morgan

Enthusiastic and driven security engineer and architect with over ten years of experience of successful design and delivery of high-quality solutions across a broad range of industry sectors. Interested in security architecture, domain threat and risk analysis, and risk-control... Read More →

Tuesday June 24, 2025 11:40 - 12:10 BST
Victoria

Guarding the Vaults

11:40 BST

K8s vs. Agent Smith: Exploding GPUs and the AI Readiness Governance Framework - Andrew Martin, ControlPlane

Tuesday June 24, 2025 11:40 - 12:10 BST

Gielgud

In a broad and detailed appraisal of end-to-end AI security for FINOS members we examine how to run LLM agent workloads on Kubernetes using the AI Readiness Governance Framework — without getting lost in the Matrix.

GPU megaclusters, operationalising LLM agnents at scale, and securely deploying GPU-bound workloads are covered, with real-world experience in some of the world's most complex deployments with the industry's latest, bleeding-edge offensive and defensive tooling.

In this talk we:
- enumerate the threats and controls in the AI Readiness Governance Framework with real infrastructure and examples, and examine how they fix FSI concerns
- investigate how to attack and defend against a range of historical and current AI CVEs, both with the FINOS AI Readiness and FINOS CCC/CFI projects
- analyse where misconfigurations and advanced threats are at the greatest risk and impact to your AI systems
- introduce AI Red Teaming and our work in the OpenAI Red Teaming Network
- look at the future growth and ambitions of the governance framework, and at how other critical FINOS projects intersect to support the mission

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 →

Tuesday June 24, 2025 11:40 - 12:10 BST
Gielgud

Mutualizing Risk and Compliance in the Open

11:40 BST

Cafex: Revolutionizing Test Automation in Financial Services using Open Source Principles - Hari Kishan Kurapati & Prateek Kapoor, S&P Global

Tuesday June 24, 2025 11:40 - 12:10 BST

Albert

S&P Global will be presenting a real-time implementation success story in standardizing and revolutionizing Test Automation Framework in Financial Services using Open-Source Principles in partnership with FINOS. Cafe X, which stands for Centralized Automation Framework Enabler, is an open-source Python testing framework developed by S&P Global in response to the identified inefficiencies in the fintech industry's testing processes. This innovative framework aims to streamline QA and testing efforts, ultimately saving valuable time and resources. Unlike other frameworks that focus on a single testing layer, Cafe X provides comprehensive multi-layer testing capabilities, enabling seamless testing across various layers, including User Interface (UI), Application Programming Interface (API), Database, and data-related tests. This case is joint effort between S&P Global & FINOS to bring the best for Open Source Community.

Speakers

Hari Kishan Kurapati

Director, S&P Global

Hari Kishan is a seasoned leader with over 18 years in technology, He has focused on building robust full stack applications, cloud solutions, and innovative frameworks. As a leader in the Engineering Solutions at S&P Global, he has driven excellence and innovation, delivering high-quality... Read More →

Prateek Kapoor

Senior Director, S&P Global

Prateek Kapoor has a rich experience of 20+ years in Digital transformation, setting up of GCC and Innovation Center of Excellence. In his current role, he is heading the OpenSource Program at S&P and helping foster a culture of trust and innovation.

Tuesday June 24, 2025 11:40 - 12:10 BST
Albert

Supercharge Your Open Source Journey

11:40 BST

Open Source for Climate Risk: Leveraging OS-Climate’s PhysRisk Library - Elena de Toledo, Arfima Financial Services & Matt Sandoe, OS-Climate

Tuesday June 24, 2025 11:40 - 12:10 BST

Olivier

Meet OS-Climate’s PhysRisk library, an open, transparent, and auditable framework that integrates high-quality climate data with advanced risk modeling techniques. Participants will explore methodologies for evaluating physical climate risks under different climate scenarios across diverse sectors, learning how to integrate geospatial data, vulnerability models, and risk-scoring techniques into their risk assessments.

Attendees will gain actionable insights into climate risk quantification, regulatory compliance, and strategic risk management—leveraging open-source tools to build climate resilience across industries.

A practical banking sector use case will illustrate how financial institutions assess climate risks at two key levels: evaluating how climate hazards impact corporate counterparties, integrating risk models to assess financial exposure and credit risk; and analyzing the resilience of physical assets linked to financial agreements, using location-based vulnerability modeling to quantify potential damages.

IT professionals attending who are new to the topic will be equipped to take sufficient knowledge back to their respective internal climate teams.

Speakers

Matthew Sandoe

Mr, OS-Climate

Matt has worked in a diverse range of innovative environments spanning government funded entrepreneurial schemes and food sector R&D, through to >25 years in financial risk management, most recently as a climate risk manager at BNP Paribas. Matt is currently working as an independent... Read More →

Elena de Toledo

Quantitative Analyst and Climate Risk Specialist, Arfima Financial Services

Quantitative Analyst and Climate Risk Specialist at Arfima. Master’s degree in Mathematical Engineering (UCM). Bachelor’s degree in Applied Mathematics and Computing (UC3M).

Tuesday June 24, 2025 11:40 - 12:10 BST
Olivier

The Business Case for Open Source

11:40 BST

Many Apps, One Identity : The Power of FDC3 - Yannick Malins, Symphony

Tuesday June 24, 2025 11:40 - 12:10 BST

Abbey

In today’s fast-paced financial and enterprise environments, users expect a seamless experience as they move between applications. But without a standardized way to share user identity, workflows become fragmented, productivity suffers, and security risks increase.

Enter FDC3, the open standard for inter-application communication. In this session, we’ll explore how FDC3 2.3 will allow sharing user identity across applications securely and efficiently—eliminating redundant logins, reducing manual data entry, and enabling a more connected ecosystem.

Speakers

Yannick Malins

Head of Collaboration & Partner Platform, Symphony

Leading one of Symphony's four engineering divisions, Yannick is responsible for the development and delivery of key elements of the Symphony product suite: the messaging experience on desktop and mobile, federation with external communication networks, the quality engineering organisation... Read More →

Tuesday June 24, 2025 11:40 - 12:10 BST
Abbey

The Open Connective Tissue of Financial Services

11:40 BST

CDM, Realising Interoperability - Chris Rayner, International Securities Lending Association (ISLA)

Tuesday June 24, 2025 11:40 - 12:10 BST

Burton / Redgrave

To meet its promise of becoming a standard across capital markets, CDM needs an established format for the exchange of information. This standard must support:

- interoperability: users of the same version of the model should be able to exchange data regardless of their programming language
- model completeness: ability to represent the entire model
- readability: serialized data should be human readable
- compactness: serialized data should be as compact as possible

After review by the CDM Technology Architecture Working Group (TAWG), the community determined that the current JSON format had gaps that prevented it from becoming that standard. These gaps have now been closed with the introduction of a new serialization format.

This presentation showcases the new serialized format and the benefits it offers, particularly:
- its stronger alignment to model definitions
- improved readability
- compactness
- a more consistent machine-readable representation
- improved ease and speed of machine processing

Speakers

Chris Rayner

Senior Associate – Market Infrastructure & Technology, International Securities Lending Association (ISLA)

In his role as a Senior Associate – Market Infrastructure & Technology within the Regulation, Digital & Market Practice group at ISLA, Chris is responsible for supporting the Association’s work on the development of the Common Domain Model (CDM). Prior to ISLA, Chris held a... Read More →

Tuesday June 24, 2025 11:40 - 12:10 BST
Burton / Redgrave

Ushering a New Era with the Common Domain Model

12:20 BST

Cloud Compliance vs. Cost Efficiency: Can Fintech Have Both? - Kate Obiidykhata, Percona

Tuesday June 24, 2025 12:20 - 12:35 BST

Gielgud

Regulated fintech organizations must ensure compliance with stringent data regulations while maintaining cost efficiency in the cloud. However, compliance-driven choices—such as data residency requirements, encryption mandates, and audit logging—can lead to hidden costs, especially in cloud storage and database management. This talk breaks down how cloud adoption impacts database architectures in fintech, why public cloud pricing models often penalize compliance-heavy workloads, and how open-source database solutions can help financial organizations regain control over performance, security, and cost.

Speakers

Kate Obiidykhata

Senior Product Manager, Percona

Senior Product Manager with 9 years of experience in the open-source technology industry, leading projects such as AlmaLinux, Kubernetes Operators, and Everest - a cloud-native database management platform.

Tuesday June 24, 2025 12:20 - 12:35 BST
Gielgud

Mutualizing Risk and Compliance in the Open

12:20 BST

Build Your Own Agent: Getting Started With the Open Source GenAI Orchestration Platform - Diego Mastroianni, Moody's

Tuesday June 24, 2025 12:20 - 12:50 BST

Churchill

Join us for a captivating hands-on session where we dive into the world of General AI through our open-source orchestration platform. In "Build Your Own Agent," you will personalize instructions to produce your desired outputs and witness the tangible benefits of AI in just 30 minutes.

During this session, you'll learn how to:
- Upload and integrate a corpus of documents.
- Instruct LLMs to generate new outputs that mirror the style of your documents.
- Combine multiple skills and connectors using the BYOA (Build Your Own Agent) feature.

Get practical experience by creating an agent that retrieves the latest news from a news aggregator, combines it with your proprietary documents, and generates a structured report. Watch the magic unfold as your custom agent starts running within minutes.

Additionally, we will explore advanced admin options to manage and make different skills available for users, ensuring you have a smooth and efficient workflow. This session is perfect for both beginners eager to explore AI and seasoned professionals looking to enhance their AI toolkit.

Don't miss this opportunity to harness the power of AI and elevate your tech prowess.

Speakers

Diego Mastroianni

Director - OSPO, Moody's

Diego Mastroianni is the Director of the Moody’s Open Source Office, where he helps drive the management of open-source tools and practices across the organization. With a background in computer engineering and a Ph.D. in Management, he has years of experience leading teams, optimizing... Read More →

Tuesday June 24, 2025 12:20 - 12:50 BST
Churchill

An Open Source AI Powered Industry

12:20 BST

Navigating Challenges in Open Source and InnerSource Management: From Breakups To Breakthroughs - Carlos Navarro Segarra, AXA Group Operations

Tuesday June 24, 2025 12:20 - 12:50 BST

Albert

Join us for an engaging lightning session that will delve into the complex challenges of managing Open Source and InnerSource initiatives within a highly regulated landscape. We will examine how to establish effective health assessment criteria that encompass maturity, success, and adoption metrics. This strategic approach empowers organizations to anticipate the evolution of their InnerSource and Open Source projects, equipping them to handle potential breakups—such as allocating InnerSource costs among subsidiaries across different jurisdictions—and promising breakthroughs, including successful transitions from InnerSource to Open Source.
Participants will gain valuable insights into best practices for fostering collaboration, ensuring compliance, and safeguarding intellectual property while driving innovation. Discover how to navigate regulatory complexities and unlock the full potential of Open Source and InnerSource strategies to propel your organization’s growth and adaptability.

Speakers

Carlos Navarro Segarra

Principal Engineer, AXA Group Operations

I'm a software engineer with a strong background in Java development and architecture. I started as a Java Developer, quickly advancing to Lead Developer, where I led projects and mentored junior developers. I then became a Java Solutions Architect, focusing on scalable solutions... Read More →

Tuesday June 24, 2025 12:20 - 12:50 BST
Albert

Supercharge Your Open Source Journey

12:20 BST

Using Artificial Intelligence To Fight the Environmental Crisis - Richard Harmon, Red Hat & Steve Tebbe, OS-Cllimate

Tuesday June 24, 2025 12:20 - 12:50 BST

Olivier

The EU Artificial Intelligence Act represents a major regulatory milestone, embedding environmental sustainability into AI governance. It introduces principles for developing AI systems sustainably, mandates energy consumption logging for high-risk AI, and requires lifecycle environmental impact assessments. Key provisions emphasize green AI development, mandate tracking energy and resource use and enforce efficiency standards for foundational models. However, despite these advancements, the Act's final version leans on voluntary standards, limiting enforceability. It largely focuses on energy consumption, overlooking broader ecological concerns like water use, mineral extraction, and electronic waste. While gaps remain, the Act is a step toward sustainable AI, reinforcing the need for responsible innovation. Future efforts must strengthen enforcement to ensure AI development aligns with global environmental goals.

Speakers

Richard Harmon

VP & Global Head of Financial Services at Red Hat, General Board Member OS-Climate, Red Hat

Dr Harmon has over 30 years of experience in Financial Services and leads Red Hat’s Financial Services business globally. He has an extensive publication record, an invited speaker at numerous Global FSI conferences, sits on several AI advisory boards and on the Governing Board... Read More →

Steve Tebbe

Strategic Advisor, OS-Cllimate

Steven Tebbe is a global executive with over two decades of leadership at the nexus of sustainability, finance, and technology. As Managing Director of CDP Europe, he influenced over $40 trillion in assets to drive corporate climate action. He played a key role in shaping European... Read More →

Tuesday June 24, 2025 12:20 - 12:50 BST
Olivier

The Business Case for Open Source

12:20 BST

FDC3 Sub-agents for App Composition - Derek Novavi, S&P Global Market Intelligence & Kris West, NatWest

Tuesday June 24, 2025 12:20 - 12:50 BST

Abbey

There is a strong desire in the FDC3 community to support multiple app scopes within a parent app scope. FDC3's origins lie in desktop containers, and for web apps this meant hosting apps via urls in separate windows. This means micro-frontend containers in vanilla web browsers need to host apps in separate windows or iframes in order to use FDC3. This is appropriate when hosting apps from multiple vendors (e.g. for code isolation purposes) but is an undesirable restriction for apps from a single vendor. In particular, many organizations have existing platforms hosting separate web apps as modules within the same window (same DOM) by means of module federation or import maps. Retrofitting FDC3 support to such a platform is currently problematic. Beyond web apps, there are also similar challenges with composition in the case of native apps. The FDC3 Standard Working Group has been working on a solution, which involves the new concept of 'sub-agents'. This talk provides an overview of the motivation, the opportunity, the challenges, and the proposed changes to the FDC3 Standard to enable 'sub-agents' and multiple app scopes - for both browsers and other containers.

Speakers

Derek Novavi

Director (Frontend Architect), S&P Global Market Intelligence

Derek Novavi is a frontend architect at S&P Global, a world-leading provider of financial information services. Derek is also an Editor of the FINOS FDC3 Standard, and represents S&P Global at FINOS, championing the evolution of the FDC3 standard for web-based platforms to enable... Read More →

Kris West

Principal Engineer (OSPO), NatWest

Principal Engineer in the NatWest Open Source Programs Office (OSPO), leading technical delivery of the OSPO's programs and working as FDC3's lead maintainer. Kris loves to roll his sleeves up and get involved in InnerSource & Open Source projects to help them succeed. The TypeScript/JavaScript... Read More →

Tuesday June 24, 2025 12:20 - 12:50 BST
Abbey

The Open Connective Tissue of Financial Services

12:20 BST

Unleashing the Power of CDM: Bridging Integration and Model-Driven Design - Nicholas Moger, JP Morgan

Tuesday June 24, 2025 12:20 - 12:50 BST

Burton / Redgrave

Discover how the FINOS Common Domain Model (CDM) can transform your software development lifecycle (SDLC). This session demonstrates the power of object-driven development and forward engineering, going beyond surface-level integration to embrace true model-driven development. We'll unpack advanced features of CDM and Rune, highlight missed opportunities, and provide practical insights for rethinking your SDLC. Break free from black-box development and step into the future of innovation with CDM!

Speakers

Nicholas Moger

Regulatory Technology Product Director, JP Morgan

With over 15 years of regulatory experience at JP Morgan, including leading Operations change teams, Nicholas transitioned to Technology 8 years ago. He recently implemented the FINOS Common Domain Model (CDM), initially for the DRR use case.

Tuesday June 24, 2025 12:20 - 12:50 BST
Burton / Redgrave

Ushering a New Era with the Common Domain Model

12:35 BST

Taming Multi-Cloud Security: Progress on Common Cloud Controls - Michael Lysaght, Citi & Sonali Mendis, Scott Logic

Tuesday June 24, 2025 12:35 - 12:50 BST

Gielgud

For highly regulated firms, aligning security and compliance in the cloud is a persistent challenge. The FINOS community has been tackling this issue head-on, defining technology-specific control catalogs informed by security frameworks and regulations, while enabling automated compliance validation and compliant delivery mechanisms.

Join two project maintainers of the Common Cloud Controls (CCC) project as they showcase how it streamlines the creation of threat-informed controls and integrates them into reusable assets via the Compliant Financial Infrastructure (CFI) project. This session will provide insights into building scalable, open-source security controls that help financial institutions accelerate cloud adoption while maintaining regulatory compliance.

Who should attend? Leaders and individual contributors in compliance, security, and cloud infrastructure who are looking to bridge the gap between governance requirements and real-world cloud implementations.

Speakers

Michael Lysaght

Mr, Citi

Michael is the Head of Citi's Global Threat-Informed Defense Engineering team, where he leads a global team of engineers focused on delivering protective, detective, and responsive security controls across Citi's cloud environments. Passionate about bridging the gap between security... Read More →

Sonali Mendis

Senior Software Developer, Scott Logic

Sonali is a Senior Developer at Scott Logic, where she leverages 14 years of experience across cloud, backend, mobile, and enterprise applications to deliver high-impact solutions for clients. Passionate about open-source contributions, she actively engages in community-driven projects... Read More →

Tuesday June 24, 2025 12:35 - 12:50 BST
Gielgud

Mutualizing Risk and Compliance in the Open

12:50 BST

Lunch

Tuesday June 24, 2025 12:50 - 13:50 BST

Solutions Showcase

Tuesday June 24, 2025 12:50 - 13:50 BST
Solutions Showcase

Registration / Breaks / Networking / Special Events

13:50 BST

Amplify AI Productivity and Trust With Morphir - Attila Mihaly, Morgan Stanley

Tuesday June 24, 2025 13:50 - 14:20 BST

Churchill

AI-powered code generation holds great promise, but how can we ensure correctness, transparency, and trust—especially in financial software? This session explores how Morphir, an open-source framework for domain modeling and business logic, integrates with AI to boost productivity while maintaining rigor. We'll demo a new feature where users, both technical and non-technical, can chat with an LLM to define business logic in natural language, instantly visualize execution paths, and validate behavior with interactive test cases. Unlike generating general-purpose code, our approach leverages Elm's strictness and Morphir's structured IR to improve reliability and guide AI refinement through compiler feedback. Attendees will see how AI and Morphir together make software development more accessible, verifiable, and efficient.

Speakers

Attila Mihály

VP, Morgan Stanley

Attila Mihaly is a VP at Morgan Stanley with over 20 years of experience in software development, including 16+ years in roles spanning front-office trading systems to regulatory reporting. As a co-creator of Morphir, he is passionate about programming-language design, automation... Read More →

Tuesday June 24, 2025 13:50 - 14:20 BST
Churchill

An Open Source AI Powered Industry

13:50 BST

Beyond Threat Modelling: Formal Verification for Cloud Native Infrastructure - Francesco Beltramini, ControlPlane & Luca Viganò, King's College London

Tuesday June 24, 2025 13:50 - 14:20 BST

Victoria

What can we consider truly “secure”? Most cybersecurity professionals would agree: nothing. While this may be true, threat modelling helps regulated organisations, such as FSIs, design, build, and operate cloud native systems within acceptable security and operational risk tolerances. This works for known threats, but how do we address the "unknown"?
Are there countermeasures? Possibly! ControlPlane has partnered with King’s College to find out. We start from Kubernetes, the platform most used by global FSIs to run containers at scale. We aim to use rigorous mathematical techniques to explore all states of insecurity for a given configuration and enumerate unknown attack paths.
In this talk, we will: Highlight the limits of traditional threat modelling in providing security guarantees, Explain how formal methods can verify cloud native systems and deliver provable security guarantees, Guide the audience through assessing unknown threats and show how standards like FINOS Common Cloud Controls mitigate both known and unknown threats. A PhD in Mathematics is NOT required. We’ll explain formal verification in an accessible way, using real-world examples from regulated FSIs.

Speakers

Francesco Beltramini

Head of Technical Solutions, ControlPlane

Francesco is a Security Professional with 10+ years of working experience and deep technical competence matured on a number of high-end projects for both public and private sector organisations. Francesco had the opportunity to work on a variety of technology stacks in designing and... Read More →

Luca Viganò

Professor, King's College London

Luca Viganò is Professor at the Department of Informatics of King's College London, UK, where he heads the Cybersecurity Group. His research focuses on formal analysis of cybersecurity and on explainable cybersecurity.

Tuesday June 24, 2025 13:50 - 14:20 BST
Victoria

Guarding the Vaults

13:50 BST

Strengthening Open Source Engagement: Recognising and Rewarding Contributors - Neil McGonigle & John Kelly, Fidelity Investments

Tuesday June 24, 2025 13:50 - 14:20 BST

Albert

Open source thrives on engagement, yet sustaining long-term contributor involvement remains a challenge—especially within large companies. In this talk, we’ll share how we built a strong internal open source community by recognising and rewarding contributors, reinforcing engagement, and fostering a culture of participation. We’ll walk through the strategies we implemented, from career growth opportunities to conference travel incentives, and the use of gamification. In addition, we’ll showcase how we measured the impact of these efforts, demonstrating how recognition fuels retention, innovation, and long-term commitment to open source. Attendees will leave with actionable insights on how to cultivate a contributor-first culture within their own organisations, ensuring open source contribution remains a core part of their company’s DNA.

Speakers

Neil McGonigle

Director of Cloud and Platform Engineering, Fidelity Investments

An experienced Leader and Cloud/Cyber Technologist with extensive experience empowering and leading highly performing teams across multiple geographies. I’m passionate about enabling engineering excellence, innovation and collaboration to deliver amazing experiences to our partners... Read More →

John Kelly

Mr, Fidelity Investments

Specialist in Cloud, Infrastructure and Backend enterprise development.

Tuesday June 24, 2025 13:50 - 14:20 BST
Albert

Supercharge Your Open Source Journey

13:50 BST

An Open-Source Data Platform for Financial Institutions - Marius Bogoevici, Red Hat

Tuesday June 24, 2025 13:50 - 14:20 BST

Olivier

Financial institutions require solutions for creating and sharing high quality data sets, internally and externally for analytics and AI/ML.

In this presentation we will introduce one of the foundational pieces of OS-Climate Data Commons: its data platform that provides its constituents - producers and consumers of data - with a toolbox for sharing datasets, as well as easily creating and sharing new datasets on the platform.

Bringing concepts such as Data-as-Code, GitOps, and CI/CD to data ingestion, transformation and publishing, and based on the conceptual framework of the Data Mesh, we will present and demonstrate a Data Platform built with open source components such as Apache Airflow, Spark, Apache Iceberg, Trino, Unity and more and running cloud-natively on Kubernetes. This provides solutions for a wide range of problems faced by services institutions in the data space - from self-servicing data infrastructure for running ETL pipelines, to decentralizing data product ownership while preserving security and regulatory compliance in a federated governance model.

Come see it at work in a practical exercise!

Speakers

Marius Bogoevici

Director, Field CTO, Red Hat

Marius works as a Director in the Red Hat CTO Organization, advising on industry trends, technology strategy, and best practices to Fortune 500 organizations in the US and Canada, with a primary focus on the financial services industry. Using his expertise in modern application development... Read More →

Tuesday June 24, 2025 13:50 - 14:20 BST
Olivier

The Business Case for Open Source

13:50 BST

Voice-Driven AI Agents for FDC3: Exploring Natural Interfaces for Financial Desktop Integration - Chris Watson, Elgin White

Tuesday June 24, 2025 13:50 - 14:20 BST

Abbey

This presentation explores the integration of AI agents with FDC3 standards through voice interaction, featuring a live demonstration using FINOS SAIL. We'll examine how this approach addresses two UX challenges for financial professionals: the manual selection required in current FDC3 intent resolution and the attention-splitting nature of chat interfaces in trading environments.
The session will cover:

UX limitations in existing FDC3 implementations and how AI agents can enhance workflow orchestration
Comparing visual attention requirements between chat and voice interfaces in multi-screen trading environments
Technical implementation using FINOS SAIL and potential extensions to other FDC3-compliant containers
Deployment options comparing cloud, on-premises, and local implementations with focus on open-source solutions
Live demonstration of voice commands executing complex workflows across multiple financial applications

Attendees will gain practical insights on enhancing FDC3 with AI assistants, implementation approaches using open-source technologies, and design principles for attention-preserving interfaces in financial applications.

Speakers

Chris Watson

Head of Interoperability at Elgin White, Elgin White

"When financial systems can't communicate, Chris Watson builds the bridges. As Head of Interoperability at Elgin White, he connects complex financial technologies for both buy and sell-side firms. A pragmatic engineer at heart, Chris contributes to open-source such as FDC3, MDN, React... Read More →

Tuesday June 24, 2025 13:50 - 14:20 BST
Abbey

The Open Connective Tissue of Financial Services

13:50 BST

A Guide To Integrating CDM and Digital Regulatory Reporting - Leo Labeis, REGnosys

Tuesday June 24, 2025 13:50 - 14:20 BST

Burton / Redgrave

This session will demonstrate how users may start integrating CDM within their organisation and benefitting from some of its practical applications, such as ISDA's Digital Regulatory Reporting (DRR).

One of the first questions that users ask when considering a CDM implementation is: how do I integrate it with, and map it to, my existing systems and data.

The session will expose recent developments to open-source the mapping technology in the CDM and its underlying DSL (Rune), and how users can start leveraging it for their implementation.

The session will also demonstrate some useful resources and examples that have been packaged into a freely accessible "Acme Bank" model, that illustrates an end-to-end journey to Digital Regulatory Reporting.

Note: the session could be usefully accompanied by a separate "table-top" exercise, that would guide participants through making those steps themselves.

Speakers

Leo Labeis

CEO and Founder, REGnosys

Leo (Laurent-Olivier) Labeis is the Founder & Chief Executive Officer of REGnosys, the leading collaboration platform for regulatory reporting. With 20 years’ experience in delivering innovation to global markets businesses, Leo’s core expertise is in the transformational impact... Read More →

Tuesday June 24, 2025 13:50 - 14:20 BST
Burton / Redgrave

Ushering a New Era with the Common Domain Model

14:05 BST

CALM - Architecture Lifecycle Management - Konadu Appiah & Joseph Brown-Pobee, Turntabl.io

Tuesday June 24, 2025 14:05 - 14:20 BST

Gielgud

Lightening talk showcasing an architects persona using CALM (Common Architecture Language Model).

CALM enables software architects to define, validate, and visualize system architectures in a standardized, machine-readable format, bridging the gap between architectural intent and implementation.

CALM aims to move architecture beyond static diagrams by providing a common language that both humans and machines can understand, ensuring that architectural decisions are consistently applied and easily auditable.

Speakers

Konadu Appiah

Software Engineer, Turntabl.io

TBD.

Joseph Brown-Pobee

Software Engineer, Turntabl.io

TBD.

Tuesday June 24, 2025 14:05 - 14:20 BST
Gielgud

Mutualizing Risk and Compliance in the Open

14:30 BST

High-Performance Software Security and Memory Safety - Jon Bauman, Rust Foundation

Tuesday June 24, 2025 14:30 - 14:45 BST

Victoria

Maximizing performance is often a competitive advantage in financial applications, and for four decades, the leading language for high-performance software has been C++. However, in recent years concerns about the risk of software vulnerabilities related to memory safety and the rise of Rust, a memory-safe language which offers performance comparable to C++, have led industry-leading companies and major governments to urge for a transition away from memory-unsafe languages. The sheer volume of existing C++ code and the value it represents makes rewriting it all infeasible on a timescale less than several decades, so large C++ codebases need to invest in high-performance interoperability to mitigate risk and potentially to comply with upcoming regulatory mandates. This talk will outline the current state of this strategy and the potential for innovation which can bring greater safety to performance-critical applications within finance and beyond.

Speakers

Jon Bauman

Rust/C++ Interoperatbility Initiative Lead Engineer, Rust Foundation

Jon Bauman has worked in tech for two decades across various industries and programming disciplines. As a member of the Rust Foundation’s growing engineering team, Jon applies the same skills to deeply understand complex systems and the perspectives of diverse stakeholders, forge... Read More →

Tuesday June 24, 2025 14:30 - 14:45 BST
Victoria

Guarding the Vaults

14:30 BST

Platforms for Secure API Connectivity With Architecture as Code - James Gough, Morgan Stanley

Tuesday June 24, 2025 14:30 - 15:00 BST

Gielgud

As microservices and complex platforms become the standard, ensuring secure connectivity while maintaining a smooth developer experience is a significant challenge. Traditional security models often introduce friction, slowing down innovation and deployment. Regulated industries must balance stringent security controls with the need for agility.

In this session, you will learn how Architecture as Code with CALM, an open-source initiative from FINOS, provides a structured approach to defining Patterns and Architectures that incorporate security and resilience from the start. You will see how CALM CLI can generate and validate architectures against predefined patterns, ensuring security compliance without compromising developer experience.

Through a live demo, you will observe how an initial deployment lacks security and how a threat model can be applied to highlight vulnerabilities. You will then learn how controls enforce security requirements, including Zero Trust principles to lock down the cluster. Finally, you will discover CalmHub and the Visualizer, tools that help review and maintain architectures over time.

Speakers

James Gough

Distinguished Engineer/Executive Director, Morgan Stanley

API Platform Lead Architect at Morgan Stanley working on APIs, security, and developer experience. A Java Champion, author, and conference speaker, Jim has contributed to the Java Community Process, co-authored Mastering API Architecture and Optimizing Cloud Native Java (O’Reilly... Read More →

Tuesday June 24, 2025 14:30 - 15:00 BST
Gielgud

Mutualizing Risk and Compliance in the Open

14:30 BST

TRAC D.A.P. – a Modern Approach To Structural Analytics and Regulatory Calculations - Alex Frankl, FINTRAC

Tuesday June 24, 2025 14:30 - 15:00 BST

Olivier

TRAC DAP is an incubating FINOS project that will publish v1.0 around conference time.

Thesis:
Risk and Finance functions are poorly served by established data science patterns because most of their analytics are ‘structural’, meaning they involve applying complex semi-rigid operations to generate outputs with specific, often regulated, definitions.

Examples of structural analytics in banking include regulatory capital, accounting models, stress testing, credit scoring, liquidity reporting, ALM (a similar list for insurance)

Version control, lineage, repeatability, auditability and the ability to experiment within a defined structure are key capabilities. These are not the capabilities modern data science solution prioritise.

Traditionally, banks built/bought a calculation engine per use case, with aspects of the model or data structure encoded in it.
TRAC D.A.P. takes a different approach. It offers a universal model orchestration framework built around a common metadata model, that works for all structural analytics.

Session objectives:
- Define structural analytics
- Explain how we generalised a solution
- Explain how people can leverage and extend TRAC D.A.P.

Speakers

Alex Frankl

CEO & Co-founder of finTRAC, FINTRAC

Alex is the CEO and Co-founder of finTRAC and a former managing consultant with Accenture, EY and Parker Fitzgerald. With a track record of delivering large-scale Risk and Finance transformation for global banking clients, the company he co-founded - finTRAC - now focuses on developing... Read More →

Tuesday June 24, 2025 14:30 - 15:00 BST
Olivier

The Business Case for Open Source

14:30 BST

Implementing FDC3 - A Vendor’s Strategic Shift To Adopting Open Source for Scale + Integrations - Adam Toms, Here™ (formerly OpenFin)

Tuesday June 24, 2025 14:30 - 15:00 BST

Abbey

The Challenge: LSEG faced growing client demand for more flexibility in how its Workspace apps could be consumed. A proprietary messaging framework limited LSEG’s ability to offer an integrated experience outside of its own closed platform.

The Implementation:
-What drove the top-down product and business leadership strategy to support FDC3.
-How a large-scale, central technology standard for FDC3 was set up for success and implemented.
-Which new requirements emerged including content enrichment and symbology translation, iframe support and multi-machine interoperability without tech-stack dependencies.
-How collaboration with partners and clients accelerated the journey and opened up an ecosystem

The Solution: LSEG migrated their Workspace apps to FDC3 from their internal messaging framework, opening up scalability. The Workspace apps became portable and ready for integration for internal and external clients while LSEG gained operational efficiencies. Leveraging Open Source, LSEG and Here are expanding the ecosystem of vendors using FDC3.

Next Steps:
Overcoming additional hurdles...
-Broadening community adoption
-Improving Translation with OS
-Educating a diverse audience

Speakers

Adam Toms

President, Here™ (formerly OpenFin), Here™ (formerly OpenFin)

Adam Toms serves as President & COO and is responsible for all company-wide GTM activities and corporate operations. He works with the firm’s largest clients on their most important strategic initiatives. Prior to Here™, Adam served as CEO of Instinet Europe. During his 20+ years... Read More →

Tuesday June 24, 2025 14:30 - 15:00 BST
Abbey

The Open Connective Tissue of Financial Services

14:30 BST

Tokenising CDM - Ciarán McGonagle, Tokenovate

Tuesday June 24, 2025 14:30 - 15:00 BST

Burton / Redgrave

The CDM is a foundational standard for modelling financial products, but it does not yet fully accommodate tokenised assets and blockchain-based settlements. This session will explore an initiative to extend the CDM to cover tokenised financial instruments, enabling greater integration between traditional and digital markets. I will discuss how CDM can standardise tokenisation attributes, support on-chain and hybrid settlement models, and enhance interoperability across financial infrastructures. Attendees will gain insight into how open-source collaboration can drive standardisation, reduce fragmentation, and create more transparent, efficient financial markets.

Speakers

Ciarán McGonagle

Chief Legal & Product Officer, Tokenovate

Ciarán McGonagle is Chief Legal & Product Officer at Tokenovate, leading innovation in financial infrastructure through blockchain and smart contract technology. Formerly Assistant General Counsel at ISDA, he is an advocate for standardisation in tokenised finance. Ciarán has authored... Read More →

Tuesday June 24, 2025 14:30 - 15:00 BST
Burton / Redgrave

Ushering a New Era with the Common Domain Model

15:00 BST

Break + Networking

Tuesday June 24, 2025 15:00 - 15:15 BST

Solutions Showcase

Tuesday June 24, 2025 15:00 - 15:15 BST
Solutions Showcase

Registration / Breaks / Networking / Special Events

15:15 BST

Security Superpowers With eBPF and Tetragon - Liz Rice, Isovalent at Cisco

Tuesday June 24, 2025 15:15 - 15:45 BST

Victoria

eBPF is a technology that allows dynamic, bespoke programs to change the way the kernel behaves. This talk introduces eBPF and shows how the Tetragon open source project applies it to provide powerful runtime security capabilities that can detect and even prevent malicious activities such as suspicious file access, network connections, and privilege escalation, with very low overhead. In the financial sector, security is paramount, and this talk will explore the likely evolution for standardized security tooling based on eBPF and Tetragon.

Speakers

Liz Rice

Chief Open Source Officer, Isovalent at Cisco

Liz Rice is Chief Open Source Officer at Isovalent, the creators of the Cilium project, and now part of Cisco. She is an award-winning speaker, and the author of O'Reilly books on "Container Security" and "Learning eBPF". She has been on the governing boards of the CNCF and OpenUK... Read More →

Tuesday June 24, 2025 15:15 - 15:45 BST
Victoria

Guarding the Vaults

15:15 BST

Learning To Trust Again: How Open Source Can Be Leveraged in Highly Regulated Industries - Liam Follin, KPMG

Tuesday June 24, 2025 15:15 - 15:45 BST

Gielgud

In the highly regulated world of financial services, trust is paramount. This talk explores how internal teams can trust open-source software (OSS) to provide a compliant financial infrastructure, using romantic comedies as analogies. Just as trust in relationships is built over time, so too is trust in technology, especially where compliance, security, and risk management are critical. We'll cover the basics of OSS, its transparency, and community-driven development, likening it to the openness seen in films like 'You've Got Mail.' We'll address the trust deficit in regulated industries, highlighting cybersecurity risks and compliance with regulations like GDPR. By adopting OSS, financial institutions can gain greater visibility into their software, allowing for more rigorous security audits and compliance checks. The talk will explore building trust through visible code and peer reviews, and leveraging OSS in industries like healthcare and finance. We'll discuss overcoming adoption barriers, emphasising data privacy, incident response, and community support. Looking to the future, we'll explore how AI and blockchain can enhance OSS security.

Speakers

Liam Follin

Lead Penetration Tester, KPMG

Liam is a Lead Penetration Tester and Dual CHECK Team Leader in KPMG's Cyber Defence Services Team. He is also a Chartered Cyber Security Professional under the UK Cyber Security Council. He loves all things pentesting and hacking.

Tuesday June 24, 2025 15:15 - 15:45 BST
Gielgud

Mutualizing Risk and Compliance in the Open

15:15 BST

Combatting Greenwashing Using AI Workflows and Agents - Oliver Cronk, Scott Logic Ltd

Tuesday June 24, 2025 15:15 - 15:45 BST

Olivier

How we leveraged AI to enhance ESG analysis while maintaining human judgment. InferESG, an open-source tool developed with abrdn using FinTech Scotland research grant funding, demonstrates a practical approach to this challenge. Using an AI workflow and multi-agent AI architecture, the system augments analyst capabilities in assessing materiality and detecting potential greenwashing.
We'll cover:

How AI can assist in parsing complex ESG reports and frameworks (Corporate Sustainability Reports, ESG Ratings, TNFD, GRI)
Practical approaches to materiality assessment using AI
Techniques for detecting subtle forms of greenwashing
Real-world validation results from testing with major corporations
Balancing AI automation with human expertise
Open source architecture for community enhancement

The session includes demonstrations of the greenwashing detection and materiality assessment, showing how analysts can interact with the system to investigate ESG claims and verify corporate sustainability statements.

Speakers

Oliver Cronk

Technology Director, Scott Logic Ltd

Oliver Cronk is the Technology Director at Scott Logic, leading on emerging and sustainable technology. Oliver leads on R&D projects including Responsible AI and Sustainable / ESG Technology. He also runs a podcast and global architect community called Architect Tomorrow. Oliver has... Read More →

Tuesday June 24, 2025 15:15 - 15:45 BST
Olivier

The Business Case for Open Source

15:15 BST

CDM Interoperability With RDF and Knowledge Graphs - Malcolm Sparks, JUXT LTD.

Tuesday June 24, 2025 15:15 - 15:45 BST

Burton / Redgrave

The Common Domain Model allows us to move away from maintaining the proprietary data models at the centre of our data systems.

RDF is a established and mature standard for representing datasets across web sites. In fact, an analysis from 2017 found that 44% of web domains contain some form of embedded structured data in RDF. This scale of adoption has meant that LLMs excel at synthesizing information and context when presented with RDF.

It turns out that it's straight-forward to express CDM models as RDF data, and in this talk I'll explain how, and also outline some of the many options that follow on from this:

1. Re-using existing RDF tooling to publish the CDM standard as a searchable website.

2. Integrate CDM-based financial trading information with FIBO (Financial Industry Business Ontology), XBRL, FRO, LSEG PermIDs and other data domains, such as those used in regulatory reporting

3. Incorporate CDM data in wider departmental Knowledge Graphs or Data Products supporting Agentic AI.

Speakers

Malcolm Sparks

CTO at JUXT, JUXT LTD.

Malcolm Sparks has worked in Investment Banking since 2008, first at Deutsche Bank and since 2013 in a number of other investment banks. He has a long track record of open source contributions, being the originator of projects such as jcoverage/Cobertura and many of the libraries... Read More →

Tuesday June 24, 2025 15:15 - 15:45 BST
Burton / Redgrave

Ushering a New Era with the Common Domain Model

15:55 BST

Adopting AI Agents as a Tool for Everyone - Adewalei Abati , Block

Tuesday June 24, 2025 15:55 - 16:25 BST

Churchill

Every other day, a new AI tool is announced—chatbots, AI models, agentic systems—each promising to reshape how we work. While many of these tools are built with software developers in mind, AI agents have the potential to impact professionals across all industries, including finance.

In this talk, we’ll explore how AI agents can be seamlessly integrated into existing workflows, helping finance professionals and teams work faster, reduce repetitive tasks, surface insights instantly, and support better decision-making—without replacing human expertise. Introducing Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers as a way to plug into existing financial services and platforms - automating your entire workflow.

No matter your role, AI agents can enhance the way you work, not replace it. Using Goose, an open-source AI agent, we’ll dive into real-world finance examples, showcase best practices, and engage with the audience through interactive demonstrations. You’ll leave with practical knowledge and a powerful new tool to make AI an ally in your daily work.

Speakers

Adewale Abati

Staff Developer Advocate, Block

Adewale "Ace" Abati is a Web Engineer and Staff Developer Advocate currently helping to shape the future at Block. Ace is passionate about the Web, Open Source and community building, an avid gamer and shares his experience through public speaking and content across social media... Read More →

Tuesday June 24, 2025 15:55 - 16:25 BST
Churchill

An Open Source AI Powered Industry

15:55 BST

Breaking Barriers: Secure & Compliant CI/CD in Highly Regulated Industries - Bryan Ross, GitLab

Tuesday June 24, 2025 15:55 - 16:25 BST

Victoria

This joint session from GitLab and ControlPlane explores how financial institutions can leverage GitOps and modern CI/CD pipelines to overcome regulatory roadblocks without sacrificing speed or security. The presenters will demonstrate practical approaches to securing the software supply chain in highly regulated environments, focusing on build integrity, artifact verification, and policy-driven deployments. Through real-world financial services case studies, they'll showcase how automation can transform compliance from a bottleneck into a competitive advantage. Attendees will learn proven techniques for implementing security-by-design across the software lifecycle, generating comprehensive SBOMs, and creating auditable deployments that satisfy regulatory requirements. The session bridges technical and business perspectives, illustrating how secure CI/CD practices enable financial organizations to accelerate innovation while maintaining strict compliance. Discover how open source tools with enterprise capabilities create transparent, collaborative workflows that empower both development teams and compliance stakeholders.

Speakers

Bryan Ross

Field CTO, GitLab

Bryan Ross is a recognised innovator and "platform as a product" advocate with over 20 years of experience. As Field CTO at GitLab, he helps financial institutions leverage open source technologies to meet regulatory requirements while accelerating innovation. Bryan specializes in... Read More →

Tuesday June 24, 2025 15:55 - 16:25 BST
Victoria

Guarding the Vaults

15:55 BST

The Rise of Internal Forks: How AI Is Reshaping Code Integration and Its Risks To the Financial Serv - Daniel Forsgren, FossID

Tuesday June 24, 2025 15:55 - 16:25 BST

Gielgud

As financial institutions accelerate their digital transformation, the integration of third-party code has become a necessity—but also a hidden risk. The rise of AI-assisted development is increasing the prevalence of internal forks, where modified external code becomes unmanaged and invisible to traditional security and compliance processes. In a highly regulated industry like financial services, these forks pose significant challenges, including security vulnerabilities, compliance gaps, and technical debt that can impact operational resilience. This session will explore how AI is reshaping software integration, why financial firms must proactively address internal forks, and how modern Software Composition Analysis (SCA) tools can provide much-needed visibility and control. Learn how to leverage AI-driven development while maintaining the highest standards of security, compliance, and risk management.

Speakers

Daniel Forsgren

Chief Technology Officer, FossID

Daniel Forsgren drives the technological vision and innovation strategy at FossID. With over two decades of experience in software engineering, product management, and corporate development, he is passionate about advancing open source software management and security. Before joining... Read More →

Tuesday June 24, 2025 15:55 - 16:25 BST
Gielgud

Mutualizing Risk and Compliance in the Open

15:55 BST

Learn How Open Source Is Powering Mainframe Modernization - Joe Winchester & Louisa Seers, IBM

Tuesday June 24, 2025 15:55 - 16:25 BST

Olivier

Mainframe computers are old, mostly depicted with black and white photos of operators loading tape drives or else history boards telling of their use in the moon landings. Despite their age however, they remain the backbone of financial transactional IT, and are undergoing a revival powered by by a large stack of open source languages and packages. This talk will cover how the Linux Foundation Open Mainframe Project is at the forefront of this, bringing test tools like Galasa, Visual Studio Code and IntelliJ plugins from the Zowe project, ports of 300 tools like bash, curl, openssl to give a current linux environment. With languages like python, Java, node.js being on the platform, as well as the LinuxOn Z environment this is no longer your grandparent's machine. We'll show how open source is at the driving edge of bringing the platform into the 21st century, and also how the blend of open source and enterprise computing cope when they meet.

Speakers

Joe Winchester

Senior Technical Staff Member, IBM

I work on open source projects around software tooling platforms. My current project is Zowe, which is part of the Linux Foundation and Open Mainframe Project where I am part of the leadership committee and an ambassador. Prior to Zowe I worked on Eclipse tooling and before that Java... Read More →

Louisa Seers

Product Manager, IBM

Louisa’s an experienced professional within IBM with 10 years’ spanning diverse roles across consulting, software development and acquisitions. In addition, Louisa has just finished a Degree Apprenticeship to support her role in business leadership. Louisa is the chairperson of... Read More →

Tuesday June 24, 2025 15:55 - 16:25 BST
Olivier

The Business Case for Open Source

15:55 BST

Modernizing the Financial Infrastructure Through Decentralized Tech - Daniela Barbosa, Linux Foundation; Julio Faura, Adhara; William Lovell, Bank of England; Prashant Malik, HSBC

Tuesday June 24, 2025 15:55 - 16:25 BST

Abbey

A report from the front lines of implementing tokenization, smart contracts, and digital currencies to improve efficiency and liquidity, open new markets, reduce risk and more.

Technology leaders from regulatory, banking, and fintech organizations will sit down with Daniela Barbosa of LF Decentralized Trust for a discussion of their work implementing decentralized technologies. Attendees will hear first hand about what is driving adoption of these technologies by financial services institutions worldwide as well as the challenges and successes that have come with bringing them to market. The conversation will also delve into the roles open development, open governance and standards play in driving innovation and ensuring stability and trust.

Speakers

Daniela Barbosa

General Manager of Decentralized Technologies, The Linux Foundation

Daniela Barbosa serves as GM, Decentralized Technologies at the Linux Foundation and Executive Director of LF Decentralized Trust. Previously, she spent seven years in leadership roles at Hyperledger Foundation, driving the collaborative development of enterprise-grade blockchain... Read More →

Julio Faura

CEO, Adhara

Founder and CEO of Adhara, a VC backed company that builds deposit tokens, wCBDC, cross border payments, capital markets digital infrastructures, and advanced tools for for commercial banks and central banks, leveraging smart contracts and enterprise-grade blockchain technology. PhD... Read More →