Open Source in Finance Forum London 2026

Open Source in Finance Forum London 2026

25 June 2026 | London, England
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07:30 BST

Registration + Badge Pick-up

09:00 BST

Keynote: Welcome and the State of Open Source in Finance - Gabriele Columbro, Executive Director, FINOS Churchill - Ground floorGabriele Columbro

09:30 BST

Keynote: From Innovation to Industry Adoption: Fluxnova in Financial Services - Craig Kitching, Head of the Digital Automation Platform, Fidelity Investments Churchill - Ground floorCraig Kitching

09:45 BST

Keynote Sessions To Be Announced Churchill - Ground floor

10:15 BST

Keynote: AI and the Linux Kernel - Greg Kroah-Hartman, Fellow, The Linux Foundation Churchill - Ground floorGreg Kroah-Hartman

10:30 BST

Keynote Sessions To Be Announced Churchill - Ground floor

10:45 BST

Morning Break & Networking Sponsor Showcase - 1st floor Sponsor Showcase Pickwick - 1st floor

11:15 BST

The True Nature of Most Threats Behind AI-ML: Why AI-ML Security Is Fundamentally a Data Problem - Abdullah Garcia, J.P. Morgan Gielgud - 2nd floorAbdullah Garcia Open Source, AI and Patents: Unifying a Technology Strategy That Works for Finance - Mark Paulsen & John S Lee, TD Bank Albert - 2nd floorMark Paulsen • John S Lee Securing Trustworthy Agentic AI Workflows in Finance With AIFG MCP Server - Chamindra de Silva & Hugo Calderon, Citi Victoria - 2nd floorChamindra de Silva • Hugo Calderon Architecting Secure Open Source Contributions in the Enterprise: The Git-Proxy Approach - Tomasz Swierszcz, Citi Abbey - 4th floorTomasz Swierszcz Fluxnova Agentic - Open Standards, Governed Agents - Pieter Schutte, Natwest & Riyaz Patel, NatWest Group Churchill - Ground floorRiyaz Patel • Pieter Schutte FINOS Supply Chain Resiliency Initiative - Speakers To Be Announced Burton / Redgrave - 2nd floor We Need To Walk Before We Run With CDM - Paul Hands, DRS and Parallel 51 Moore - 4th floorPaul Hands

11:35 BST

The State of the Developer GenAI Supply Chain: Slopsquatting and Secure OSS Demystified - Andrew Martin, ControlPlane Gielgud - 2nd floorAndrew Martin

12:00 BST

Fine-Grained Authorization for RAG Embeddings Retrieval With Relationship-Based Access Control - Evan Corkrean, AuthZed Gielgud - 2nd floorEvan Corkrean Bounded Agent Autonomy, the Cloud Native Way - Francesco Beltramini, ControlPlane & William Rizzo, Mirantis Victoria - 2nd floorWilliam Rizzo • Francesco Beltramini Scaling InnerSource in Financial Services Through OSPO Enablement: Case Studies and Value Metrics - Pooi Cheong, NatWest Group & Chamindra de Silva, Citi Abbey - 4th floorPooi Cheong • Chamindra de Silva Phydigital Banking: Connecting Physical and Digital Banking Through Process Automation With Fluxnova - Dr. Gulzar Singh, Phoenix Empire Ltd & Olivier Poupeney, FINOS Churchill - Ground floorOlivier Poupeney • Dr. Gulzar Singh Open Resource Broker: A Unified API for Cloud Capacity Provisioning in HPC - Flamur Gogolli & Kirill Bogdanov, Amazon Web Services (AWS) Burton / Redgrave - 2nd floorKirill Bogdanov • Flamur Gogolli FDC3: What's New in 3.0? - Kris West, NatWest Moore - 4th floorKris West

12:20 BST

AI For the Next Era of Banking - Richard Harmon, Red Hat Albert - 2nd floorRichard Harmon

12:35 BST

Lunch Sponsor Showcase - 1st floor

13:35 BST

Scaling SWE Agents: Manage Agent Primitives Like NPM Packages With Agent Package Manager (APM) - Sergio Sisternes, EPAM Gielgud - 2nd floorSergio Sisternes FINOS AI Fund Panel - Speakers & Talk Title To Be Announced Albert - 2nd floor Graph-Grounded Agentic Retrieval for Multi-Stage Reasoning Over XBRL Financial Disclosures - Vincent Caldeira, Red Hat & Peter Staar, IBM Victoria - 2nd floorVincent Caldeira • Peter Staar Operating Open Source at Scale: Community‑Driven Stewardship of Critical Engineering Tools - Neil McGonigle, Fidelity Investments Abbey - 4th floorNeil McGonigle What’s New in Fluxnova 3.0: A Practical Overview - Harish Malavade, Fidelity Investments Churchill - Ground floorHarish Malavade TraderX is Now Ready for Business - Dov Katz, Morgan Stanley Burton / Redgrave - 2nd floorDov Katz The Cognitive Command Center: Solving the Last Mile of AI in Asset Management - Adam Toms, Here (formerly OpenFin) Moore - 4th floorAdam Toms

13:55 BST

Open Foundations for Trustworthy Agentic AI in Financial Services - Jochen Papenbrock, NVIDIA Gielgud - 2nd floorJochen Papenbrock

14:15 BST

Operating Digital Asset Platforms on Open Infrastructure: Lessons From Regulated Production - Liene Luksika, VSHN AG Churchill - Ground floorLiene Luksika

14:20 BST

Agents on a Leash: Deterministic Agentic AI for Financial Services - Andrea Ferraresi, Red Hat Gielgud - 2nd floorAndrea Ferraresi The AIGF Says Non-Determinism Is a Risk. Here's How To Fix It. - Paul Merrison, Tetrate Albert - 2nd floorPaul Merrison Navigating the Regulatory Storm: Scaling Cloud Governance With FINOS CCC - Sonali Mendis, Scott Logic & Rob Moffat, FINOS Victoria - 2nd floorRob Moffat • Sonali Mendis Preparing Banks for Quantum Computing Risk: Open Source Strategies for Post‑Quantum Readiness - Mark Paulsen, TD Bank Abbey - 4th floorMark Paulsen Eliminating License Risk With Open Source: Migrating 400+ Database Instances in a Tier-1 Bank - Kate Obiidykhata & Michal Nosek, Percona Burton / Redgrave - 2nd floorMichal Nosek • Kate Obiidykhata Bridging FIX and CDM for Regulatory Reporting - Grant Haley, First Derivative & Chris Rayner, ISLA Moore - 4th floorGrant Haley • Chris Rayner

14:35 BST

AI Platform for Financial Services: From Compliant AI To Hybrid Workflow Orchestration With Fluxnova - Kevin Renaudon, Symphony Churchill - Ground floorKevin Renaudon

14:40 BST

Navigating AI IP Risk: How Open Source and Patent Frameworks Empower Emerging Technologies & Shape T - Raffi Gostanian, Open Invention Network Gielgud - 2nd floorRaffi Gostanian

14:55 BST

Afternoon Break & Networking Sponsor Showcase - 1st floor

15:10 BST

Distilling Intent From Code: Behavioural Specification for Legacy Analysis and Modernisation - Henry Garner, JUXT Gielgud - 2nd floorHenry Garner From Orchestration To Conversation: Observability as the Missing Link in Agentic FS Systems - Jamie Macdonald, Scott Logic Churchill - Ground floorJamie Macdonald Physical Risk and Resilience: Using Open-source To Bring the System In-house - Joe Moorhouse, BNP Paribas Burton / Redgrave - 2nd floorJoe Moorhouse From Open Data To Operations: Building AI Governance Infrastructure - Noel McLoughlin, TD Bank Albert - 2nd floorNoel McLoughlin From Alert To Commit: Agentic Incident Resolution - Sarah Khalife, GitHub & Grant Griffiths, NeuBird AI Victoria - 2nd floorSarah Khalife • Grant Griffiths Turning Standards Into Action: The CDM Smart Contract Framework - Ciarán McGonagle, Tokenovate & David Shone, ISDA Moore - 4th floorDavid Shone • Ciarán McGonagle

15:30 BST

Why Open-Source Transformation Fails in Finance - and It’s Not the Code - Kadian Douglas, Kadian Performance Institute Gielgud - 2nd floorKadian Douglas Powering Digital Transformation in an ‘always-on’ Era - Monica Sasso, Red Hat Abbey - 4th floorMonica Sasso CALMGuard: Zero To Hero With Architecture as Code - Eddie Knight, Revanite & Anoop Mehendale, Opsflow LLC Churchill - Ground floorEddie Knight • Anoop Mehendale Seeing Is Believing - Visualizing Business Analytics for Your Financial Data Via Open Source Tools - Syed Khalid Ahmed, Adidas & Syed Usman Ahmad, Grafana Labs Burton / Redgrave - 2nd floorSyed Usman Ahmad • Syed Khalid Ahmed

15:55 BST

Agentic AI and the Future of Software Development - Colin Eberhardt, Scott Logic Victoria - 2nd floorColin Eberhardt Decision Auditability at the Foundations of AI Readiness - Jeremy Taylor, Grid Dynamics Gielgud - 2nd floorJeremy Taylor Modern Data & AI Platforms for Financial Services With SQL Server 2025, RHEL, and OpenShift - Vivien Wang, Red Hat & Amit Khandelwal, Microsoft Churchill - Ground floorVivien Wang • Amit Khandelwal The Emerging FINOS DE Community: Growing Leadership Through Collaboration, Trust and Inclusion. - Peter Thomas, Deutsche Bank; Peter Suggitt, Diana Kennedy & Pooi Cheong, Natwest Group; Mark Brotherwood, Davies Group; Anthony Kesterton, Red Hat Abbey - 4th floorPeter Suggitt • Pooi Cheong • Mark Brotherwood • Peter Thomas • Anthony Kesterton • Diana Kennedy Open Source Data Quality Monitoring in Financial Services: A Production ML Approach - Pradeep Kalluri, NatWest Bank Burton / Redgrave - 2nd floorPradeep Kalluri Transforming Derivatives Post-trade Through CDM - Daniel Ivanier, Delta Capita Fragmos Moore - 4th floorDaniel Ivanier

16:15 BST

Using CALM To Enforce Architecture at PR Time in Regulated Environments - Marc Daniel Registre, MBA, ArchRails LLC Albert - 2nd floorMarc Daniel Registre, MBA Platform Engineering for Quantitative Models: Architecture, Consistency, and Scale - Kamlesh Shah, Morgan Stanley Victoria - 2nd floorKamlesh Shah Hackathon To FINOS: How a Hackathon Challenge Uncovered the Architecture-Governance Gap - Anoop Mehendale & Gourav Shah, OpsFlow LLC Gielgud - 2nd floorAnoop Mehendale • Gourav Shah MCP Apps Meet the Financial Desktop: Lifecycle, Layout, and Multi-App Orchestration - Kalin Kostov, interop.io Churchill - Ground floorKalin Kostov

16:40 BST

Closing Keynotes & Awards Churchill - Ground floor

17:30 BST

Sponsor Showcase & Booth Crawl Sponsor Showcase - 1st floor