Open Source in Finance Forum London 2026: Full Schedule

25 June 2026 | London, England
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09:15 BST

Keynote: The Platform Is the Strategy - James Leskauskas, Strategic Accounts Leader, Broadcom

Thursday June 25, 2026 09:15 - 09:20 BST

Churchill - Ground floor

In this high-impact keynote, attendees will gain actionable insights into how foundational technology drives the 2026 FSI landscape, from Agentic AI to Cloud Modernization, and why every major financial trend depends on a secure, high-velocity infrastructure layer where the platform is key.

Speakers

James Leskauskas

Senior Director, Broadcom

James Leskauskas is an enterprise technology leader with over 17 years of experience across the Cyber, Infrastructure Software, and Payments sectors. At Broadcom, James leads the strategic accounts team in the UK, partnering with major organisations across financial services and diverse... Read More →

James Leskauskas keynote pdf

Thursday June 25, 2026 09:15 - 09:20 BST
Churchill - Ground floor

Keynote Sessions

Slides Attached Yes

09:20 BST

Keynote: Project Announcements - Gabriele Columbro, Executive Director, FINOS With Special Guests

Thursday June 25, 2026 09:20 - 09:30 BST

Churchill - Ground floor

Speakers

Kris West

Distinguished Engineer, NatWest

I'm a Distinguished Engineer in the NatWest Group Open Source Program Office (OSPO), where I lead the technical delivery of the bank's open source strategy and help reshape how a major financial institution builds software. Since joining NatWest, I've authored the bank's Open Source... Read More →

Matthew Bain

Distinguished Engineer, Morgan Stanley

Gabriele Columbro

Executive Director, FINOS

Gab keynote pdf

Thursday June 25, 2026 09:20 - 09:30 BST
Churchill - Ground floor

Keynote Sessions

Slides Attached Yes

09:35 BST

Keynote: From Innovation to Industry Adoption: Fluxnova in Financial Services - Craig Kitching, Head of the Digital Automation Platform, Fidelity Investments & Miguel Capitao, Head of Technical Architecture, Deutsche Bank

Thursday June 25, 2026 09:35 - 09:50 BST

Churchill - Ground floor

Fluxnova has quickly matured into a production-ready, vendor-neutral platform for enterprise process orchestration. In this keynote, Craig Kitching & Nichola Hammerton will share key innovations in the latest release, built to support the demanding compliance and operational needs of financial services. They will also discuss how leading institutions are accelerating industry adoption, moving millions of core process instances onto the platform, and collectively proving that community-driven open source is the future of mission-critical financial infrastructure.

Speakers

Olivier Poupeney

Field CTO, FINOS

Craig Kitching

Head of the Digital Automation Platform, Fidelity Investments

Craig Kitching is Head of the Digital Automation Platform at Fidelity Investments, where he leads teams responsible for workflow and automation platforms that power modern digital operations, including technologies such as Fluxnova. Working closely with business partners and teams... Read More →

Miguel Capitao

Head of Technical Architecture, Deutsche Bank

Miguel Capitão is the Head of Technical Architecture at Deutsche Bank, where he leads the design and evolution of large-scale platforms across the bank’s global technology landscape. His areas of focus include Cloud technologies and their adoption, the safe use of AI at scale... Read More →

OSFF London 2026 DB Fluxnova (2) pdf

Thursday June 25, 2026 09:35 - 09:50 BST
Churchill - Ground floor

Keynote Sessions

Slides Attached Yes

10:00 BST

Keynote: Unifying the Industry, Unleashing the Organization: Open Source Collaboration for Accelerated AI Innovation in Financial Services - Greig Cowan, Head - AI & Data Science Innovation, NatWest & Jerome Andrews, Director Technology Research & Innovat

Thursday June 25, 2026 10:00 - 10:15 BST

Churchill - Ground floor

How do you safely deploy agentic AI in a highly regulated industry? Greig Cowan shares how the sector is leveraging open-source collaboration to mitigate risk and accelerate adoption.

Speakers

Jerome Andrews

Director Technology Research & Innovation, DTCC

Jerome Andrews is Director of Technology Research and Innovation at DTCC, where he leads enterprise efforts across AI strategy, use case delivery, and governance.He is a key driver of DTCC’s AI Enablement initiatives, overseeing the progression of AI use cases from prioritization... Read More →

Greig Cowan

Head of AI & Data Science Innovation, NatWest Group

Greig Cowan is Head of AI and Data Science for Innovation at NatWest Group, where he leads work at the intersection of artificial intelligence, machine learning, data science and engineering. He has helped transform how NatWest develops and delivers AI, ML and data-led solutions... Read More →

Andrews & Cowan Keynote pdf

Thursday June 25, 2026 10:00 - 10:15 BST
Churchill - Ground floor

Keynote Sessions

Slides Attached Yes

10:20 BST

Keynote: Linux in the Land of LLMs - Greg Kroah-Hartman, Fellow, The Linux Foundation

Thursday June 25, 2026 10:20 - 10:35 BST

Churchill - Ground floor

Recently, LLMs have changed the landscape of security issues in open source software in a radical way. This talk goes into the problems that all open source projects are having with this, and how to use the enemy's resources against them to solve the problem.

Speakers

Greg Kroah-Hartman

Fellow, Linux Foundation

GKH Keynote pdf

Thursday June 25, 2026 10:20 - 10:35 BST
Churchill - Ground floor

Keynote Sessions

Slides Attached Yes

10:35 BST

Keynote: Special Announcement - Dov Katz, Managing Director, Morgan Stanley & Eric Baran, Senior Vice President, Sales, Moderne

Thursday June 25, 2026 10:35 - 10:45 BST

Churchill - Ground floor

Speakers

Dov Katz

Managing Director, Morgan Stanley

Eric Baran

Senior Vice President of Sales, Moderne

Eric Baran is a senior executive with two decades of experience driving growth for enterprise software and cloud technology companies. He currently serves as Senior Vice President of Sales at Moderne, following a four-year tenure at Amazon Web Services as Principal Sales Leader... Read More →

Katz & Baran keynote pdf

Thursday June 25, 2026 10:35 - 10:45 BST
Churchill - Ground floor

Keynote Sessions

Slides Attached Yes

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

Thursday June 25, 2026 11:15 - 11:30 BST

Churchill - Ground floor

This talk presents a data-driven analysis of AI-ML threat catalogues (i.e. OWASP AI Exchange, OWASP ML Top 10, PLOT4AI, OWASP LLM, OWASP Agentic AI, and CSA Maestro) demonstrating that roughly two-thirds of so-called "AI-specific" threats are extensions of traditional data security vulnerabilities. It argues that organisations should prioritise data governance and data supply chain security (i.e. provenance, lineage, integrity, access control) as the foundation of AI-ML security, rather than treating model-centric defences as the starting point.

Speakers

Abdullah Garcia

Principal Cybersecurity Architect, J.P. Morgan

Enthusiastic and driven security engineer and architect with over twenty years of experience of successful design and delivery of high-quality solutions across a broad range of industry sectors.

Interested in security architecture, control design, domain threat and risk analysis, and risk-control strategies... Read More →

The True Nature of Most Threats Behind AI ML pdf

Thursday June 25, 2026 11:15 - 11:30 BST
Churchill - Ground floor

AI Lightning Track

Slides Attached Yes

11:15 BST

Architecting Secure Open Source Contributions in the Enterprise: The Git-Proxy Approach - Tomasz Swierszcz, Citi

Thursday June 25, 2026 11:15 - 11:50 BST

Abbey - 4th floor

Open source is essential to modern enterprise software, yet contributing to it from within large organizations remains complex. Enterprises must balance developer productivity with strict requirements around security, governance, and license compliance. Many Open Source Program Offices (OSPOs) still rely on fragmented tools and manual processes that slow down development and introduce operational risk.

This talk introduces Git-proxy, an architectural approach that acts as a secure gateway between enterprise developers and the open-source ecosystem. By embedding governance, security checks, and license compliance directly into contribution workflows, Git-proxy enables organizations to scale open-source collaboration while maintaining enterprise-grade controls.

Attendees will learn how automation, standardized workflows, and policy-driven development can simplify open-source contribution management and significantly improve developer experience.

Speakers

Tomasz Swierszcz

Supply Chain Security Engineer, Citi

I'm software engineer specializing in system architecture, and software supply chain security. I support organizations in building secure software delivery processes, including CI/CD environments while mitigating risks related to third-party components and dependencies. In my work... Read More →

OSFF London GIT Proxy Tomasz Swierszcz pdf

Thursday June 25, 2026 11:15 - 11:50 BST
Abbey - 4th floor

Cultivating the Culture (OSPO & Readiness)

Slides Attached Yes

11:15 BST

Fluxnova Agentic - Open Standards, Governed Agents - Pieter Schutte, Natwest & Riyaz Patel, NatWest Group

Thursday June 25, 2026 11:15 - 11:50 BST

Gielgud - 2nd floor

An overview of the Agentic and other AI standards supported by Fluxnova, showcasing how FINOS Fluxnova's deterministic workflow capabilities brings Control, Observability and Audit Traceability to Complex Agentic Workflows.

Speakers

Riyaz Patel

Platform Lead, NatWest Group

Riyaz leads the BPM Centre of Excellence & other Automation services in NWG. Responsible for strategy, governance and adoption of process orchestration technology. Acting as a key driver for Fluxnova on behalf of NatWest since inception.

Pieter Schutte

Principal Engineer, Natwest

Fluxnova Maintainer and BPM Integration Specialist with over 25 year hands-on experience.

OSFF NWG FLUXNOVA AGENTICPRES 2026 UploadPDF pdf

Thursday June 25, 2026 11:15 - 11:50 BST
Gielgud - 2nd floor

Fluxnova & Platform Automation

Slides Attached Yes

11:15 BST

We Need To Walk Before We Run With CDM - Paul Hands, DRS and Parallel 51

Thursday June 25, 2026 11:15 - 11:50 BST

Moore - 4th floor

The Common Domain Model is rapidly growing in popularity, and in complexity. One of the key issues the industry faces is that the rate of growth of CDM is outstripping the rate of adoption, with many companies being 'left behind' and struggling to identify business areas to adopt and adapt to CDM. It is paramount that we do not allow the progress of the model to eclipse it's adoptability completely, and result in a very comprehensive solution that nobody is using in production cases.

Speakers

Paul Hands

CTO, DRS and Parallel 51

Fascinated by numbers and solving problems with known solutions at a young age, before studying a PhD to solve problems with unknown solutions. Discovered software development there, and have spent the past decade writing code in different languages across different companies. CTO... Read More →

OSFF 2026 Walk before we run with CDM pptx

Thursday June 25, 2026 11:15 - 11:50 BST
Moore - 4th floor

The Connective Tissue (Interop & CDM)

Slides Attached Yes

11:35 BST

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

Thursday June 25, 2026 11:35 - 11:50 BST

Churchill - Ground floor

Open source is under assault. And not just from Slopsquatting: agentic adversaries engage in expansive supply chain attacks, target burnt-out maintainers, and exploit the open source ecosystem at autonomous, headless scale. And all under the banner of vibe-enabled developers reading fewer lines of code than before.

The open source contract is clear: free, zero-liability software that we can patch and assure; a community based on transparency; and transferable skills instead of proprietary lock-in. And so we ask, is open source software still safe to use? And how do we avoid getting hit by a supply chain attack?

In this talk, we:
- threat model the GenAI OSS supply chain and highlight key attack vectors
- implement policies and automation under the FINOS AI Readiness Framework to secure the open source supply chain
- dissect recent and historical open source supply chain attacks, examining emerging trends that are here to stay
- enumerate governance approaches for GenAI and vibe-ready developers in FSI
- provide a practical framework for evaluating and securing open source dependencies, despite generative hallucinations

Speakers

Andrew Martin

CEO, ControlPlane

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

ControlPlane — State of the GenAI Supply Chain Slopsquatting and Secure OSS Demystified (FINOS OSFF London, June 2026) pdf

Thursday June 25, 2026 11:35 - 11:50 BST
Churchill - Ground floor

AI Lightning Track

Slides Attached Yes

12:00 BST

Fine-Grained Authorization for RAG Embeddings Retrieval With Relationship-Based Access Control - Evan Corkrean, AuthZed

Thursday June 25, 2026 12:00 - 12:15 BST

Churchill - Ground floor

Vector search is rapidly emerging as the next evolution of search, driven by Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) workflows. However, securing these systems requires fine-grained access control beyond the capabilities of traditional methods like RBAC or PBAC. This talk explores how Relationship-Based Access Control (ReBAC), inspired by Google Zanzibar, provides a scalable and flexible solution for managing authorization in RAG and vector search.

We’ll cover how ReBAC handles complex access scenarios, such as hierarchical relationships, and enables pre- and post-filtering strategies to securely retrieve embeddings. Using live demos with tools like SpiceDB, LangChain, and pgVector, you’ll see how to integrate ReBAC into your RAG pipelines. Whether you’re building RAG workflows or exploring vector search, this session offers practical insights to secure and optimize your applications.

Speakers

Evan Corkrean

Sr. Solutions Engineer, AuthZed

As a Senior Solutions Engineer at Authzed, I specialize in helping organizations implement fine-grained authorization systems. Over the years, I’ve collaborated with many companies to architect robust authorization solutions, including for advanced RAG (retrieval-augmented generation... Read More →

Conference talk presentation pdf

Thursday June 25, 2026 12:00 - 12:15 BST
Churchill - Ground floor

AI Lightning Track

Slides Attached Yes

12:00 BST

FDC3: What's New in 3.0? - Kris West, NatWest & Chris Watson, Elgin White

Thursday June 25, 2026 12:00 - 12:35 BST

Moore - 4th floor

FDC3 has become the industry standard for enabling applications on the financial desktop to work together — allowing traders, analysts and operations teams to move seamlessly between tools without re-keying data or stitching together bespoke integrations. The standard defines common APIs, intents and data formats so applications can interoperate in a plug-and-play fashion across any platform.

But as FDC3 adoption grows, the next challenge isn’t just interoperability: it’s trust.

In this session, Kris West and co will take you inside the FDC3 3.0 evolution, exploring the architectural changes that make the standard ready for modern enterprise environments.

Expect a fast-paced tour of the technologies shaping the next generation of financial desktop platforms, including:

- Richer metadata models
- Application and user identity and trust frameworks
- Zero-trust architectures for desktop interoperability
- FDC3 Sail
- New branding and acronym for FDC3!

Speakers

Christopher Watson

Head of Interoperability, Elgin White

Kris West

Distinguished Engineer, NatWest

FDC3 3.0 OSFF London 2026 pdf

Thursday June 25, 2026 12:00 - 12:35 BST
Moore - 4th floor

The Connective Tissue (Interop & CDM)

Slides Attached Yes

12:20 BST

AI For the Next Era of Banking - Richard Harmon, Red Hat

Thursday June 25, 2026 12:20 - 12:35 BST

Churchill - Ground floor

Speakers

Dr. Richard Harmon

VP & Global Head of Financial Services, Red Hat

Richard Harmon Red Hat AI for the Next Era of Banking pdf

Thursday June 25, 2026 12:20 - 12:35 BST
Churchill - Ground floor

AI Lightning Track

Slides Attached Yes

13:35 BST

Scaling SWE Agents: Manage Agent Primitives Like NPM Packages With Agent Package Manager (APM) - Sergio Sisternes, EPAM

Thursday June 25, 2026 13:35 - 13:50 BST

Churchill - Ground floor

Managing SWE agents at scale is painful: teams copy-paste markdown files (prompts, instructions, skills) across repos, leading to chaos, inconsistencies, and zero reusability.

Enter Agent Package Manager (APM) — the open-source tool from Microsoft that brings real package management to AI agent primitives.
Declare dependencies in a simple apm.yml file → apm install resolves direct + transitive deps → agents auto-configure for GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude, Codex, Gemini and more.

In this session, discover how to treat agent primitives (Instructions, Skills, Prompts, Agents, MCP Servers) as shareable, versioned packages — unlocking enterprise-grade collaboration, consistency, and an internal agent library that actually scales.

Speakers

Sergio Sisternes

Director, Technology Solutions, EPAM

Sergio is Head of Microsoft Azure UK&I at EPAM Systems, where he partners with large enterprises to drive organisation-wide adoption of GitHub Copilot and Azure AI services. He specialises in embedding AI deeply into the software development lifecycle, and part of the Core Contributors... Read More →

OSSFS 2026 London Manage Agent Primitives with Agent Package Manager APM (1) pdf

Thursday June 25, 2026 13:35 - 13:50 BST
Churchill - Ground floor

AI Lightning Track

Slides Attached Yes

13:35 BST

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

Thursday June 25, 2026 13:35 - 13:50 BST

Gielgud - 2nd floor

Digital asset platforms operate under demanding conditions: strict security requirements, high availability expectations, and increasing regulatory scrutiny. At the same time, engineering teams must retain the flexibility to evolve their systems as the digital asset ecosystem continues to develop.
This session explores lessons learned from supporting the operation of a regulated digital asset platform built on cloud-native and open source technologies. The talk outlines architectural patterns, operational practices, and governance approaches that enable financial-grade infrastructure while maintaining transparency and control.
This real-life use case highlights what worked for us and what didn't.

Speakers

Liene Luksika

Product Manager, VSHN AG

Data scientist by training and product owner by passion with experience ranging from highly regulated healthcare industry to fluid open source ecosystem.

OSFF London 2026 Liene Luksika VSHN pdf

Thursday June 25, 2026 13:35 - 13:50 BST
Gielgud - 2nd floor

Fluxnova & Platform Automation

Slides Attached Yes

13:35 BST

Operating Open Source at Scale: Community‑Driven Stewardship of Critical Engineering Tools - Neil McGonigle, Fidelity Investments

Thursday June 25, 2026 13:35 - 14:10 BST

Abbey - 4th floor

Open source software underpins nearly every modern engineering platform in financial services, yet only a small number of these technologies are truly essential to day‑to‑day delivery. As organisations scale, the challenge shifts from adoption to sustainability: keeping critical open source tools secure, current, well‑understood, and fit for purpose over time.

This talk explores how large financial institutions can move beyond traditional ownership models and build internal communities of practice around core open source technologies. Drawing on real‑world experience, it examines why centralised ownership does not scale, how community‑driven stewardship reduces operational risk, and how aligned internal communities improve consistency and engineering velocity.

Attendees will learn how to identify essential open source technologies, what healthy internal communities look like in practice, and how to sustain them long term. The session also covers common anti‑patterns, governance considerations in regulated environments, and the role of an Open Source Program Office (OSPO) in enabling — rather than owning — these communities.

Speakers

Neil McGonigle

Director - OSPO, 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 →

OSFF2026 London v1 pdf

Thursday June 25, 2026 13:35 - 14:10 BST
Abbey - 4th floor

Cultivating the Culture (OSPO & Readiness)

Slides Attached Yes

13:55 BST

Open Foundations for Trustworthy Agentic AI in Financial Services - Jochen Papenbrock, NVIDIA

Thursday June 25, 2026 13:55 - 14:10 BST

Churchill - Ground floor

Building trustworthy, efficient, and specialized, sovereign AI systems is vital in finance, where transparency and accountability are essential. This session presents an open framework for developing agentic AI built entirely on open models, datasets, and modular microservices. It shows how open ecosystems can drive innovation while staying compliant, auditable, and cost‑efficient. Participants will explore a unified, community‑driven AI platform integrating training, deployment, and orchestration tools. Real‑world cases highlight how composable components enable collaboration and reproducibility, empowering institutions to tailor AI to regulatory needs. The talk introduces open models and curated datasets that form a transparent foundation for next‑generation financial intelligence, enabling efficient, accurate, and auditable agents. Topics include an open, modular agentic architecture deployable on any AI factory, showing several examples like fraud detection, conversational AI, and financial deep research.

Speakers

Jochen Papenbrock

EMEA Head of Financial Technology, NVIDIA

Jochen is member of the global FSI leadership team at NVIDIA. He has spent the last 25 years in various roles on the topic of AI in financial services. He works with executives, data scientists, developers, and partners in the global NVIDIA ecosystem. He is a financial data scientist... Read More →

NVIDIA OSSF v2 pdf

Thursday June 25, 2026 13:55 - 14:10 BST
Churchill - Ground floor

AI Lightning Track

Slides Attached Yes

13:55 BST

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

Thursday June 25, 2026 13:55 - 14:10 BST

Gielgud - 2nd floor

In this lightning talk, we'll introduce Symphony's AI Platform: a secure, compliant foundation purpose-built for the financial industry. We will walk through the core design principles that make AI adoption viable in regulated environments, covering how we handle data isolation, access control, audit trails, and model governance at scale.

We'll then show how we extended the platform's capabilities by integrating with Fluxnova. This integration enables financial teams to orchestrate hybrid workflows that combine deterministic, rules-based processes (BPMN) with non-deterministic AI agents.

Attendees will leave with a concrete understanding of what it takes to bring AI into a regulated financial environment, and how open standards like Fluxnova can bridge the gap between structured process automation and modern agentic AI.

Speakers

Kevin Renaudon

Product Manager, Symphony

Kevin Renaudon is a Lead Product Manager at Symphony, specializing in AI, Security, and Confidential Cloud. He designed and delivered AI Agent Studio, a no-code enterprise platform for building and deploying AI agents, leveraging MCP protocol integrations and meeting the highest financial... Read More →

OSFF AI Platform 4 financial services pdf

Thursday June 25, 2026 13:55 - 14:10 BST
Gielgud - 2nd floor

Fluxnova & Platform Automation

Slides Attached Yes

14:20 BST

Navigating the Regulatory Storm: Scaling Cloud Governance With FINOS CCC - Sonali Mendis, Scott Logic; Dave Reeve, Morgan Stanley & Rob Moffat, FINOS

Thursday June 25, 2026 14:20 - 14:55 BST

Victoria - 2nd floor

With the implementation of DORA and evolving PRA expectations in EU and UK, the "black box" approach to cloud security is no longer an option. Regulators want transparency, and firms want agility. The FINOS Common Cloud Controls (CCC) project is the bridge between these two worlds.

Join Rob Moffat (FINOS) and Sonali Mendis (project maintainer) as they showcase how CCC has transitioned from theory to "Regulation-as-Code" through the latest Core Catalog and AI control releases. They will demonstrate how this open-source collaboration is building the definitive, machine-readable blueprint for 2026 regulatory resilience and cross-cloud consistency.

This talk is ideal for leaders and individual contributors working in compliance, security, or cloud infrastructure.

Speakers

Dave Reeve

Cloud Architect, Morgan Stanley

Dave Reeve is an enterprise architect working in infrastructure in Morgan Stanley. His career reads as a tour of deep technical disciplines: chief network engineer, consultant to the militaryand telecoms industries, electronic engineer, programmer, university lecturer, and even... Read More →

Rob Moffat

Chief 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.

Rob is a staunch advocate of Open Source and works on many open source projects... Read More →

Sonali Mendis

Lead Developer, Scott Logic & FINOS CCC Maintainer, Scott Logic

Software Engineering Professional with over 15 years of industrial experience, working with people from different cultures to achieve a team goal of providing high quality user experience in the field of software engineering.

Navigation the Regulatory Storm FINOS CCC pdf

Thursday June 25, 2026 14:20 - 14:55 BST
Victoria - 2nd floor

AI Implementation & Engineering

Slides Attached Yes

14:20 BST

Eliminating License Risk With Open Source: Migrating 400+ Database Instances in a Tier-1 Bank - Kate Obiidykhata & Michal Nosek, Percona

Thursday June 25, 2026 14:20 - 14:55 BST

Burton / Redgrave - 2nd floor

A Tier-1 bank was running more than 80 applications on a document-oriented database estate spanning 400+ instances and 35TB of data. Changes in licensing terms introduced cost pressure and long-term architectural constraints.
This session details the technical and governance approach taken to migrate those workloads without application rewrites. We will cover estate discovery, compatibility validation, migration sequencing, backup redesign with point-in-time recovery, and monitoring consolidation across hundreds of nodes.
We will share practical lessons for tech teams managing large-scale database platforms in financial services.

Speakers

Michal Nosek

Principal Field Technologist, Percona

During his career, Michal took different roles from a software engineer and business analyst to a technical sales consultant, always staying close to the technology.

As a Principal Field Technologist at Percona, Michal’s objective is to bridge the gap between database technologies and business outcomes by providing customers with appropriate strategies and open-source database solutions... Read More →

Kate Obiidykhata

Senior Cloud Native Solutions Manager, Percona

Senior Cloud-Native Solutions Manager with 11 years of hands-on experience across Linux security, open-source infrastructure, web hosting, and enterprise systems. Focused on supporting financial institutions, cloud providers, and multi-regional enterprises in adopting and operating... Read More →

OSFF EU26 Kate Obiidykhata.pptx (3) pdf

Thursday June 25, 2026 14:20 - 14:55 BST
Burton / Redgrave - 2nd floor

Platform Engineering & Cloud Native

Slides Attached Yes

14:20 BST

Bridging FIX and CDM for Regulatory Reporting - Grant Haley, First Derivative & Chris Rayner, ISLA

Thursday June 25, 2026 14:20 - 14:55 BST

Moore - 4th floor

Bridging FIX and CDM for Regulatory Reporting: A Collaborative Approach with ISLA and First Derivative

Speakers

Grant Haley

Grant Haley, First Derivative

Grant Haley, Director and Practice Lead at First Derivative (an EPAM company), has 20+ years’ experience in financial markets. He leads strategic initiatives in transaction reporting and compliance solutions, helping global financial institutions address complex requirements, improve... Read More →

Chris Rayner

Senior Associate - Market Infrastructure & Technology, 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 role as a Software Engineer Specialist at FIS, with a track record of over 25 years of successful delivery in the financial services industry... Read More →

OSFF London 2026 Deck pdf

Thursday June 25, 2026 14:20 - 14:55 BST
Moore - 4th floor

The Connective Tissue (Interop & CDM)

Slides Attached Yes

15:10 BST

Distilling Intent From Code: Behavioural Specification for Legacy Analysis and Modernisation - Henry Garner, JUXT

Thursday June 25, 2026 15:10 - 15:25 BST

Churchill - Ground floor

Financial institutions maintain vast codebases where critical domain logic is embedded in implementation details and scattered across services. Documentation drifts and tests verify the code as written rather than as intended. AI tools generate new code quickly, but understanding whether existing systems behave correctly, remains slow and expensive.

This session shows how specifications can be captured from existing codebases, creating a formal reference for what a system does that is independent of how it does it. We've applied this to significant projects and surfaced latent defects encoded in both implementation and test suites, where code and tests reinforced the same wrong behaviour. Henry will demonstrate the open source tooling and workflows involved, and show how specifications make codebases more fluid: once behaviour is captured, AI agents can refactor, re-platform or modernise the implementation with a verification gate, turning legacy code into a foundation for new development.

Attendees will gain practical techniques for distilling specifications from existing code and applying them to quality assurance, legacy modernisation and resilient open source contributions.

Speakers

Henry Garner

CTO, JUXT

I’m a technology leader with 15+ years in CTO and Head of Data Science roles across multiple domains, currently serving as CTO at JUXT where I also lead the AI Chapter. I’m a passionate open source contributor and maintainer of the kixi.stats numerical computing library. In 2015... Read More →

Distilling intent from code pdf

Thursday June 25, 2026 15:10 - 15:25 BST
Churchill - Ground floor

AI Lightning Track

Slides Attached Yes

15:10 BST

From Orchestration To Conversation: Observability as the Missing Link in Agentic FS Systems - Jamie Macdonald, Scott Logic

Thursday June 25, 2026 15:10 - 15:25 BST

Gielgud - 2nd floor

Financial services is beginning to experiment with multi‑agent AI systems, opening up opportunities for agents to enable and accelerate real operational workflows. This talk introduces Fluxnova’s Workflow Query MCP Plugin as one enabler of that future. By exposing live BPMN state and process metadata through MCP tools, the plugin equips agents with the context needed to interpret and reason about orchestrated FS processes.

This shared visibility unlocks new possibilities: networks of specialised agents that coordinate investigations across settlement, risk, and servicing flows; supervisory agents that explain workflow paths in natural language; and oversight agents that detect emerging friction before it impacts customers.

This talk highlights how richer observability can “connect the dots” between agents, orchestration engines, and human decision‑makers, and attendees will leave with a glimpse of how observability-first design can help shape safer, more collaborative agent ecosystems in financial services.

Speakers

Jamie Macdonald

Financial Services Specialist, Scott Logic

I am a Financial Services Specialist at the UK-based software consultancy Scott Logic, working at the intersection of workflow orchestration and agentic AI. I'm passionate about open source solutions to difficult problems in financial services, and have been developing those solutions... Read More →

From Orchestration to Conversation Final pdf

Thursday June 25, 2026 15:10 - 15:25 BST
Gielgud - 2nd floor

Fluxnova & Platform Automation

Slides Attached Yes

15:10 BST

Physical Risk and Resilience: Using Open-source To Bring the System In-house - Joe Moorhouse, BNP Paribas

Thursday June 25, 2026 15:10 - 15:25 BST

Burton / Redgrave - 2nd floor

Financial institutions are using the FINOS 'physrisk' project to bring calculations of physical climate risk in-house. Although excellent vendor solutions exist for managing physical risks, many Banks are concerned by the 'black box' issue: is it really possible to manage model risk without being truly hands-on? Moreover, it is an attractive option to base a system on public domain data, layering on top only the commercial data that brings real value. The goal is not to be paying for public-domain data.
We give a demonstration of how financial institutions can internalise the systems, and how public domain data can be mixed with commercial for capabilities on a par with the best vendor solutions – but fully in the hands of the modelling teams.

Speakers

Joe Moorhouse

Risk Modeling Lead, BNP Paribas

Joe is physical risk modelling lead at BNP Paribas, part of the global risk function, and also technical lead of FINOS's OS-Climate physrisk project. His background is originally in atmospheric physics, specialising in satellite-borne remote sensing. Joe has worked most recently in... Read More →

FINOS OSC physical risk in house 25Jun26 pdf

Thursday June 25, 2026 15:10 - 15:25 BST
Burton / Redgrave - 2nd floor

Platform Engineering & Cloud Native

Slides Attached Yes

15:10 BST

From Open Data To Operations: Building AI Governance Infrastructure - Noel McLoughlin, TD Bank

Thursday June 25, 2026 15:10 - 15:45 BST

Albert - 2nd floor

Financial institutions are pursuing ambitious AI value targets, and the FINOS AI Governance Framework offers an expert‑curated structure to help achieve them responsibly. With operational infrastructure, Trustworthy AI becomes a practical accelerator.

This session presents an open DevSecOps‑ready reference implementation of operational AI governance, with live demo.

See AI governance in action via four access patterns: CLI (automation), REST API (integration), Web UI (exploration), and Graph DB (analysis). Watch automated discovery, mitigation mapping, and cross‑referencing. Adaptable “Start Left” patterns you can adapt (including a lightweight bioscience CSR).

You’ll also hear about the “Linked Data Model Operate” (LinkMO) pattern: Open Data standards data models, making datasets (e.g., NIST, ISO, GRC, MIT, MITRE, OWASP, etc) AI-ready, and driving KG-enabled security and compliance automation.

Speakers

Noel McLoughlin

Principal Engineer, TD Bank

I discovered Open Source and Linux in 1999. Chat to me about Open Source/Data/Standards and Engineering.

Finos OSSF 2026 London Noel McLoughlin pdf

Thursday June 25, 2026 15:10 - 15:45 BST
Albert - 2nd floor

AI Governance & Risk & Security

Slides Attached Yes

15:10 BST

Powering Digital Transformation in an ‘Always-on’ Era - Bruno Azenha, Red Hat

Thursday June 25, 2026 15:10 - 15:45 BST

Abbey - 4th floor

With customers demanding seamless digital experiences, and regulators requiring consistent transparency around operational excellence, many institutions are turning to cloud technology to meet these needs. Cloud has already transformed traditional models, leading to new levels of reliability and flexibility. We’ll look at the growing expectations for ‘always-on’ access to online services and data, what this means for the platforms this depends on, and the strategies needed to ensure resiliency.

Speakers

Bruno Azenha

Global FSI Technology Strategist, Red Hat

Digital Transformation in an Always on Era pdf

Thursday June 25, 2026 15:10 - 15:45 BST
Abbey - 4th floor

Cultivating the Culture (OSPO & Readiness)

Slides Attached Yes

15:10 BST

Turning Standards Into Action: The CDM Smart Contract Framework - Ciarán McGonagle, Tokenovate & David Shone, ISDA

Thursday June 25, 2026 15:10 - 15:45 BST

Moore - 4th floor

Tokenovate, in collaboration with the FINOS CDM Smart Contract Taskforce and ISDA, has been developing a pioneering Smart Contract framework built on the CDM. This framework introduces new CDM data type objects - Smart Contracts - that connect functions and data through advanced modelling.

By enabling consistent execution of complex tasks, such as rate resets based on multiple observations under the ISDA 2021 Interest Rate Definitions and extendable to any analogous process under an ICMA GMRA, the framework extends the CDM’s standardisation power into new domains.

In this session, Tokenovate, together with ISDA, will demonstrate how Smart Contracts extend the CDM into standardised execution of multi-step processes, highlighting the following benefits of the framework:

- Fast and accurate processing of complex reset events
- Alignment with industry definitions
- A clear and transparent audit trail

Together, we will show how these benefits reduce operational risk - thus creating a foundation for greater efficiency and interoperability across the financial markets.

Speakers

David Shone

Senior Director, Data & Digital Solutions, ISDA

Ciarán McGonagle

Chief Legal & Product Officer, Tokenovate

Ciarán is a leading authority on the intersection of law, derivatives standards and financial technology. With over 15 years’ experience across global banks, ISDA, and fintech, Ciarán bridges legal design and product innovation to shape the future of market infrastructure. At... Read More →

OSFF Presentation Smart Contracts pdf

Thursday June 25, 2026 15:10 - 15:45 BST
Moore - 4th floor

The Connective Tissue (Interop & CDM)

Slides Attached Yes

15:30 BST

Seeing Is Believing - Visualizing Business Analytics for Your Financial Data Via Open Source Tools - Syed Khalid Ahmed, Adidas & Syed Usman Ahmad, Grafana Labs

Thursday June 25, 2026 15:30 - 15:45 BST

Burton / Redgrave - 2nd floor

In the world of information, financial data plays a major role in decision-making for investors as well as companies. This data spans a wide array of sectors and financial instruments, including stock data, income statements, P&L statements, and so on.

The complexity arises when this information comes in many different formats, from numbers and figures to news and images. This raises the question of how we can effectively consolidate this diverse set of information into a single visual platform capable of providing a holistic and vendor-agnostic solution to consumers.

In this talk, we present a single unified market analytics dashboard that can be leveraged by consumers and investors for data-driven decision-making. This will be based on open-source technologies and will provide an alternative to the costly solutions present in the industry while also avoiding vendor lock-in.

After this session, the audience will have a better understanding of the possibilities and advantages that open-source tools provide in the financial sector and how these technologies can be used to create a scalable and robust financial research platform.

Speakers

Syed Usman Ahmad

Staff Developer Advocate, Grafana Labs

Usman is a Staff Developer Advocate at Grafana Labs from Nuremberg, Germany. He works with the Open Source community on the community forum, GitHub and Slack.

He has over 15 years of experience in the Tech Industry where he served multiple customers all over Europe, US, Japan, etc... Read More →

Syed Khalid Ahmed

Data Scientist and Product Manager, Adidas

Khalid is a Data Scientist and Product Manager at Adidas Headquarter from Erlangen, Germany. He is responsible for consumer data segmentation, consumer experience and analytics. He is involved in designing, implementing and scaling ML solutions by combining consumer dataset with product... Read More →

Seeing Is Believing Visualizing Business Analytics for Your Financial Data Via Open Source Tools Syed Khalid Ahmed, Adidas & Syed Usman Ahmad, Grafana Labs pdf

Thursday June 25, 2026 15:30 - 15:45 BST
Burton / Redgrave - 2nd floor

Platform Engineering & Cloud Native

Slides Attached Yes

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Modern Data & AI Platforms for Financial Services With SQL Server 2025, RHEL, and OpenShift - Vivien Wang, Red Hat & Shaurabh Thapa, Microsoft

Thursday June 25, 2026 15:55 - 16:10 BST

Gielgud - 2nd floor

Financial institutions are modernizing data platforms to support real-time analytics, AI workloads, and increasingly strict security and compliance requirements. Open technologies such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux, OpenShift, and automation frameworks enable organizations to run mission-critical database workloads with greater performance, flexibility, and operational consistency.

In this session, we demonstrate how Microsoft SQL Server 2025 running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and OpenShift provides a modern, secure, and scalable platform for financial services workloads.

We will showcase automated deployments using the latest Ansible enhancements for SQL Server 2025 on RHEL 10 We will also explore containerized SQL Server deployments on Kubernetes with OpenShift, improvements in SELinux integration and password policy controls, and new AI capabilities in SQL Server 2025 including Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) scenarios.

Finally, we will highlight how Validated Patterns on OpenShift AI simplify GPU management, vector database integration, and GitOps workflows for building enterprise AI platforms with SQL Server as a secure backend for embeddings and analytics.

Speakers

Shaurabh Thapa

Cloud Solution Architect, MIcrosoft

Vivien Wang

Senior Engineering Partner Manager, Red Hat

Vivien is a Senior Engineering Partner Manager at Red Hat who works with partners to innovate and cobuild in AI, virtualization and automation. She earned her master's degree at King's College London and is currently based out of Manchester, UK.

FOR SUBMISSION Copy of OSFF London 2026 Modern Data & AI Platforms for Financial Services with SQL Server 2025, RHEL, and OpenShift (1) pdf

Thursday June 25, 2026 15:55 - 16:10 BST
Gielgud - 2nd floor

Fluxnova & Platform Automation

Slides Attached Yes

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Transforming Derivatives Post-trade Through CDM - Daniel Ivanier, Delta Capita Fragmos

Thursday June 25, 2026 15:55 - 16:30 BST

Moore - 4th floor

- OTC Derivatives’ Post-trade is still unsolved
- CDM to Digitize & Automate OTC Derivatives’ Post-trade
- Full-fledged CDM-based digitization of all OTC derivatives
- Automated reconciliations based on our CDM Smart Matching Engine

Speakers

Daniel Ivanier

CEO, Delta Capita Fragmos

10 years in technology
20 years as CEO, CFO, COO, CTO in banks, in Europe and North America
Founded Fragmos Chain in 2019

2026 06 Finos Showcase London pdf

Thursday June 25, 2026 15:55 - 16:30 BST
Moore - 4th floor

The Connective Tissue (Interop & CDM)

Slides Attached Yes

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Using CALM To Enforce Architecture at PR Time in Regulated Environments - Marc Daniel Registre, MBA, ArchRails LLC

Thursday June 25, 2026 16:15 - 16:30 BST

Albert - 2nd floor

Most architecture reviews happen after the code is already written, too late to prevent drift. In regulated industries, governance lives in documents and review boards instead of the pull-request workflow where change actually happens.
This talk shows how CALM can serve as the architectural source of truth for PR-time compliance checks, pairing deterministic structural validation with contextual AI explanations.
I'll walk through an approach where approved architecture definitions are parsed from CALM, normalized into a graph, and used during code review to detect undeclared dependencies, bypassed boundaries, or unexpected interaction patterns, creating an auditable, scalable control point without slowing delivery.

The session covers the practical design of the validator, how deterministic checks and AI explanations complement each other, and why this model is especially relevant for financial services teams that need both control and evidence. Attendees leave with a pattern for using open standards and open source tooling to move architecture governance closer to the software delivery lifecycle.

Speakers

Marc Daniel Registre, MBA

Marc Daniel Registre, ArchRails LLC

Marc Daniel Registre is the founder of ArchRails and an Engineering leader focused on architecture governance, AI-assisted review, and developer tooling. He is building PR-time architecture compliance workflows using FINOS CALM to help teams detect drift earlier and create more auditable... Read More →

osff london calm Repaired pdf

Thursday June 25, 2026 16:15 - 16:30 BST
Albert - 2nd floor

AI Governance & Risk & Security

Slides Attached Yes

16:15 BST

Platform Engineering for Quantitative Models: Architecture, Consistency, and Scale - Kamlesh Shah, Morgan Stanley

Thursday June 25, 2026 16:15 - 16:30 BST

Victoria - 2nd floor

Building quantitative analytics often requires rapid prototyping and frequent iteration. In practice, models are developed in isolated environments using inconsistent tools, creating inefficiencies, governance risks, and performance limitations that lead to costly rewrites when scaling to production. This session describes how we adopted a platform-engineering approach to model development and execution, enabling high delivery velocity without sacrificing architectural control.

Rather than treating each model as a standalone implementation, we built a standardised model execution platform with semantic data access, reusable runtime services, and specification-based model definitions. The platform supports scenario analysis, back-testing, and interchangeable data sets, with performance, reproducibility, and governance built in by design.

The talk shows how re-engineering the model lifecycle around a shared platform removed repeated rewrites and enforced consistent architecture across teams. Specifications are executable and runtime behaviour is standardised. Testing, performance, and data provisioning are built into the core, enabling scale and keeping engineering discipline.

Speakers

Kamlesh Shah

Senior Engineering Lead, Executive Director, Morgan Stanley

Senior Engineering Lead and Executive Director at Morgan Stanley, building large-scale, high-performance financial systems in regulated production environments. Focused on clean architecture, explicit data contracts, and model-driven design that scales with complexity and regulatory... Read More →

Finos KS MS pdf

Thursday June 25, 2026 16:15 - 16:30 BST
Victoria - 2nd floor

AI Implementation & Engineering

Slides Attached Yes

16:15 BST

MCP Apps Meet the Financial Desktop: Lifecycle, Layout, and Multi-App Orchestration - Kalin Kostov, interop.io

Thursday June 25, 2026 16:15 - 16:30 BST

Gielgud - 2nd floor

Financial desktop users run 5 to 15 apps at once. MCP Apps lets AI agents return interactive HTML interfaces inside chat interfaces acting as MCP hosts, but the current model buries these apps in chat history with duplicate copies stacking up. No persistent workspace, no inter-app context sharing, no layout control.

For regulated environments where traders, PMs, and compliance teams need multiple tools visible and auditable simultaneously, this is a potential production blocker. This talk addresses three gaps: app lifecycle (chat widgets into persistent workspace applications), multi-app orchestration (coordinated agentic flows across simultaneous MCP Apps), and layout (giving data-dense financial UIs the screen real estate they need).

The open source ecosystem has the building blocks. Open source layout managers like Dockview and GoldenLayout provide workspace primitives MCP Apps hosts lack. FDC3, maintained by FINOS, adds context sharing and intent resolution across active apps. We combine these in a working prototype, building on our OSFF NYC 2025 session on FDC3 intents as MCP tools.

Speakers

Kalin Kostov

Engineering Lead, interop.io

Kalin Kostov is a Team Lead at interop.io, where he leads engineering for the company’s AI division. Having been with the company for nearly a decade, he has spearheaded the development of innovative platforms spanning cloud, browser, and desktop technologies, as well as core automation... Read More →

london ossf 2026 pdf

Thursday June 25, 2026 16:15 - 16:30 BST
Gielgud - 2nd floor

Fluxnova & Platform Automation

Slides Attached Yes

16:40 BST

Keynote: Transforming Financial Regulation with Open Source and AI - Michael Hsu, Advisor, Researcher, Former Acting Comptroller of the Currency & Jane Gavronsky, Chief Operating Officer, FINOS

Thursday June 25, 2026 16:40 - 16:55 BST

Churchill - Ground floor

Financial regulation today is analog, with every firm independently interpreting the same rules and rebuilding the same infrastructure, creating a hidden tax of duplication, inconsistent data, and systemic blind spots. This keynote argues that the full regulatory stack can be rebuilt as shared, executable software using FINOS projects like CDM, DRR, and Morphir — with AI accelerating the transformation and machine-readable regulation closing the final interpretation gap. The talk closes with three concrete pilots the community can start now: extending CDM/DRR to the FCA's streamlining work, establishing policy-as-code as the default for all new regulation, and retrofitting the highest-burden existing regimes into executable form.

Speakers

Jane Gavronsky

Chief Operating Officer, FINOS

Michael Hsu

Advisor, Researcher, Former Acting Comptroller of the Currency

Michael J. Hsu served as Acting Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) from May 2021 to February 2025. There he also served as a Director of the FDIC and member of the Financial Stability Oversight Council. Mike has worked at the Federal Reserve, Securities and Exchange Commission, U.S... Read More →

Jane and Michael PM Keynote pdf

Thursday June 25, 2026 16:40 - 16:55 BST
Churchill - Ground floor

Keynote Sessions

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Keynote: Closing Remarks - Gabriele Columbro, Executive Director, FINOS & Bhupesh Vora, Chair, FINOS Governing Board & Head of Capital Markets Quant and Technology Europe, RBC Capital Markets

Thursday June 25, 2026 17:20 - 17:30 BST

Churchill - Ground floor

Speakers

Bhupesh Vora

Chair, FINOS Governing Board & Head of Capital Markets Quant and Technology Europe, RBC Capital Markets

Gabriele Columbro

Executive Director, FINOS

Closing Remarks pdf

Thursday June 25, 2026 17:20 - 17:30 BST
Churchill - Ground floor

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