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25 June 2026 | London, England
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09:00 BST

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

Thursday June 25, 2026 09:00 - 09:10 BST

Churchill - Ground floor

Speakers

Gabriele Columbro

Executive Director, FINOS

Thursday June 25, 2026 09:00 - 09:10 BST
Churchill - Ground floor

Keynote Sessions

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

11:35 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

12:20 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

13:55 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

14:20 BST

Agents on a Leash: Deterministic Agentic AI for Financial Services - Andrea Ferraresi, Red Hat

Thursday June 25, 2026 14:20 - 14:35 BST

Churchill - Ground floor

Large Language Models (LLMs) offer powerful reasoning and automation capabilities, but their probabilistic nature conflicts with the determinism, explainability and auditability required in financial services. This session presents a practical architectural pattern for agentic AI: LLMs as bounded cognitive components orchestrated by BPM-based workflow engines, such as Fluxnova.
Rather than deploying autonomous agents as opaque black boxes, this approach embeds LLMs within explicit and versioned business process models. BPM orchestration governs control flow, approvals, escalation paths, exception handling, and audit checkpoints, while LLMs are invoked for well-scoped tasks such as document extraction, classification, summarization and recommendation generation. The result is agentic behavior that is powerful yet constrained, flexible and governed.
Every outcome can be traced through a BPM execution graph, showing inputs, policies applied, LLM interactions, and human-in-the-loop decisions. We illustrate this pattern in the context of a financial use case to demonstrate how institutions can safely scale agentic AI while meeting regulatory, risk, and audit expectations.

Speakers

Andrea Ferraresi

Principal Solutions Architect, Red Hat

Andrea Ferraresi works at Red Hat, helping financial services institutions and independent software vendors adopt cloud technologies and modernize applications for greater resilience. Working with open-source software since the early 2000s, he brings expertise in Linux, cloud hyperscalers... Read More →

Thursday June 25, 2026 14:20 - 14:35 BST
Churchill - Ground floor

AI Lightning Track

14:40 BST

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

Thursday June 25, 2026 14:40 - 14:55 BST

Churchill - Ground floor

As financial institutions accelerate their adoption of Open Source AI for fraud detection, risk management, automation & customer service, they face an increasingly complex landscape shaped by rapid growth in AI-related IP. In 2024, the global AI market reached $621B & nearly 89% of AI-adopting enterprises now rely on Open Source AI. At the same time, roughly 18% of all USPTO patent applications involve AI technologies which is an early indication of escalating patent assertion risks as firms seek returns on their AI investments. This session examines how patent standards & community-driven patent non-aggression frameworks are essential tools for managing requirements & risks throughout the AI lifecycle. By establishing predictable IP norms, these standards reduce legal uncertainty & strengthen Open Source patent protection. OIN will outline how being proactive & integrating patent-risk strategies help financial institutions position themselves better, innovate faster, and scale Open Source AI with greater confidence and resilience.

Speakers

Raffi Gostanian

Chief Patent Officer, Open Invention Network

Raffi has dedicated his career to helping companies shape and implement their Intellectual Property strategies effectively and measurably.

“Freedom of choice is paramount,” he says. “Many companies use a combination of Open Source and proprietary software, and they should... Read More →

Thursday June 25, 2026 14:40 - 14:55 BST
Churchill - Ground floor

AI Lightning Track

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

15:30 BST

Why Open-Source Transformation Fails in Finance - and It’s Not the Code - Kadian Douglas, Kadian Performance Institute

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

Churchill - Ground floor

Financial institutions are investing heavily in open-source platforms, AI integration, and digital transformation. Yet many initiatives stall, face internal resistance, or fail to scale.
The problem is not technical architecture. It is human architecture.
In highly regulated environments, open-source adoption requires alignment between developers, cybersecurity teams, risk officers, compliance leaders, and executive stakeholders. Without shared clarity, accountability, and culture readiness, even the most advanced innovation strategies collapse under internal friction.
This session explores the leadership and cultural barriers that undermine open-source financial initiatives and provides a structured framework for strengthening human infrastructure. Through The Human Balance Sheet™, organizations can audit leadership alignment, reduce silos, improve risk-informed decision-making, and create cultures that sustain innovation.
Participants will leave with actionable strategies to support open-source adoption through better governance, clearer communication, and stronger cross-functional trust.

Speakers

Kadian Douglas

Chief Performance Officer, Kadian Performance Institute

Kadian Douglas is the founder of Kadian Performance Institute and creator of The Human Balance Sheet™ framework. A CPA and cybersecurity leader, and past financial services institutions auditor, she equips financial services organizations to strengthen leadership alignment, improve... Read More →

Thursday June 25, 2026 15:30 - 15:45 BST
Churchill - Ground floor

AI Lightning Track

15:55 BST

CANCELLED: Decision Auditability at the Foundations of AI Readiness - Jeremy Taylor, Grid Dynamics

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

Churchill - Ground floor

As AI systems and processes diffuse into our organizations at breakneck speed, our data infrastructure must evolve quickly to service new audit requirements at scales never seen before.

In this talk we will examine the challenges of capturing and integrating context across workflow systems and brownfield applications to deliver accurate and reliable AI governance.

For example, Fluxnova is an archetypal 'upstream' workflow application that organizations must be able to audit independently of the execution layer. We will look at how to integrate AI into such an architecture whilst being able to prove effectiveness, reliability and counterfactual analysis without a proliferation of data audit silos.

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

AI Lightning Track

16:15 BST

Hackathon To FINOS: How a Hackathon Challenge Uncovered the Architecture-Governance Gap - Karl Moll, FINOS

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

Churchill - Ground floor

Sharing our journey from entering a Hackathon to discovering, FINOS, CALM and the gaps within typical SDLCs and what happened next.

Speakers

Karl Moll

Technical Project Advocate, FINOS

Thursday June 25, 2026 16:15 - 16:30 BST
Churchill - Ground floor

AI Lightning Track

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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17:00 BST

Keynote: Fireside Chat - Gabriele Columbro, Executive Director, FINOS in Conversation with Vanessa Yiu, CTO, Group Technology Infrastructure, Deutsche Bank

Thursday June 25, 2026 17:00 - 17:20 BST

Churchill - Ground floor

Speakers

Gabriele Columbro

Executive Director, FINOS

Vanessa Yiu

CTO, Group Technology Infrastructure, Deutsche Bank

Vanessa Yiu is the Chief Technology Officer for Group Technology Infrastructure at Deutsche Bank, where she leads technology strategy for the bank’s infrastructure platforms. She joined Deutsche Bank in November 2025 from UBS Group, where she served as Technology Fellow and Head... Read More →

Thursday June 25, 2026 17:00 - 17:20 BST
Churchill - Ground floor

Keynote Sessions

17:20 BST

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

Keynote Sessions

Slides Attached Yes