Open Source in Finance Forum London 2026

Financial institutions depend on open source software — and are rapidly adopting open source AI to bring new capabilities to their clients. Yet most companies still treat patents and open source in a siloed manner with separate strategic approaches, managed by different teams with no collaborative framework. The result: patent risk across open source dependencies may be missed, and valuable contribution opportunities may be lost to IP policies lacking high context of the technology.

This session makes the case for a unified strategy; we'll explore where patents and open source collide in practice — from traditional software licensing tensions to the emerging threat of patent aggression targeting AI frameworks. We'll also examine how the Open Invention Network's (OIN) 2.0 program is evolving defensive patent structures to meet these challenges, now covering 650+ packages spanning cloud, security, and the AI tooling at the heart of modern financial infrastructure.

Attendees will leave with a practical framework to reduce patent exposure, contribute confidently to open source communities, and turn a persistent source of internal friction into competitive advantage.