Open Source in Finance Forum London 2026: Full Schedule

25 June 2026 | London, England
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13:00 BST

Open Source AI in Finance Leadership Summit - Invitation Only Event

Wednesday June 24, 2026 13:00 - 21:30 BST

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The FINOS Open Source AI in Finance Leadership Summit is a closed-door, peer-to-peer gathering of the most senior technology and AI leaders across financial institutions. This summit is designed to move beyond high-level theory and focus on actionable, open-source collaboration to solve industry-wide challenges in AI governance, security, and implementation.

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Wednesday June 24, 2026 13:00 - 21:30 BST

Open Source AI in Finance Leadership Summit

16:00 BST

Registration + Badge Pick-up

Wednesday June 24, 2026 16:00 - 17:30 BST

Registration

07:30 BST

Registration + Badge Pick-up

Thursday June 25, 2026 07:30 - 18:00 BST

Registration

09:00 BST

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

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

Churchill - Ground floor

Speakers

Gabriele Columbro

Executive Director, FINOS

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

Keynote Sessions

09:30 BST

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

Thursday June 25, 2026 09:30 - 09:45 BST

Churchill - Ground floor

Fluxnova has quickly matured into a production-ready, vendor-neutral platform for enterprise process orchestration. In this keynote, Craig Kitching will share key innovations in the latest release, built to support the demanding compliance and operational needs of financial services. He’ll also discuss how leading institutions are accelerating industry adoption, moving millions of core process...
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Speakers

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 →

Thursday June 25, 2026 09:30 - 09:45 BST
Churchill - Ground floor

Keynote Sessions

09:45 BST

Keynote Sessions To Be Announced

Thursday June 25, 2026 09:45 - 10:05 BST

Churchill - Ground floor

Thursday June 25, 2026 09:45 - 10:05 BST
Churchill - Ground floor

Keynote Sessions

10:15 BST

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

Thursday June 25, 2026 10:15 - 10:30 BST

Churchill - Ground floor

The Linux kernel, like many open source projects, has been inundated with AI-created bug reports over the past six months. This talk will briefly explore why this is happening, how kernel security teams and maintainers are responding, and how they are leveraging AI to manage increased workloads.

Speakers

Greg Kroah-Hartman

Fellow, Linux Foundation

Thursday June 25, 2026 10:15 - 10:30 BST
Churchill - Ground floor

Keynote Sessions

10:30 BST

Keynote Sessions To Be Announced

Thursday June 25, 2026 10:30 - 10:45 BST

Churchill - Ground floor

Thursday June 25, 2026 10:30 - 10:45 BST
Churchill - Ground floor

Keynote Sessions

10:45 BST

Morning Break & Networking

Thursday June 25, 2026 10:45 - 11:15 BST

Sponsor Showcase - 1st floor

Thursday June 25, 2026 10:45 - 11:15 BST
Sponsor Showcase - 1st floor

Breaks/Networking/Special Events

10:45 BST

Sponsor Showcase

Thursday June 25, 2026 10:45 - 19:30 BST

Pickwick - 1st floor

Thursday June 25, 2026 10:45 - 19:30 BST
Pickwick - 1st floor

Sponsor Showcase

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

Gielgud - 2nd 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....
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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 →

Thursday June 25, 2026 11:15 - 11:30 BST
Gielgud - 2nd floor

AI Lightning Track

11:15 BST

Open Source, AI and Patents: Unifying a Technology Strategy That Works for Finance - Mark Paulsen & John S Lee, TD Bank

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

Albert - 2nd floor

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...
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Speakers

Mark Paulsen

Head, Open Source Program Office, TD Bank

Over 20 years of experience in the tech industry working in startup environments as well as global enterprises. Passionate about building open and welcoming communities and helping developers around the world be successful, keep in the flow, and be happy in the job they love.

John S Lee

Head of Patents, TD Bank

John is an innovator with over 800 patent filings, helping companies compete globally and develop strategies for tech evolution. As Head of Patents at TD Bank, he identifies and curates innovations across the enterprise.
John holds degrees in engineering with a focus on human factors, providing a strong foundation for his ability to identify technical solutions that are remarkably human... Read More →

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

AI Governance & Risk & Security

11:15 BST

Securing Trustworthy Agentic AI Workflows in Finance With AIFG MCP Server - Chamindra de Silva & Hugo Calderon, Citi

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

Victoria - 2nd floor

Financial services organizations are rapidly exploring agentic AI to automate complex workflows. However, the dynamic and distributed nature of such systems introduces new governance and security challenges. In this session, we present a practical demonstration of an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server built on top of the FINOS AI Governance Framework (AIGF) — showing how open-source risk...
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Speakers

Chamindra de Silva

Solutions Architect, Citi

Technical Product Owner and Solution Architect working at Citi with 20+ years of experience on product engineering for the Banking, Education, ISV and NGO Sectors. Working on GenAI, Open Source and InnerSource projects lately at Citi. Recipient of Free Software Foundation award for... Read More →

Hugo Calderon

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Citi

Technology enthusiast, I actively research and embrace emerging technologies, with a current focus on Artificial Intelligence. I am keen on leveraging cutting-edge solutions to achieve goals and foster innovation. Eager to contribute to projects that push technological boundaries... Read More →

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

AI Implementation & Engineering

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...
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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 →

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

Cultivating the Culture (OSPO & Readiness)

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

Churchill - Ground 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

Project Manager, 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.

Thursday June 25, 2026 11:15 - 11:50 BST
Churchill - Ground floor

Fluxnova & Platform Automation

11:15 BST

FINOS Supply Chain Resiliency Initiative - Speakers To Be Announced

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

Burton / Redgrave - 2nd floor

Thursday June 25, 2026 11:15 - 11:50 BST
Burton / Redgrave - 2nd floor

Platform Engineering & Cloud Native

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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...
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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 →

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

The Connective Tissue (Interop & CDM)

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

Gielgud - 2nd 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...
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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 →

Thursday June 25, 2026 11:35 - 11:50 BST
Gielgud - 2nd floor

AI Lightning Track

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

Gielgud - 2nd 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...
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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 →

Thursday June 25, 2026 12:00 - 12:15 BST
Gielgud - 2nd floor

AI Lightning Track

12:00 BST

Bounded Agent Autonomy, the Cloud Native Way - Francesco Beltramini, ControlPlane & William Rizzo, Mirantis

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

Victoria - 2nd floor

Multi-agent systems in regulated environments introduce a new class of operational risk: not whether agents can act, but how far their authority extends and what stops them from exceeding it. Autonomy creep is a hard problem, especially when agents can spawn and orchestrate other agents. This session presents the Autonomy Levels (A0–A4) defined in the AIGF Multi-Agent Reference Architecture...
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Speakers

William Rizzo

Global Field CTO, Mirantis

William is a Kairos Maintainer, CNCF and Linkerd Ambassador, currently working at Mirantis as Global Field CTO. He’s focused on helping customers designing, building, and running their initiatives on Edge, AI and Platform Engineering. He wore many hats in the IT world, Engineering... Read More →

Francesco Beltramini

Field CTO, 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 organizations. Francesco had the opportunity of working on a variety of technology stacks in designing... Read More →

Thursday June 25, 2026 12:00 - 12:35 BST
Victoria - 2nd floor

AI Implementation & Engineering

12:00 BST

Scaling InnerSource in Financial Services Through OSPO Enablement: Case Studies and Value Metrics - Pooi Cheong, NatWest Group & Chamindra de Silva, Citi

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

Abbey - 4th floor

Financial institutions operate under intense pressure to modernise their engineering practices while maintaining robust governance, security, and regulatory compliance. As technology estates grow and teams become more distributed, organisations face recurring challenges: duplicated effort, slow delivery, inconsistent standards, difficulty sharing knowledge, and fragmented developer experience....
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Speakers

Pooi Cheong

OSPO - Principal Engineer, NatWest Group

Pooi is passionate about leveraging the power of Open Source to unlock organisational potential and drive transformation. She believes that Open Source culture enables organisations to unite diverse talents to create innovative solutions that delivers great customer experiences.
... Read More →

Chamindra de Silva

Solutions Architect, Citi

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

Cultivating the Culture (OSPO & Readiness)

12:00 BST

Phydigital Banking: Connecting Physical and Digital Banking Through Process Automation With Fluxnova - Dr. Gulzar Singh, Phoenix Empire Ltd & Olivier Poupeney, FINOS

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

Churchill - Ground floor

Financial institutions increasingly operate across multiple service channels including mobile banking applications, payment systems, fraud platforms, contact centres and physical branches. In many organisations these environments remain fragmented, resulting in inconsistent customer journeys and operational complexity. This session explores the concept of “phydigital banking” - the...
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Speakers

Olivier Poupeney

Field CTO, FINOS

Dr. Gulzar Singh

Director, Phoenix Empire Ltd, Phoenix Empire Ltd

Dr. Gulzar Singh is a senior banking leader with more than 30 years of experience across global financial institutions including Barclays and HDFC Bank. His work focuses on banking architecture, governance and digital infrastructure. He currently serves on boards in the UK financial... Read More →

Thursday June 25, 2026 12:00 - 12:35 BST
Churchill - Ground floor

Fluxnova & Platform Automation

12:00 BST

Open Resource Broker: A Unified API for Cloud Capacity Provisioning in HPC - Flamur Gogolli & Kirill Bogdanov, Amazon Web Services (AWS)

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

Burton / Redgrave - 2nd floor

Provisioning compute capacity in the cloud should be as straightforward as defining what you need, not where and how to get it. Yet HPC engineers face inconsistent, provider-specific APIs, incompatible provisioning models, and duplicated integration logic across schedulers and clouds. Open Resource Broker (ORB) solves this with a unified, open-source API and abstraction layer for provisioning...
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Speakers

Kirill Bogdanov

Principal Solutions Architect @ AWS, Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Kirill Bogdanov is a Principal Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS), supporting Global Financial Services customers. He designs and optimizes cloud-native HPC computing grids that run large-scale production workloads reliably, securely, and cost-efficiently. He’s passionate... Read More →

Flamur Gogolli

Senior Compute Specialist, Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Flamur is a Senior Specialist Solutions Architect at AWS focused on helping customers with their modernisation journey, from designing and building complex infrastructures to running large scale workloads efficiently. Prior to joining AWS, Flamur spent 4 years at JP Morgan, leading... Read More →

Thursday June 25, 2026 12:00 - 12:35 BST
Burton / Redgrave - 2nd floor

Platform Engineering & Cloud Native

12:00 BST

FDC3: What's New in 3.0? - Kris West, NatWest

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. ...
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Speakers

Kris West

TBD, NatWest

TBD

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

The Connective Tissue (Interop & CDM)

12:20 BST

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

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

Albert - 2nd floor

Speakers

Richard Harmon

VP & Global Head of Financial Services, Red Hat

Thursday June 25, 2026 12:20 - 12:35 BST
Albert - 2nd floor

AI Governance & Risk & Security

12:35 BST

Lunch

Thursday June 25, 2026 12:35 - 13:35 BST

Sponsor Showcase - 1st floor

Thursday June 25, 2026 12:35 - 13:35 BST
Sponsor Showcase - 1st floor

Breaks/Networking/Special Events

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

Gielgud - 2nd 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 +...
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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 →

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

AI Lightning Track

13:35 BST

FINOS AI Fund Panel - Speakers & Talk Title To Be Announced

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

Albert - 2nd floor

Thursday June 25, 2026 13:35 - 14:10 BST
Albert - 2nd floor

AI Governance & Risk & Security

13:35 BST

Graph-Grounded Agentic Retrieval for Multi-Stage Reasoning Over XBRL Financial Disclosures - Vincent Caldeira, Red Hat & Peter Staar, IBM

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

Victoria - 2nd floor

The financial industry has long struggled to bridge the gap between standardized XBRL data and the nuanced reasoning needed for deep analysis. Traditional retrieval methods often treat complex disclosures as flat text, losing critical semantic relationships between line items, footnotes, and temporal periods. This session introduces Graph-Grounded Agentic Retrieval. Using open-source tools like...
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Speakers

Vincent Caldeira

CTO APAC, Red Hat

Vincent Caldeira, Red Hat APAC CTO and Industry Visiting Scholar at Columbia University, drives tech strategy and emerging engineering. A Top 10 APAC CTO (2023) with 20+ years in finance IT, he is an authority on open source, cloud-native technologies and AI. Vincent holds leadership... Read More →

Peter Staar

Technical lead of Docling, IBM

Phd in theoretical physics, interested in AI, high performance computing and document processing. Chair of the technical steering committee of Docling.

Thursday June 25, 2026 13:35 - 14:10 BST
Victoria - 2nd floor

AI Implementation & Engineering

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...
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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 →

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

Cultivating the Culture (OSPO & Readiness)

13:35 BST

What’s New in Fluxnova 3.0: A Practical Overview - Harish Malavade, Fidelity Investments

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

Churchill - Ground floor

Join us for a hands-on look at Fluxnova 3.0 and its latest features for smarter workflow automation: Dive into Fluxnova 3.0 the next evolution of open-source workflow automation! In this session, we’ll unveil powerful new features designed to give you unprecedented visibility and control over your processes.

Speakers

Harish Malavade

Vice President Software Engineering, Fidelity Investments

Extensive experience in providing solution architecture and implementation technical design of large scale full stack fintech applications in cloud(AWS). Experiences in design and development of micro service modules in JAVA/J2EE, REST APIs, Event driven architecture, Systems Integrations... Read More →

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

Fluxnova & Platform Automation

13:35 BST

TraderX is Now Ready for Business - Dov Katz, Morgan Stanley

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

Burton / Redgrave - 2nd floor

After adopting spec base development, we were finally able to solve a three year-old challenge and now have 14 different variations of our TraderX repo for developers to interact with an integrate with. This will allow for comprehensive learning in multiple phases of the life-cycle of this project and rapid innovation, by introducing more nodes to our learning graph. This makes the perfect...
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Speakers

Dov Katz

Managing Director, Morgan Stanley

Thursday June 25, 2026 13:35 - 14:10 BST
Burton / Redgrave - 2nd floor

Platform Engineering & Cloud Native

13:35 BST

The Cognitive Command Center: Solving the Last Mile of AI in Asset Management - Adam Toms, Here (formerly OpenFin)

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

Moore - 4th floor

AI adoption is accelerating. Model capabilities are advancing. Agentic workflows are moving from pilot to production. Regulatory frameworks are being established. But what about the experience of the analyst, portfolio manager, or advisor who has to act on the intelligence AI produces? What We'll Cover — The Last Mile Problem: Why AI capability & AI value are not the same thing & where the...
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Speakers

Adam Toms

President, COO, & Board Director at HERE, Here (formerly OpenFin)

Adam Toms is President, COO, & Board Director at HERE, where he leads all corporate & GTM functions. Since joining in 2017, he has been instrumental in scaling HERE's global operations and driving its expansion across the world's leading financial institutions and into new industry... Read More →

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

The Connective Tissue (Interop & CDM)

13:55 BST

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

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

Gielgud - 2nd 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...
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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 →

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

AI Lightning Track

14:15 BST

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

Thursday June 25, 2026 14:15 - 14:30 BST

Churchill - Ground 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...
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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.

Thursday June 25, 2026 14:15 - 14:30 BST
Churchill - Ground floor

Fluxnova & Platform Automation

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

Gielgud - 2nd 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...
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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
Gielgud - 2nd floor

AI Lightning Track

14:20 BST

The AIGF Says Non-Determinism Is a Risk. Here's How To Fix It. - Paul Merrison, Tetrate

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

Albert - 2nd floor

The FINOS AI Governance Framework identifies non-deterministic behavior as a core operational risk—but stops short of prescribing how to fix it. Two research papers offer contradictory answers: one says temperature zero is enough, the other says you need specialized GPU kernels. Both can't be right—and for workflows governed by SR 11-7, the answer determines whether LLMs can be deployed at...
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Speakers

Paul Merrison

Head of AI & Infosec, Tetrate

Infosec and AI governance expert, FINOS contributor

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

AI Governance & Risk & Security

14:20 BST

Navigating the Regulatory Storm: Scaling Cloud Governance With FINOS CCC - Sonali Mendis, Scott Logic & 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...
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Speakers

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.

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

AI Implementation & Engineering

14:20 BST

Preparing Banks for Quantum Computing Risk: Open Source Strategies for Post‑Quantum Readiness - Mark Paulsen, TD Bank

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

Abbey - 4th floor

The Linux Foundation, FINOS, and others in the open source community have already created strategies and patterns that are enabling regulated enterprises to manage the increased open source and software supply chain scrutiny of regulators and auditors. Strategies and patterns that enable an open discovery and transparency of shared risks across the core ecosystem, and the ability to leverage...
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Speakers

Mark Paulsen

Head, Open Source Program Office, TD Bank

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

Cultivating the Culture (OSPO & Readiness)

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...
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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 →

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

Platform Engineering & Cloud Native

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 →

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

The Connective Tissue (Interop & CDM)

14:35 BST

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

Thursday June 25, 2026 14:35 - 14:50 BST

Churchill - Ground 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...
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Kevin Renaudon

Product Manager, Symphony

Kevin Renaudon is a seasoned Product Manager at Symphony since May 2021, where responsibilities include leading the development of a cloud-based SAAS messaging platform, focusing on cost reduction and system architecture enhancements. Prior to this role, Kevin served at Amadeus from... Read More →

Thursday June 25, 2026 14:35 - 14:50 BST
Churchill - Ground floor

Fluxnova & Platform Automation

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

Gielgud - 2nd 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...
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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
Gielgud - 2nd floor

AI Lightning Track

14:55 BST

Afternoon Break & Networking

Thursday June 25, 2026 14:55 - 15:10 BST

Sponsor Showcase - 1st floor

Thursday June 25, 2026 14:55 - 15:10 BST
Sponsor Showcase - 1st floor

Breaks/Networking/Special Events

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

Gielgud - 2nd 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...
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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 →

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

AI Lightning Track

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

Churchill - Ground 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...
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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 →

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

Fluxnova & Platform Automation

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...
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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 →

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

Platform Engineering & Cloud Native

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...
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Noel McLoughlin

Principal Engineer, TD Bank

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

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

AI Governance & Risk & Security

15:10 BST

From Alert To Commit: Agentic Incident Resolution - Sarah Khalife, GitHub & Grant Griffiths, NeuBird AI

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

Victoria - 2nd floor

In highly regulated environments like financial services, a production issue isn't just downtime. It's potential regulatory exposure, audit liability, and cascading business disruption. Current root cause analysis and remediation workflows are often slow, manual, and introduce unnecessary stress: an on-call engineer gets paged at 2am, spends hours correlating across observability tools, drafts a...
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Sarah Khalife

Director, Field Services - FSI & HLS, GitHub

Sarah Khalife is Director of Field Services for Financial Services and HLS at GitHub, where she helps highly regulated organizations modernize their SDLC and adopt AI-assisted, agentic development practices. She focuses on the evolving relationship between developers, AI agents, and... Read More →

Grant Griffiths

Founding Engineer, NeuBird AI

Grant Griffiths is a Founding Engineer at NeuBird AI, where he leads Infrastructure and Platform Engineering. Prior to Neubird, he spent over five years at Portworx (acquired by Pure Storage), serving as Technical Lead for the Portworx CSI Driver and leading Kubernetes open source... Read More →

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

AI Implementation & Engineering

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...
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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 →

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

The Connective Tissue (Interop & CDM)

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

Gielgud - 2nd 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...
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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
Gielgud - 2nd floor

AI Lightning Track

15:30 BST

Powering Digital Transformation in an ‘always-on’ Era - Monica Sasso, Red Hat

Thursday June 25, 2026 15:30 - 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...
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Monica Sasso

Global Financial Services Digital Transformation Lead, Red Hat

Monica supports customers adopting open source and hybrid cloud to drive digital transformation and compliant infrastructure. She has held senior roles at organizations including Nationwide, Barclays, Coutts, and Deutsche Bank, leading global regulatory and transformation initiatives... Read More →

Thursday June 25, 2026 15:30 - 15:45 BST
Abbey - 4th floor

Cultivating the Culture (OSPO & Readiness)

15:30 BST

CALMGuard: Zero To Hero With Architecture as Code - Eddie Knight, Revanite & Anoop Mehendale, Opsflow LLC

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

Churchill - Ground floor

CALMGuard is a new FINOS project designed to accelerate end user adoption of CALM, focusing on a smooth journey for architects with no previous CALM experience. This presentation will tell the story of how CALMGuard began as a hackathon project in 2026, and quickly became the de facto user experience for users who want to architect secure-by-default infrastructure. If you’re an architect...
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Eddie Knight

Founder, Revanite

Eddie Knight is a Software and Cloud Engineer with a background in banking technology. When he isn’t playing with his 3-year-old son, he combines his passion and job duties by working to improve the security of open source software.

Eddie currently helps lead several security and compliance initiatives across the CNCF, OpenSSF, and FINOS... Read More →

Anoop Mehendale

CEO, Opsflow, Opsflow LLC

Anoop Mehendale is a serial entrepreneur and CEO of OpsFlow LLC building cutting edge AI solutions. He previously founded Xficient, bringing generative AI for healthcare payers, held senior roles at Salesforce, Optum, Aetna, and Highmark, and co-founded three high-growth analytics... Read More →

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

Fluxnova & Platform Automation

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...
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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 →

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

Platform Engineering & Cloud Native

15:55 BST

Agentic AI and the Future of Software Development - Colin Eberhardt, Scott Logic

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

Victoria - 2nd floor

It all started in 2022 with a chatbot named ChatGPT. Who knew the impact it would have on the industry just a few years later? We have been on a roller-coaster ride. In 2022 we pair programmed with GitHub Copilot. In 2023 we talked with our AI, gaining codebase-level assistance through tools like Cursor. In 2024, foundation model capability increased significantly, and alongside proprietary...
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Colin Eberhardt

CTO, Scott Logic

I am the CTO of Scott Logic, a growing UK-based software consultancy that tackles challenging software problem. I'm a keen open source advocate, and a frequent personal contributor. I am a board member of FINOS, and chair both the Technical Oversight Committee and the newly-formed... Read More →

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

AI Implementation & Engineering

15:55 BST

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

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

Gielgud - 2nd 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...
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Jeremy Taylor

Head of Product, Grid Dynamics

Jeremy Taylor is Head of Product for XTDB, an open source project by Grid Dynamics, featuring the bitemporal data model at its core.

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

AI Lightning Track

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

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

Churchill - Ground 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...
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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.

Amit Khandelwal

Principal Product Manager, Microsoft

I am a Principal Product Manager at Microsoft with 16+ years of experience, playing a key role in the evolution of SQL Server on Linux and cross‑platform solutions. I currently lead SQL Server on Linux and Containers and have designed SQL-based data platforms for Tier‑1 customers... Read More →

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

Fluxnova & Platform Automation

15:55 BST

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

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

Abbey - 4th floor

The FINOS Distinguished Engineer (DE) Special Interest Group is a growing community with a clear mission: to develop and provide senior engineering leadership for socially impactful work and to support FINOS projects with experienced talent. Now progressing toward promotion into the main FINOS GitHub organisation, the DE SIG is shaping how Distinguished Engineers collaborate, learn and lead across...
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Peter Suggitt

Engineering Fellow, Natwest Group

Pete has over 15 years of operational engineering experience from UBS in Engineering and Architecture roles, later becoming CTO for Software Engineering. Before joining NatWest, he was a Principal Architect and Distinguished Engineer at Deutsche Bank. He lives in Northamptonshire... Read More →

Pooi Cheong

OSPO - Principal Engineer, NatWest Group

Mark Brotherwood

Senior Partner, Davies Group

Mark Brotherwood is a Senior Partner at Davies, leading People Development capability. With over 30 years in banking, technology, and transformation, he supports major financial institutions in building leadership strength and workforce capability. He previously spent nearly three... Read More →

Peter Thomas

Distinguished Engineer, Deutsche Bank

Investment Bank Core Platforms and Office of CTO Lead

Anthony Kesterton

Principal Solution Architect, Red Hat

Anthony Kesterton is a Principal Solution Architect at Red Hat UK, working with major global banking customers to support large‑scale change in how critical software is delivered and operated, using open‑source approaches. With three decades of experience across financial services... Read More →

Diana Kennedy

Director of Architecture and Engineering, NatWest Group

Diana joined NatWest in June 2024 to lead the Bank’s architectural transformation and simplification. She brings extensive senior technology leadership experience from Bupa, BP and British Gas, having held CTO, VP and enterprise architecture roles across global organisations. Diana... Read More →

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

Cultivating the Culture (OSPO & Readiness)

15:55 BST

Open Source Data Quality Monitoring in Financial Services: A Production ML Approach - Pradeep Kalluri, NatWest Bank

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

Burton / Redgrave - 2nd floor

Data quality failures in financial services carry real regulatory and business risk. Traditional rule-based validation catches known issues but misses subtle patterns that emerge over time in production systems. I built an open source real-time data quality monitoring system processing 332,000+ orders using Apache Kafka, Python, and a 3-model ML ensemble — Isolation Forest, LSTM, and...
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Pradeep Kalluri

Data Engineer, NatWest Bank

Data Engineer with 3+ years of experience building production data platforms at NatWest, Accenture, and Dpoint. Specialized in cloud-native architectures, real-time processing with Kafka and Spark, and data quality frameworks. Published technical writer on Medium, sharing practical... Read More →

Thursday June 25, 2026 15:55 - 16:30 BST
Burton / Redgrave - 2nd floor

Platform Engineering & Cloud Native

15:55 BST

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

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

The Connective Tissue (Interop & CDM)

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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...
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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 →

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

AI Governance & Risk & Security

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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...
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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 →

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

AI Implementation & Engineering

16:15 BST

Hackathon To FINOS: How a Hackathon Challenge Uncovered the Architecture-Governance Gap - Anoop Mehendale & Gourav Shah, OpsFlow LLC

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

Gielgud - 2nd floor

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

Speakers

Anoop Mehendale

CEO, Opsflow, Opsflow LLC

Gourav Shah

Co - Founder & Platform Architect, OpsFlow, OpsFlow

Gourav Shah is a platform architect and founder of OpsFlow, an open-core architecture governance platform on FINOS CALM. He brings deep expertise in DevOps, infrastructure-as-code, GitOps, and agentic engineering. He speaks on deterministic architecture governance, AI agents in operations... Read More →

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

AI Lightning Track

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

Churchill - Ground 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...
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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 →

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

Fluxnova & Platform Automation

16:40 BST

Closing Keynotes & Awards

Thursday June 25, 2026 16:40 - 17:25 BST

Churchill - Ground floor

Thursday June 25, 2026 16:40 - 17:25 BST
Churchill - Ground floor

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Thursday June 25, 2026 17:30 - 19:30 BST

Sponsor Showcase - 1st floor

Thursday June 25, 2026 17:30 - 19:30 BST
Sponsor Showcase - 1st floor

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