Open Source in Finance Forum London 2026

Open Source in Finance Forum London 2026

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 - 09:25 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 instances onto the platform, and collectively proving that community-driven open source is the future of mission-critical financial infrastructure.

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

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

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 integration of physical and digital banking channels and why orchestration layers are becoming an important architectural capability for modern financial institutions.

The session will illustrate how process orchestration platforms such as Fluxnova, a FINOS open source project neutrally governed by five major banks, can help coordinate workflows across banking systems and improve operational resilience.

Using practical financial services scenarios, we will demonstrate how orchestration can connect digital banking services with human-assisted channels, enabling more transparent, explainable and efficient operations across the institution.

The session will also touch on the emerging role of agentic process automation, where AI-driven agents coordinate workflows across multiple platforms.

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

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

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 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.

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

Fluxnova & Platform Automation

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 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 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

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 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 →

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

Fluxnova & Platform Automation

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 looking to begin your Architecture as Code journey, or a director looking to make dramatic improvements to your engineering outcomes, this session is the perfect starting point to see how simplicity can drive enterprise-scale transformation.

Speakers

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

15:55 BST

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 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

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

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 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 →

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

Keynote Sessions