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25 June 2026 | London, England
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08:30 BST

Workshop: Defining the Roadmap for Tokenized Assets in the FINOS CDM: Pre-Registration Rerquired TBA

13:00 BST

Workshop: FINOS CALM Hands-on Workshop: Architecture as Code: Pre-Registration Required TBA Workshop: FINOS FDC3CON: Pre-Registration Required TBA

09:00 BST

Workshop: AI Governance Framework Training Workshop: Pre-Registration Required Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre Workshop: Open SDLC Controls Framework for Financial Services Workshop: Pre-Registration Required Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre

13:00 BST

Workshop: FINOS Common Cloud Controls Workshop: Pre-Registration Required Moore - 4th floor Open Source AI in Finance Leadership Summit - Invitation Only Event Gielgud - 2nd floor

16:00 BST

Registration + Badge Pick-up Ground Floor (Near Main Entrance) QE II Centre

07:30 BST

Registration + Badge Pick-up Ground Floor (Near Main Entrance) QE II Centre

09:00 BST

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

09:15 BST

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

09:20 BST

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

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 Churchill - Ground floor

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 & In... Churchill - Ground floor

10:20 BST

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

10:35 BST

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

10:45 BST

Morning Break & Networking Sponsor Showcase - 1st floor Sponsor Showcase Pickwick - 1st floor

11:15 BST

From Consumer to Contributor: Open Source in the Age of AI - Raimund Hook, GitLab Victoria - 2nd floor The True Nature of Most Threats Behind AI-ML: Why AI-ML Security Is Fundamentally a Data Problem - Abdullah Garcia, J.P. Morgan Churchill - Ground floor Unconference: FSI OSS Supply Chain Resiliency in the Era of AI - Dov Katz, Morgan Stanley Burton / Redgrave - 2nd floor Open Source, AI and Patents: Unifying a Technology Strategy That Works for Finance - Mark Paulsen & John S Lee, TD Bank Albert - 2nd floor Architecting Secure Open Source Contributions in the Enterprise: The Git-Proxy Approach - Tomasz Swierszcz, Citi Abbey - 4th floor Fluxnova Agentic - Open Standards, Governed Agents - Pieter Schutte, Natwest & Riyaz Patel, NatWest Group Gielgud - 2nd floor We Need To Walk Before We Run With CDM - Paul Hands, DRS and Parallel 51 Moore - 4th floor

11:35 BST

Building Operationally Resilient Financial Workflows: A Mortgage Journey Case Study - Simon Emms, Temporal Victoria - 2nd floor The State of the Developer GenAI Supply Chain: Slopsquatting and Secure OSS Demystified - Andrew Martin, ControlPlane Churchill - Ground floor Find Once. Fix Once. Distribute Everywhere. - Eric Baran, Moderne Burton / Redgrave - 2nd floor

12:00 BST

Fine-Grained Authorization for RAG Embeddings Retrieval With Relationship-Based Access Control - Evan Corkrean, AuthZed Churchill - Ground floor Provenance-Aware Code Intelligence: From Vibe to Verified - Lee Faus, Atomic Software, Co. Albert - 2nd floor Bounded Agent Autonomy, the Cloud Native Way - Francesco Beltramini, ControlPlane & William Rizzo, Mirantis Victoria - 2nd floor Scaling InnerSource in Financial Services Through OSPO Enablement: Case Studies and Value Metrics - Pooi Cheong, NatWest Group & Chamindra de Silva, Citi Abbey - 4th floor Phydigital Banking: Connecting Physical and Digital Banking Through Process Automation With Fluxnova - Dr. Gulzar Singh, Phoenix Empire Ltd & Olivier Poupeney, FINOS Gielgud - 2nd floor TraderX is Now Ready for Business - Dov Katz, Morgan Stanley Burton / Redgrave - 2nd floor FDC3: What's New in 3.0? - Kris West, NatWest & Chris Watson, Elgin White Moore - 4th floor

12:20 BST

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

12:35 BST

Lunch Sponsor Showcase - 1st floor

13:35 BST

Scaling SWE Agents: Manage Agent Primitives Like NPM Packages With Agent Package Manager (APM) - Sergio Sisternes, EPAM Churchill - Ground floor Operating Digital Asset Platforms on Open Infrastructure: Lessons From Regulated Production - Liene Luksika, VSHN AG Gielgud - 2nd floor AI Governance Unlocked: The Steel Thread Demo - James McLeod, NatWest Group & Olivier Poupeney, FINOS Albert - 2nd floor Graph-Grounded Agentic Retrieval for Multi-Stage Reasoning Over XBRL Financial Disclosures - Vincent Caldeira, Red Hat & Peter Staar, IBM Victoria - 2nd floor Operating Open Source at Scale: Community‑Driven Stewardship of Critical Engineering Tools - Neil McGonigle, Fidelity Investments Abbey - 4th floor Open Resource Broker: A Unified API for Cloud Capacity Provisioning in HPC - Flamur Gogolli Amazon Web Services & Cyriaque Millot, Morgan Stanley Burton / Redgrave - 2nd floor The Cognitive Command Center: Solving the Last Mile of AI in Asset Management - Vicky Sanders, here.io Moore - 4th floor

13:55 BST

Open Foundations for Trustworthy Agentic AI in Financial Services - Jochen Papenbrock, NVIDIA Churchill - Ground floor AI Platform for Financial Services: From Compliant AI To Hybrid Workflow Orchestration With Fluxnova - Kevin Renaudon, Symphony Gielgud - 2nd floor

14:20 BST

Agents on a Leash: Deterministic Agentic AI for Financial Services - Andrea Ferraresi, Red Hat Churchill - Ground floor CANCELED: The AIGF Says Non-Determinism Is a Risk. Here's How To Fix It. - Paul Merrison, Tetrate Albert - 2nd floor Navigating the Regulatory Storm: Scaling Cloud Governance With FINOS CCC - Sonali Mendis, Scott Logic; Dave Reeve, Morgan Stanley & Rob Moffat, FINOS Victoria - 2nd floor Preparing Banks for Quantum Computing Risk: Open Source Strategies for Post‑Quantum Readiness - Mark Paulsen, TD Bank Abbey - 4th floor Fluxnova Inception to Adoption - New Features for Enterprise Adoption - Harish Malavade, Fidelity Investments Gielgud - 2nd floor Eliminating License Risk With Open Source: Migrating 400+ Database Instances in a Tier-1 Bank - Kate Obiidykhata & Michal Nosek, Percona Burton / Redgrave - 2nd floor Bridging FIX and CDM for Regulatory Reporting - Grant Haley, First Derivative & Chris Rayner, ISLA Moore - 4th floor

14:40 BST

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

14:55 BST

Afternoon Break & Networking Sponsor Showcase - 1st floor

15:10 BST

Distilling Intent From Code: Behavioural Specification for Legacy Analysis and Modernisation - Henry Garner, JUXT Churchill - Ground floor From Orchestration To Conversation: Observability as the Missing Link in Agentic FS Systems - Jamie Macdonald, Scott Logic Gielgud - 2nd floor Physical Risk and Resilience: Using Open-source To Bring the System In-house - Joe Moorhouse, BNP Paribas Burton / Redgrave - 2nd floor From Open Data To Operations: Building AI Governance Infrastructure - Noel McLoughlin, TD Bank Albert - 2nd floor From Alert To Commit: Agentic Incident Resolution - Sarah Khalife, GitHub & Grant Griffiths, NeuBird AI Victoria - 2nd floor Powering Digital Transformation in an ‘Always-on’ Era - Bruno Azenha, Red Hat Abbey - 4th floor Turning Standards Into Action: The CDM Smart Contract Framework - Ciarán McGonagle, Tokenovate & David Shone, ISDA Moore - 4th floor

15:30 BST

Why Open-Source Transformation Fails in Finance - and It’s Not the Code - Kadian Douglas, Kadian Performance Institute Churchill - Ground floor CALMSuite: Zero To Hero With Architecture as Code - Eddie Knight, Revanite Gielgud - 2nd floor Seeing Is Believing - Visualizing Business Analytics for Your Financial Data Via Open Source Tools - Syed Khalid Ahmed, Adidas & Syed Usman Ahmad, Grafana Labs Burton / Redgrave - 2nd floor

15:55 BST

The Trust Gap: How Modern Financial Services Orgs Govern AI Without Slowing Innovation - Mitun Zavery, Sonatype Albert - 2nd floor Agentic AI and the Future of Software Development - Colin Eberhardt, Scott Logic Victoria - 2nd floor CANCELLED: Decision Auditability at the Foundations of AI Readiness - Jeremy Taylor, Grid Dynamics Churchill - Ground floor Modern Data & AI Platforms for Financial Services With SQL Server 2025, RHEL, and OpenShift - Vivien Wang, Red Hat & Shaurabh Thapa, Microsoft Gielgud - 2nd floor The Emerging FINOS DE Community: Growing Leadership Through Collaboration, Trust and Inclusion. - Peter Thomas, Deutsche Bank; Peter Suggitt, Pooi Cheong & Li Qun Taylor, Natwest Group; Mark Brotherwood, Davies Group; Anthony Kesterton, Red Hat & Mod... Abbey - 4th floor Open Source Data Quality Monitoring in Financial Services: A Production ML Approach - Pradeep Kalluri, NatWest Bank Burton / Redgrave - 2nd floor Transforming Derivatives Post-trade Through CDM - Daniel Ivanier, Delta Capita Fragmos Moore - 4th floor

16:15 BST

Using CALM To Enforce Architecture at PR Time in Regulated Environments - Marc Daniel Registre, MBA, ArchRails LLC Albert - 2nd floor Platform Engineering for Quantitative Models: Architecture, Consistency, and Scale - Kamlesh Shah, Morgan Stanley Victoria - 2nd floor Hackathon To FINOS: How a Hackathon Challenge Uncovered the Architecture-Governance Gap - Karl Moll, FINOS Churchill - Ground floor MCP Apps Meet the Financial Desktop: Lifecycle, Layout, and Multi-App Orchestration - Kalin Kostov, interop.io Gielgud - 2nd floor

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 Churchill - Ground floor

17:00 BST

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

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 Churchill - Ground floor

17:30 BST

Networking Reception + Booth Crawl Sponsor Showcase - 1st floor