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September 30 - October 1, 2024 | New York, New York
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Monday, September 30
 

11:30am EDT

1:00pm EDT

Welcome & Opening Remarks - Jane Gavronsky, Chief Operating Officer, FINOS
Monday September 30, 2024 1:00pm - 1:05pm EDT
Speakers
avatar for Jane Gavronsky

Jane Gavronsky

Chief Operating Officer, FINOS
Jane is a senior technology leader with extensive experience in delivering transformative, data-focused technology in the Financial Services industry. Most recently, Jane was Managing Director at Credit Suisse, where she was the Global Head of Reference Data Technology Services. In... Read More →
Monday September 30, 2024 1:00pm - 1:05pm EDT
Broadway Ballroom North

1:05pm EDT

State of the Foundation - Gabriele Columbro, Executive Director, FINOS
Monday September 30, 2024 1:05pm - 1:20pm EDT
Speakers
avatar for Gabriele Columbro

Gabriele Columbro

Executive Director / General Manager, FINOS / Linux Foundation Europe
Gabriele is an open source technologist at heart. He spent over 15 years building developer ecosystems to deliver value through open source across Europe and the US. He thrives on driving innovation both contributing to open source communities and joining commercial open source ventures... Read More →
Monday September 30, 2024 1:05pm - 1:20pm EDT
Broadway Ballroom North
  Keynote Sessions
  • Session Slides Attached Yes

1:25pm EDT

FDC3 Announcements - Sitija Sarkar, Technical Fellow & Managing Director, Blackrock & Frank Tarsillo, Chief Technology Officer, S&P Global Market Intelligence
Monday September 30, 2024 1:25pm - 1:40pm EDT
Join Sitija Sarkar from BlackRock and Frank Tarsillo from S&P Global, who will delve into the latest developments in the Financial Desktop Connectivity and Collaboration Consortium (FDC3) project, offering valuable insights into the collaborative efforts within the financial services sector to advance this crucial initiative.
Speakers
avatar for Frank Tarsillo

Frank Tarsillo

Chief Technology Officer, S&P Global Market Intelligence
Frank Tarsillo is Chief Technology Officer at S&P Global Market Intelligence. He and his team drive the technical strategy, engineering and support across all product lines with a focus on modernization through use of cloud and enterprise data assets.   He is also responsible for... Read More →
avatar for Sitija Sarkar

Sitija Sarkar

Technical Fellow & Managing Director, BlackRock
Sitija is a Managing Director and Technical Fellow at BlackRock, leading the development of scalable architectures, and creating innovative frameworks and products. With over 12 years at BlackRock, Sitija has been instrumental in shaping the user experience and technology strategy... Read More →
Monday September 30, 2024 1:25pm - 1:40pm EDT
Broadway Ballroom North

1:45pm EDT

Trading Places - Kelsey Hightower, Retired Distinguished Engineer, Author, Advisor, and Open Source Contributor
Monday September 30, 2024 1:45pm - 2:05pm EDT
Proprietary software feels like a safe bet until it isn't.
Speakers
avatar for Kelsey Hightower

Kelsey Hightower

Retired Distinguished Engineer, Author, Advisor, and Open Source Contributor
Kelsey Hightower has worn every hat possible throughout his career in tech, and enjoys leadership roles focused on making things happen and shipping software. Kelsey is a strong open source advocate focused on building simple tools that make people smile. When he is not slinging Go... Read More →
Monday September 30, 2024 1:45pm - 2:05pm EDT
Broadway Ballroom North

2:10pm EDT

Enterprise AI: Models vs Code - Burr Sutter, Global Director, Developer Experience, Red Hat
Monday September 30, 2024 2:10pm - 2:20pm EDT
In this lightning fast keynote with LIVE demonstration, we will provide an example of enterprise application development, where DevSecOps embraces AI/ML and Large Language Models including: Backstage, Mistral, Kubernetes, Jupyter, KubeFlow, Python, Llama, Tekton, InstructLab, ArgoCD, Java, Granite, and much more.
Speakers
avatar for Burr Sutter

Burr Sutter

Global Director, Developer Experience, Red Hat
A lifelong developer advocate, community organizer, and technology evangelist, Burr Sutter is a featured speaker at technology events around the globe, from Bangalore to Brussels and Berlin to Bali (and most parts in between).He is currently Red Hat’s Global Director of Developer... Read More →
Monday September 30, 2024 2:10pm - 2:20pm EDT
Broadway Ballroom North

2:30pm EDT

Making GenAI a Tool for Everyone - Colin Eberhardt, Scott Logic
Monday September 30, 2024 2:30pm - 3:00pm EDT
There is little doubt that GenAI will have an impact on almost every aspect of our business and personal lives. However, we are at an interesting juncture: models are becoming ever more powerful, with prototypes showing ever greater promise, but there remain significant challenges when it comes to the reality of putting this technology into practice. How do we take these astonishing experiments and turn them into something safe and reliable that can ultimately be trusted in the wild? Financial services has a fairly long history with AI and machine learning. However, its place within the industry is shifting. It is no longer the exclusive tool of Data Scientists. Rather it is a tool we are placing in the hands of our engineers, product owners, and, if we are to maximise the benefits, we should be putting it in everyone's hands. But to do-so safely, we need to educate people regarding the strengths and weaknesses, the risks and opportunities this technology presents. Within FINOS, we are forming an AI readiness group that tackles some of these challenges. This talk will take a deep dive, exploring the changes we need to make as AI rapidly becomes a standard tool in our armoury
Speakers
avatar for Colin Eberhardt

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 →
Monday September 30, 2024 2:30pm - 3:00pm EDT
Broadway Ballroom North

2:30pm EDT

OpenTelemetry for Finance - Austin Parker, honeycomb.io
Monday September 30, 2024 2:30pm - 3:00pm EDT
Observability is a crucial component of modern, cloud-native software delivery. OpenTelemetry, a CNCF project, is revolutionizing the observability space by providing a standard, built-in framework for telemetry data. In this session, you'll learn the fundamentals of OpenTelemetry and how it's being used to understand and monitor financial applications at organizations such as Vanguard.
Speakers
avatar for Austin Parker

Austin Parker

Director of Open Source, honeycomb.io
Austin is a founding member of the OpenTelemetry project and sits on its governance committee. In addition, he's written two books on observability; Distributed Tracing in Practice and Learning OpenTelemetry. He is the Director of Open Source at honeycomb.io, helping to define the... Read More →
Monday September 30, 2024 2:30pm - 3:00pm EDT
Uris

2:30pm EDT

OS-Climate and Unity Catalog: Pioneering Open Source ESG Data Sharing - Vincent Caldeira, Red Hat
Monday September 30, 2024 2:30pm - 3:00pm EDT
In the rapidly evolving landscape of ESG data, financial institutions face the dual challenges of data fragmentation and security. This session will explore OS-Climate's innovative use of open source technologies, including Apache Iceberg, Apache Spark and the Unity Catalog, the industry's only universal catalog for data and AI, to enable secure and efficient ESG data sharing across financial institutions. Through this session, participants will gain insights into the strategic benefits of leveraging open source tools for ESG data management, including enhanced data security, governance, and interoperability. In particular we will demonstrate how Unity Catalog Unity's multimodal interface supporting various data formats and engines supports compatibility across diverse data ecosystems to facilitate seamless integration and governance of data assets, allowing financial institutions to not only meet regulatory compliance but also to harness ESG data for strategic advantage.
Speakers
avatar for Vincent Caldeira

Vincent Caldeira

CTO APAC, Red Hat
Vincent Caldeira, CTO of Red Hat in APAC, is responsible for strategic partnerships and technology strategy. Named a top CTO in APAC in 2023, he has 20+ years in IT, excelling in technology transformation in finance. An authority in open source, cloud computing, and digital transformation... Read More →
Monday September 30, 2024 2:30pm - 3:00pm EDT
Winter Garden

2:30pm EDT

Two Layers of Protection: How FINOS is Securing Projects and Member Supply Chains - Brian Fox, Sonatype
Monday September 30, 2024 2:30pm - 3:00pm EDT
Improving software supply chain security starts with a secure foundation. The FINOS community has recently intensified efforts to help members enhance software supply chain security on two critical fronts:

1. Empowering maintainers to assess and improve their dependency ingestion with access to enterprise-grade software composition analysis (SCA)
2. Providing in-depth dependency consumption analysis, including a detailed review of member downloads from Maven Central

In this presentation, Brian Fox, co-founder of Sonatype, the maintainers of Maven Central, will explore the tangible risks the FINOS community is addressing through these initiatives. He’ll walk through a detailed consumption analysis report from Maven Central, sharing industry insights, what these trends reveal about software supply chain risks, and actionable steps organizations can take to enhance their security posture. Additionally, he’ll provide an overview of the SCA tools available to maintainers to reduce risk and improve delivery across FINOS projects.
Speakers
avatar for Brian Fox

Brian Fox

Cofounder & CTO, Sonatype
Co-founder and CTO, Brian Fox is a Governing Board member for the Opensource Security Foundation, a member of the Apache Software Foundation and former Chair of the Apache Maven project. As a direct contributor to the Maven ecosystem, including the maven-dependency-plugin and maven-enforcer-plugin... Read More →
Monday September 30, 2024 2:30pm - 3:00pm EDT
Plymouth

2:30pm EDT

Unlocking Secure, Open Supply Chains - Veda Shankar, Red Hat
Monday September 30, 2024 2:30pm - 3:00pm EDT
In this talk, we will discuss the Sigstore, Enterprise Contract, and GUAC projects, and how they help mitigate risks in the software supply chain.
Consuming open source is only a risky proposition if you don’t take the time to engineer a process that mitigates risk through security best practices of open source. Building a program for your organization to securely consume and contribute to open source is no different than developing new software. It is entirely determined by the practices, policies, technical controls, risk tolerance, and culture you establish and reinforce. From your software supply chain to your running services, open source can be both a reference and a guide to conducting the necessary diligence so that your investment in open source is a reward for you, your engineers, and your business. In this talk, we’ll explore assumptions about open source and open source security, tactics for managing secure open source consumption, reducing or mitigating risk presented by open source, and how to successfully use triangle composition to drive your efforts.
Speakers
avatar for Veda Shankar

Veda Shankar

Senior Principal Product Manager in the Application Developer BU, Red Hat
Veda manages the Trusted Application Pipeline and Trusted Artifact Signer products. Trusted Artifact Signer is a production-ready deployment of the Sigstore service within an enterprise. With over 10 years of experience with Red Hat's products, Veda has performed multiple roles, from... Read More →
Monday September 30, 2024 2:30pm - 3:00pm EDT
Music Box

2:30pm EDT

Introduction to the Common Domain Model: PRE-REGISTRATION REQUIRED - Thomas Healey & Gabriel Callsen, ICMA; Ian Sloyan, South Cardinal & Jane Gavronsky, FINOS
Monday September 30, 2024 2:30pm - 3:40pm EDT
Have you been wondering about the Common Domain Model (CDM) and why it’s useful? What is it used for across different business scenarios? Come to this session and find out!

This workshop will provide an introduction to the CDM as an open-source financial data and event model that efficiently integrates with other open-source platforms. The agenda includes an overview of the CDM’s financial product model, a demonstration of the code generator, and guidance on integrating the CDM into various architectures. Attendees will learn how to navigate the CDM’s data model, understand its architecture, integrate with external applications, and execute CDM events.

FINOS is also launching a short training course on the CDM, and you will have the opportunity to sample this course during the workshop and learn how to pursue it at your own pace. This will be an interactive, hands-on session, so bring your questions, and we will have answers!
Speakers
avatar for Jane Gavronsky

Jane Gavronsky

Chief Operating Officer, FINOS
Jane is a senior technology leader with extensive experience in delivering transformative, data-focused technology in the Financial Services industry. Most recently, Jane was Managing Director at Credit Suisse, where she was the Global Head of Reference Data Technology Services. In... Read More →
avatar for Thomas Healey

Thomas Healey

Consultant, ICMA
Tom Healey is a financial services consultant with over 20 years of experience as a senior executive and consultant to banks, fintech startups and private equity firms. Tom was the global head of repo trading system products at Bloomberg LP, served as Director of treasury platforms... Read More →
avatar for Ian Sloyan

Ian Sloyan

Managing Director, South Cardinal
Ian Sloyan is currently a consultant to FINOS, advising FINOS on CDM project. Previously advising ISDA on the development and execution of their Data and Digital Strategy, including CDM, FpML and document digitisation plus other Fintech, Regtech and Legaltech issues which the association... Read More →
avatar for Gabriel Callsen

Gabriel Callsen

Senior Director, FinTech and Digitalisation, ICMA
Gabriel Callsen is a Senior Director within ICMA’s FinTech and Digitalisation department. He acts as secretary to ICMA’s FinTech Advisory Committee and represents ICMA in international forums in relation to data standards and distributed ledger technology, focusing on technological... Read More →
Monday September 30, 2024 2:30pm - 3:40pm EDT
Palace
  Workshops
  • Session Slides Attached Yes

2:30pm EDT

3:10pm EDT

Enterprise Observability Platforms, OpenTelemetry, or Both? - Vamsi Naidu & Mike Kennedy, J.P. Morgan
Monday September 30, 2024 3:10pm - 3:40pm EDT
As financial firms continue to adopt cloud at growing speed, observability has become increasingly critical to help detect and resolve issues and achieve system reliability. Generally, companies with large volumes of pre-existing code look to adopt an industry leading observability platform, which requires minimal effort for adoption, and provides proprietary agents with out-of-the-box instrumentation supporting a wide variety of technologies, infrastructure components, and frameworks. As technology evolves rapidly, observability platforms are challenged to support merging services, applications, and frameworks. During our session, we will discuss how OpenTelemetry (OTel), used in conjunction with other enterprise observability platforms, can complement observability platforms in providing support for newer technologies. Additionally, we will showcase how easy it can be to instrument an application with OTel by leveraging GenAI/ChatGPT, and debunk beliefs that OTel instrumentation requires significant developer overhead.
Speakers
avatar for Mike Kennedy

Mike Kennedy

Director of SRE, J.P. Morgan
Mike is the Head of Observability for Asset and Wealth Management. In addition, he is a leader in SRE across JPMC, driving SRE implementation and best practices.
avatar for Vamsi Naidu

Vamsi Naidu

Vice President, JPMorgan Chase
Site Reliability Engineer
Monday September 30, 2024 3:10pm - 3:40pm EDT
Uris
  CNCF
  • Session Slides Attached Yes

3:10pm EDT

An Introduction to Software Logistics - Lee Faus, GitLab
Monday September 30, 2024 3:10pm - 3:40pm EDT
In this session we will look at the software supply chain and its key components from software factory to software logistics.
Software logistics goes beyond just doing a deployment. As we have seen in the common cloud controls project, you have to consider things like provisioning, configuration management, penetration testing, risk mitigation, observation and remediation. These items are usually handled by small teams that leverage tools, many of them open source, to simplify and automate routine tasks. Because a lot of these tools are very specific in nature, we want to look at what an open source
platform to manage all of these tasks might look like and if this could assist the common cloud controls working group. Finally, we will discuss areas where artificial intelligence could play a role.
Speakers
avatar for Lee Faus

Lee Faus

Global Field CTO, GitLab
Lee has been a software architect, teacher, professor and educator for over 25 years. He was the first teacher to bring Java to the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) exam back in 1995. Lee holds certifications from Novell, Microsoft, Sun, Cisco, Amazon and Google as a practitioner... Read More →
Monday September 30, 2024 3:10pm - 3:40pm EDT
Plymouth

3:10pm EDT

FDC3 2.2 & FDC3 on the Web! - Kristopher West, interop.io & Rob Moffat, FINOS
Monday September 30, 2024 3:10pm - 3:40pm EDT
FDC3 2.2 tightens several nuts and bolts in the FDC3 Standard, but more importantly, it brings long-awaited, cross-vendor support for FDC3 in Web Browsers. FDC3 2.2 allows applications to write to the open source @finos/fdc3 NPM module and connect to any Desktop Agent in the browser that conforms to the latest version of FDC3! In this presentation, we'll provide an overview of everything that's new in FDC3 2.2, background on the development of FDC3 for the Web by the community (including how we fixed some of the assumptions baked into FDC3), followed by a guide to getting your apps ready for it, live demos, updated conformance testing and more!
Speakers
avatar for Rob Moffatt

Rob Moffatt

Technical 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. Most recently he has been an advocate for the Symphony platform and the transformational... Read More →
avatar for Kris West

Kris West

Director, Consulting Services, interop.io
Dr Kris West leads the consulting service at interop.io, which works to accelerate the adoption of tools for interop in Financial Services, including both the io.Connect product line and its associated FDC3 Desktop Agent. Kris has served as the lead maintainer for the FDC3 Standard... Read More →
Monday September 30, 2024 3:10pm - 3:40pm EDT
Broadway Ballroom North
  FDC3
  • Session Slides Attached Yes

3:10pm EDT

Leveraging Open Standards to Drive Sustainable IT in Financial Services - Oliver Cronk, Scott Logic
Monday September 30, 2024 3:10pm - 3:40pm EDT
Financial Services Institutions (FSIs) face unique challenges in measuring and reducing their technology carbon footprint due to the scale and complexity of their IT estates. This session provides a broad overview of the challenges and existing standards and resources (including Green Software Foundation SCI, CNCF Kepler etc) - including challenges in terms of trust and comparability. To address many of these challenges the Technology Carbon Standard (TCS) has been created. TCS is an open source framework inspired by the GHG Protocol, provides a standardized approach for FSIs to classify, analyze, and benchmark their tech-related emissions. In this session, we'll discuss how FSIs can apply the TCS to identify carbon-intensive areas, prioritize reduction efforts, and align with regulatory requirements and voluntary commitments. We'll share case studies demonstrating the practical application of the TCS in the financial services context and explore how open collaboration can accelerate the adoption of sustainable IT practices across the industry.
Speakers
avatar for Oliver Cronk

Oliver Cronk

Technology Director, Scott Logic
Oliver Cronk is the Technology Director at Scott Logic, leading on emerging and sustainable technology. Experienced in a variety of systems engineering, architecture and strategy roles across finance, energy, government, telecoms and professional services. Oliver spent 4 years working... Read More →
Monday September 30, 2024 3:10pm - 3:40pm EDT
Winter Garden
  OS Climate
  • Session Slides Attached Yes

3:10pm EDT

Mastering the Cloud Native Wave: Security Resilience in Modern Systems - Andrew Martin & Francesco Beltramini, ControlPlane
Monday September 30, 2024 3:10pm - 3:40pm EDT
Cloud native technologies bring a significant change to the technological landscape, offering unprecedented levels of agility and scalability to modernise IT infrastructure and systems. However, they may potentially introduce substantial added complexity, widen the skills gap, and enlarge the attack surface. Unmanaged adoption will inevitably result in increased risk for any organisation. Security domains and disciplines like open source ingestion, AI/ML secops, threat modeling, security architecture, engineering and incident response need to adapt to the cloud native ecosystem to remain effective. We'll present the most common pain points and pitfalls, to then provide an overview of available countermeasures based on 200+ combined years of cloud native expertise.

Key takeaways: Attendees will be presented with practical techniques to improve common security disciplines (threat modeling, security architecture, engineering, and incident response) for modern cloud-native systems. They will leave with an understanding of what enhancements are required to maximise their usability and effectiveness.

Attendees will be presented with (i) an overview of challenges associated with cloud native technologies, (ii) a focus on risks and skill gaps, (iii) practical techniques to improve common security disciplines (threat modelling, security architecture, engineering, and incident response) for modern cloud native systems, (iv) an understanding of what enhancements are required to maximise their usability and effectiveness, (iv) a reusable methodology for de-risking cloud native technologies adoption.
Speakers
avatar for Andrew Martin

Andrew Martin

CEO, ControlPlane
Andrew has an incisive security engineering ethos gained building and destroying high-traffic web applications. Proficient in systems development, testing, and operations, he is at his happiest profiling and securing every tier of a cloud native system, and has battle-hardened experience... Read More →
avatar for Francesco Beltramini

Francesco Beltramini

Head of Technical Solutions, 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 organisations. Francesco had the opportunity of working on a variety of technology stacks in designing... Read More →
Monday September 30, 2024 3:10pm - 3:40pm EDT
Music Box

3:40pm EDT

FINOS Project Demo Sessions - Git Proxy
Monday September 30, 2024 3:40pm - 3:55pm EDT
Git Proxy

Git Proxy deploys custom push protections and policies on top of Git. It is a highly configurable framework allowing developers and organizations to enforce push protections relevant to their developer workflow, security posture and risk appetite. Git Proxy is built with a developer-first mindset. By presenting simple-to-follow remediation instructions in the CLI/Terminal, it minimises the friction of use and adoption, and keeps developers focused on what matters; committing and pushing code.

Participants: Paul Groves, Citi

Monday September 30, 2024 3:40pm - 3:55pm EDT
Solutions Showcase (Broadway Ballroom South)

3:40pm EDT

Break + Networking
Monday September 30, 2024 3:40pm - 4:10pm EDT
Monday September 30, 2024 3:40pm - 4:10pm EDT
Broadway Ballroom South

3:55pm EDT

FINOS Project Demo Sessions - Git Proxy
Monday September 30, 2024 3:55pm - 4:10pm EDT
Git Proxy

Git Proxy deploys custom push protections and policies on top of Git. It is a highly configurable framework allowing developers and organizations to enforce push protections relevant to their developer workflow, security posture and risk appetite. Git Proxy is built with a developer-first mindset. By presenting simple-to-follow remediation instructions in the CLI/Terminal, it minimises the friction of use and adoption, and keeps developers focused on what matters; committing and pushing code.

Participants: Paul Groves, Citi
Monday September 30, 2024 3:55pm - 4:10pm EDT
Solutions Showcase (Broadway Ballroom South)

4:10pm EDT

GenAI Powered Quality Check for Change Implementation Requests - Jaya Sehgal, Rita Chaturvedi, Mainak Saha & Samer Abraham, Morgan Stanley
Monday September 30, 2024 4:10pm - 4:40pm EDT
Change Management team conducted a POC to implement GenAI based framework for reviewing quality of change implementation requests (CIR) for making production software or infrastructure changes, that will ensure a certain standard and guidelines are adhered potentially preventing the production impact, and possibility of Change Control Failure resulting in an audit or regulatory findings. For an ecosystem that completes thousands of changes each year, this framework will provide an efficient method to review change quality, ensure SDLC compliance and implement change controls. GenAI Assisted Quality check: Introduction of LLM based evaluation of CIR: Every CIR will be scanned through LLM using pre defined rubrics, in case it is not up to a certain standard, or missing any information, the AI assistant will prompt back to user to provide the information to create a complete CIR. This is implemented using zero shot prompt and completion inference of LLM model. Graph based RAG Status: CIRs are stored in a graph data structure, through which relations are captured. LLM is used for generating cypher queries to traverse the knowledge graph to determine relevant relation between CIRs and flag potential risk
Speakers
avatar for Rita Chaturvedi

Rita Chaturvedi

Executive Director, Morgan Stanley
Rita Chaturvedi is an Executive Director of Morgan Stanley, responsible for Release and Change Management for Wealth Management Technology. Rita has held several roles and has driven transformation initiatives spanning SRE - Release Engineering, SDLC, Change Implementation Management... Read More →
avatar for Jaya Sehgal

Jaya Sehgal

Vice President, Morgan Stanley Wealth Management
Jaya is Governance and Change Controls Lead in Release Management space. With over 16 years of experience & expertise in application development, production support, project management and release management, she has been instrumental in driving efficiencies for several projects through... Read More →
SA

Samer Abraham

Morgan Stanley
avatar for Mainak Saha

Mainak Saha

Principal Architect - Wealth Management Architecture, Morgan Stanley
Monday September 30, 2024 4:10pm - 4:40pm EDT
Plymouth
  AI
  • Session Slides Attached Yes

4:10pm EDT

Building Observable Applications While Upholding Data Security Standards - Sateesh Mamidala, CapitalOne
Monday September 30, 2024 4:10pm - 4:40pm EDT
As applications evolve from monolithic to distributed systems, teams must comprehend the path of each transaction across various systems to assess each system's performance. This is critical in financial systems where transaction speed directly impacts financial outcomes and customer experience. However, a key concern is determining the optimal level of observability for applications. Injecting excessive observability elements into the code can potentially degrade application performance and added risk of sensitive data exposure. How can one decide what to monitor without compromising application performance? This talk explores the challenges of instrumenting high-throughput, high-performance applications without compromising their performance. It also addresses strategies for maximizing system observability to swiftly pinpoint root causes of issues, while managing the risks associated with implementing intricate observability solutions, including potential exposure of sensitive data
Speakers
avatar for Sateesh Mamidala

Sateesh Mamidala

Distinguished Engineer | Director, Capital One
Sateesh is a Distinguished Engineer specializing in the design of large scale enterprise applications. He drives the strategic roadmap and technological advancements to enhance Observability, influencing the future direction. With his expertise in Observability and proficiency in... Read More →
Monday September 30, 2024 4:10pm - 4:40pm EDT
Uris

4:10pm EDT

Contract Lifecycle Management Using CDM and ISDACreate - Amy Caruso, ISDA
Monday September 30, 2024 4:10pm - 4:40pm EDT
Demonstration of CLM from contract negotiation to execution, storage and use with transactions using industry standard data models. The use case explored is negotiation of CSAs then used to implement eligible collateral schedules digitally
Speakers
avatar for Amy Caruso

Amy Caruso

Head of Collateral Initiatives, ISDA, ISDA
I have more than 20 years of experience within the financial markets, primarily on the buyside and insurance sectors and then transitioning first to a market utility's business development initiative and now within an industry-leading trade organization. I manage well-thought-out... Read More →
Monday September 30, 2024 4:10pm - 4:40pm EDT
Broadway Ballroom North

4:10pm EDT

Navigating InnerSource Adoption and Maturity Within Your Enterprise - 3 Points of View - Brittany Istenes & JohnMark Walker, Fannie Mae; Addie Girouard, Third Man Agency & Mimi Flynn, Morgan Stanley
Monday September 30, 2024 4:10pm - 4:40pm EDT
InnerSource is a movement that is gathering momentum all across various technical industries, including FINTECH. This panel of experts will share their accomplishments, insights, lessons learned, challenges and what the future holds from 3 different perspectives. By hearing from experts at different levels of their experience, participants will gain valuable insights and practical guidance to enhance their own InnerSource practices within their own organizations.
Speakers
avatar for Mimi Flynn

Mimi Flynn

Vice President | OSPO, Morgan Stanley
Mimi Flynn is a Vice President at Morgan Stanley. With 24 years of experience as front end engineer she has worked for startups, fintech, and advertising. In 2023, she returned to Morgan Stanley as the Open Source Developer Advocate. Since 2018, she has served on the board of The... Read More →
avatar for JohnMark Walker

JohnMark Walker

Director, Open Source Program Office, Fannie Mae
Leading the open source program office to help modernize software delivery, compliance, and developer enablement.
avatar for Addie Girouard

Addie Girouard

Director, Third Man Agency
Addie Girouard is a strategic communications synergist, with over 15 years of experience building engagement and community in senior leadership roles. She is an InnerSource advocate, actively contributing to various open source projects including InnerSource Commons Foundation and... Read More →
avatar for Brittany Istenes

Brittany Istenes

OSPO Strategist, Fannie Mae
Brittany Istenes started off her career as an elementary school educator which then led to a path of tech. Brittany has led advisory councils, special interest groups, open source contributions, community building, InnerSource initiatives and all the gray areas in between. At Fannie... Read More →
Monday September 30, 2024 4:10pm - 4:40pm EDT
Winter Garden

4:10pm EDT

A Journey from Security Architecture to Straight-Through Provisioning - Aldwin Saugere & Iva Nikolaeva, Morgan Stanley
Monday September 30, 2024 4:10pm - 4:40pm EDT
This interactive session will delve into how Security Architecture reviews can be drastically accelerated using architecture patterns and the Common Architecture Language Model (CALM). The security domain of CALM will be presented through a case study using the TraderX FINOS project (sample Trading Application built for educational and experimentation purposes). Presentation highlights: Security Architecture – delineating between design reviews and security assurance to introduce Permit to Build vs. Operate. Architecture patterns – removing friction from security assurance with straight-through permits. Architecture as Code – overview of CALM, its core schema and various domains. Security Domain – utilizing TraderX in the FINOS Tech Sprint 2024 Hackathon to build the Security Domain of CALM. Straight-through provisioning – automating security assurance using architecture patterns and CALM. Adoption – leveraging CALM in the architecture and developer community. Contribution – Architecture as Code Working Group (FINOS DevOps SIG) and On-site Accelerators at Morgan Stanley and London Stock Exchange Group.
Speakers
avatar for Iva Nikolaeva

Iva Nikolaeva

Cybersecurity Architect, Morgan Stanley
Iva is a Security Architect in Morgan Stanley where she provides support and security guidance to a wide variety of technology teams and Strategists. She enables and guides teams on their journey through designing and building applications and through cloud adoption by advising on... Read More →
avatar for Aldwin Saugere

Aldwin Saugere

EMEA Head of Security Architecture, Morgan Stanley
Aldwin is the EMEA Head of Security Architecture at Morgan Stanley. The team provides Security Design consulting services and delivers Security Assurance for systems built by Morgan Stanley hosted on-premises and/or by Cloud Service Providers. Aldwin's team also preforms Security... Read More →
Monday September 30, 2024 4:10pm - 4:40pm EDT
Music Box

4:10pm EDT

FDC3 Developer Training Workshop: PRE-REGISTRATION REQUIRED - Rob Moffat, FINOS
Monday September 30, 2024 4:10pm - 5:20pm EDT
This year, for the first time, we are going to run an FDC3 Workshop. If you’re reasonably familiar with Javascript and want to try coding up some FDC3 this is for you. We’ll be building out some FDC3 financial applications and showing how they interop with other, pre-existing apps. We will focus on the FINOS / Linux Foundation Training Course Developing Solutions with FDC3. By completing this course, you will become proficient in building FDC3-enabled applications and understand how to interop contextual objects between applications, empowering you to understand the construct for defining Contexts and Intents with the ability to define your own custom objects.

Workshop instructions can be found at this link: https://github.com/finos/FDC3-Sail/tree/sail2-osff
Speakers
avatar for Rob Moffatt

Rob Moffatt

Technical 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. Most recently he has been an advocate for the Symphony platform and the transformational... Read More →
Monday September 30, 2024 4:10pm - 5:20pm EDT
Palace

4:50pm EDT

The InnerSource Flywheel - Sally Deering, Capital One
Monday September 30, 2024 4:50pm - 5:05pm EDT
Like Open Source, InnerSource relies on self-motivation and personal interests even if it is happening within a company. How then do you start an InnerSource movement that people want to join of their own volition and get a flywheel spinning? This lightning talk will touch on several ways Capital One is testing and learning to apply innersourcing at scale. These include: Culture challenges and ways to think about them, Tooling as a marketplace of buyers and sellers, Marketing by leveraging the community, Process Consulting, Motivation, and Career Planning
Speakers
avatar for Sally Deering

Sally Deering

InnerSource Program Manager, Capital One
Sally Deering brings to her role 30 years of experience in program and process management across Banking, Insurance, and Manufacturing. Her career has included product, technology, operations and risk functions at Gartner Group, General Electric, Bank of America and Capital One. Her... Read More →
Monday September 30, 2024 4:50pm - 5:05pm EDT
Winter Garden
  Open Source Readiness
  • Session Slides Attached Yes

4:50pm EDT

Deploy Your AI/ML Model to the Cloud Using Open Source Software - Florenz Hollebrandse, JPMorgan Chase
Monday September 30, 2024 4:50pm - 5:20pm EDT
Large financial institutions typically deploy their IT services across a number of private and public cloud providers. This asks for a platform-agnostic design of software applications to minimize the amount of rework required to migrate services between platforms. This applies to AI/ML models deployed for inference as much as any other software. In this presentation, we present an innovative framework ("inference-server") to streamline the deployment of an AI/ML model to the cloud. The framework is published by J.P. Morgan Chase at https://github.com/jpmorganchase/inference-server The framework abstracts the cloud infrastructure and connectivity aspects through a simple plugin system. This requires an ML software engineer to define an ML model as 2 functions only: 1) to load the model in memory and 2) to invoke that loaded model for a given set of input features. These 2 functions are then added to a Docker container image along the inference-server framework. This approach leads to a very modular design where an AI/ML model can be trivially tested in a development environment. If required the model could be deployed and accessed from any cloud computing platform.
Speakers
avatar for Florenz Hollebrandse

Florenz Hollebrandse

Vice President Data & Analytics, JPMorgan Chase
Florenz is a Senior Lead Architect at JPMorganChase in Scotland. He has a wealth of experience in designing and implementing software solutions integrating AI/ML models in a large enterprise environment. Florenz is frequent contributor to Open Source Software and has published several... Read More →
Monday September 30, 2024 4:50pm - 5:20pm EDT
Plymouth
  AI
  • Session Slides Attached Yes

4:50pm EDT

Advanced Power Monitoring with Kepler - Marius Bogoevici & Aric Rosenbaum, Red Hat
Monday September 30, 2024 4:50pm - 5:20pm EDT
Energy consumption has an increasing impact on financial institutions - in terms of cost, environmental footprint, and available capacity. In 2022, the world’s data centers consumed 1% of the world’s total energy, expected to grow to 8% in the following years. As financial institutions try to continuously innovate, they also incur large energy bills. Financial institutions know their total energy footprint, but lack data that enables them to optimize applications, place them in data centers with lower energy cost or environmental impact, or to make tradeoffs between performance and energy consumption. What they lack is application-level power monitoring. Kepler is a CNCF project founded by Red Hat’s emerging technologies group with contributions from IBM Research and Intel. It is an open source project that captures power metrics across a wide range of platforms, focusing on reporting, reduction and regression. In this talk, powered by a live demo, we will introduce Kepler and show how it helps enterprises understand their energy footprint and improve their IT operations, and how community members can contribute to the project, especially for adding new supported platforms.
Speakers
avatar for Marius Bogoevici

Marius Bogoevici

Director, Field CTO Organization, Red Hat
Marius works as a Director in the Field CTO Organization at Red Hat, advising on industry trends, technology strategy, and best practices to Fortune 500 organizations in the US and Canada, with a primary focus on the financial services industry. Using his expertise in modern application... Read More →
avatar for Aric Rosenbaum

Aric Rosenbaum

Chief Technologist, Global FSI, Red Hat
Aric serves as the Chief Technologist on Red Hat's Global FSI team, where he helps clients meet their strategic priorities through the use of open source technology. Prior to joining Red Hat, he led large, digital transformation projects at Goldman Sachs’ Investment Management Division... Read More →
Monday September 30, 2024 4:50pm - 5:20pm EDT
Uris

4:50pm EDT

Integrating Open Source Tools to Advance Your FinOps Practice - Michael Bragalone & Brent Segner, Capital One
Monday September 30, 2024 4:50pm - 5:20pm EDT
This session details how you can combine open source specifications like the FOCUS, open source data collection like OpenTelemetry (OTEL), and open source models like Prophet to mature your FinOps practice. The session will begin by exploring adoption of FOCUS, which provides a specification to managing and ingesting FinOps cost & usage data. Next, we'll discuss the power of using Open Telemetry (OTEL) for collecting metric data & increasing observability in your cloud/data center. Finally, we'll introduce Prophet, an open source forecasting tool to demonstrate how it can predict future costs and usage trends based on your FOCUS & OTEL data. Whether just starting your FinOps journey or looking to add functionality to an existing practice, this session will show how a combination of open source tools can significantly expand FinOps capabilities without increasing the cost of running a FinOps program.
Speakers
avatar for Mike Bragalone

Mike Bragalone

FinOps Strategy and Adoption Lead, Capital One
FinOps Strategy and Adoption Lead at Capital One. During my career, I have worked in numerous roles across Software, DevOps, Cloud, and Data/ML where I have developed a passion for all things cloud and new techologies. At Capital One I use that passion for cloud & all things technology... Read More →
avatar for Brent Segner

Brent Segner

Distinguished Engineer - Director, Capital One
Brent Segner is currently a Distinguished Engineer within the Cloud Costs & Engagement (C$E) organization at Capital One. With 20 years of industry experience, he is responsible for leveraging his deep technical background in cloud architecture, data science and finance to drive the... Read More →
Monday September 30, 2024 4:50pm - 5:20pm EDT
Music Box
  FinOps
  • Session Slides Attached Yes

4:50pm EDT

Show Me the Data! A Discussion on the Current Trends for Open Source in FSI, and What it Means for You - Cara Delia, Red Hat; Colin Eberhardt, Scott Logic; Tosha Ellison, FINOS & Moderated by Hilary Carter, The Linux Foundation
Monday September 30, 2024 4:50pm - 5:20pm EDT
FINOS and The Linux Foundation’s 4th annual State of Open Source in Financials Services report has just been released. In this talk, the report authors will explore what they learned through this year’s qualitative and quantitative analysis. From continued scrutiny on managing consumption and supply chain risk, to increasing contribution, to collaborative efforts in AI/ML, cloud, interoperability, and regulatory compliance, they’ll discuss industry trends, the value of foundations, and obstacles that remain. Whether you’re an executive or a developer, this session will provide valuable insights into leveraging open source to stay competitive and foster industry-wide innovation.
Speakers
avatar for Tosha Ellison

Tosha Ellison

Strategic Advisor, FINOS
Tosha has spent more than 20 years in financial services and technology working with banks, software companies and start-ups in a wide variety of roles. Leveraging this experience Tosha works across a number of initiatives to promote the Foundation and help our members maximize value... Read More →
avatar for Colin Eberhardt

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 →
avatar for Hilary Carter

Hilary Carter

SVP Research & Communication, The Linux Foundation
Hilary Carter is a writer, researcher, and team leader, producing engaging, decision-useful insights that broaden the understanding of open source and emerging technologies and their impact on business, government, and society. She has contributed to books and numerous research reports... Read More →
avatar for Cara Delia

Cara Delia

Sr. Principal Community Architect, Red Hat
Advocating open source principles and practices by contributing to external open source communities focused on AI, Financial Services and Climate Sustainability at Red Hat. Community leadership includes: FINOS Open Source Readiness Co-Chair, FINOS Technical Steering Committee and... Read More →
Monday September 30, 2024 4:50pm - 5:20pm EDT
Broadway Ballroom North

5:05pm EDT

Governance Using Architecture-as-Code - Rishi Bhatnagar, Morgan Stanley
Monday September 30, 2024 5:05pm - 5:20pm EDT
What does it take to provide a seamless experience for governing architecture - from creating and approving architecture to measuring compliance. How does architecture-as-code help in delivering a measurable and objective approach to align architecture with target roadmaps? How to manage tactical shortcuts and time-to-market decisions? Can architecture-as-code help keep architecture evergreen and can it identify and highlight architecture drift? These and other questions are discussed with a case study of Breeze - an architecture-as-code solution built by Morgan Stanley. It provides an extensible framework to support modules for various tasks such as creating and reviewing architecture, identifying adherence to architecture patterns, capturing immutable architecture snapshots, validating releases against approved architecture, etc. It is in the works to be open sourced and captures architecture-as-code in an open-source format, using CALM (https://github.com/finos/architecture-as-code).
Speakers
avatar for Rishi Bhatnagar

Rishi Bhatnagar

Head of Banking Architecture, Morgan Stanley
Rishi Bhatnagar joined Morgan Stanley in 2016 and currently leads Banking Architecture, while also leading and contributing to various firmwide initiatives as an Enterprise Architect. Rishi is involved in various technology philanthropy and innovation initiatives and holds multiple... Read More →
Monday September 30, 2024 5:05pm - 5:20pm EDT
Winter Garden

5:20pm EDT

FINOS Project Demo Sessions - Morphir
Monday September 30, 2024 5:20pm - 5:53pm EDT
Morphir

Experience the simplicity of developing front-to-back apps by focusing on the most important parts. We will demonstrate the combination of two FINOS projects, FDC3 and Morphir, to build a consumer banking solution with ease.

Participants: Damian Reeves, Capital One; Nick Kolba, Connectifi; Stephen Goldbaum, Morgan Stanley
Monday September 30, 2024 5:20pm - 5:53pm EDT
Solutions Showcase (Broadway Ballroom South)

5:30pm EDT

6:26pm EDT

FINOS Project Demo Sessions - Morphir
Monday September 30, 2024 6:26pm - 7:00pm EDT
Morphir

Experience the simplicity of developing front-to-back apps by focusing on the most important parts. We will demonstrate the combination of two FINOS projects, FDC3 and Morphir, to build a consumer banking solution with ease.

Participants: Damian Reeves, Capital One; Nick Kolba, Connectifi; Stephen Goldbaum, Morgan Stanley
Monday September 30, 2024 6:26pm - 7:00pm EDT
Solutions Showcase (Broadway Ballroom South)
 
Tuesday, October 1
 

7:30am EDT

Solutions Showcase
Tuesday October 1, 2024 7:30am - 4:00pm EDT
Tuesday October 1, 2024 7:30am - 4:00pm EDT
Broadway Ballroom South

7:30am EDT

9:00am EDT

Welcome Back & Remarks - Jane Gavronsky, Chief Operating Officer, FINOS
Tuesday October 1, 2024 9:00am - 9:05am EDT
Speakers
avatar for Jane Gavronsky

Jane Gavronsky

Chief Operating Officer, FINOS
Jane is a senior technology leader with extensive experience in delivering transformative, data-focused technology in the Financial Services industry. Most recently, Jane was Managing Director at Credit Suisse, where she was the Global Head of Reference Data Technology Services. In... Read More →
Tuesday October 1, 2024 9:00am - 9:05am EDT
Broadway Ballroom North

9:05am EDT

FINOS: The Home for True Cross-Industry Open Collaboration - Madeleine Dassule, CIO, Infrastructure Platform, Wellington Management & Board Chair, FINOS
Tuesday October 1, 2024 9:05am - 9:15am EDT
Speakers
avatar for Madeleine Dassule

Madeleine Dassule

CIO, Infrastructure Platform | Board Chair, Wellington Management | FINOS
As CIO for the Infrastructure platform, Madeleine leads our technology efforts globally across portfolio implementation, trading, operations, data, regulatory, finance, and HR. Madeleine is chair of the Technology Strategy Board and the Infrastructure Platform Technology Council... Read More →
Tuesday October 1, 2024 9:05am - 9:15am EDT
Broadway Ballroom North
  Keynote Sessions
  • Session Slides Attached Yes

9:15am EDT

The New Frontier of Financial Services Open Source - Gabriele Columbro, Executive Director, FINOS
Tuesday October 1, 2024 9:15am - 9:35am EDT
Speakers
avatar for Gabriele Columbro

Gabriele Columbro

Executive Director / General Manager, FINOS / Linux Foundation Europe
Gabriele is an open source technologist at heart. He spent over 15 years building developer ecosystems to deliver value through open source across Europe and the US. He thrives on driving innovation both contributing to open source communities and joining commercial open source ventures... Read More →
Tuesday October 1, 2024 9:15am - 9:35am EDT
Broadway Ballroom North
  Keynote Sessions
  • Session Slides Attached Yes

9:40am EDT

With or Without Climate Risk - Johnny Mattimore, Partner, Financial Services & Sustainable Finance, BIP Group
Tuesday October 1, 2024 9:40am - 9:45am EDT
Imagine a future where every KPI for every financial services firm is computed with and without climate risk. This would give us a complete digital twin of the entity (e.g. bank, insurer, asset manager) where the firm will seek to manage the difference (the "delta") between all KPI (Key Performance Indicators) and need to publish that gap analysis under increasingly onerous disclosure rules.

Speakers
avatar for Johnny Mattimore

Johnny Mattimore

Partner - Financial Services & Sustainable Finance, BIP Group
Johnny has 35+ years of experience in the financial markets starting in 1988 after graduating with a degree in mathematics from the University of Bristol, UK. The breadth of areas includes banking, asset management, hedge funds, private equity, wealth management, clearers, exchanges... Read More →
Tuesday October 1, 2024 9:40am - 9:45am EDT
Broadway Ballroom North
  Keynote Sessions
  • Session Slides Attached Yes

9:45am EDT

Leveraging FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification (FOCUS™) to Drive Cost Transparency - Amit Kinha, Director - Head of Cloud FinOps, Citi
Tuesday October 1, 2024 9:45am - 9:55am EDT
The FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification (FOCUS™) is an open-source specification that defines clear requirements for cloud vendors to produce consistent cost and usage datasets. FOCUS™ aims to reduce complexity for FinOps Practitioners so they can drive data-driven decision-making and maximize the business value of cloud.

Join Amit Kinha, Head of Cloud FinOps at Citi, as he gives an overview of FOCUS™ and explains how adoption of the spec brings greater cost transparency for not just CSPs.
Speakers
avatar for Amit Kinha

Amit Kinha

Director, Head of Cloud FinOps, Citi
As the Head of Cloud FinOps at Citi, Amit drives cloud financial management strategies to ensure cost transparency and optimization. Amit is dedicated to fostering a culture of cost accountability and continuous improvement in cloud financial practices.
Tuesday October 1, 2024 9:45am - 9:55am EDT
Broadway Ballroom North
  Keynote Sessions
  • Session Slides Attached Yes

10:00am EDT

What’s Your Company’s AI Story? - Dave Green, VP of Legal, GitHub
Tuesday October 1, 2024 10:00am - 10:10am EDT
As companies flock to implement generative AI tools, they are encountering new considerations and concerns, alongside rapidly emerging regulations (especially in already highly regulated industries). This keynote highlights how innovative makers of generative AI developer tools like GitHub Copilot are addressing key issues with their customers who seek to responsibly use and implement innovative AI solutions, while also anticipating the impacts of emerging regulation.
Speakers
avatar for Dave Green

Dave Green

VP of Legal, GitHub
As VP of Legal for GitHub, Dave develops legal and business strategies for GitHub’s groundbreaking AI powered products and services. Dave leads legal teams in product, privacy, and cybersecurity/online safety that helped launch GitHub Copilot, the world’s first revolutionary generative... Read More →
Tuesday October 1, 2024 10:00am - 10:10am EDT
Broadway Ballroom North
  Keynote Sessions
  • Session Slides Attached Yes

10:15am EDT

AI Readiness: Driving Innovation While Navigating Governance, Security, and Ethics in Financial Services - Prachi Kasodhan, Microsoft; Johnna Powell, DTCC; Kim Prado, BMO Capital Markets; Nehal Patel, G Research & Moderated by Andrew Martin, ControlPlane
Tuesday October 1, 2024 10:15am - 10:40am EDT
This keynote panel, framed by the release of AI Readiness's Governance Framework, will explore how innovation in artificial intelligence is shaping the financial services industry. The discussion will cover key issues such as cybersecurity, data privacy, and ethics, offering insights into the real-world challenges faced by buy-side and sell-side participants. The panel will focus on how organizations innovate their governance structures, manage intellectual property, and forge agreements with service providers. Additionally, it will examine how model risk management has evolved to cope with AI onboarding, emphasizing the balance between innovation and risk management to ensure responsible and effective AI adoption in finance.
Speakers
avatar for Nehal Patel

Nehal Patel

Machine Learning Engineer, G-Research
As a member of G-Research's Technology Innovation Group, Nehal builds Generative AI prototypes that push the boundaries of quantitative research and engineering within the firm.  He also serves as interim Architect and Technical Lead of G-Research's newly established GenAI Engineering... Read More →
avatar for Prachi Kasodhan

Prachi Kasodhan

Enterprise CTO, Microsoft
Prachi Kasodhan is a Data/AI and Digital Transformation Leader with over twenty years of experience across several aspects of the software business, from software development & engineering, enterprise program & portfolio management, data governance & digital transformation. At Microsoft... Read More →
avatar for Andrew Martin

Andrew Martin

CEO, ControlPlane
Andrew has an incisive security engineering ethos gained building and destroying high-traffic web applications. Proficient in systems development, testing, and operations, he is at his happiest profiling and securing every tier of a cloud native system, and has battle-hardened experience... Read More →
avatar for Johnna Powell

Johnna Powell

Managing Director, and Head of Technology, Research and Innovation, DTCC
Dr. Johnna Powell is Managing Director, and Head of Technology, Research and Innovation at DTCC. Within this role she drives external and internal innovation through strategic thought leadership, enterprise-wide advocacy, collaborative sponsorship and execution. She has spearheaded... Read More →
avatar for Kim Prado

Kim Prado

CIO, US Capital Markets, I&CB and office of the COO, BMO Capital Markets
Kim joined BMO in August 2021 from RBC where she was the Global Head of the Client, Banking & Digital Channels Technology group across Capital Markets. Kim developed and implemented a comprehensive client data strategy adopted by Capital Markets, sunset legacy applications and united... Read More →
Tuesday October 1, 2024 10:15am - 10:40am EDT
Broadway Ballroom North

10:40am EDT

FINOS Project Demo Sessions - Morphir
Tuesday October 1, 2024 10:40am - 11:10am EDT
Morphir

Experience the simplicity of developing front-to-back apps by focusing on the most important parts. We will demonstrate the combination of two FINOS projects, FDC3 and Morphir, to build a consumer banking solution with ease.

Participants: Damian Reeves, Capital One; Nick Kolba, Connectifi; Stephen Goldbaum, Morgan Stanley
Tuesday October 1, 2024 10:40am - 11:10am EDT
Solutions Showcase (Broadway Ballroom South)

10:40am EDT

Break + Networking
Tuesday October 1, 2024 10:40am - 11:10am EDT
Tuesday October 1, 2024 10:40am - 11:10am EDT
Broadway Ballroom South

11:10am EDT

Embracing AI: The Productivity Polarity - Kevin Alwell, GitHub
Tuesday October 1, 2024 11:10am - 11:40am EDT
In this thought-provoking presentation, we explore the profound impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on software development within the financial services industry. Drawing parallels with historical technological revolutions that reshaped economies, such as the Roman water mills, the steam engine, and the early 2000s push for automation, we demonstrate how AI is poised to be the ultimate general-purpose technology of our time. We delve into the economic and technological implications of AI adoption, highlighting how it drives increased productivity, cost reductions, and an unprecedented expansion of demand for innovative financial products and services. The presentation underscores the emerging productivity polarity, where those who embrace AI will gain a significant competitive advantage over those who resist its integration. Recognizing the pivotal role of open source in driving innovation within the finance sector, we emphasize the urgency for technologists to seamlessly incorporate AI into their daily workflows. By doing so, developers can position themselves as vanguards, fostering collaboration and unlocking new frontiers in open finance software development.
Speakers
avatar for Kevin Alwell

Kevin Alwell

Director, Financial Services Solutions Engineering, GitHub
Kevin Alwell brings experience from working with Financial Services customers to accelerate their software delivery at GitHub. 
Tuesday October 1, 2024 11:10am - 11:40am EDT
Plymouth
  AI
  • Session Slides Attached Yes

11:10am EDT

Deploy TraderX Across Clouds Using the New CNCF Project, Radius - Jonathan Smith & Will Tsai, Microsoft
Tuesday October 1, 2024 11:10am - 11:40am EDT
Radius is a new Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) project. It is a cloud-native application platform that enables developers and platform engineers who support them to collaborate on delivering and managing cloud-native applications that follow corporate best practices for security, cost and operations by default. It supports deploying applications across private cloud, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure, with more cloud providers to come. This talk will show how easy it is to deploy and manage a popular open-source trading application, TraderX, to multi-cloud environments without requiring the developer to configure cloud-specific infrastructure. The session will also illustrate how Radius enables better collaboration across developers and operators through features like: the Radius application dashboard, which provides developers and operators a common graphical view of TraderX, as deployed across clouds and; Radius Recipes, which give TraderX developers self-serve access to cloud resources, such as SQL databases, while enabling operators to define and enforce best practices for security, cost and operations regarding how cloud resources are consumed.
Speakers
avatar for Jonathan Smith

Jonathan Smith

Lead Product Management, Azure Open Source Incubations, Microsoft
Jonathan Smith is a veteran product leader at Microsoft focused most recently on early incubations including: the Parallel Computing Platform, Cloud Engineering Systems, IoT, and cloud-based production of film and television content. Jonathan currently leads product management for... Read More →
avatar for Will Tsai

Will Tsai

Principal Product Manager, Microsoft
Will Tsai is a Principal Product Manager at Microsoft, where he works in the Azure Incubations team building open-source projects that address developer challenges in the cloud-native space. Before joining Microsoft, Will held various product and program management roles at Amazon... Read More →
Tuesday October 1, 2024 11:10am - 11:40am EDT
Broadway Ballroom North

11:10am EDT

How to Add FDC3 to Your Apps - Julianna Langston, interop.io
Tuesday October 1, 2024 11:10am - 11:40am EDT
There’s a growing interest around FDC3, the open standard for financial application interoperability. FDC3 was designed to make it as easy as possible for apps to integrate, but if you’re new to FDC3, it can be daunting to know where to start. In this presentation, we will take you through how to introduce FDC3 into the code base. We will cover common decision points, as well as providing code examples and sample JIRA stories that work for both product and development managers.
Speakers
avatar for Julianna Langston

Julianna Langston

UI & Accessibility Specialist, interop.io
Julianna works with the io.connect team @ interop.io as UI specialist and expert accessibility developer and has worked on multiple FDC3 related User interfaces including our Channel Selectors and Intent Resolver. She's also an expert wrangler of build and testing systms. In her spare... Read More →
Tuesday October 1, 2024 11:10am - 11:40am EDT
Music Box

11:10am EDT

Open Source Governance from A-Z - Christopher Satch & Robert Underwood, JP Morgan Chase
Tuesday October 1, 2024 11:10am - 11:40am EDT
Join the Open Source Governance Team at JPMorgan Chase (JPMC) for a panel discussion about how we do open source at the world's largest bank. The panel will discuss a wide range of topics including best contribution practices for banks, what we've found works for keeping contributions compliant, best consumption practices and risks associated with consumption, as well as improving the developer experience while navigating the tightly regulated world of software development in finance. Join our discussion of the A to Zs of all it takes to consume and contribute to open source at the nation's largest bank, and world' largest bank by market cap.
Speakers
avatar for Christopher Satch

Christopher Satch

Vice President, Open Source Governance, JPMorgan Chase
Christopher Satch is the Developer Experience Lead for the Open Source Governance team at JPMorgan Chase. With a background in front-end web development and product management, he works with developers to create the best, least-friction-possible experiences to enable open source contributions... Read More →
avatar for Robert Underwood

Robert Underwood

Chief Open Source Officer, JP Morgan Chase
Rob Underwood serves as the JP Morgan Chase's Chief Open Source Officer. Rob works in collaboration with the bank's lines of business (Corporate and Investment Banking, Commercial Banking, Asset & Wealth Management, and Consumer Banking) and corporate functions to create and deliver... Read More →
Tuesday October 1, 2024 11:10am - 11:40am EDT
Winter Garden

11:10am EDT

OpenTelemetry: Clearing Up Confusion and Enhancing Cost-Effective Observability for Financial Services - Rob Oram, Splunk
Tuesday October 1, 2024 11:10am - 11:40am EDT
OpenSource has proliferated in every industry, and Financial Services is no exception. While OpenTelemetry is the 2nd most popular CNCF project behind Kubernetes, there is still a fair amount of confusion and concern around its adoption. Nearly all financial services customers are leveraging OpenTelemetry in some form, and yet we still hear varying myths and concerns depending on who we speak with.  In this session, we'll discuss some of the nuanced hows and whys of OpenTelemetry, clarify myths and confusion, and provide an update on how Financial Services customers are leveraging the standard in pursuit of modern observability.
Speakers
avatar for Rob Oram

Rob Oram

Observability Advisor, Financial Services, Splunk
Rob Oram is an observability advisor at Splunk, focused on helping Financial Services customers strategize and implement effective observability practices considerate of people, processes and tooling. Rob has 10+ years of experience in the monitoring/APM/observability and AIOps space... Read More →
Tuesday October 1, 2024 11:10am - 11:40am EDT
Uris
  Open Source Readiness
  • Session Slides Attached Yes

11:10am EDT

Digital Regulatory Reporting (DRR) and Open Regulatory Reporting (ORR): PRE-REGISTRATION REQUIRED - Eleanor Hsu & David Shone, ISDA; Nicholas Moger, JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Stephen Sui, RBC Capital Markets & Ian Sloyan, South Cardinal
Tuesday October 1, 2024 11:10am - 12:20pm EDT
ISDA staff and FINOS/ISDA members will provide updates on the expansion of DRR, built on CDM, in 2024, including success stories, planned jurisdictional builds for 2025, and strategies for developing a business case for adoption within your firm. This session highlights a key use case driving CDM adoption among financial institutions and will provide valuable insights into leveraging this innovative model for regulatory compliance.

Earlier this year FINOS launched the Open Regulatory Reporting (ORR) project to simplify Digital Regulatory Reporting (DRR) implementation by developing an open-source pilot of CDM and DRR on cloud tech that anyone can reuse. Attend this session to learn about this collaborative effort and how it enables your firm to easily set up a test environment, showcasing the benefits of open collaboration for future implementations.
Speakers
avatar for Ian Sloyan

Ian Sloyan

Managing Director, South Cardinal
Ian Sloyan is currently a consultant to FINOS, advising FINOS on CDM project. Previously advising ISDA on the development and execution of their Data and Digital Strategy, including CDM, FpML and document digitisation plus other Fintech, Regtech and Legaltech issues which the association... Read More →
avatar for Stephen Sui

Stephen Sui

Associate Director, Data Contents and Modeling, RBC Capital Markets
Stephen joined RBC about 5 years ago and specialized on Data architecture, Modeling and Consumption. Before that, he worked as a data architect consultant for most of the other Canadian Banks.
avatar for Nicholas Moger

Nicholas Moger

Technology Product Director, JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Nicholas is a Product Director within Technology at JP Morgan, responsible for end to end Regulatory Change for Derivatives across all global regimes and asset classes within the EDG business. He has over 15 years of experience in Derivatives change, transitioning from Operations... Read More →
avatar for David Shone

David Shone

Director of Product, Data & Digital, International Swaps and Derivatives Association
David joined ISDA as Director of Product, Data & Digital in Q3 2023 focusing on the Common Domain Model (CDM). Working within internal teams, ISDA members and members of the open-source community at FINOS, David is responsible for looking at the strategic direction and roadmap for... Read More →
avatar for Eleanor Hsu

Eleanor Hsu

Senior Director, Data and Reporting, ISDA
Eleanor Hsu is Senior Director, Data and Reporting at the ISDA, Program Lead for ISDA’s Digital Regulatory Reporting initiative, and Co-chair of the Global LEI Foundation (GLEIF) Globally Important Financial Institutions Relationship Group. At ISDA, she addresses regulatory issues... Read More →
Tuesday October 1, 2024 11:10am - 12:20pm EDT
Palace
  Workshops
  • Session Slides Attached Yes

11:50am EDT

Securing Your AI Project: From Guidelines to Practical Implementation - Andrew Martin, ControlPlane
Tuesday October 1, 2024 11:50am - 12:20pm EDT
When leveraging AI in financial services, there are new technologies and security challenges to tackle in addition to the usual DevOps and scaling considerations. As now exists several sources of information for AI security best practices, we are not left on our own. But practically applying them in your project is not so well described. In this talk, Rowan Baker and Vicente Herrera will explain how to start with a security guideline recommendation like the “Simple Governance Framework” from the FINOS AI Readiness Group and apply it to a real project They will show how to transform the recommendations into real actions and how specific controls or mitigations have been chosen and implemented in a practical way. Some approaches may be conventional but important, like those regarding supply chain security, others will be more AI specific and novel. They will also show how the guidelines may not cover specific implementation, how to extend the coverage and contribute back so others benefit from the knowledge you have gained.
Speakers
avatar for Andrew Martin

Andrew Martin

CEO, ControlPlane
Andrew has an incisive security engineering ethos gained building and destroying high-traffic web applications. Proficient in systems development, testing, and operations, he is at his happiest profiling and securing every tier of a cloud native system, and has battle-hardened experience... Read More →
Tuesday October 1, 2024 11:50am - 12:20pm EDT
Plymouth

11:50am EDT

Lessons Learned: Running Kubernetes Multi-Tenant, Multi-Cluster at Scale in the Financial Sector - Michael Shelton & Allen Serhat, JPMorgan Chase
Tuesday October 1, 2024 11:50am - 12:20pm EDT
This talk will be the hardships, lessons learned, and remediation techniques put in place to manage a large multi-tenant, multi-cluster on-premise kubernetes estate, while adhering to tight regulatory controls such as PCI, SOX, SOC1. It will go over hygiene techniques, chaos engineering, resource management, technology lifecycle management/kubernetes in place upgrades, event driven architectures for mitigating and self-healing issues, along with other scenarios and topics. All of this entails a lot of integration with many CNCF components, such as Prometheus, Grafana, Cortex, Alert Manager, ArgoCD, Contour, Envoy, Kube Bench, and more. Some areas of focus will be targeting some common themes we see everyday when trying to consume CNCF and/or OSS products, and the adjustments we have to make to have them fit our regulatory policies.
Speakers
avatar for Allen Serhat

Allen Serhat

Principal Software Engineer, JP Morgan Chase
Allen Serhat currently works on whats next for Kubernetes Platforms in JP Morgan Chase. Previously he served as the Lead of SRE for Kubernetes Platform. He started on Kubernetes Platform working on the product core and repave automaton prior to focusing on Observability, Self Healing... Read More →
avatar for Michael Shelton

Michael Shelton

Kubernetes Platform Architect, JPMorgan Chase
I have been working with Kubernetes for about five years, and lead architecture and engineering for the Kubernetes Platform team at JPMC. Previously, I've held roles leading application teams across different areas and technology stacks.
Tuesday October 1, 2024 11:50am - 12:20pm EDT
Uris

11:50am EDT

Come and See: CCC - Damien Burks, Citi & Gupta Rudra, Krumware
Tuesday October 1, 2024 11:50am - 12:20pm EDT
The FINOS Common Cloud Controls (CCC) project has drawn cloud service providers and financial institutions together to define a common set of security and compliance controls for cloud services. In a related effort, the Compliant Financial Infrastructure (CFI) project automates compliance conformance and verification. Take a deep dive into recent controls and automation tools produced by the CCC and CFI projects to learn how you can dramatically reduce the cost of demonstrating compliance.
Speakers
avatar for Gupta Rudra

Gupta Rudra

Applications Engineer, Krumware
avatar for Damien Burks

Damien Burks

SVP of Cloud Security Engineering, Citi
Damien is a Senior Vice President of Cloud Security Engineering at Citi, Founder of The DevSec Blueprint, and the Working Group lead for the Common Cloud Controls Delivery Working Group.
Tuesday October 1, 2024 11:50am - 12:20pm EDT
Broadway Ballroom North
  Common Cloud Controls
  • Session Slides Attached Yes

11:50am EDT

Leveraging FDC3 to Enable AI Agent Navigation - Sara Swanson; Lokeshwar Manoharan; Ajay Mehta & Abhishek Pandey, JPMorgan Chase
Tuesday October 1, 2024 11:50am - 12:20pm EDT
In this session, you will learn how we have enabled AI Agent Navigation across our financial desktop platform.

Well-defined FDC3 intents can enable generative navigation, improving the Copilot experience on our platform, Connect Coach. FDC3 standards have enhanced interoperability between financial applications, allowing seamless communication and data sharing. However, discovering specific actions or operations (intents) remains challenging, causing friction in user experiences. Our Connect Platform has over 500 intents based on user navigation patterns and demands. We have integrated Large Language Models (LLMs) into the intent discovery process to increase user efficiency. LLMs can interpret user needs expressed in natural language and determine the most relevant intents.

Learn more about how we did this and our vision to use FDC3 to enable a "self-driving" experience for our users.
Speakers
avatar for Sara Swanson

Sara Swanson

Executive Director, Product Design, JPMorgan Chase
Sara is a Product Design Director at JP Morgan, leading design for Advisors, Clients, and Client Service for the Global Private Bank. Her expertise centers on the intersection of design and engineering to operationalize design at scale for enterprise systems. She is passionate about... Read More →
avatar for Ajay Mehta

Ajay Mehta

Head of Engineering - Connect Platform, JPMorgan Chase
Ajay is the Head of Engineering for the Connect Platform which enables rapid federated development and provides a unified user experience for JPMorgan’s Global Private Bank and Wealth Management businesses. Ajay has over 18 years of Wealth Management technology experience. Prior... Read More →
avatar for Abhishek Pandey

Abhishek Pandey

Engineering Lead - Connect Platform, JPMorgan Chase
Abhishek is an engineering lead on Connect Platform used by over 30k users. Abhishek have over 20 years of industry experience in building applications for wealth management business.
avatar for Lokeshwar Manoharan

Lokeshwar Manoharan

Vice President, JPMorgan Chase
Lokesh is a seasoned professional with over 15 years of experience in technology and the banking sector. Currently serving as Vice President at JP Morgan, Lokesh plays a pivotal role as a technical architect and specialist, driving strategic initiatives that fuse technology with financial... Read More →
Tuesday October 1, 2024 11:50am - 12:20pm EDT
Music Box

11:50am EDT

Unveiling Hidden Gems: Leveraging Product Management Talents for Open Source Innovation - Neetu Jain, JP Morgan Chase
Tuesday October 1, 2024 11:50am - 12:20pm EDT
Open-source software has transformed technology, but many projects struggle with sustainability and user satisfaction due to the absence of structured product management. Despite their technical excellence, projects often fail to achieve broad adoption because they do not adequately understand or address users' needs. Product managers can fill this gap by developing user personas, creating journey maps, improving onboarding, evangelizing the project, and managing development processes. This talk highlights how product management can play an critical role in open source, by addressing issues like resource constraints, adoption, governance, and volunteer reliance with strong product management principles. Attendees walk out with a good understanding of how product professionals fill a crucial gap in open source through real life examples and actionable strategies of integrating product management into open source, which will help in fostering community engagement, ensuring sustainability, and driving project success. Embracing product practice can unlock an untapped stream of contributors of product professionals resulting in thriving, user + goal focused open source projects.
Speakers
avatar for Neetu Jain

Neetu Jain

Executive Director, JP Morgan Chase
Neetu Jain is a distinguished product leader with an unwavering passion for transforming brilliant concepts into cutting-edge, customer-centric products. She is an engineer turned product innovator who brings diverse perspectives and experiences from companies like JPMorgan Chase... Read More →
Tuesday October 1, 2024 11:50am - 12:20pm EDT
Winter Garden
  Open Source Readiness
  • Session Slides Attached Yes

12:20pm EDT

FINOS Project Demo Sessions - Morphir
Tuesday October 1, 2024 12:20pm - 12:55pm EDT
Morphir

Experience the simplicity of developing front-to-back apps by focusing on the most important parts. We will demonstrate the combination of two FINOS projects, FDC3 and Morphir, to build a consumer banking solution with ease.

Participants: Damian Reeves, Capital One; Nick Kolba, Connectifi; Stephen Goldbaum, Morgan Stanley
Tuesday October 1, 2024 12:20pm - 12:55pm EDT
Solutions Showcase (Broadway Ballroom South)

12:20pm EDT

Lunch Break
Tuesday October 1, 2024 12:20pm - 1:35pm EDT
Tuesday October 1, 2024 12:20pm - 1:35pm EDT
Broadway Ballroom South

12:20pm EDT

Lunchtime Networking
Tuesday October 1, 2024 12:20pm - 1:35pm EDT
Tuesday October 1, 2024 12:20pm - 1:35pm EDT
Broadway Ballroom North

12:55pm EDT

Advancing Diversity in Open Source: A Journey of Inclusion, Innovation, and Authentic Self-Discovery - Serge Bettencourt, Citi; Jaya Sehgal, Morgan Stanley Wealth Management & Moderated by Rita Chaturvedi, Morgan Stanley
Tuesday October 1, 2024 12:55pm - 1:20pm EDT
Join this panel discussion to explore how the financial industry is driving diversity in open source. Panelists will share their experiences and strategies for fostering an inclusive work environment, advancing DEI efforts, and advocating for social change. Attendees will gain insights on becoming effective allies, championing DEI initiatives in their own communities, and leveraging their identities for personal and professional growth, with the ultimate goal of inspiring a more diverse and equitable future in open source.
Speakers
avatar for Serge Bettencourt

Serge Bettencourt

Chief of Staff & Product Owner, ICG Client Onboarding and Data Services Technology, Citi
avatar for Jaya Sehgal

Jaya Sehgal

Vice President, Morgan Stanley Wealth Management
Jaya is Governance and Change Controls Lead in Release Management space. With over 16 years of experience & expertise in application development, production support, project management and release management, she has been instrumental in driving efficiencies for several projects through... Read More →
avatar for Rita Chaturvedi

Rita Chaturvedi

Executive Director, Morgan Stanley
Rita Chaturvedi is an Executive Director of Morgan Stanley, responsible for Release and Change Management for Wealth Management Technology. Rita has held several roles and has driven transformation initiatives spanning SRE - Release Engineering, SDLC, Change Implementation Management... Read More →
Tuesday October 1, 2024 12:55pm - 1:20pm EDT
Broadway Ballroom North

12:55pm EDT

FINOS Project Demo Sessions - Git Proxy
Tuesday October 1, 2024 12:55pm - 1:35pm EDT
Git Proxy

Git Proxy deploys custom push protections and policies on top of Git. It is a highly configurable framework allowing developers and organizations to enforce push protections relevant to their developer workflow, security posture and risk appetite. Git Proxy is built with a developer-first mindset. By presenting simple-to-follow remediation instructions in the CLI/Terminal, it minimises the friction of use and adoption, and keeps developers focused on what matters; committing and pushing code.

Participants: Paul Groves, Citi
Tuesday October 1, 2024 12:55pm - 1:35pm EDT
Solutions Showcase (Broadway Ballroom South)

1:35pm EDT

MLSecOps - The Key to Unlock More Secure, Open AI and Machine Learning - Daryan Dehghanpisheh, Protect AI
Tuesday October 1, 2024 1:35pm - 2:05pm EDT
This talk will explore the critical role of MLSecOps in enhancing the security and trustworthiness of AI and machine learning systems, particularly in the context of open-source ML models and MLOps tools. As the use of open-source components grows across industries, organizations face increasing challenges in managing the security risks inherent in these technologies. D will discuss how MLSecOps integrates security throughout the AI/ML lifecycle, from development to deployment, ensuring that models and pipelines are resilient against emerging threats. Attendees will gain insights into best practices for securing open-source AI systems, the importance of maintaining a robust ML Bill of Materials (ML-BOM), and how leveraging MLSecOps practices can reduce vulnerabilities while accelerating innovation in AI. This session will focus on practical applications for using open-source tools and strategies to safeguard ML operations, empowering organizations to adopt open AI confidently.
Speakers
avatar for Daryan Dehghanpisheh

Daryan Dehghanpisheh

President and Founder, Protect AI
Prior to founding Protect AI, D was the Global Leader for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Solution Architects. His team was responsible for customer facing engineering resources that helped the AI/ML business of AWS become the largest AI/ML business in the world. Prior... Read More →
Tuesday October 1, 2024 1:35pm - 2:05pm EDT
Plymouth
  AI
  • Session Slides Attached Yes

1:35pm EDT

Building and Running an HPC Grid Using Cloud Native Services - Flamur Gogolli & Kirill Bogdanov, Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Tuesday October 1, 2024 1:35pm - 2:05pm EDT
Running a high-performance computing platform is completely different as you move to the cloud. The emphasis on rapid, intelligent task scheduling to maximise the use of static on-premises compute clusters and the need to provide multi-tenancy at the cluster-level goes away. In this session, we will present HTC-Grid, an open-source high-throughput compute (HTC) grid system built on top of tried and tested cloud native services. HTC-Grid recognises that the game has changed and that the traditional schedulers often employed in financial services solve a problem that doesn't exist anymore. HTC-Grid addresses massive computational demands by combining very high-throughput scheduling, low round-trip latency and seamless infrastructure orchestration. HTC-Grid incorporates learnings from many FSI customers re-inventing their grid systems for the cloud. The project was initially developed as an open-source blueprint by AWS, but has been donated to FINOS in order to share the obtained knowledge, provide a reference architecture that can be used to build and adapt a modern high-throughput compute solution, and to incorporate contributions from customers and other CSPs alike.
Speakers
avatar for Flamur Gogolli

Flamur Gogolli

Senior Specialist Solutions Architect @ AWS, 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 →
avatar for Kirill Bogdanov

Kirill Bogdanov

Principal Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services
Kirill Bogdanov is a Principal Solutions Architect in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) for Global Financial Services. He provides cloud-native architecture designs and prototype implementations to build highly reliable, scalable, secure, and cost-efficient solutions ensuring the customers... Read More →
Tuesday October 1, 2024 1:35pm - 2:05pm EDT
Uris
  CNCF
  • Session Slides Attached Yes

1:35pm EDT

BankerX with Morphir and FDC3 - Stephen Goldbaum, Morgan Stanley; Nick Kolba, Connectifi Corp & Michelle Chan, Capital One
Tuesday October 1, 2024 1:35pm - 2:05pm EDT
Morphir is a library of tools that captures business logic as data. FDC3 provides universal connectivity and standards for applications. What happens when we combine the two to create a web aplpication that can integrate Morphir-based services on the FDC3 protocol over REST?

BankerX (sister to TraderX) is a reference application that demonstrates how you can create commercial banking applications in Morphir and have interactions using FDC3.
Speakers
avatar for Michelle Chan

Michelle Chan

Senior Software Developer, Capital One
Michelle has spent seven years working on modernizing accounting systems at Morgan Stanley and Capital One. At Capital One, she is the Scala technical lead and a maintainer for Morphir and Morphir-Scala.
avatar for Stephen Goldbaum

Stephen Goldbaum

Distinguished Engineer, Morgan Stanley
Stephen is a Distinguished Engineer at Morgan Stanley.
avatar for Nick Kolba

Nick Kolba

CEO, Connectifi Corp
Nick Kolba started working on interoperability in finance at Reuters, where he co-invented the CCF protocol which became the backbone of interop in the Thomson Reuters Eikon platform. From there, Nick went on to lead the creation of the FDC3 standard at OpenFin and chair the group... Read More →
Tuesday October 1, 2024 1:35pm - 2:05pm EDT
Broadway Ballroom North
  FDC3
  • Session Slides Attached Yes

1:35pm EDT

Blowing Away the Mystery, Build an FDC3 Compliant Application in 30 Minutes - Ashish Tyagi, Genesis Global
Tuesday October 1, 2024 1:35pm - 2:05pm EDT
At the end of this thirty minute hands-on walkthrough, we will have created an enterprise grade FDC3 application. It will look amazing and demonstrate true value to a front office user. We will show that FDC3 is nothing to be intimidated by and that your existing web development skills will enable to you build something fantastic without a massive learning curve. FDC3 is an exciting technology which promises to revolutionise how capital market users consume software. The basic concepts of FDC3 are relatively simple but developers are sometimes put off by the myriad of vendors, libraries and swathes of documentation. Engineers recently introduced to FDC3 can find the learning curve frustrating compared to more familiar front end technologies. In this session, we will take participants through the process of building a simple but useful FDC3 compliant component using the Genesis platform. We will then show how that component can be used to compose a realistic capital markets application.
Speakers
avatar for Ashish Tyagi

Ashish Tyagi

Principal Architect, Genesis Global
Ashish is an IT professional with over 15 years of experience in architecting and delivering high-performance technology solutions. He has held key leadership roles, including Principal Solution Architect at Genesis Global and Vice President at US Bank, where he managed large-scale... Read More →
Tuesday October 1, 2024 1:35pm - 2:05pm EDT
Music Box
  FDC3
  • Session Slides Attached Yes

1:35pm EDT

The Journey to Open Source Maturity for Financial Institutions - Jaime Siegel, Open Invention Network
Tuesday October 1, 2024 1:35pm - 2:05pm EDT
Banking and finance companies are realizing they need to integrate the same success formulas as large tech enterprises to further their Open Source journey & remain competitive. With increasing regulatory pressures, demanding customer expectations, evolving technologies & an agile economy, decision-makers are exploring new, forward-thinking ways for continued growth in today’s technological landscape. These strategic technology decisions must be made together with IP management strategy. This presentation will share how companies that have made this tech-focused cultural shift in parallel with making shifts to their IP strategy.
Speakers
avatar for Jaime Siegel

Jaime Siegel

Global Licensing Lead, Open Invention Network (OIN)
Over the past 33 years, Jaime Siegel has been a prominent figure within the intellectual property counsel and IP business domains globally. Following a seven-year tenure at notable New York patent litigation firms Fish & Neave and Kenyon & Kenyon, Jaime joined Sony Corporation, where... Read More →
Tuesday October 1, 2024 1:35pm - 2:05pm EDT
Winter Garden

1:35pm EDT

AI Meets CDM Workshop: PRE-REGISTRATION REQUIRED - Ian Sloyan, South Cardinal; David Lee, ISDA; Xiao-yang Liu, Columbia University; Manuel Martos, Tradeheader; Oleg Blokhin & Peter Crosbie, Provectus & Jane Gavronsky, FINOS
Tuesday October 1, 2024 1:35pm - 2:45pm EDT
The "AI Meets CDM" workshop is crafted for professionals involved in FINOS projects like CDM and the Open RegTech SIG, as well as AI engineers and researchers exploring the application of "LLM paradigms" to financial pre-competitive use cases. Participants will gain insights from industry experts and academics who will share lessons learned and challenges faced when implementing retrieval-augmented generation techniques on the CDM documentation itself. The workshop will cover fine-tuning strategies, best practices for integrating feedback from subject matter experts, and generating synthetic trade data from standardized derivative contracts. Attendees will have the opportunity to engage directly with live chatbot demonstrations, asking questions, evaluating responses, and experiencing an innovative approach to interactive learning.
Speakers
avatar for Jane Gavronsky

Jane Gavronsky

Chief Operating Officer, FINOS
Jane is a senior technology leader with extensive experience in delivering transformative, data-focused technology in the Financial Services industry. Most recently, Jane was Managing Director at Credit Suisse, where she was the Global Head of Reference Data Technology Services. In... Read More →
avatar for Xiao-Yang Liu

Xiao-Yang Liu

Research Scientist, Columbia University
Dr. Xiao-Yang Liu is a researcher of the lab GenAI Research on Open Finance at Columbia University and is a faculty member at RPI University. His research interests include deep reinforcement learning and high-performance computing. He has created several open-source projects, including... Read More →
avatar for Oleg Blokhin

Oleg Blokhin

Executive GM, Financial Services, Provectus
Oleg brings more than 22 years of professional experience to Provectus, with expertise in assisting financial services institutions. He focuses on change management and large-scale transformation programs, systems implementation and advising, strategic cost management, managed services... Read More →
avatar for Manuel Martos

Manuel Martos

Chief Technology Officer, Tradeheader
Manuel Martos is the Chief Technology Officer at Tradeheader, a global consulting firm specializing in financial standards, training and software development. With over a decade of experience in the industry, Manuel has held various tech leadership roles where he successfully implemented... Read More →
avatar for Peter Crosbie

Peter Crosbie

Executive Director, Provectus
Peter is a seasoned financial technology leader with over 30 years of experience in banking, risk analytics, and fixed income securities trading. He has been a driving force behind the growth of several successful financial technology companies and has led groundbreaking research... Read More →
avatar for Ian Sloyan

Ian Sloyan

Managing Director, South Cardinal
Ian Sloyan is currently a consultant to FINOS, advising FINOS on CDM project. Previously advising ISDA on the development and execution of their Data and Digital Strategy, including CDM, FpML and document digitisation plus other Fintech, Regtech and Legaltech issues which the association... Read More →
avatar for David I Lee

David I Lee

Senior Director, Digital Transformation, ISDA
David is a senior data expert at ISDA with over two decades of experience designing and managing data solutions, currently leading AI R&D efforts with a focus on Generative AI use cases in the derivatives space.
Tuesday October 1, 2024 1:35pm - 2:45pm EDT
Palace

2:15pm EDT

Reconciliation, Risk, ML and Other Use Cases for Bitemporal Systems - Jeremy Taylor, JUXT
Tuesday October 1, 2024 2:15pm - 2:45pm EDT
The bitemporal data model is a well known tool for solving key reporting and compliance requirements in the financial domain, but it's tricky to implement correctly and often painful to maintain in practice. This talk will explain the basics, review the state of the art, and discuss the pitfalls of various approaches to implementing bitemporal systems. We will reflect on the question: How can OSS database technology support financial services organizations to build robust and flexible bitemporal systems at lower costs in a cloud native context?
Speakers
avatar for Jeremy Taylor

Jeremy Taylor

Head of Product, JUXT
Jeremy Taylor is the Head of Product at JUXT where he is responsible for XTDB, an open source bitemporal SQL database. JUXT is a Grid Dynamics Company based in the UK, specialized in providing software engineering services for financial systems.
Tuesday October 1, 2024 2:15pm - 2:45pm EDT
Uris
  CNCF
  • Session Slides Attached Yes

2:15pm EDT

Secure Inter-App Communication with FDC3 - Yannick Malins, Symphony; Usha P. Chintalapati, Wellington Management & Kiran Shahane, Morgan Stanley
Tuesday October 1, 2024 2:15pm - 2:45pm EDT
Following the "share identity with FDC3" proof of concept at the FINOS Hackathon in May 2023, and the work done over the past year by the "Identity & Threat Modelling" workgroup, this session will demonstrate and explain how two applications can use encrypted channels to securely share information over FDC3, without needing to trust either the desktop agent or any other intermediary
Speakers
KS

Kiran Shahane

Vice President, Morgan Stanley
avatar for Usha P. Chintalapati

Usha P. Chintalapati

Director of Trading Technology, Wellington Management
Usha Chintalapati is the Director of Trading Technology at Wellington Management, where she leads a dynamic team of engineers and product managers in delivering cutting-edge trading technology solutions globally. She collaborates with traders, sell-side firms, and execution venues... Read More →
avatar for Yannick Malins

Yannick Malins

Engineering Director, Market Solutions, Symphony
Engineering Director, Market Solutions, Symphony
Tuesday October 1, 2024 2:15pm - 2:45pm EDT
Music Box
  FDC3
  • Session Slides Attached Yes

2:15pm EDT

Adapting Open Source License Practices in the Age of LLMs - Brian Warner & Tanya Courcey, Fidelity Investments
Tuesday October 1, 2024 2:15pm - 2:45pm EDT
For many years, the landscape of open source licensing seemed stable and predictable. However, the advent of large language models (LLMs) has introduced new licenses and raised numerous questions about the application of existing open source licenses. At Fidelity, our Open Source Program Office (OSPO) and legal team have evolved our processes to navigate these changes and better understand what they require of us. This session will provide a practical case study and an accessible discussion on how OSPOs and legal teams can collaborate effectively in this evolving landscape.
Speakers
avatar for Tanya Courcey

Tanya Courcey

Senior Legal Counsel, Fidelity Investments
avatar for Brian Warner

Brian Warner

OSPO Director and Architect, Fidelity Investments
Brian is the architect and director of the Fidelity Investments OSPO.
Tuesday October 1, 2024 2:15pm - 2:45pm EDT
Winter Garden

2:15pm EDT

Re-imagining Test in the Era of GenAI - Marcus Merrell, Sauce Labs
Tuesday October 1, 2024 2:15pm - 2:45pm EDT
Test automation has been around for a while now, but teams are still having trouble adopting it--particularly in finance and finserv applications. Historically, there are three exceedingly complex questions when testing these applications, which are made far more complex when migrating to automated tests: data generation, complex workflow coverage, and regulatory compliance. In this talk, Marcus will showcase the myriad ways Generative AI can help solve these three complexities, and will introduce several other risk factors you have to account for when adopting LLMs. Everyone is trying to reconcile where and how AI fits into the new world of software development. Come join this talk to explore both the opportunities and downsides, and how to stay above the hype-cycle.
Speakers
avatar for Marcus Merrell

Marcus Merrell

Principal Technical Advisor, Sauce Labs
As Principal Technical Advisor at Sauce Labs, Marcus uses experience from 20+ years in test to build robust, customer-centric solutions around test automation, release management, and the entire SDLC. He started using Selenium/WebDriver in 2007, contributes to the Selenium project... Read More →
Tuesday October 1, 2024 2:15pm - 2:45pm EDT
Plymouth

2:15pm EDT

Paying Maintainers to Improve Open Source Security Outcomes. A Case Study. - Donald Fischer, Tidelift
Tuesday October 1, 2024 2:15pm - 2:45pm EDT
Most efforts to improve the security of the open source software supply chain revolve around finding and remediating vulnerabilities, and an entire industry has been built around vulnerability patch management. But there is another way to improve open source security outcomes proactively instead of waiting for vulnerabilities to appear: paying maintainers to ensure their projects follow secure software development practices. In this session, Donald Fischer, CEO, Tidelift, shares the results of a recent program where maintainers were paid recurring income to validate that their projects follow secure software development practices ( i.e. Open SSF Scorecards, NIST SSDF). Among other findings, this experiment resulted in projects improving their OpenSSF Scorecards scores by an average of 57%. Donald will also share data from a new open source maintainer survey showing what additional practices maintainers are willing to implement when they are paid for their work. He will also provide strategies financial services organizations interested in reducing supply chain risk from open source packages can use to make open source maintainers part of their security strategy.
Speakers
avatar for Donald Fischer

Donald Fischer

CEO and co-founder, Tidelift
Donald Fischer is co-founder and CEO of Tidelift. Previously, he was a product manager and executive at Red Hat, and an investor and board member at over a dozen open source software startups.
Tuesday October 1, 2024 2:15pm - 2:45pm EDT
Broadway Ballroom North
  Security
  • Session Slides Attached Yes

2:45pm EDT

FINOS Project Demo Sessions - Git Proxy
Tuesday October 1, 2024 2:45pm - 3:05pm EDT
Git Proxy

Git Proxy deploys custom push protections and policies on top of Git. It is a highly configurable framework allowing developers and organizations to enforce push protections relevant to their developer workflow, security posture and risk appetite. Git Proxy is built with a developer-first mindset. By presenting simple-to-follow remediation instructions in the CLI/Terminal, it minimises the friction of use and adoption, and keeps developers focused on what matters; committing and pushing code.

Participants: Paul Groves, Citi
Tuesday October 1, 2024 2:45pm - 3:05pm EDT
Solutions Showcase (Broadway Ballroom South)

2:45pm EDT

Break + Networking
Tuesday October 1, 2024 2:45pm - 3:05pm EDT
Tuesday October 1, 2024 2:45pm - 3:05pm EDT
Broadway Ballroom South

3:05pm EDT

Can LLMs Tackle Complex Financial Services Documents - Sandeep Kumar, Synechron
Tuesday October 1, 2024 3:05pm - 3:35pm EDT
Financial Services Industry deals with a number of complex documents. This session will examine documents that are involved in capital raising process and explore the effectiveness of LLMs in generating, reviewing and utilizing the documents.

The session will take examples of complex documents including SEC's S1 Filing and Credit Memo generation process, and explore usage of LLMs in generating the content, as well as reviewing/ validating the correctness of information.

#1 Company Filing - LLMs can help reduce the paperwork burden hours by automating extraction of relevant information from various internal sources and presenting summaries, version history, action items to various parties for review. Usage of LLMs in generating complex sections such as risk factors analysis will be explored.

#2 Credit Memo generation - LLMs can help reduce the effort and risks involved in financial statement analysis & credit checks, increase integrity and oversight, also help in detection of early warning signals through enhanced monitoring of changes in documents or information.

In addition to the benefits of LLMs, the session will highlight various risks that must be managed.
Speakers
avatar for Sandeep Kumar

Sandeep Kumar

Head of FinLabs, Synechron
Sandeep Kumar has 25+ years of financial services industry experience across sell-side and buy-side firms. Based in NYC, he oversees FinLabs, which is focused on applying emerging technologies to financial services use cases. His experience ranges from complex applications development... Read More →
Tuesday October 1, 2024 3:05pm - 3:35pm EDT
Palace
  AI
  • Session Slides Attached Yes

3:05pm EDT

GenAI Use Cases, From PoC to Production - Sergio Gago Huerta, Moody's
Tuesday October 1, 2024 3:05pm - 3:35pm EDT
Generative AI has plenty of use cases in Finance. From the customer support on the front office, to research, business analysis and optimization of investment cases. However most companies get stuck at the "Proof of concept" stage. While it is relatively quick to create a demo with a "Wow effect", building the right pipelines, governance, security and controls and in general get the buy in and approvals from legal and compliance teams is extremely hard. In this presentation we will show a detailed runbook on how to leverage Generative AI cases at scale in the organization, from the perspective of the first company that delivered a production application in the market. We will review how to build an open innovation system that promotes collaboration in what we called "The era of the 14.000 innovators" where every employee became a prompt engineer. And how we harnessed that power to put dozens of use cases in production (internal and external) as well as the edge research on agents and beyond.
Speakers
avatar for Sergio Gago Huerta

Sergio Gago Huerta

MD AI and Quantum Computing, Moody's
Sergio Gago is a serial entrepreneur expert in AI and Data Science and Quantum Computing. He joined Moody's with the acquisition of AcquireMedia and now is the Managing Director of AI and Quantum Computing. Prior to that he was CTO at several companies. He is an Engineer with a Postgrad... Read More →
Tuesday October 1, 2024 3:05pm - 3:35pm EDT
Uris

3:05pm EDT

Governance on Rails for FinServ: Accelerating Time-to-Market While Ensuring Product Compliance and Security - Cole Kennedy & John Kjell, TestifySec Inc.
Tuesday October 1, 2024 3:05pm - 3:35pm EDT
Ensuring software releases adhere to expected processes is crucial for both open-source projects and enterprise software. The in-toto project offers a solution by creating attestations for each step, providing verifiable evidence of compliance. This presentation will showcase the capabilities of in-toto to leverage this evidence and create layouts, demonstrating how to create flexible policies for any software development lifecycle (SDLC) process, from source code commit to production release. We will explore how to formulate policies that verify attestations for code reviews, SBOM integrity, testing, vulnerability scans, build provenance (such as SLSA), and more. Join us to learn how to ensure your software development process is compliant and secure.
Speakers
avatar for Cole Kennedy

Cole Kennedy

CEO, TestifySec Inc.
Cole Kennedy is the founder and CEO of TestifySec. TestifySec serves clients in high compliance and high assurance environments. His technical passion is simplifying and securing complex systems through strong identity management of workloads, environments, and users.
avatar for John Kjell

John Kjell

Director of Open Source, TestifySec Inc.
John is responsible for open source at TestifySec, a software supply chain security startup. He is a maintainer for the Witness and Archivista sub-projects under in-toto. Additionally, John is an active contributor to CNCF's TAG Security and multiple projects within the OpenSSF. Before... Read More →
Tuesday October 1, 2024 3:05pm - 3:35pm EDT
Plymouth

3:05pm EDT

Realizing Operating Efficiency with CDM and LLM - Daniel Schwartz, FT Advisory & Plamen Neykov, CLOUDRISK Limited
Tuesday October 1, 2024 3:05pm - 3:35pm EDT
As its adoption increases, CDM will become central to the opportunity for Capital Markets to use standards to drive operating efficiency. It is no surprise that the result of shared common data and event modeling will reduce complexity whether in terms of operations or technology support. Our session explores how to realize these efficiencies with a proposed microservices based reference architecture that leverages the standard internally and externally and aligns with modern database technology. The result will be a new collaborative distributed processing model. In addition, since firms are likely to utilize their own proprietary data models for specific use cases, a critical component of this architecture is the ability to transform back and forth between those internal models and the standard. To facilitate navigating and aligning to those internal models, we leverage an LLM trained in CDM to simplify the identification of relevant data elements and support their bi-directional mappings. The key intent is to use the LLM to understand the structure of CDM vs internal models and, thereby, create mappings either directly or by generating code and assisting software engineers.
Speakers
avatar for Plamen Neykov

Plamen Neykov

CEO, CLOUDRISK Limited
Prior to joining CLOUDRISK as CEO, Head of the Analytics Department at EDF Trading; Director in Citi’s credit derivatives department; Front Office Pricing Platform Programme Manager at JPMorgan’s Exotics and Hybrids Division; Managing Director - Global Head Capital Markets Technology... Read More →
avatar for Daniel Schwartz

Daniel Schwartz

Managing Partner, FT Advisory
Dan is the founder and Managing Partner of FT Advisory, a consultancy that works with fintech and established firms to define and execute their product and technology strategy, He leads business development, thought leadership for clients, technology architecture as well as participating... Read More →
Tuesday October 1, 2024 3:05pm - 3:35pm EDT
Music Box

3:05pm EDT

From InnerSource to Open Source - Javier Alvarez, Discover Financial Services
Tuesday October 1, 2024 3:05pm - 3:35pm EDT
InnerSource is a common topic in many organizations, often discussed in the context of enhancing team collaboration and resource utilization. While numerous teams have embraced this model from a product perspective, we recognized an opportunity to focus on a different set of assets aimed at component reuse. Our approach at Discover goes beyond the traditional product approach. We noticed a gap where valuable reusable components are created, yet they fall outside the scope of any single product team. To address this, we have implemented an internal open-source model, encouraging a community-driven development framework. 
 
Discover has pioneered a Foundation model, inspired by open-source principles, designed to foster collaboration, incubate innovation, and govern the development of reusable components built and shared across organizational boundaries. This model includes our internal requirements for maintaining products and libraries, standardizing delivery through pipelines, and community-driven governance structure that ensure the sustainability and scalability of these assets across the organization.  
 
Our strategy focuses on building a culture that supports InnerSource development within the company, encouraging collaboration beyond individual product teams. By leveraging open-source principles, we aim to create elasticity in resource capacity and cultivate a thriving ecosystem of reusable components that benefit the entire company.
Speakers
avatar for Javier Alvarez

Javier Alvarez

Principal Application Engineer, Discover Financial Services
Javier Alvarez is a Principal Application Engineer at Discover Financial Services, working on Golden Paths, to help shape a world-class Developer Experience.With over 12+ years of experience, Javier is an excellent Full Stack Developer specializing in web-based application projects... Read More →
Tuesday October 1, 2024 3:05pm - 3:35pm EDT
Winter Garden
  Open Source Readiness
  • Session Slides Attached Yes

3:05pm EDT

OS-Climate: Physical Risk - Where Traditional & Sustainable Finance Converge - Johnny Mattimore & David Kelly BIP Group
Tuesday October 1, 2024 3:05pm - 3:35pm EDT
Business Use Case: Mortgages & Flood Risk
In this presentation, we will demonstrate how to practically integrate physical risks such as flood, fire, and wind into the core systems and workflows of lenders. Our live user case will be on the impact of Flood Risk on Residential Mortgage lending, showcasing an end-to-end workflow that addresses this critical issue.
Key Objectives
Our session will explore core activities, including data and model sourcing, ingestion, normalisation, calibration, and end-user adoption. We'll explore how these processes can be applied to crucial tasks such as management and regulatory reporting, analysis for business decision-making, and risk and finance capital and solvency management.
Technical Challenges Solved
To solve this complex problem, we've addressed several major technical challenges. First, we've achieved Frictionless Data Integration by leveraging the work completed by OS-Climate members to manage data sourcing and curation through their Data Mesh initiative.
Next, we've ensured Frictionless Application Integration by delivering solutions that adhere to the
FDC3 (FINOS) desktop interoperability standard, accelerating end-user testing and adoption. We've also focused on Product Alignment and extension, integrating OS-Climate Functional Componentry with market-leading commercial offerings. Lastly, we've encouraged the use of Open and Commercial Components, promoting best-in-class commercial data and model products through open APIs and OS-Data contributions for enhanced end-user access.
Why It Matters
In recent decades, there has been a noticeable increase in the frequency and scale of damage to physical assets. Given that these assets represent one of the greatest stores of wealth globally, any potential degradation in their values could have serious economic consequences. This issue extends beyond individual firms, potentially affecting the viability of markets, challenging regulators, and impacting governments on a systemic level.
Advantages for Financial Institutions
By adopting our approach, financial services organisations can swiftly translate C-level strategic goals into tangible changes across business lines and group functions. This method offers substantial improvements in several key areas: dramatically reduced time to market, enhanced scalability of solutions, higher rates of end-user adoption, and significant reductions in both build and maintenance costs.
Financial institutions can position themselves at the forefront of industry innovation in addressing
the convergence of traditional and sustainable finance through physical risk integration. This
proactive stance enables them to effectively manage emerging challenges while capitalising on
new opportunities in an increasingly complex market landscape.
Speakers
avatar for Johnny Mattimore

Johnny Mattimore

Partner - Financial Services & Sustainable Finance, BIP Group
Johnny has 35+ years of experience in the financial markets starting in 1988 after graduating with a degree in mathematics from the University of Bristol, UK. The breadth of areas includes banking, asset management, hedge funds, private equity, wealth management, clearers, exchanges... Read More →
avatar for David Kelly

David Kelly

Partner - Financial Services & Sustainable Finance, BIP Group
David has been a full-time and independent consultant plus a co-founder of a quant-tech company for the last six years after over twenty years of experience in Tier 1 investment banks (JP Morgan, Merrill Lynch, and Deutsche Bank). David has held several senior leadership and technical... Read More →
Tuesday October 1, 2024 3:05pm - 3:35pm EDT
Broadway Ballroom North
  OS Climate
  • Session Slides Attached Yes

3:45pm EDT

Empowering RAG Systems via Rigorous Data Governance Practices - Oleg Blokhin, Provectus
Tuesday October 1, 2024 3:45pm - 4:15pm EDT
we delve into the critical intersection RAG systems and robust data governance practices. As organizations increasingly leverage RAG to enhance their AI capabilities, the need for strong data management becomes paramount. Our discussion will cover: Data Discovery and Routing: Learn how to leverage enterprise data catalogs to enhance RAG's query processing precision and efficiency. Ownership and Explainability: Explore techniques for incorporating data ownership information and rich metadata to improve transparency and decision-making. Data Security and Access Control: Understand the implementation of Role-Based and Policy-Based Access Controls, including innovative approaches using GenAI for dynamic permission assessment. Data Quality and Bias Mitigation: Discover strategies for enriching RAG systems with data quality metrics and methods for detecting and mitigating biased data. Knowledge Graphs and Master Data Management: Uncover how these tools can dramatically improve the accuracy of LLM-based responses Data Lineage and Root Cause Analysis: integrate data lineage capabilities for enhanced explainability and efficient problem-solving. Advanced Prompting Techniques:
Speakers
avatar for Oleg Blokhin

Oleg Blokhin

Executive GM, Financial Services, Provectus
Oleg brings more than 22 years of professional experience to Provectus, with expertise in assisting financial services institutions. He focuses on change management and large-scale transformation programs, systems implementation and advising, strategic cost management, managed services... Read More →
Tuesday October 1, 2024 3:45pm - 4:15pm EDT
Plymouth

3:45pm EDT

Cloud Controls are Out of Control - Jared Lambert, Microsoft
Tuesday October 1, 2024 3:45pm - 4:15pm EDT
Global compliance, regulation, and cloud controls are increasingly scattered and diverse, creating significant challenges for financial service organizations. This talk delves into the evolution of public cloud controls, highlighting one bank's journey from open-source tools to contemporary Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) services, and exploring the pain points that remain.

Join us to explore the current landscape of cloud controls, the complexities of adopting and customizing frameworks such as CIS, NIST, or AWS Foundational Best Practices, and the unique difficulties faced by multi-cloud FS organizations in achieving control parity across different CSPs.
Speakers
avatar for Jared Lambert

Jared Lambert

Group Product Manager, Microsoft
I'm a problem solver at heart with a degree in computer science. I love working with enterprise customers to change how they think about technology, working with fast moving agile teams looking to dive into tough customer problems. You'll find me constantly looking for ways to accelerate... Read More →
Tuesday October 1, 2024 3:45pm - 4:15pm EDT
Uris

3:45pm EDT

CALM - Architecture at Scale - Denis Coffaro, Morgan Stanley & David Johnston, Red Hat
Tuesday October 1, 2024 3:45pm - 4:15pm EDT
The Common Architecture Language Model (CALM) offers a novel solution, embodying the principles of Architecture as Code (AasC)
Speakers
avatar for Denis Coffaro

Denis Coffaro

Executive Director, Morgan Stanley
Denis joined Morgan Stanley in March, 2023 as an Enterprise Architect. In this role, he partners with the divisional architecture groups maturing the Architectural culture and enabling Tech Strategy and Modernization initiatives across the firm.
avatar for David Johnston

David Johnston

FSI Solution Architect, Red Hat
As a Solution Architect for Red Hat in the Financial Services Industry vertical, David has the privilege of interacting directly with customers in the field on a daily basis. It's here where he gets to see real world issues, struggles, and engineering successes from the brightest... Read More →
Tuesday October 1, 2024 3:45pm - 4:15pm EDT
Winter Garden
  Open Source Readiness
  • Session Slides Attached Yes

3:45pm EDT

Emerging Technologies: The Quantum Computing Panel - Peter Smulovics, Morgan Stanley; Sergio Gago Huerta, Moody's; Gorka Madariaga, Microsoft; Ruslan Shaydulin, JPMorgan Chase & Moderated by Hilary Carter, The Linux Foundation
Tuesday October 1, 2024 3:45pm - 4:15pm EDT
Listen to industry experts and active practitioners discussing the applicability of Quantum Computing for Financial Services along with Post Quantum Cryptography, the implications around open standardization, and where does this industry and topic leads us in the next 5 years. For more information about Emerging Technologies in FINOS, please do check out https://zenith.finos.org for details!
Speakers
avatar for Peter Smulovics

Peter Smulovics

Executive Director, Morgan Stanley
Peter is a Microsoft veteran and a Microsoft MVP, worked on .NET, C#, Dynamics, Azure, Office, Security, and still heavily involved with many of those projects. In the last nearly 15 years, he is leading Windows and .NET development practices at Morgan Stanley, with additional responsibilities... Read More →
avatar for Hilary Carter

Hilary Carter

SVP Research & Communication, The Linux Foundation
Hilary Carter is a writer, researcher, and team leader, producing engaging, decision-useful insights that broaden the understanding of open source and emerging technologies and their impact on business, government, and society. She has contributed to books and numerous research reports... Read More →
avatar for Sergio Gago Huerta

Sergio Gago Huerta

MD AI and Quantum Computing, Moody's
Sergio Gago is a serial entrepreneur expert in AI and Data Science and Quantum Computing. He joined Moody's with the acquisition of AcquireMedia and now is the Managing Director of AI and Quantum Computing. Prior to that he was CTO at several companies. He is an Engineer with a Postgrad... Read More →
avatar for Gorka Madariaga

Gorka Madariaga

Strategy & Ops Lead, Strategic Incubations, Microsoft
Gorka is a Strategy & Operations lead for Incubation Sales in the Strategic Missions & Technologies division at Microsoft, the company’s business incubation hub for scaling innovation and growth. With extensive experience across product marketing, software development, technical... Read More →
avatar for Ruslan Shaydulin

Ruslan Shaydulin

Executive Director - Applied Research Director, JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Ruslan Shaydulin is a quantum algorithms researcher at the Global Technology Applied Research center at JPMorgan Chase, where he leads the Quantum Implementation and Execution area of the Quantum Computing team. Areas of responsibility of Ruslan’s team include numerical benchmarking... Read More →
Tuesday October 1, 2024 3:45pm - 4:15pm EDT
Broadway Ballroom North
  Open Source Readiness
  • Session Slides Attached Yes

3:45pm EDT

Open Finance & Insurance Tech - The Perspective of LLM and Agent Applications - James Zhang, Ant Group
Tuesday October 1, 2024 3:45pm - 4:15pm EDT
I will talk about Ant Group's LLM applications and our open source projects aimed at addressing the challenges we face in real-world deployment, such as meeting regulatory compliance requirements, addressing lack of domain knowledge, and improving reliability. Our open source efforts include ad hoc solutions that incorporate advanced technologies to overcome these challenges, including the integration of knowledge augmentation technology. We aim for our efforts to benefit the financial industry and academia through our open source initiatives.
Speakers
avatar for James Zhang

James Zhang

Managing Director of AI Forecasting and Strategy Platform, Ant Group
Dr. James Zhang is the Managing Director of AI Forecasting and Strategy Platform of Ant Group. Dr. Zhang obtained his Ph.D. degree from Univ. of Ottawa, Canada in Electrical Engineering, and both his Master's and Bachelor degrees from Zhejiang Univ., China. Before he joined Ant Financial... Read More →
Tuesday October 1, 2024 3:45pm - 4:15pm EDT
Palace
  Open Source Readiness
  • Session Slides Attached Yes

3:45pm EDT

The Role of Corporate Digital Identity Standards to Address Financial Crime - Henry Balani, Encompass Corporation
Tuesday October 1, 2024 3:45pm - 4:15pm EDT
Open corporate digital identity standards play a pivotal role in combating financial crime. They provide a framework for secure and reliable identification processes. These standards help to establish trust and ensure that individuals and entities are who they claim to be, which is essential for preventing fraud, money laundering, and other financial crimes. By adhering to open corporate digital identity standards, financial institutions can more effectively detect and prevent suspicious activities. For instance, consistent and reliable corporate identity verification processes help to create comprehensive audit trails, making it easier to trace transactions and identify potential illicit activities. This session will delve into how open standards support corporate identity verification and how these standards have improved effectiveness and cost efficiencies for the financial service industry. The discussion will address mechanisms for authentication, data protection, and regulatory compliance - all essential elements in the fight against financial crime.
Speakers
avatar for Henry Balani

Henry Balani

Global Head of Industry & Regulatory Affairs, Encompass Corporation
Dr Henry Balani is a seasoned financial services executive and academic addressing regulatory technology issues. At Encompass, he focuses on thought leadership in addressing financial crime through technology. As an academic, Dr Balani researches the impact of AML penalties and regulations... Read More →
Tuesday October 1, 2024 3:45pm - 4:15pm EDT
Music Box
  Open Source Readiness
  • Session Slides Attached Yes

4:25pm EDT

Closing Remarks & Awards Ceremony - Gabriele Columbro, Executive Director, FINOS & General Manager, Linux Foundation Europe
Tuesday October 1, 2024 4:25pm - 4:45pm EDT
Speakers
avatar for Gabriele Columbro

Gabriele Columbro

Executive Director / General Manager, FINOS / Linux Foundation Europe
Gabriele is an open source technologist at heart. He spent over 15 years building developer ecosystems to deliver value through open source across Europe and the US. He thrives on driving innovation both contributing to open source communities and joining commercial open source ventures... Read More →
Tuesday October 1, 2024 4:25pm - 4:45pm EDT
Broadway Ballroom North
 
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