FINOS and Legend facilitated collaboration on a model for Currency reference data, with different companies in the financial industry coming together to discuss requirements, current issues around sourcing what is needed for trading and standardising the business information.
A draft model was created and populated with an agreed ‘base’ list of currencies: starting from the ISO standard, enriching this with the issuing country and enhancing it for trading currencies not recognised in ISO (e.g. for ‘offshore’ trading).
We will show how this collaboration was achieved, describe the current state of the model and currency list, then cover the next steps of allowing access to the list via the model.
Many business decisions include a strategic element of risk and making tradeoffs, but we don’t always think about open source project risks and how those risks can impact our business and product strategies. For example, if we build our business or products on top of an open source technology, we’ll want to manage our risk. On the other hand, if we’re using an open source project as a part of some non-critical infrastructure, we can accept more risk. This talk will: * Compare the risk between projects under neutral foundations vs. those controlled by companies. * Provide details about how governance impacts risk for leadership selection, decision-making processes, and communication. * Evaluate business risk in terms of contributors and organizations to determine the level of risk associated with individuals or organizations leaving the project. * Discuss how certain behaviors within the community can increase or decrease the risk of using and contributing to a project. * Talk about the strategic implications of our open source project decisions. The audience will walk away with practical advice about how to strategically assess risk and evaluate projects for your organization.
Dr. Dawn Foster works as the Director of Data Science for CHAOSS where she is also a board member / maintainer. She is co-chair of CNCF TAG Contributor Strategy and an OpenUK board member. She has 20+ years of experience at companies like VMware and Intel with expertise in community... Read More →
This talk will introduce Linux Foundation Research, a new division created to broaden the understanding of open source projects, ecosystem dynamics, and impact. Among LF Research's inaugural projects is in the financial services vertical. Working with FINOS and team members from Scott Logic and Wipro, LF Research is pleased to have collaborated on the publication of the 2021 State of Open Source in Financial Services report, a study of understanding of governance, leadership, consumption, contribution, culture, and overall open source aspiration. Meet the research team and dig into the findings!
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 →
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 →
Tuesday October 5, 2021 2:10pm - 2:40pm BST
Enterprise 1
This session will describe the concept of Open Banking around the world through a regulatory and policy lens. It will then move into the technical standards that different jurisdictions are pursuing, notably the difference between different API messaging standards being proposed. The session will then describe how Open Banking concepts work well with Open Source collaboration and how even regulatory policy in some jurisdictions is shifting to an open source style of transparency and input. The presenter will also contrast the differences between Open Source and Open Standards and why the two are not the same and have profound differences in how organizations should respond.
Strategy and Programs Director, Large Credit Union Coalition
Kevin Morris has worked in the Canadian credit union system for 11 years, having most recently worked at the Canadian Credit Union Association as Data Analytics Manager and Strategy and Programs Director for the Large Credit Union Coalition. He's written multiple policy papers and... Read More →
Three years ago ING Wholesale Banking Advanced Analytics team set up an ambitious goal to gather in one place a curated portfolio of internal data sources together with a large scale compute platform. At its core the idea of allowing internal projects to get access to a rich toolset of open source and industry standards frameworks and preprocessed data to validate business ideas in the secure exploration environment. Extensive growth with over 200 projects so far and almost 2000 internal users proofs advanced analytics i.e. ML, AI, NLP capabilities should become easily consumable not only by specialised, dedicated teams, but make them close to subject matter experts. Join this session where Krzysztof shares what are in our opinion key elements of the strategy and what is still in front of ING Data Analytics Platform to make 50% of ING employees be part of it.
Enables companies to make use of data to fuel their product strategies. Closing the gap between IT infrastructure teams and business initiatives. With the experience in high frequency trading business, migrating Spotify biggest analytics cluster to the public cloud and rebellious... Read More →
While Software Supply Chain attacks have existed for years, recent high-profile attacks have elevated the awareness of these threats. Thankfully, the open source community has been working to improve how we verify the software we deploy and rely on. In this talk, we will discuss sigstore, a new open source effort aiming to provide ubiquitous, free and easy to use software signing and verification by offering a set of tools backed by a public good service. Its goal is to make verifying the provenance of any code you want to run, up to its upstream dependencies, simple and easy. Building on this capacity to verify the provenance of software, we will look at using automation such as CI/CD build pipelines and policy tools (e.g. OPA). These capabilities will enable better informed decisions about whether to accept code on our build systems, our test systems and our production systems. Finally, we will review the ideas we have been investigating at Red Hat for using sigtore and other tools like Keylime and Tekton Chains to verify software at each step of a cloud-native software build and deployment process, enforcing a chosen policy, itself verified.
security and emerging tech, Office of the CTO, Red Hat
Axel is part of Red Hat's Office of the CTO, where he works on open source security as part of the Emerging Technologies team. He has worked on projects such as Enarx, Keylime and sigstore. He has studied economics, “done agile”, worked on the blockchain ecosystem, talked before... Read More →