Open Source Strategy Forum London 2021
2021-10-04..2021-10-05
London, United Kingdom
as the organisers put it
post event report EXPLORE THE SCHEDULE watch keynotes live That’s a wrap for Open Source Strategy Forum London 2021. Thank you to all our attendees, speakers and sponsors! Our on-demand session videos…
who it's for
open source program managers, engineering leaders in financial services, platform engineers, community managers and contributors, legal and compliance engineers, data engineers and architects, site reliability engineers
topics
open source program office; inner source practices; mainframe DevOps integration; identity management with MidPoint; FDC3 desktop interoperability; event time-series databases (TimeBase CE); data governance with Legend; banks moving to public cloud; regulatory automation and sandboxes; open source licensing and governance; open source sustainability and funding; kubernetes adoption in finance
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| The Open Source Program Office: If It's Such a Good Idea, Why Haven't We Been Doing It? | Gil Yehuda | 20m |
Claims that managing open source strategically via an open source program office improves risk and reuse but faces three concrete frictions: regulators citing… | ||
| The Next Generation of Mainframers | John Mertic, Jessielaine Punongbayan, Kim Alex | 26m |
Mainframe tools connect to modern DevOps through the three‑year old zoe project, which supplies zoe CLI plugins and a VS Code extension to expose z/OS… | ||
| Maximizing Open Source Investment to Drive Business Innovation | Traci Robinson-Williams | 30m |
Claim: open source becomes a revenue and innovation engine when treated as a program not an afterthought — GitLab reports ~50 community contributions per… | ||
| MidPoint - Open-Source Identity Management and Governance Platform | Slavek Licehammer | 34m |
MidPoint is fully open source and maintained by Evolveum while the company sells support and custom services on top; deployments span 16 industries with… | ||
| Closing Remarks | Gabriele Columbro | 10m |
FINOS summarizes concrete outcomes: governance uses EasyCLA contributor flow, all software ships under Apache and Creative Commons licensing, and special… | ||
| Community Awards | james macleod | 07m |
Announcement of community awards at Open Source Strategy Forum London 2021 lists specific winners and how they were chosen using LF Analytics and transparent… | ||
| Keynote Session: Driving Essential Change in Financial Regulation | Nick Cook, Jane Gavronsky | 29m |
Argues that fragmented regulation and no common taxonomy force banks to implement thousands of bespoke rules (about 10,000 rules at one regulator) across… | ||
| Keynote Session: FINOS Vice Chair Opening Remarks | Russell Green | 19m |
Deutsche Bank describes moving from decades of passive open source use to active contribution: it open sources Plexus (2018), deploys cataloging with Waltz and… | ||
| Welcome & Opening Remarks | Gabriele Columbro | 22m |
FINOS reports concrete growth: 50 members and nearly 50 projects across incubating and active stages, plus an associate tier for non‑profits and standards… | ||
| Banking on Open: Ensuring the Continued Growth of OSS in FinTech | Amanda Brock | 40m |
Explains how patent lawsuits and PAEs threaten fintech adoption of open source and how Open Invention Network’s defensive model reduces that risk: a free… | ||
| Open Source Sustainability and Our Corporate Social Responsibility | Colin Eberhardt | 27m |
Examines the supply chain of express.js (14M weekly downloads) and finds 49 direct dependencies that balloon over time, 88 maintainers with npm only 7% using… | ||
| Best Practice in Delivering Successful Open Source Engagement in Organisations | Chris Howard | 23m |
EPAM describes pragmatic steps: an open source charter of five to six bullets that removes approval friction; an open source contributor index… | ||
| Journeys within FinTech: A Panel on Women’s Career Progression | Rita Chaturvedi, Clair Grayston, Jane Gavronsky, Tamara Chehayeb Makarem | 31m |
Panel captures concrete career tactics: stories of relocating and rebuilding a network (one moved countries, another spent 15 years at Morgan Stanley), a clear… | ||
| Policy Compliance with Sigstore: From Signing Software to Validating the Whole Softwar... | Axel Simon | 34m |
Argues that cryptographic signing plus automated policy can verify an entire software supply chain from upstream commits to production, showing a working… | ||
| Panel Discussion: The Growth of InnerSource in Financial Services | Clare Dillon, Danese Cooper, Richard Alexander Wagener, Arthur Maltson, Graham Odds, Gil Yehuda | 41m |
FINOS SIG forms in early 2021 and members report concrete wins: a Capital One platform built on GitHub Enterprise open by default grows into a scaled… | ||
| Navigating Open Source Risk: A Strategic Approach | Dawn M Foster | 29m |
Shows concrete risk signals: OpenSSL’s Heartbleed maintenance gap (≈$2k/year donations, single maintainer), companies relicensing with SSPL (MongoDB, Elastic)… | ||
| Data Analytics Democratization: How ING Data Analytics Platform Bootstraps New... | Krzysztof Adamski | 27m |
ING builds a containerized data analytics platform that centralizes curated internal sources, enforces lineage and quality via a data liberation squad, and… | ||
| Solve Data Synchronization Challenges with Blockchain & Smart Contracts | David Richards | 26m |
Claims that data sync is the core enterprise problem and shows a working pattern: a Virtual Shared System of Record built with Daml smart contracts, a Daml… | ||
| Panel Discussion: Creating an Open Source Data... | Taniem Choudhury, James Nicholls, Sarah Sinclair | 38m |
Claims an open data standard and linked knowledge graph that semantically connects machine‑readable regulations to a standardized firm profile, built on graph… | ||
| An Open-sourced Solution to Data Governance? How Legend May Be t... | Ffion Acland, Beeke-Marie Nelke | 36m |
Goldman Sachs open-sources Legend, a data modeling and governance platform that maps business-friendly models to disparate databases, enforces validations… | ||
| Containing the Chaos While Embracing Kubernetes Based Technology in Finance | Rob Knight | 27m |
Argues that Kubernetes value is in centralized management not distributions, shows real deployments: SUSE Rancher manages hundreds of disparate clusters… | ||
| FDC3 Fast and Easy: Introducing the FDC3 Workbench for Vendors | Kris West | 29m |
FDC3 Workbench is an open‑source FINOS tool that lets vendors spin up two instances, send real FDC3 1.2 messages and confirm formatting, resolver behavior and… | ||
| Morphir: A Single Language for Business and Technology | Attila Mihaly | 22m |
Morphir is an open‑source intermediate representation developed at Morgan Stanley and donated to FINOS that captures business logic once and generates… | ||
| Open Banking, Open Source, and Open Standards | Kevin Morris | 31m |
Argues open banking is evolutionary not revolutionary, with government-led regimes aligning policy to open source practices and industry-led efforts often… | ||
| That's Not a Lot of Data; Leveraging Cloud-native Technologies to Collect, Stor... | Richard Hartmann | 22m |
Cloud-native observability stack is used to collect and analyze financial timeseries at production scale: Prometheus: 100M+ active series on a single instance… | ||
| Keynote Session: Key Challenges and Success Factors of Banks’ Move to Public Cloud... | Andrew Agerbak | 23m |
Argues the main value of public cloud is accelerating change not just cutting run costs, citing a UK retail bank with a £3bn change portfolio where reducing… | ||
| Leveraging the Open-source TimeBase CE Event-oriented Time-series Database to PowerCl... | Stuart Farr | 25m |
TimeBase CE is an open-source event-oriented time-series database and streaming system contributed to FINOS that combines historical and real-time data in one… | ||
| Panel Discussion: Collaborating on a Model and... | Vijayesh Chandel, Elaine Fraser, Sailesh Pandey | 26m |
FINOS-facilitated group builds a currency reference model starting from the ISO base list then enriches each code with issuing country, onshore/offshore flags… | ||
| Keynote Session: Open Source Engineering - What’s in it for my Business? | Liz Rice | 15m |
Isovalent is behind the psyllium networking project and the talk catalogs concrete business reasons to invest engineering time in upstream projects: companies… | ||
| Panel Discussion: Introducing Linux Foundation Research and the State of Open Source in Financial Se | Hilary Carter, Gilles Gravier, Colin Eberhardt | 27m |
Linux Foundation Research with FINOS, Scott Logic and Wipro publishes a 46‑page baseline study based on 208 respondents and finds open source use is widespread… | ||
| FDC3: A Review of Industry Activity | Matt Barrett, Sachin Gaba | 33m |
FDC3 adoption has surged and firms report concrete wins: NatWest builds a platform‑agnostic context broadcasting between apps to auto‑populate client and trade… | ||
| The FINOS Open Source Maturity Model and How to Apply It | Gilles Gravier | 32m |
A FINOS-hosted open source maturity model arrives as a LimeSurvey questionnaire plus a scoring engine and GitHub repo, with a beta in the first half of… | ||
| How Open Source can Address Enterprise Software Ops Challenges? | Kris Sharma | 21m |
Shows that a real FINOS Legend data platform with four subcomponents (studio, engine, SDLC server, GitLab) deploys from zero to working in about four to five… | ||
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