FINOS is pleased to announce Round Four Speakers for the Open Source Strategy Forum 2019, in New York on November 20th!
Hi There - We're putting together a great mix of finance, open source, and fintech talks and speakers for this year's Open Source Strategy Forum (OSSF).
Round Four Speakers and their talks are listed below. They include senior thought leaders in open source, banking, fintech, and more.
We're confirming more content every day so be sure to check back regularly!
Prices have increased to $199 but won't stay at this discounted rate for long so Register Now to take advantage of this low price. As always - employees of FINOS Member companies can attend for free.
Keynote Speaker - Creator of C++
Technical Fellow
Managing Director, Enterprise Tech & Services - Morgan Stanley
Bjarne Stroustrup is the designer and original implementer of C++ as well as the author of The C++ Programming Language (4th Edition) and A Tour of C++ (2nd edition), Programming: Principles and Practice using C++ (2nd Edition), and many popular and academic publications. Dr. Stroustrup is a Technical Fellow and a Managing Director in the technology division of Morgan Stanley in New York City as well as a visiting professor at Columbia University. He is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering, and an IEEE, ACM, and CHM fellow. He is the recipient of the 2018 NAE Charles Stark Draper Prize for Engineering and the 2017 IET Faraday Medal. He did much of his most important work in Bell Labs. His research interests include distributed systems, design, programming techniques, software development tools, and programming languages. To make C++ a stable and up-to-date base for real-world software development, he has been a leading figure with the ISO C++ standards effort for more than 25 years. He holds a master’s in Mathematics from Aarhus University and a PhD in Computer Science from Cambridge University, where he is an honorary fellow of Churchill College.
Keynote & Breakout Talks - The C++ Core Guidelines – An Open Source Project
Code is often the focus for an open-source project, though rarely the only focus; there is also documentation, tutorials, and more. “Open-source” can also provide a forum that enables unlikely collaborations. I will briefly describe the C++ Core Guidelines, a project involving people from many organizations aiming to guide developers to a type- and resource-safe style of efficient C++, supported by tools and a small library.
Managing Director, Global Head of Client Insight, Banking & Digital Channel's Technology - Royal Bank of Canada (RBC)
Kim Prado heads the Global Client, Banking & Digital Channels Technology group across Capital Markets. She has been at RBC for over 12 years supporting the business in various capacities from running Global FIC Production Services to Head of Fixed Income Sales and Credit Trading technology. Currently, her role includes managing all aspects of client technology as well as Banking and Digital Channels across all lines of business within CM. She is also a member of RBC’s Global Markets Innovation Leadership Council. Prior to joining RBC, Mrs.Prado ran the API Connectivity Development team at ICAP and was part of the initial launch of BrokerTec. She has also held multiple technology positions across the street with Deutsche Bank, Mizuho and Chase Securities. Mrs. Prado received a BA from Stockton University in accounting.
Kim's Talk: Harnessing AI for a Client-First, Customer-facing Data Strategy
CTO - GreenKey Technologies
Tom is the CTO of GreenKey Technologies, a Chicago-based fintech NLP and ASR startup, as well as the lead of the FINOS Voice Program. His 20 year software career spans both startups and enterprises across the finance, medical, and defense sectors, specializing in highly-available distributed systems for regulated markets. Tom has a degree in Physics from MIT.
Tom's Talk - IPC, GK, Symphony, and OpenFin leverage open source to create chatbot ecosystem for financial markets
A large portion of OTC trading still takes place via live conversations between counterparties over voice and chat lines. Regulatory and cost pressures combined with availability of new technology are leading the world’s largest banks, broker dealers, and technologists to focus on the next generation of trading workflows that enable traders to communicate more efficiently and trade faster with regulatory compliance built into the technology stack.
Greenkey has partnered with IPC and Symphony to deliver the first part of this workflow to voice enable quote input to Symphony chat. Traders will have the ability to push a button on an IPC turret, dictate a quote, and have voice converted to data in real time and fed into a Symphony chat room. Counterparties with access to this chatroom will see quotes in real-time in a searchable chat stream where they can subscribe to alerts and updates on securities, currencies, or price points of interest to identify and respond to trading opportunities.
Once a trade is identified this trade information can be communicated via open source APIs into trading systems such as FlexTrade which are housed in an OpenFin container for execution. Seamless integration feeds this quote and trade data to banks’ compliance platforms for compliance with MiFID best execution and trade reconstruction requirements. This end to end process - from voice quote to trade execution - has been made possible with the use of open source tools and collaboration of key partners across the financial services industry.
Senior Director & Assistant General Counsel, Cloud & IP Policy & Strategy - Microsoft
Nicolas Schifano is Senior Director and Assistant General Counsel at Microsoft, leading Cloud and IP Policy and Strategy.
Among his responsibilities, Nicolas leads Azure IP Advantage, a program designed to help protect Microsoft’s customers innovations in the cloud. Nicolas is also responsible for Open Source and IP policy at Microsoft.
Prior to that, Nicolas led Microsoft’s standards and intellectual property policy engagements, first out of the Microsoft office in Brussels, then at Microsoft’s headquarters in the USA.
Nicolas is registered with the Washington bar as in-house counsel. He is also a French and European patent attorney. He has an educational background in computer science, electrical engineering, intellectual property and business laws.
Talk: Legal Considerations for Open Innovation
Today’s industries and organizations are reshaping themselves, often propelling their businesses forward by sharing and combining code, data, and AI solutions. This shared collaboration is at the very core of open innovation. This session will discuss some of the legal considerations in connection with open innovation, touching on open source, open data and others.
Senior Director, Product Marketing - WhiteSource
Jeff currently leads product marketing at WhiteSource, the leader in open source security and license compliance management, and has over twenty years of experience driving company growth and building and marketing products & solutions for data protection, security, backup, storage, disaster recovery, and more. His experience includes roles in product marketing, product management, and software development at Veeam Software, EMC, Veritas.
Director of Community - FINOS
James is the Director of Community at FINOS and wholeheartedly believes the transformation of Financial Services can only be fulfilled if Open Source is embraced under the three pillars of Contribution, Consumption and Community.
James has a twenty year career in software engineering having worked for telecommunication startups, the gaming industry, digital streaming platforms and financial services. Prior to joining FINOS James worked at Lloyds Banking Group where he focused on building engineering communities for Lloyds Bank, Halifax, Bank of Scotland, Scottish Widows and other LBG banks. While at Lloyds Banking Group, James also drove the adoption of Inner Source and Open Source partly through the creation of engineering guilds providing in-person and remote educational sessions and large hackathon events. James also spent a number of years consulting on software engineering projects for RBS, NatWest and Barclays.
Talk (Jeff Crum, WhiteSource with FINOS Director of Community, James McLeod): WhiteSource and FINOS: Simplifying the World of Open Source Usage for Financial Insitutitions
Open source is a necessity. One simply can’t develop software at today’s pace without it. Today, even the largest financial services firms are using open source to accelerate the pace of their software development and boost their developers with new, incredible powers.
However, the financial services industry continuously faces strict regulatory requirements that present it with a unique set of challenges, especially when it comes to open source usage (both consumption and contribution).
FINOS is a non-profit organization whose purpose is to accelerate collaboration and innovation in financial services through the adoption of open source software, standards and best practices. Together with WhiteSource, they are able to simplify the world of open source usage by providing a secure and compliant environment for developers to use open source code freely and fearlessly.
Join James McLeod (FINOS) and Jeff Crum (WhiteSource) as they discuss: The challenges of open source usage in the financial services industry The current state of open source vulnerabilities management How FINOS uses WhiteSource to ensure the security and IP compliance of FINOS-produced open source software.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS
We are looking for a limited number of energetic, early rising, and gregarious volunteers to help out at OSSF. You'll receive free admission and a t-shirt - and many thank yous for volunteering. Please contact Jennifer Suber if you're interested in details: jennifer@youreventstaff.com
OSSF 2019 PROGRAM OVERVIEW
This year's agenda will provide practical knowledge and guidance on best practices, tools and technologies; explore how to build a successful open source community; include insight from industries successfully embracing open source and much more. We’ll run this in three tracks.
Strategy & Standards - Hear from leaders driving standards, innovation, and collaboration to meet an evolving financial services landscape and changing customer demand, including opportunities in open data, open banking, cloud, regulation and more.
Policy, Process & Tools - Learn how to seamlessly deliver compliant open source software through policies, processes, best practices and technology to manage the full open source software lifecycle from evaluation to consumption to contribution.
Code & Community - A look at the software, languages, frameworks, pioneers and more that are driving innovation, being developed in the open and have the potential to change the financial services industry and its historically “closed” culture.
Last year's schedule, talks, and videos are still live here if you're looking for a preview.
SPONSOR A STUDENT OR UNDERREPRESENTED GROUP ATTENDEE
FINOS wants to make open source in finance more accessible to everyone. As part of your registration, you can choose the option to sponsor a student, or someone from a group generally underrepresented in technology, to attend OSSF.
MEMBER REGISTRATION AND SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES
Registration for OSSF is FREE for FINOS members and their employees. If you belong to our of our FINOS Member institutions, be sure to take advantage of this perk and pass this email along to your colleagues.
SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES
Sponsorship opportunities are available for members and non-members interested in showing their commitment to open source collaboration at OSSF. Let us know if you’d like a copy of the sponsorship prospectus for more detail.
We can't wait to see you at OSSF 2019! Please reach out to ossf@finos.org if you have any questions about the event or sponsorship opportunities for members and non-members.
PARTNER CONFERENCES
FINOS has partnered with the TABB Group and Benzinga to bring you access to two great conferences:
November 13
811 7th Avenue, W 53rd St, New York, NY 10019 [Map]
FinTech and the Future of Capital Markets Ecosystems
Join TABB Group analysts and experts from across the asset management and capital market industry to discuss how FinTech is reshaping capital markets ecosystems.
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November 19 (the day before OSSF in the same event space)340 W 50th St, New York, NY 10019 [Map]
THANK YOU to our FANTASTIC 2019 Sponsors
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If you're interested in sponsoring - please email ossf@finos.org for a prospectus.
JAMES MCLEOD
