Bringing Open Source to a Highly-Regulated Industry

Panel: Bringing Open Source to a Highly Regulated Industry

One barrier to open source collaboration in financial services is the many regulations governing banks' conduct and the conservative policies banks adopt to comply. This evening's panel includes participants from fintech, miltech, and healthcare who will share their experience promoting open source in sometimes-hostile spaces.

Schedule:

• 6:30 - 7:00 Networking
• 7:00 - 7:45 Panel Discussion
• 7:45 - 9:00 Networking

Participants:

Andrew Brook, CTO @ Selerity

Prior to Selerity, Andrew was the Executive Director responsible for Morgan Stanley’s foreign exchange (FX) e-commerce platform, providing low-latency pricing and execution services to the firm's clients. Previous to Morgan Stanley, Andrew managed technology for the FX Prime Brokerage, FX Electronic Trading, and Market Risk teams at Bank of America. Andrew was also the co-founder of an early stage venture that delivered innovative scheduling software to the agile manufacturing sector. Andrew holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Matthew Burton, government & military technologist

Matthew works for a military/intelligence tech startup based in Cambridge, MA. He was previously the Deputy and Acting CIO at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which published the Federal Government's first "open source by default" source code sharing policy. Prior to CFPB, he was a consultant to the Federal Government on collaboration and information sharing. He has authored a number of influential essays on the role technologists play in a healthy democracy, including the opening chapter of O'Reilly's "Open Government" anthology (2010).

Phillip Cloud, Software Engineer @ Two Sigma

Phillip Cloud has been contributing to open source ever since he realized that writing code was more interesting than graduate school. Since then, he has contributed to a variety of open source projects in the data analytics space such as Pandas, SQLAlchemy, Presto, Ibis, Apache Arrow and Apache Parquet. Phillip was a top 5 contributor to pandas and previously worked at Anaconda Inc. (formerly Continuum Analytics), Facebook and is now wrangling bits as a software engineer at Two Sigma. He’s mostly interested in bending Python to his will using strange metaprogramming techniques.

Andrew Hoppin, Co-Founder @ CoverUS

Andrew Hoppin is a serial social entrepreneur, former government CIO, and NASA-trained planetary scientist. His current venture, CoverUS, is a blockchain health data startup that recently won the Consenys Blockchain for Social Impact Hackathon. Previously, Andrew founded and built DKAN, an open source govtech platform acquired by Granicus Inc. Earlier, as the first CIO of the New York State Senate, he was selected by GovTech as the 2010 New York State Public Sector CIO of the Year and by Information Week as one of the "Government CIO 50." Andrew also organizes the New York Government Blockchain Association Meetup, is a Global Impact Entrepreneur in New Zealand's Edmund Hillary Fellowship, serves on the Board of Humanity in Action, advises Crypto LaunchPad, and is President of the DC-based good governance NGO Global Integrity.

James Vasile, Partner @ Open Tech Strategies

James Vasile has fifteen years experience as a user, developer, advocate and advisor in the free and open source software world. His expertise is in software licensing and community-building, as well as non-profit and small business startup. He focuses on free software and open source production, although his work and interests often take him far beyond the world of software. Much of what James does involves teaching people how to build successful businesses around free software and ensuring licensing alignment in multisource FOSS stacks. James's technical experience also allows him to act as outsource CTO/Architect, due-diligence open source expert, new venture advisor, fiscal sponsorship facilitator, and more.