Open Source Edinburgh // November 2022

We are delighted to be returning to Edinburgh for another Open Source meetup this Autumn.

In addition to two fantastic speakers from NatWest and AWS, our resident hosts from Scott Logic, Colin Eberhardt (CTO) and Oliver Cronk (Technology Director) will be updating us on the latest things happening in the open source community.

Speakers:
• Jonathan Haggarty, Head of Bank of APIs Technology, NatWest
• Ricardo Sueiras, Principal Advocate in Open Source, Amazon Web Services

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AGENDA

17:30 // Food, drinks and networking

18:00 // Welcome and introduction // Colin Eberhardt and Oliver Cronk, Scott Logic

18:05 // 'APIs: Built on Open Source Foundations' // Jonathan Haggarty

Jonathan has been building APIs at NatWest for the last five years and is on a mission to make them a truly API-first organisation. This talk explores how the culture and capabilities that have been created share a common foundation with Open Source and why that’s been pivotal to their success. Come along to gain some insight into this interesting intersection.

18:40 // Break

19:00 // 'Amazon Corretto: Back to the Future' // Ricardo Sueiras

Amazon Corretto is an open source, upstream distribution of OpenJDK. In this talk I will talk about its origins and why we created it, explore some examples of why the OpenJDK is still very relevant today and how Amazon is helping to drive the OpenJDK forward, and why it has never been a better time to be a Java developer.

19:30 // Event close/networking drinks

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If you are interested in presenting, please contact Claire Cocks ([ccocks@scottlogic.com](mailto:ccocks@scottlogic.com)). We particularly welcome talk submissions from women speakers, speakers from ethnic minorities, and speakers from other under-represented groups.

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