Name: Open Source Edinburgh // Journey to OSPO + Open Source AI
Start: 2023-10-05T17:30:00+01:00
End: 2023-10-05T20:00:00+01:00
Location: 69 Morrison St

[Register your place](https://eur.cvent.me/vdz0o) for Open Source Edinburgh on 05 October at Lloyds Banking Group's Port Hamilton building (the old Scottish Widows building). The event is taking place as part of the Scottish Fintech Festival and we hugely appreciate Lloyds's hospitality in hosting us.

The night will start with Lloyds OPSO's Technical Delivery Manager, **Praveen Kanwal** and Technical Lead, **Daniele Casal**, giving a fascinating talk on the group's journey to setting up an Open Source Programme Office, *Our Journey Building an Open Source Programme Office (a 2-Year Retrospective).*

You'll discover how Lloyds went from embracing open source to thriving in the world of collaboration, innovation, and community engagement, as well as the key challenges and milestones they encountered to get to that point.

To follow will be Scott Logic's Open Source AI sessions, where CTO, **Colin Eberhardt** will give a brief talk on the foundational concepts and what's new with Generative AI, before an overview of Scott Logic's R&D projects in LLM powered applications both internally and in Financial Services.

Software Developer, **Heather Logan** and Associate Developer, **Doro Hinrichs**, will then explore the security risks to LLMs, demonstrating their own web app which provides a sandbox for experimenting with prompt injection attacks and mitigations.

Audience Q&A's will follow both Lloyds and Scott Logic sessions.

The agenda is as follows:

* **5:30pm - Doors open**
* **6:00pm - Talks begin**
* **7:15pm - Talks end**
* **8:00pm - Doors close**
* **8:00pm - 10pm - Area booked at Malone's Pub for drinks and networking, 242 Morrison Street**

Our resident hosts: The Scott Logic team, alongside **James McLeod**, Director of Community at FINOS, will provide updates on the latest happenings in the open source community.

You are also invited to join the speakers, organisers, and fellow meetup members for after-event drinks from 8pm onwards at [Malones pub](https://malonesedinburgh.com/), 242 Morrison Street, where we can carry on the conversation after these fascinating talks.

**Please note:** To satisfy Lloyd's security processes and to gain access to the event, you must [register using this link](https://eur.cvent.me/vdz0o) and bring photo ID. Only those who are registered in advance will be able to gain access.

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If you are interested in presenting, please contact Claire Cocks ([marketing@teams.scottlogic.com](http://mailto:marketing@teams.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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Parveen Kanwal is a Technical Delivery Manager working within the Open Source Program Office at Lloyds Banking Group. With a wealth of experience in operational risk management, digital transformation and machine learning, Parveen uses this experience to foster collaboration, harness technology and navigate the ever-evolving landscape of digital transformation.

Daniele is a Technical Lead at Lloyds Banking Group's OSPO, where he specializes in guiding engineers through open source intricacies, enabling secure contributions, and shaping the future of open source initiatives within the bank.






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