Open Source London // Apr 2023

We're delighted to be holding our first in-person Open Source London event of 2023 at Nomura, who have kindly offered to host the event!

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IMPORTANT: In order to comply with Nomura's security procedures and gain admittance to the event, it is imperative that:

• you register your place on Eventbrite, providing your full name
• you bring photographic ID to the event

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We're excited to announce three confirmed talks:

// Harnessing the power of open source to achieve industry-wide data standardisation for capital markets //

• Ffion Acland – Executive Director, Data Engineer at Goldman Sachs
• Ian Sloyan – Senior Advisor Data & Digital Solutions at ISDA
• Gabriel Callsen – Director, FinTech and Digitalisation at ICMA
• James McLeod - Director of Community, FINOS

Data is the lifeblood of many industries but it plays a vital role in financial services and particularly in the capital markets world.

As the industry drastically accelerates the pace of open collaboration, join ISDA, ICMA and Goldman Sachs for an exploration of the Common Domain Model and Financial Objects SIG from an open source engineering and business benefits perspective.

James will introduce this joint presentation from ISDA, ICMA and Goldman Sachs, who will take the Open Source London group on a tour of the Common Domain Model whilst exploring the business and engineering benefits of the FSI standardising financial objects by leveraging the CDM through FINOS platforms like Legend, maintained by Goldman Sachs.

// How to Be a Good Corporate Citizen in Open Source //

• Dawn Foster, Director of Open Source Community Strategy within VMware’s OSPO

Collaboration in open source projects is important for companies, but it can be difficult to strike the right balance between the needs of the company and the open source project. This can create friction and put pressure on employees who participate on behalf of their company when the needs of the individual, the company, and the community are not aligned. This talk will focus on ways to create this alignment and help all of us be successful together.

Communities are a critical component of open source projects, and the way that people participate can reflect positively or negatively on the person and organisation that they represent. The majority of work in some projects, like Kubernetes, is done by people working for a wide variety of organisations, and the success of many projects requires participation from these companies.

The talk contains three sections:

• Dynamics of collaboration in open source projects between individuals, companies, and communities.
• Strategies for participating in ways that will benefit your company, your employees, and the community.
• Tips for being a good corporate citizen as you contribute to open source projects.

// We'll also be welcoming a guest from NYC: Nick Kolba, CEO of Connectify, is dropping by to give us an update about FDC3 //

Here's the full agenda:

6:00 – Doors open, food and networking drinks
6:30 – Welcome & intro from Nick Wadge, Global Head of Chief Technology Architects and EMEA CTO at Nomura & Colin Eberhardt, CTO at Scott Logic
6:35 - How to Be a Good Corporate Citizen in Open Source, Dawn Foster, Director of Open Source Community Strategy within VMware’s OSPO
7:00 - FDC3 Update, Nick Kolba, CEO, Connectifi
7:05 – Break
7:15 - Harnessing the power of open source to achieve industry-wide data standardisation for capital markets

• Ffion Acland – Executive Director, Data Engineer at Goldman Sachs
• Ian Sloyan – Senior Advisor Data & Digital Solutions at ISDA
• Gabriel Callsen – Director, FinTech and Digitalisation at ICMA
• James McLeod – Director of Community at FINOS

7:45 – Networking drinks
8:30 – Doors close

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If you are interested in presenting, please contact Claire Cocks ([marketing@teams.scottlogic.com](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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