Open FinTech Forum 2018: Full Schedule

October 10-11 | New York, New York
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11:30am EDT

Software's Community - Dave Zolotusky, Spotify

We talk about community software and about how companies are adopting it and using it, but we often ignore the community around that software in those conversations. As Spotify has ramped up its use of Kubernetes and other cloud native software, we have also been working on involving ourselves more in the community around that software. Dave will talk about how Spotify is changing its approach and culture around infrastructure to be more open and to be more involved in the infrastructure software community.

Speakers

Dave Zolotusky

Principal Engineer, Spotify

Dave Zolotusky is a principal engineer on Spotify's Platform team, based in Boston. His focus has been core infrastructure, the data platform, and Spotify’s use of cloud services. A noted evangelist for cloud native and open source technologies, Dave spurred Spotify to join the... Read More →

Thursday October 11, 2018 11:30am - 12:00pm EDT
Toronto A

Cloud Native & Kubernetes

11:30am EDT

Panel Discussion: How to Get to Zero Trust with Open Source - Moderated by Ken Owens, Mastercard

As organizations incrementally shift development from monolithic applications to distributed microservices, security challenges arise. Adopting a “zero trust” model - where you no longer trust anything inside or outside a perimeter to ensure secure connections - is the key to minimizing your risk. This panel will cover how organizations are using open source software tools around identity based access management (SPIFFE, Envoy/LinkerdD, OPA etc.) to get to “zero trust” models.

Speakers

Ian Haken

Staff Security Software Engineer, Netflix

Ian Haken is a staff security software engineer at Netflix where has been working since 2016. His work includes development of tools and services that defend the Netflix platform such as the implementation of authentication and authorization solutions, access control management platforms... Read More →

Andrew Jessup

Recovering Engineer, Scytale

I'm head of product at Scytale, where we're redefining Privileged Access Management for a multi-cloud, micro-services driven world. A significant part of that vision is working to drive the SPIFFE and SPIRE projects to help organisations securely connect un-trusted systems.

Wendy Nather

Director of Advisory CISOs, Duo Security

Wendy Nather is Director of Advisory CISOs at Duo Security. She was previously the Research Director at the Retail ISAC, as well as Research Director of the Information Security Practice at independent analyst firm 451 Research. Wendy led IT security for the EMEA region of the investment... Read More →

Ken Owens

Vice President Cloud Native Engineering, Mastercard

Ken Owens is Vice President, Cloud Native Engineering at Mastercard. Ken is a technical executive with 20+ years’ experience in architecture, analysis, design, research, and implementation of cloud native patterns, data center and cloud computing infrastructures consisting of SOA... Read More →

Louis Ryan

Principle Engineer, Google

Louis Ryan is a Principal Engineer at Google working on APIs and microservices. Prior to working on Istio he co-authored the GRPC spec and ran the infrastructure that supports Googles consumer facing APIs.

Torin Sandall

VP of Open Source, Styra

Torin Sandall is a co-founder of the Open Policy Agent (OPA) project. Torin has spent 10 years as a software engineer working on large-scale distributed systems projects. Torin is a frequent speaker at events like KubeCon, DockerCon, Velocity, and more. Prior to working on OPA, Torin... Read More →

Thursday October 11, 2018 11:30am - 12:35pm EDT
Auditorium C

Cloud Native & Kubernetes

Experience Level Intermediate

12:05pm EDT

A DevOps State of Mind: Continuous Security with Kubernetes - Chris Van Tuin, Red Hat

With the rise of DevOps, containers are at the brink of becoming a pervasive technology in Enterprise IT to accelerate application delivery for the business. When it comes to adopting containers in the enterprise, Security is the highest adoption barrier. Is your organization ready to address the security risks with containers for your DevOps environment? In this presentation, you'll learn about:

- Best practices for addressing the top container security risks in a container environment including images, builds, registry, deployment, hosts, network, storage, APIs, monitoring & logging, and federation.
- Automating and integrating security vulnerability management & compliance checking for container images in a DevOps CI/CD pipeline
- Deployment strategies for deploying container security updates including recreate, rolling, blue/green, canary and a/b testing.

Speakers

Chris Van Tuin

Chief Technologist, NA West, Red Hat

Chris Van Tuin, Chief Technologist, NA West at Red Hat, has over 20 years of experience in IT and Software. Since joining Red Hat in 2005, Chris has been architecting solutions for strategic customers and partners and is a frequent speaker on DevOps, Security, and Containers. He started... Read More →

Thursday October 11, 2018 12:05pm - 12:35pm EDT
Toronto A

Cloud Native & Kubernetes

Experience Level Intermediate

1:40pm EDT

Implementing SaaS on Kubernetes - Michael Knapp & Andrew Gao, Capital One

Let's say you have multiple tech teams that need to run isolated custom applications on a Kubernetes cluster, but few of them have any experience creating and administrating a Kubernetes cluster. It helps to have a Kubernetes platform team that provides SaaS solutions to tenants on their cluster in order to address and support these needs. The tenants need to be isolated from each other, and constrained in their resources. They must not have direct access to Kubernetes, and in fact don't even need to know that Kubernetes is hosting their applications! This poses several tech challenges. In this presentation Michael explains how Capital One is enabling tenants of their Kubernetes cluster to control their applications by providing them with SaaS solutions. He will discuss how to develop custom Kubernetes controllers, custom APIs for tenants, and the CLI that interacts with them.

Speakers

Andrew Gao

Software Engineer, Capital One

Andrew is a Software Engineer with a focus in the real-time fraud decisioning space. Most recently Andrew has been working with his team to create a multi-tenant Kubernetes-based platform to handle all the fraud models for Capital One Bank. Outside of work Andrew is passionate about... Read More →

Michael Knapp

Senior Software Engineer, Capital One

Thursday October 11, 2018 1:40pm - 2:10pm EDT
Toronto A

Cloud Native & Kubernetes

Experience Level Advanced

1:40pm EDT

Panel Discussion: The Resurgence of Mainframe in Modern Industry: insights from Key Executives on the Futures of this Cornerstone Technology - Moderated by Len Santalucia, Vicom Infinity

The modern mainframe is touted as the core of trusted digital experiences and operates in some of the largest and most demanding computing environments in the world. From the days of the System/360 in the mid 1960’s through to the modern mainframe of the z14 the systems have been designed along four guiding principles of security, availability, performance and scalability. From banking, to retail, to healthcare, The modern mainframe is a platform for mission critical apps and blockchain – where fast data access, transactional scale, and the highest level of trust are required.

In this panel session, you'll hear perspectives of key executives in the mainframe space on the current and future of the mainframe, as well as how open source technology is driving growth and cementing mainframe as a sustainable infrastructure choice for decades to come.

Speakers

Alan Clark

Office of the CTO, Emerging Technologies, SUSE

Alan Clark, a member of the SUSE CTO Office, is an experienced industry, corporate leader, open source advocate and strategy adviser for new industry initiatives and open source. He helps foster the creation, growth, awareness and adoption of open source and open standards as an industry... Read More →

Calista Redmond

Vice President, IBM Z Ecosystem, IBM

Calista is Vice President of IBM Z Ecosystem at IBM, leading strategic relationships across software vendors, system integrators, business partners, developer communities, and broader engagement across the industry. Focus areas include execution of commercialization strategies, technical... Read More →

Len Santalucia

CTO, Vicom Infinity

Len Santalucia has been in the IT industry since 1973. He is presently the Chief Technology Officer and the Business Development Manager for Vicom Infinity, Inc, the Chairperson for the Linux Foundation Open Mainframe Project, a member of the IBM Z Academic Initiative advocate leadership... Read More →

Andy Youniss

President & CEO, Rocket Software

Andy Youniss co-founded Rocket Software in 1990 and continues to be the company's main driving force. Andy successfully established and actively manages Rocket's largest OEM partnerships and is guiding the company's growth through technology investments, acquisitions, new product... Read More →

Thursday October 11, 2018 1:40pm - 2:45pm EDT
Auditorium C

Cloud Native & Kubernetes

Experience Level Any

2:15pm EDT

Building a Banking Platform on Open Source & Containers to Achieve a Cloud Native Platform - Jason Poley, Barclays

Building a Banking Platform on Open Source & Containers to achieve a cloud native platform. Our journey toward the public cloud hinges upon key open source technologies

Speakers

Jason

Distinguished Engineer / Cloud Architect, Barclays

Jason Poley is a Distinguished Engineer in Group CTO Office @ Barclays. A Passionate Technologist working in the financial services space since 2002 and at Barclays since 2015.Specializes in Cloud Native, Containers and DevSecOps. Avid football fan and Liverpool supporter... Read More →

Thursday October 11, 2018 2:15pm - 2:45pm EDT
Toronto A

Cloud Native & Kubernetes

2:50pm EDT

Building a Fintech Startup on Cloud Native Technology - Kasper Nissen & Thomas Bogh Fangel, Lunar Way

At Lunar Way we strongly believe in Cloud Native technology as a differentiator when challenging the established. Infrastructure technologies such as Kubernetes let us move fast. In this talk, Kasper and Thomas will describe how we build our tech at Lunar Way, a fintech banking solution in Scandinavia, with open source and Cloud Native technologies as its core. Lunar Way has been running Kubernetes in production for 1.5 years. On top of Kubernetes we run a rich microservice architecture based on reactive and asynchronous patterns. Kasper and Thomas will take you on a journey on how it is to build a fintech company on these values, both the good and the bad.

Speakers

Thomas Bøgh Fangel

Senior Software Architect, Lunar Way

Thomas holds a Master degree in mathematics and has been working in IT industry for 10+ years implementing distributed systems in Java, Scala, Node and Go. Thomas has been working at Lunar Way since June 2016. Thomas enjoys sharing his and Lunar Way’s experiences being a frontrunner... Read More →

Kasper Borg Nissen

Lead Platform Architect, Lunar

Kasper is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation Ambassador, and co-founder of the Nordic meetup alliance, Cloud Native Nordics, where he serves as Community Lead. He works as Lead Platform Architect at Lunar. He has worked at Lunar for 6 years, and is one of the architects behind the... Read More →

Thursday October 11, 2018 2:50pm - 3:20pm EDT
Auditorium C

Cloud Native & Kubernetes

Experience Level Beginner

2:50pm EDT

Practical Lessons from Thee Years Leading an Innovation Lab: Building Cloud Native Financial Micro-services with Kubernetes - Elton de Souza & Kavita Sehgal, IBM

With constant competition for the next big innovative service, development agility and time-to-market are key metrics that define a modern financial instructions success. While regular product teams focus on delivering tactical solutions, a new type of team has emerged - “The Innovation Lab”, that focuses on strategic solutions that differentiate the institution from the rest. The presenter will distill best practices from 3 years of experience running Innovation Labs and will dive into use-cases in the financial industry involving:

1. modernizing monolithic code to container based micro services
2. extending existing Core Banking with Kubernetes based scalable and resilient banking micro-services.
3. using high throughput, low latency OSS databases, and analytics to build fraud detection systems in the financial sector
Special focus will be given to security.

Speakers

Kavita Sehgal

Offering Manager, IBM Cloud Private on z, IBM

Elton de Souza

Chief Architect, Innovation Lab, IBM

Elton de Souza leads two Innovation Labs at IBM that focus on implementing open source based technology in the financial, insurance, retail, federal and automotive industries. His team works on app servers, message queues, analytics, blockchain and database workloads on an enterprise-grade... Read More →

Thursday October 11, 2018 2:50pm - 3:20pm EDT
Toronto A

Cloud Native & Kubernetes

3:50pm EDT

An Open Source Approach to Paying Off the Infrastructure Technical Debt Blocking the Path to Cloud - Evan Bauer, OpStack

For many organizations, the drag of legacy infrastructure and operational technical debt consumes the resources needed to make the jump to the cloud and cloud-native technologies. In this session, we will look at a proven open approach to paying off that technical debt while creating the operational and technical underpinnings to securely and cost-effectively add cloud and cloud-native capabilities to your technology portfolio.

Speakers

Evan Bauer

CEO, OpStack

Evan Bauer is the founder and CEO of OpStack. He has extensive experience in the architecture, design, development, and operation of effective, performant, secure, and compliant mission-critical systems. Most recently, Evan served as Executive Director and Group Head for Technology... Read More →

Thursday October 11, 2018 3:50pm - 4:20pm EDT
Auditorium C

Cloud Native & Kubernetes

3:50pm EDT

Moov ACH: A Cloud Native ACH Gateway - Wade Arnold, moov

Fintech companies and financial institutions of all sizes are leveraging open source to provide RESTful ACH (automated clearing house) API services to customers without the complexity of understanding the NACHA file specification. Moov ACH is an open source ACH gateway written in GoLang and run in containers on Kuberentes. Designed as a cloud-native building block for scalable financial applications.

Speakers

Wade Arnold

Technical Evangalist, moov

Currently focused on moving the boundaries of banking. Financial institutions and fintechs are still trying to address their growing digital-only customer segments in traditional ways. The next big step for banking is to build upon open technologies that deliver exactly what a user... Read More →

Thursday October 11, 2018 3:50pm - 4:20pm EDT
Toronto A

Cloud Native & Kubernetes

Experience Level Intermediate

4:25pm EDT

Compliance Automation for Containerized Services - Andre Pitanga, Red Hat

Contaneirization, along with the microservices architecture patterns it facilitates, are bringing greater agility, and scale, than ever before. But securing these Cloud Native services becomes prohibitive without compliance automation built into the different phases of development and release.

This session will provide attendees with relevant and actionable information from the field and point the way towards tools, processes and approaches that are allowing organizations to actually increase compliance for both new and legacy systems.

Speakers

Andre Pitanga

Senior Solutions Architect, Red Hat

Andre collaborated with and delivered projects for some of the world's most technically advanced Financial Service Industry organizations, including many of the largest investment banks. Focused on bringing the benefits of participation in the Open Source ecosystem to highly regulated... Read More →

Thursday October 11, 2018 4:25pm - 4:55pm EDT
Toronto A

Cloud Native & Kubernetes

Experience Level Beginner

4:25pm EDT

Panel Discussion: Real-World Kubernetes Use Cases in Financial Services: Lessons Learned from Capital One, BlackRock and Bloomberg - Moderated by Ron Miller, TechCrunch

This panel, moderated by veteran technology reporter Ron Miller of TechCrunch, will feature real-world success stories from Capital One, BlackRock and Bloomberg, which have implemented containers, Kubernetes and other cloud native technologies. Senior IT leaders from each of these organizations will discuss:

- Their innovative approaches to using Kubernetes, and the business benefits they have experienced.
- Insights into their company's IT environment and cloud native implementations.
- The open source technologies that have impacted their businesses, and how other companies can adopt similar strategies to drive innovation across the industry.

This interactive discussion and Q&A will provide a unique opportunity to learn valuable lessons from the successes of some of today’s most established financial services businesses using cutting-edge cloud and open source technologies.

Speakers

Steven Bower

Data and Analytics Infrastructure Lead, Bloomberg

Over my years working with computers/software I have had time to absorb many different aspects of the industry. From doing routine hardware maintenance and support to developing large-scale search systems and everything else in between. I find search and information retrieval problems... Read More →

Michael Francis

Managing Director, BlackRock

Michael is the Managing Director and Head of Core Data within BlackRock’s Aladdin Product Group. The Core Data Team works across the firm to ensure a highly integrated data and tools strategy helping BlackRock lead the industry in using data and technology to drive decision making... Read More →

Cheryl Hung

Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm

Cheryl brings engineers together to build the future of infrastructure, especially cloud native and open source.As Senior Director at Arm, Cheryl leads ecosystem strategy to drive adoption across cloud, 5G and networking. She also founded the Cloud Native London meetup with 8000... Read More →

Ron Miller

Enterprise reporter, TechCrunch

Moderator: Ron Miller is enterprise reporter at TechCrunch. He has been a Freelance Technology Journalist since 1998. In addition, he is Contributing Editor at EContent Magazine where he writes the Media Redux column and is a regular contributor at Digital Content Next. He helped... Read More →

Jeffrey Odom

Senior Manager, Software Engineering, Capital One

Jeffrey leads the Decisioning and Machine Learning platform within Capital One's Retail and Direct Banking line of business. He and his team enable data scientists, fraud analysts, and other groups requiring decisioning at scale across a wide variety of workloads and technologies... Read More →

Thursday October 11, 2018 4:25pm - 5:30pm EDT
Auditorium C

Cloud Native & Kubernetes

Experience Level Intermediate

5:00pm EDT

Kubernetes Production Patterns: Keeping Hundreds of Clusters Compliant and Indestructible - Ev Kontsevoy & Abraham Ingersoll, Gravitational Inc

Ev Kontsevoy explains how to run complex Kubernetes applications in environments that aren't under the developer's direct control, such as 3rd party cloud accounts, scary basements ruled by ruthless InfoSec teams or even air-gapped environments (!) like isolated server rooms, cruise ships, oil rigs and other environments hostile to the traditional DevOps model.

If you need the same simple deployment and operational model for your application(s) regardless of either they run on your company's AWS account or in the basement of Federal Reserve, this talk is for you.

Covered topics include remote access, single-file snapshot-based cluster deployments, in-place upgrades, ensuring compliance and making clusters autonomous and maintenance-free as possible.

Speakers

Abraham Ingersoll

VP of Solutions Engineering, Gravitational

Abe helped build and rebuild (and rebuild again) distributed clusters of pristine virtue and glorious complexity at companies such as Ticketmaster, Betfair UK (FanDuel) and Tigerlead (Realtor.com) -- systems that have mostly been forgotten or destroyed by entropy. Today, as VP of Solutions Engineering for Gravitational, he leads wayward technology teams across the chasm between procedural scripts and declarative APIs with the open-source ssh+kubectl bastion project called Te... Read More →

Ev Kontsevoy

CEO, Gravitational Inc

Ev was the co-founder and CEO of Mailgun, one of the first email gateway service providers. After a successful acquisition by Rackspace, he joined the cloud product team where he launched "OnMetal" - the bare-metal-via-API offering that eventually became the backbone of OpenStack... Read More →

Thursday October 11, 2018 5:00pm - 5:30pm EDT
Toronto A

Cloud Native & Kubernetes