Open FinTech Forum 2018

You can't do anything in life without touching a mainframe - banking, healthcare, transportation, and retail all use this technology to as the backbone of their IT infrastructure. Mainframe technology has been designed along four guiding principles of security, availability, performance and scalability; it's presence is established in large enterprises and here to stay.

But, it's a often been a challenge to engage the data processed in these machines. Through the Open Mainframe Project, a new project has been launched to make it easier to connect modern applications and languages to this data.

In this talk, we will overview the technology and showcase how you can get involved in the effort.

Building large distributed software is not easy especially when you must support multiple tenants and each have their own workloads to run and SLAs to meet while compute and storage resources are limited and need to be shared. Careful thought must be given to ensure that resource isolation is obtained to help to address contention concerns. While leveraging the right tools and technology is important, it is not a "Silver Bullet". Ensuring that you properly employ the right features to keep your workloads well managed is critical! Please join Paul and Keith from CapitalOne as they share their experience with using the Open Source Kubernetes container orchestration features like Namespaces, Taints, Tolerations, Affinity/Anti-affinity, Autoscaling, Liveness/Readiness probes, and Role Based Access Control in order to run a well managed, multi-tenant, Cloud based, Fraud Decisioning platform.

A survey of existing approaches to Quantum Computing and their usefulness to current issues in the financial industry and an outlook to the future giving an estimate as to when competitive approaches to help solve issue may emerge from this direction of investigation.

As the idea of treating your infrastructure as code (via CI/CD) becomes more and more popular in the networking space, the testing and validation best practices that are present in traditional software development pipelines are often left out of the conversation. The idea of testing your code in a "dev/qa/staging/production" progression that is part of software pipelines, does not have a straightforward 1:1 mapping into network infrastructure pipelines. After discussing these various challenges and reasons for those challenges, Anthony Miloslavsky will dive into the ways you can integrate testing into these pipelines today. Starting from static one-off post change checkouts, to automated reusable post change checkouts, and ending with incorporating network simulation into your pipelines to achieve pre and post change testing.

When we are trying to formalize our organizational strategy around using and participating in open source we may need to dedicate resources. What can be challenging is how we communicate the need and motivation around that commitment. Justin Rackliffe has found a few points that have helped him communicate his value to technical and non-technical partners around the organization.

Compliance - How do we meet our corporate responsibilities based around internal policies and practices with an emphasis on automation and minimal bureaucracy.
Community - How can we work across silos internally and externally to scale our efforts that focus on customer value
Character - How is Fidelity perceived in the open source community and how can we increase our visibility with direct investment in consortia that help make us successful.

The presentation will explain why Two Sigma, a company in a space notorious for protecting IP, thinks it's important to contribute to the open source community. Julia will talk about the evolution of Two Sigma's thinking and policies over the past five years, and make a case for why other companies should make a commitment to the open source ecosystem.

Governance and data privacy have been top-line concerns in 2018, as use of data intensive applications continues to rise. The solution to the evolving data challenge is a tricky one, as regulatory challenges of data management present great "unknowns" of GDPR compliance. Explore the benefits of a vendor-neutral approach to data governance and the need for an open metadata standard.

Attendees will learn how to improve data management capabilities through an open and integrated ecosystem. Explore common standards and tools for managing metadata, compliance, GDPR, data catalogs & governance—with real examples of ING, IBM, Hortonworks, and other companies delivering solutions to this challenge as an open source initiative. Tackle the data governance challenge with metadata, a consistent view across a large heterogeneous ecosystem, and collaboration with ODPi’s active open source community.

How many open source requests do you receive in a year? What are the key checkpoints pre-approval? What is the turnaround time from request date to launch date? And once launched, how do you measure the health of your open source projects? At Comcast, we want to build, grow, and sustain useful software for the community. One of the ways we can do this is by tracking requests and measuring the health of open source projects we release or contribute to. This talk covers the journey from initial open source request to measuring success for open source projects at Comcast, including important stops along the way such as a security checkpoint.