Gabriele Columbro

Panel: New approaches to open source security and resilience from the financial services industry

4:00 PM - 4:50 PM EST

For obvious reasons, the financial services industry has been a leader in embracing new approaches to ensuring the security and resilience of the open source software we all depend on. In this panel we'll learn what a few top experts are doing within their organizations to harden their defenses and invest in the open source they depend on, while sharing advice and strategies that all organizations can take back to inform their own work.

About Gabriele Columbro

Gabriele is an open source leader and technologist at heart, having spent more than 10 years building thriving communities and delivering business value through open source. He thrives in working with open source communities to drive disruptive innovation, whether it’s for an early stage tech startup, a Fortune 500 firm, or a non profit organization.

Gabriele brings a wealth of expertise in executive and technical leadership, ranging from FinTech to enterprise collaboration, and from developer platforms to SaaS ARR business models. Previously Director of Product Management at Alfresco, Gabriele has now built the Symphony Software Foundation from the ground up, with the vision of creating a trusted arena for Wall Street to accelerate digital transformation, engaging in a new model of open source FinTech innovation. Gabriele is a PMC Member for the Apache Software Foundation and an advisor for Bankex.com. Based in San Francisco but originally from Italy, he’s a proud SSC Napoli supporter, a reggae music connoisseur and a South Park groupie.