How does open, collaborative software development work in an industry known for secrecy and burdensome regulation? Peter Monks, VP of Technology at Symphony Software Foundation, highlights how we can bring these communities together, as presented at All Things Open 2017.
Earlier this month, the Symphony Software Foundation conducted its first public hackathon of the year, in conjunction with Deutsche Bank Labs, Silicon Valley. As our first hackathon outside the major financial hubs of London and New York, I saw it as an opportunity to attract new types of participants and this was a great success - many of the participants had not previously used or heard of Symphony, and many of them did not come from a financial services or fintech background.
