A Lawyer and an Engineer Walk Into a Bar and Talk Open Source - Ravi Devineni & Shantanu Singh
Channel: The Linux Foundation
Date: 2023-06-01

A Lawyer and an Engineer Walk Into a Bar and Talk Open Source - Ravi Devineni & Shantanu Singh, Northwestern Mutual

Open-source software has become ubiquitous. A recent Gartner survey found that 90% of enterprises used open source and that 96% of codebases included some open-source software. The same survey also found that less than 50% of the companies have a formal open-source management program. There are several security, ethical, legal and compliance implications that create perceived hurdles that also create opportunities for creative collaboration between engineers and lawyers. At Northwestern Mutual, we pushed through the institutional challenges related more to the culture of how things have always worked in the past. This transformation developed through education, collaboration, and critical thinking to modernize how one company changed their perspective on building and using open source technology. Join us – As a lawyer and a technologist come together on stage to break it down and take you through the journey of a 160-year-old Financial Services company into the open-source wilderness.