Building Cloud Native Culture in a Bank: With Open Source as a... Marcy Paramonova & Stéphane Cusin

This talk explores how financial institutions can develop a truly cloud-native platform by leveraging open source technologies. The speakers, Marcy Paramonova from The Pictet Group and Stéphane Cusin from Banque Pictet & Cie SA, share the experience of an engineering team that created a Kubernetes platform capable of seamless migration across data centers and various virtualization technologies while maintaining a consistent user experience. They discuss the progressive adoption of open-source technologies, starting from Apache Tomcat middleware to Kubernetes integration and open-source virtualization, emphasizing the importance of standardization, flexibility, and transparency in building resilient infrastructure. This session aims to provide insights on how organizations can implement these principles to foster freedom, scalability, and sustainable innovation.