An Innovative Approach to Giving Back to Open Source Projects That Power Your Business

Explore an innovative approach to supporting open source projects crucial to business operations in this 43-minute conference talk from All Things Open 2023. Discover how Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) adopted open source tooling and found a unique way to give back substantially. Learn about RBC's goal to democratize access to technology across their business, particularly in enabling investment professionals to leverage Python and Jupyter notebooks. Understand the challenges companies face in contributing to open source projects and how RBC overcame them by partnering with Major League Hacking (MLH). Gain insights into the benefits of outsourcing open source contributions, including technical impact, fostering the next generation of contributors, and creating a talent pipeline. Presented by Matt Dalrymple from RBC and Max Mizzi from MLH, this talk offers valuable lessons for companies looking to support the open source ecosystem that powers their business.