Here's what's happening in the week of April 6th, 2020 within the FINOS community. Please feel free to forward this email to colleagues and industry partners who you think will be interested in FINOS. If someone forwarded this email to you and you'd like to subscribe, please send a note to community+subscribe@finos.org and you'll be added to the mailing list.  

Monday, April 6th

• 10am ET / 3pm GMT. Kdb Project (Data Technologies Program)
• Calendar invite | Webex | Agenda

Tuesday, April 7th

• No programs activities planned.

Wednesday, April 8th

• 10am ET / 3pm GMT. Open Source Readiness Working Group (FDX Program)
• Calendar invite | Webex | Agenda

• 11am ET / 4pm GMT. FINOS [virtual] Meetup by Tom Schady "7 Unexpected Lessons from 2 Years of our SDK in Banks"
• Register for this virtual meetup here
• GreenKey provides an open-source SDK to empower banks to extend our NLP engine with custom interpreters. Over the last 2 years, we've learned much: we'll share the top 7 most surprising things our startup encountered, how we solved for them, and how you might avoid them altogether.

• 12pm ET / 5pm GMT. Open Developer Project (FDX Program)
• Calendar invite | Webex | Agenda

Thursday, April 9th

• 10am ET / 3pm GMT. FDC3 Context Data & Intents WG meeting (FDC3 Program)
• Calendar invite | Webex | Agenda

• 10am ET / 3pm GMT. Cloud Service Certification Project (FDX Program)
• Calendar invite | Webex | Agenda

Friday, April 10th

• 12pm ET / 5pm GMT. FINOS Office Hours 
• A place for all FINOS members and contributors to hang out and ask us anything
• Join FINOS Office Hours
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FINOS [virtual] Meetups:

Wednesday, April 8th

• 11am ET / 4pm GMT. Tom Schady (GreenKey)
• Topic : 7 Unexpected Lessons from 2 Years of our SDK in Banks
• GreenKey provides an open-source SDK to empower banks to extend our NLP engine with custom interpreters. Over the last 2 years, we've learned much: we'll share the top 7 most surprising things our startup encountered, how we solved for them, and how you might avoid them altogether.

• Register for Tom Schady's "7 Unexpected Lessons from 2 Years of our SDK in Banks" virtual meetup here

Wednesday, April 15th

• 11am ET / 4pm GMT. Petyo Ivanov (Glue42)
  • Topic : From Closed Source to Open Source
  • Open Source removes the traditional communication barriers between the vendor and the consumers, resulting in an experience that cannot be matched by the traditional distribution model. In this talk, Petyo Ivanov, Glue42 Product Manager, will tell the story of how a traditional enterprise software vendor transitioned towards distributing their latest product version as an open source offering. The talk will describe the concerns, the unknowns and the discoveries the company made in this journey.
• Register for Petyo Ivanov's "From Closed Source to Open Source" virtual meetup here

Wednesday, April 29th

• 11am ET / 4pm GMT. Heiko Sundermann (EPAM)
• Topic : EPAM GLUE Project, developing a unified entity and data model for the Buy-Side
• Buy-side firms are under enormous pressure not to miss out on the digitalisation wave. Changing client demands, regulatory pressure and the rapid adoption of structured quantitative investment management approaches are fuelling investment into digitalization and data driven Asset & Wealth Management. Buy-side firms are often held back by legacy infrastructure and inappropriate data storage. Open API architectures provide a route to adopt best of breed solutions and leverage specialized fintech offerings, but the integration costs of these approaches tend to be costly. Traditional Data-Warehousing approaches are also not suited to the performance needed for modern digital and analytical solutions; they struggle to adhere to the stringent regulatory requirements inherent in data-privacy, cross-border and data lineage. EPAM have created an investment management eco-system delivering a comprehensive set of components along the investment management value chain developed by EPAM or by fintech partners. The foundation of this ECO-System is EPAM GLUE which is a unified entity and data model serving as a common semantic layer to all components. EPAM GLUE provides the flexibility to model hierarchical data structures as well as the complex legal entity structure that buy-side firms are facing. Concurrently it addresses the problems of data-security, auditability and privacy which minimises integration costs and implementation risks. EPAM is keen to open-source this approach and contribute it to the FINOS community to develop it further and extend it with more data-entities. This session will give a general introduction and dive into the core modelling concept of EPAM GLUE.
• Registration details to follow

Wednesday, May 6th

• 11am ET / 4pm GMT. Stephen Murphy (Genesis)
• Topic : Open Source Technology to build and constantly evolve a Low Code Application Platform
• Genesis will be presenting how they used a variety of Open Source technologies to build a Low Code Application Platform (LCAP) for Capital Markets and some key Open Source technologies used within their LCAP. They will also talk about some of the future Open Source technologies as well as FINOS initiatives that they are contributing towards to help drive standards and re-use across our industry. These initiatives includes such as Financial Objects and FDC3.
• Registration details to follow

Looking Ahead:

• October 16 Empire Startups NY Fintech Conference
• New World Stages, 340 W 50th St, New York, NY 10019 [Map]

Have a great week and please contact james@finos.org if you'd like to present at a future FINOS virtual meetup.