Welcome to your weekly FINOS briefing. In this week’s update: TOC Elections are closing in one week and preview five recently announced OSFF London keynotes.
✅ Elections closing 1 week: FINOS Technical Oversight Committee (TOC)
Are you an active contributor to a FINOS project or an employee of a FINOS member organization? Nominate yourself for the technical governing body of FINOS. They work in close collaboration with the FINOS team and the Governing Board to provide technical oversight for the projects in the FINOS portfolio. Candidacy Closes: June 15
🇬🇧 OSFF London Keynotes Preview
June 25 | London
AI and the Linux Kernel | Greg Kroah-Hartman, Fellow, The Linux Foundation
From Innovation to Industry Adoption: Fluxnova in Financial Services | Craig Kitching, Head of the Digital Automation Platform, Fidelity Investments
Unifying the Industry, Unleashing the Organization: Open Source Collaboration for Accelerated AI Innovation in Financial Services | Greig Cowan, Head of AI & Data Science Innovation, NatWest Group
Transforming Financial Regulation with Open Source and AI | Michael Hsu, Advisor, Researcher, Former Acting Comptroller of the Currency
Closing Remarks | Bhupesh Vora, Chair, FINOS Governing Board & Head of Capital Markets Quant and Technology Europe, RBC Capital Markets
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🇬🇧 OSFF London Hands-On Workshops Announced!
June 23-24 | London
The Open Source in Finance Forum (OSFF) London is rapidly approaching, and we are thrilled to unveil our official lineup of deeply technical, hands-on workshops taking place on June 23 and 24.
This year, we are moving beyond high-level theory. These exclusive, interactive sessions are designed to give practitioners, developers, and architects direct experience with the fastest-growing projects in the FINOS ecosystem. Whether you are looking to automate your cloud compliance, master Architecture as Code, or shape the future of the interoperable financial desktop, you will be collaborating on industry standards alongside the core maintainers.
Upcoming OSFF London Workshops:
- FINOS CALM Hands-On Workshop: Architecture as Code — June 23
- FDC3Con Workshop — June 23
- Open SDLC Controls Framework for Financial Services Workshop — June 24
- Building 5-Spot: Spot Scheduling for Regulated Kubernetes on CAPI — June 23 or 24
- FINOS Common Cloud Controls (CCC) Workshop — June 23 or 24
- Defining the Roadmap for Tokenized Assets in the CDM — June 23 or 24
WEEK OF 8 JUNE - MEETINGS
Here's what's happening during this week in the FINOS community, visit the calendar here for meeting links:
Monday, June 8
- 08:00 AM NYC / 01:00 PM UK - Waltz Project Meeting - Sign Up
- 09:00 AM NYC / 02:00 PM UK - FDC3 Sail Project Meeting - Sign Up
- 09:00 AM NYC / 02:00 PM UK - Labs - CyberThirdEye - Sign Up
- 09:30 AM NYC / 02:30 PM UK - KDB Project Meeting - Sign Up
- 10:00 AM NYC / 03:00 PM UK - SDLC Governance Framework Working Group Meeting - Dev Ops Automation - Sign Up
Tuesday, June 9
- 10:00 AM NYC / 03:00 PM UK - CDM Contribution Review Working Group - Sign Up
- 11:00 AM NYC / 04:00 PM UK - AI Readiness SIG - Sign Up
- 11:00 AM NYC / 04:00 PM UK - CDM Steering Working Group - Sign Up
- 11:00 AM NYC / 04:00 PM UK - Fluxnova - AI Working Group Meeting - Sign Up
- 08:30 PM NYC / 01:30 AM UK - Open Financial LLM Leaderboard (OFLL) Working Session - Sign Up
Wednesday, June 10
- 05:30 AM NYC / 10:30 AM UK - Spring Bot Project Meeting - Sign Up
- 09:00 AM NYC / 02:00 PM UK - CDM Physical Risk Working Group - Sign Up
- 11:00 AM NYC / 04:00 PM UK - Physical Risk and Resilience - Sign Up
Thursday, June 11
- 06:00 AM NYC / 11:00 AM UK - CCC- Working Group: Compliant Financial Infrastructure (EU/APAC) - Sign Up
- 09:00 AM NYC / 02:00 PM UK - CDM Technology Architecture Working Group - Sign Up
- 10:00 AM NYC / 03:00 PM UK - AI Reference Architecture Library weekly working session - Sign Up
- 10:00 AM NYC / 03:00 PM UK - FDC3 Identity & Security Working Group - Sign Up
- 10:00 AM NYC / 03:00 PM UK - FINOS Morphir Project Meeting - Sign Up
- 10:00 AM NYC / 03:00 PM UK - Zenith - Emerging Technologies SIG - Sign Up
- 10:30 AM NYC / 03:30 PM UK - Architecture as Code Office Hours - Sign Up
- 11:30 AM NYC / 04:30 PM UK - CCC - Working Group: Website Improvement - Sign Up
- 12:00 PM NYC / 05:00 PM UK - CCC - Working Group: Communications / All Hands - Sign Up
Friday, June 12
- 08:00 AM NYC / 01:00 PM UK - Trader X Project Meeting - Sign Up
- 09:00 AM NYC / 02:00 PM UK - InnerSource SIG - Sign Up
- 09:15 AM NYC / 02:15 PM UK - A11y Theme Builder Project Meeting - Sign Up
- 10:00 AM NYC / 03:00 PM UK - Data Commons - Sign Up
- 10:00 AM NYC / 03:00 PM UK - OpenGris Project Meeting - Sign Up
Visit the FINOS Calendar to stay informed of the most recent updates and calendar invitations.
FINOS EVENTS
🎫 FINOS AI Governance Framework (GF) Training Workshop
June 24 | London & Virtual
AI Governance is no longer a theoretical exercise - it’s the prerequisite for safe, compliant production. As regulators like the FCA and the EU AI Act set higher bars for transparency, financial institutions need a practical standard for identifying and mitigating AI risk. Our AIGF Leader Training on 24 June provides exactly that: a blueprint for moving AI programs from the lab to the audit-ready stack.
➡️ Attend in London (in person highly recommended)
🇬🇧 OSFF London: Schedule live!
June 25 | London
OSFF is the premier event that connects the leaders in financial services, technology, and open-source innovation. This conference is uniquely designed to foster partnerships, advance talent development and accelerate technological advancements across the finance industry; building faster, trusted and secure solutions.
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🗽 OSFF New York
November 4-5 | NYC
As open source becomes integral to financial services, OSFF provides companies with a unique venue to maximize open source ROI. By strategically contributing to open projects, organizations benefit from reduced development costs, heightened security, access to top talent, and overall faster innovation. OSFF 2026 will spotlight groundbreaking advancements, deliver insights on best practices, and offer exclusive access to the leaders shaping open source in finance.
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Community EVENTS
2026 FSI Autism Hackathon Community MeetUp New York
May 27-28 | New York + Virtual
Join FINOS Ambassador and TOC Chair Peter Smulovics at the Annual Hybrid Hackathon dedicated to transforming autism treatment!
Gitlab Transcend
June 10 | London + Virtual
Attend FINOS Member Gitlab's flagship event Gitlab Transcend in-person in London or virtually for their latest innovations designed to make agentic AI for software engineering faster, smarter, and more cost effective at scale.
Have a great week and please contact marketing@finos.org if you have any questions or you would like to take part in any marketing related activities.
Kind regards,
FINOS Team
