--- title: "This Week At FINOS: Week Of March 17, 2025" description: Here's what's happening this week in the FINOS community. Please forward this newsletter 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. --- [This Week At FINOS](https://www.finos.org/this-week-at-finos) # [This Week At FINOS: Week Of March 17, 2025](https://www.finos.org/this-week-at-finos/week-of-march-17-2025) Written by [FINOS Team](https://www.finos.org/this-week-at-finos/author/finos-team) | Mar 17, 2025 10:55:00 AM Here's what's happening this week within the FINOS Community:   [**Big FDC3 News is coming! Join the FDC3 General Meeting tomorrow, March 18, to find out more**](https://calendar.finos.org/signup/?eventId=6stt9c3m0r4boisrb6tjt4q0v7_20250318T140000Z&title=FDC3%20General%20Meeting) [**Join our Open Source in Finance Webinar on Wednesday, March 19, with Hedera to explore Web3 data for enterprises  **](https://zoom.us/webinar/register/3317231266412/WN_kDtMLTZEQCeTLhrNgWV29Q) [**Connect with fellow FINOS members and invited guests in San Jose on Wednesday, March 19, for an exclusive FSI AI meetup - express your interest here!**](https://www.finos.org/hosted-events/2025-03-19-financial-services-ai-meet-up-at-gtc) [**Read our latest thought leadership piece from Carmen Recio, Director of Quantum Computing at Moody's, on what recent announcements from Google, Microsoft, and AWS really mean**](https://www.finos.org/blog/decoding-quantum-hype-what-google-microsoft-aws-are-really-announcing) ### [OSFF LONDON SCHOLARSHIP - APPLY BEFORE MARCH 23](https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-finance-forum-london/attend/scholarships/#scholarships) Time is running out! We're offering scholarships to support individuals who may not otherwise be able to attend the [**Open Source in Finance Forum (OSFF) London**](https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-finance-forum-london/) on June 24. This program provides financial assistance to students, early-career professionals, and those from underrepresented backgrounds in open source and finance. [**Apply now before the deadline on March 23**](https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-finance-forum-london/attend/scholarships/#scholarships) ### [WEEK OF 17 March - MEETINGS](https://calendar.finos.org/) Here's what's happening during this week in the FINOS community,[**visit the calendar here**](https://www.finos.org/calendar)for meeting links: [**Tuesday,**](https://calendar.finos.org/)[**March 18**](https://www.finos.org/calendar) - 10am ET / 2pm GMT - CDM Contribution Review Working Group - 10am ET / 2pm GMT - FDC3 General Meeting - 11am ET / 3pm GMT - AI Readiness SIG [**Wednesday,**](https://calendar.finos.org/)[**March 19**](https://www.finos.org/calendar) - 10:30am GMT - Spring Bot Project Meeting - 9am ET / 1pm GMT - Open Source Readiness SIG - Checkpoint Session - 12pm ET / 4pm GMT - FINOS Technical Oversight Committee Public Meeting [**Thursday, March 20**](https://www.finos.org/calendar) - 10:30am ET / 2:30pm GMT - Architecture as Code Office Hours - 11am ET / 3pm GMT - FDC3 Web Browsers Discussion group - 11am ET / 3pm GMT - FINOS Morphir Project Meeting - 11am ET / 3pm GMT - CCC - Working Group: Security - 11:30am ET / 3:30pm GMT - CCC - Working Group: Delivery - 12pm ET / 4pm GMT - CCC - Working Group: Communications / All Hands - 12pm ET / 4pm GMT - FINOS DevOps Automation - Special Interest Group - 12pm ET / 4pm GMT - FINOS LLM Exploration Weekly Call [**Friday, March 21**](https://www.finos.org/calendar) - 9:15am ET / 2:15pm GMT - A11y Theme Builder Project Meeting - 11am ET / 3pm GMT - FINOS Community Onboarding & Office Hours [**Visit the FINOS Calendar to stay informed of the most recent updates and calendar invitations.**](https://calendar.finos.org/) ### Upcoming EVENTS   [**GTC AI CONFERENCE**](https://www.nvidia.com/gtc/) **March 17th - 21st (San Jose):** Join FINOS Member Nvidia in San Jose along with thousands of developers, innovators, and business leaders to experience how AI and accelerated computing are helping humanity solve our most complex challenges. [**Registration and session catalog here**](https://www.nvidia.com/gtc/) [FINOS AI MEETUP AT GTC](https://www.finos.org/hosted-events/2025-03-19-financial-services-ai-meet-up-at-gtc) **March 19th (San Jose): Time & Venue TBC:** We are excited to engage with members and FS AI leaders for an impromptu FSI AI Meet-Up with Gab and Rimma on the evening of March 19th in San Jose parallel to Nvidia’s GTC event. [**Sign up here to express your interest**](https://www.finos.org/hosted-events/2025-03-19-financial-services-ai-meet-up-at-gtc) - details to follow [**OPEN SOURCE IN FINANCE WEBINAR SERIES: HEDERA DECENTRALIZED PUBLIC DLTS & WEB3 DATA**](https://zoom.us/webinar/register/3317231266412/WN_kDtMLTZEQCeTLhrNgWV29Q) **March 19th (Virtual):** Join us for an exclusive webinar featuring FINOS member Hedera exploring why now is the perfect time for large organizations to embrace public open-source DLTs and the intersection of Web3 data & AI. [**Zoom registration**](https://zoom.us/webinar/register/3317231266412/WN_kDtMLTZEQCeTLhrNgWV29Q) [**FINANCIAL SERVICES HACKATHON FOR AUTISM**](https://forms.office.com/r/vStPG3iVmV) **April 2nd - 3rd (NYC, London & Virtual):** Bringing financial services developers together to demonstrate how innovative Microsoft technologies can transform autism services for profound autism by tackling real world use cases provided by families and creating lasting open-source projects for the community. [**Registration form and use case details here**](https://forms.office.com/r/vStPG3iVmV) [**WEBINAR: INTRODUCTION TO AERON OPEN SOURCE TECHNOLOGY - KEY COMPONENTS & ARCHITECTURE OPTIONS - ADAPTIVE**](https://weareadaptive.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_pA5_7JaHSxKELOQqae_xqg#/registration) **April 10th (Virtual):** Attend FINOS Member Adaptive's 30-minute webinar to discover the Aeron open source technology and how it enhances trading systems with low-latency messaging, fault-tolerant clustering, and high-throughput capabilities.  [**Webinar registration here**](https://weareadaptive.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_pA5_7JaHSxKELOQqae_xqg#/registration) [**OPEN SOURCE IN FINANCE WEBINAR SERIES: TURNTABL**](https://zoom.us/webinar/register/3317231266412/WN_iTOYr-icQYy1YdHYuGC7sg) **April 23rd (Virtual):** Join us for an exclusive webinar  featuring FINOS member, turntabl. Stay tuned for the agenda! [**Zoom registration here**](https://zoom.us/webinar/register/3317231266412/WN_iTOYr-icQYy1YdHYuGC7sg) [**AERON COMMUNITY MEETUPS - ADAPTIVE**](https://hub.aeron.io/aeron-community-meetup-2025) **June 4th (New York) & June 25th (London):** Join FINOS Member Adaptive's Aeron Community MeetUps for the latest updates on low-latency messaging and fault-tolerant trading technology incl. guest speakers, use case presentations, technical deep dives, Q&A sessions and networking. [**Registration details here**](https://hub.aeron.io/aeron-community-meetup-2025) [**XT25 FINTECH CONFERENCE - JUXT**](https://www.juxt.pro/xt25/) **June 12th (London):** Engineering Leaders from global banks, fintech companies and hedge funds are meeting in London organised by FINOS Member JUXT to explore how groundbreaking technology concepts, tools and solutions are shaping the future of financial services. [**Request an invite**](https://www.juxt.pro/xt25/) [**OPEN SOURCE IN FINANCE FORUM (OSFF) LONDON**](https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-finance-forum-london/) **June 24th (London):** Join us at our premier event connecting the leaders in financial services, technology, and open-source innovation – a unique combination of business decision-makers and developers at one conference. 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. [**Register here**](https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-finance-forum-london/register/)and [**Submit a talk here**](https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-finance-forum-london/program/cfp) **GLOBAL DIGITAL COLLABORATION CONFERENCE (SAVE THE DATE)** **July 1-2 (Geneva):** Announcing the first Global Developer Conference of AAMVA, Austroads, Confidential Computing Consortium, DC4EU, DCC, DIF, Fido Alliance, FINOS, Global Platform, IEC, ISO, ITU, MOSIP, NOBID, OpenID Foundation, OpenWallet Foundation, Potential, Sprind, UN/CEFACT, UNICC, W3C, WHO and World Bank.  July 1-2, 2025 at the CICG Geneva. Save the date. We will share details next month.  Have a great week and please contact [**marketing@finos.org**](mailto:marketing@finos.org) if you have any questions or you would like to take part in any marketing related activities. 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