In this week’s update: explore a new FINOS Labs contribution for portable AI decision records, read about a new Fluxnova ecosystem offering, and listen to a podcast on open data versus open source with Overture Maps CTO Amy Rose.
📢 Portable AI Decision Records: konspekt Contributed to FINOS Labs
As financial institutions rapidly adopt generative AI into their software engineering workflows, maintaining auditability through an open format that prevents vendor lock-in has become a critical governance priority. konspekt is a proposed open standard for a portable, human-readable record of project decisions, open questions, artifacts, and provenance as work evolves across generative-AI tools. Contributed by Denis Urusov.
➡️ Learn More Here & Get Involved
⚙️ Fluxnova Ecosystem: iTmethods & Summit58 Partner on Agentic Governance
iTmethods and Summit58 have partnered to expand enterprise deployment and operational options for Fluxnova, FINOS’ open source workflow orchestration engine. The collaboration combines Summit58 process design with iTmethods’ managed Reign Ops platform to deliver governed, observable execution for agentic workflows enabled in Fluxnova 3.0.
🎧 [Podcast] Open Data vs Open Source: Scaling Spacial Metadata & AI Workflows
Amy Rose (CTO of the Overture Maps Foundation) joins the podcast to explore the structural differences between open-source software and open data. Amy breaks down how Overture—founded by AWS, Meta, Microsoft, and TomTom—builds interoperable global map layers, resolves complex entity definitions across disparate datasets, and why modern agentic AI workflows require record-level metadata rather than dataset-level summaries.
WEEK OF 7 SEPTEMBER - MEETINGS
Here's what's happening during this week in the FINOS community, visit the calendar here for meeting links:
Monday, September 7
- 09:00 AM NYC / 02:00 PM UK - Inclusive Engineering Working group - Sign Up
- 09:00 AM NYC / 02:00 PM UK - InnerSource SIG - Sign Up
- 09:00 AM NYC / 02:00 PM UK - Labs - CyberThirdEye - Sign Up
- 11:00 AM NYC / 04:00 PM UK - Git Proxy Project Meeting - Sign Up
Tuesday, September 8
- 11:00 AM NYC / 04:00 PM UK - CDM Steering Working Group - Sign Up
- 08:30 PM NYC / 01:30 AM UK - Open Financial LLM Leaderboard (OFLL) Working Session - Sign Up
Wednesday, September 9
- 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
- 10:00 AM NYC / 03:00 PM UK - AI Governance Framework Working Session - Sign Up
- 11:00 AM NYC / 04:00 PM UK - Physical Risk and Resilience - Sign Up
- 11:30 AM NYC / 04:30 PM UK - CDM Derivatives Working Group - Sign Up
- 12:00 PM NYC / 05:00 PM UK - Evolution at Scale - DevOps Automation Working Group - Sign Up
- 12:00 PM NYC / 05:00 PM UK - FINOS Technical Oversight Committee Meeting - Sign Up
Thursday, September 10
- 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 - FDC3 Identity & Security Working Group - 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
- 01:00 PM NYC / 06:00 PM UK - Applied GenAI bi-weekly call - Sign Up
Friday, September 11
- 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
Visit the FINOS Calendar to stay informed of the most recent updates and calendar invitations.
FINOS EVENTS
🗽 CDM NYC Seminar 2026
October 8 | NYC
Join FINOS and the CDM community for an afternoon of presentations and discussions regarding the Common Domain Model benefits across the securities processing lifecycle. The afternoon includes a keynote address, four 30-minute presentations, and a networking reception to close out the event.
🗽 OSFF New York
November 4-5 | NYC
Join us in NYC on November 4–5 for two days of technical deep-dives and executive strategy. Day 1 focuses on Fluxnova Con and enterprise process orchestration, with broader conference tracks covering AI Governance, OSERA, FDC3, HPC, and open compliance. Full workshop schedules and speaker announcements are coming soon.
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FEATURED EVENTS
Boston Fintech Week
September 22-25 | Boston
Join FINOS Executive Director Gabriele Columbro at Boston Fintech Week on September 22 for the panel session, "Owning the Stack: Open Source Fintech AI Innovation."
CDM Smart Contracts Taskforce: Interest Rate Resets
September 23 | Virtual
In this session, Tokenovate, together with ISDA, will demonstrate how Smart Contracts extend the CDM into standardised execution of multi-step processes. They will show how related benefits reduce operational risk - thus creating a foundation for greater efficiency and interoperability across the financial markets.
ICMA FinTech & Digitalisation Forum 2026
September 29 | London
The Forum returns in 2026 for a full day of insightful discussion on the future of capital markets. The in-person event will look at the ongoing digital transformation of capital markets, including DLT-based bonds, the integration of AI into various parts of the bond workflow, the rise of stablecoins and the importance of data standards for the adoption of new technology and interoperability.
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
