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OSFF New York 2024 Highlights

Thank you to everyone who joined us at OSFF2024 in NYC! We are grateful to our incredible speakers, dedicated sponsors especially our Leader Sponsors Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), FinOps Foundation, GitHub, Red Hat and enthusiastic attendees for making this event a success. Coming together and discussing the challenges and solutions in our industry are what drive our community forward.

Sessions are available on the FINOS YouTube Channel. Further recordings will be posted in the upcoming weeks. View the OSFF Flickr photo album here.

In the meantime, here are some of the highlights:

 

Preview CNCF’s Track at OSFF NY 2024

September 03, 2024

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) will be presenting ten talks during the Open Source in Finance Forum in New York on September 30 and October 1. The presentations will drill down on the intersection of cloud native and finance, and will be ideal for enterprise audiences. 

Here’s a quick overview of what to expect from the CNCF track at the conference.

Prioritizing Security: Key Findings from the OpenSSF Survey for Financial Institutions

September 02, 2024

The Linux Foundation's Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) Secure Software Development Education 2024 Survey offers crucial insights that are particularly relevant to the financial services industry, including FINOS members such as sell-side banks, buy-side firms, and wealth managers. As these organizations increasingly rely on software to drive operations, the emphasis on secure software development becomes critical.

The report highlights areas where organizations from all industries, including financial institutions, can enhance their security practices to protect sensitive data, manage risk, prevent substantial financial losses, and maintain client trust.

Open Source in Finance Podcast: Accelerating DevOps, Cloud and Agile Transformation in Banks with Rancher - Wipro & SUSE

In this episode of the podcast, co-hosts Grizz Griswold, Marketing Manager and James McLeod, Director of Community both of FINOS, are joined by teams from FINOS Gold Members, Wipro and SUSE to discuss how to accelerate devops, the cloud, and agile transformation in banks, using Rancher, by providing the necessary open source tools to engineering teams who might have limited or no access to public, private or hybrid cloud systems and tools.

 
Episode show notes are available below.
 

Open Source in Finance Podcast: Understanding the InnerSource Checklist

In this episode of the podcast, Silona Bonewald of IEEE SA OPEN talks about the Understanding the InnerSource Checklist, that was originally developed while she was at PayPal. She is joined by Clare Dillon of FINOS Associate Member InnerSource Commons about how this checklist can help build upon the maturity matrix (that the FINOS InnerSource SIG is discussing now), plus other questions on InnerSource.

 
Episode show notes are available below.
 

Open Source in Finance Podcast: The FINOS Perspective Project - Interview With Andrew Stein of J.P. Morgan Chase

In this episode of the podcast, Tosha Ellison and Grizz Griswold (both of FINOS) interview Andrew Stein, Executive Director at J.P. Morgan Chase, and Lead Maintainer on the FINOS Perspective open source project. We discuss the project itself, its genesis, problems that Perspective solves for what users, and then pull in examples of what the project and the software can do. We also look at who should, and why they should get involved in consuming and contributing to the open source project.

 
Episode show notes are available below.
 
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