The Open Source in Finance Forum (OSFF) is the 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.

Open source is fundamental to the financial services industry, and OSFF provides companies with the tools and insights to maximize value through open source collaboration. By strategically contributing to open projects, organizations benefit from reduced development costs, heightened security, top talent, and rapid innovation. OSFF 2026 will spotlight groundbreaking advancements, deliver insights on best practices, and offer exclusive access to the leaders shaping open source in finance.

SUGGESTED TOPICS:

We welcome talks on a wide range of topics relevant to open source in the financial services industry. Our talk themes this year center around our strategic initiatives. 

Please Note:

Below are potential / suggested tracks and topics that speakers may use as guidelines within the conference themes above. PRODUCT / SALES PITCHES WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED.

Please do not submit a general talk. We are very interested in talks that build around our financial services decision maker and technologist audience. Regulated industries like finance have a different set of rules that our community has to negotiate daily, so make your talk have an impact on this community, not open source communities in general.

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Track Name: Agentic AI, GenAI and AI Governance

Suggested Topics to Submit

• Moving from experimentation to production: Open Source for deploying Agentic AI workflows and Large Language Model (LLM) orchestration in financial environments.
• Operationalizing the FINOS AI Governance Framework and establishing standards for model signing and provenance.
• Practical applications of open source for AI agents for operational efficiency, customer service, and automating complex financial tasks.
• Risk management strategies for Generative AI, including data privacy, hallucination control, and regulatory adherence.

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Track Name: HPC and Cloud Orchestration

Suggested Topics to Submit

• Featuring OpenGRIS and Scaler, HTC-Grid, ORB or 5-Spot: Collaborative approaches to shared infrastructure and grid resource scheduling to reduce operational costs.
• Innovations in cloud orchestration and workflow automation to optimize high-performance computing (HPC) in finance.
• Strategies for managing hybrid and multi-cloud environments using open source standards and tooling.
• Orchestrating sophisticated multi-agent processes using cutting-edge agentic standards like the Model Context Protocol (MCP) or Agent-to-Agent (A2A) using Fluxnova.

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Track Name: Evolution at Scale

Suggested Topics to Submit

• Reducing technical debt through shared infrastructure projects and community-driven architectural patterns.
• Essential developer tools and modernization techniques to tackle technical debt in large 
• financial institutions.
• Addressing common financial institutions' legacy modernization and ongoing maintenance challenges with AI.

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Track Name: The Business of Open Source: ROI and Strategy

Suggested Topics to Submit

• From Promise to Proof: Defining and measuring the Return on Investment (ROI) of open source contributions and usage.
• Case studies showcasing open source as a driver of measurable business value, cost reduction, and technical agility. Bonus points if leveraging FINOS projects. 
• Strategies for making the business case to executive leadership and shifting organizational culture from "consumer" to "contributor."
• Real-world success stories of financial institutions leveraging open source to accelerate speed to market.
• Gaining control of your own destiny: following the Fluxnova example, highlighting projects where financial institutions can and should come together to strategically maintain openly governed projects and reduce vendor lock-in.

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Track Name: Open Source Security and Automated Compliance

Suggested Topics to Submit

• Featuring CALM: Leveraging "Compliance-as-Code" to automate regulatory adherence and control frameworks.
• Securing the software supply chain through Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) adoption and automated vulnerability management.
• Meeting the requirements of the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) and other global cyber resilience regulations through open collaboration.
• Collaboration models and example projects for identifying and mitigating systemic risks in critical financial infrastructure.
• Featuring any FINOS projects in the tech risk space, like Common Cloud Controls, SDLC Controls, and AI Governance Framework.
• OSS Supply Chain Security in a Post-Mythos world. 

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Track Name: FDC3, Identity and Next-Gen Interoperability

Suggested Topics to Submit

• The evolution of the connected desktop: Integrating Voice, Natural Language Interfaces (NLI), and AI agents with FDC3 standards.
• Case studies in leveraging FDC3 to create seamless user experiences across desktop, web, and mobile applications.
• Innovations in cross-application identity management and secure data passing between financial workflows.
• Standards and best practices for unifying the financial workstation and improving trader productivity.
• FDC3 in the world of agents: the crossroads of MCP and FDC3.
• Fluxnova Tasks list feature in a FDC3-compliant mode.

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Track Name: Open Source Regulatory Technology (Open RegTech) and Data Standards 

Suggested Topics to Submit

• Digital regulatory reporting: Open source approaches to transparent and automated reporting pipelines.
• Standardizing data and workflows using the Common Domain Model (CDM) to simplify trade lifecycle events.
• Handling complex data and improving interoperability through industry-wide data standards.
• Collaboration among financial institutions to drive standardization in non-differentiating regulatory functions. 

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Track Name: OSPO Strategy, Governance, and Licensing

• Best practices for establishing and scaling Open Source Program Offices (OSPOs) within highly regulated institutions.
• Navigating the legal and regulatory landscape of open source licensing, contribution policies, and IP management.
• Guidelines and tools for assessing organizational maturity and enhancing open source readiness.
• Strategies for managing vendor relationships and commercial open source software (COSS) procurement.

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Track Name: Developer Experience, InnerSource, and Talent

• InnerSource Strategies: Fostering collaboration, code reuse, and transparency across internal engineering teams.
• Talent retention and upskilling: Using open source contribution to attract top developers and build internal expertise.
• Building internal talent pipelines and mentorship programs through involvement in OSS projects.

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Track Name: Hot Topics in Open Finance

• Streamlining cross-industry workflows through open source and open standards: collateral management, payments, and settlement.
• Digital Assets: Stablecoins, Institutional adoption of blockchain, tokenization, and interoperability between TradFi and DeFi protocols.
• Physical risk and Sustainability-aligned investing: Open source data standards for ESG reporting, climate risk modeling (OS-Climate), and net-zero transition planning.
• Lightning talks on emerging trends: Quantum computing, Post-quantum cryptography, Open Banking, edge computing, and novel industry collaborations.