The Symphony Foundation is an open source foundation focused on financial services and fintech. It has over 60 open source repositories and 300 contributors working on projects across 4 working groups. The foundation aims to make the financial sector's culture more open by creating an open developer platform, enabling lines of business, and addressing challenges around what to open source, why to open source, and gaining buy-in from decision makers. It sees an open platform as benefiting the whole ecosystem by allowing vendors to focus on their core value while avoiding lock-in, and giving end users interoperability and the ability to customize their workflows.
Koji Kusaba and Gishin Takimoto of Microsoft Development Co., Ltd., led a presentation – "Building Universal Windows Apps that Discover, Connect, and Interact with Other Devices and Cloud Services Using AllJoyn" – at the AllSeen Alliance's LinuxCon Japan Mini-Summit in June 2015.
Koji Kusaba and Gishin Takimoto of Microsoft Development Co., Ltd., led a presentation – "Building Universal Windows Apps that Discover, Connect, and Interact with Other Devices and Cloud Services Using AllJoyn" – at the AllSeen Alliance's LinuxCon Japan Mini-Summit in June 2015.
An introduction to Symphony Softwar Foundation, community, projects, open source and open standards focused initiatives for innovation in financial services and fintech.
For more information check out:
Website: http://symphony.foundation
Wiki: https://symphonyoss.atlassian.net/wiki/
Github: https://github.com/symphonyoss/
Includes an overview of our Projects at github.com/symphonyoss/, our Members only Working Groups at https://symphonyoss.atlassian.net/wiki/spacedirectory/view.action, our current Members at http://symphony.foundation/#members, our Open Developer Platform (ODP) at http://symphony.foundation/#what-we-do and how you can get engaged in our Community
Deutsche Bank announces their contribution of the core technologies of Autobahn, Plexus Interop, to the open source foundation at Symphony Innovate 2017. This is designed to connect thousands of different applications in the financial services industry.
Presented at the Conrad Hotel on October 4, 2017.
Peter Monks - VP of Technology, Symphony Software Foundation
Diane Mueller - Director Community Development, Red Hat
Azi Cohen - Co-founder and GM, WhiteSource
2017 Open Source Strategy Forum
FinJS London 2016 brings together thought leaders in the fintech, financial services and development spaces. The Foundation's presentation, titled "Leveraging open source in the development process to maximize security, compliance and quality," can be found here for your reference.
This deck is from Executive Director Gabriele Columbro's presentation during FinJS NYC 2017. Learn more about how open source and open standards are the dynamic duo that may very well save your platform strategy.
Executive Director Gabriele Columbro spoke at FinDEVr New York 2017 on open collaboration in financial services on the Symphony platform. See the slides here.
201808 - An introduction to FINOS, the Fintech Open Source FoundationFINOS
201808 - An introduction to FINOS, the Fintech Open Source Foundation.
The Value of Open Source in Financial Services, how FINOS can support your open source strategy, our Programs and Community, Value of Corporate membership
[WSO2Con EU 2017] The Role of Open Source and Community in an EnterpriseWSO2
Today, IT takes center stage in an organization's business model. They consist of interrelated architectural, co-operational and financial arrangements designed and developed to achieve its strategic goals and objectives. The products and/or services the organization offers or will offer are based on the arrangements that are built on the IT infrastructure. In this slide deck, we discuss the economic value of open source middleware for achieving the objectives in an enterprise.
OSSF 2018 - Overcoming Compliance Barriers to Open Source Collaboration Infra...FINOS
In this talk Jamie Jones, GitHub’s Principal Architect, Diane Mueller is Director, Community Development at Red Hat, and Maurizio Pillitu, FINOS DevOps Director, present what are the most common barriers and technical frictions that prevent financial institutions to fully embrace open source. The FinsServ Developer Experience is a new FINOS Program that aims to consolidate a safe, accessible and shared workflow for developers in the financial world, who are welcome to join the talk and share their experiences. The program leads will be on stage to present charters, updates and to call for the participation of developers and software vendors wanting to plug their build automation tools and data APIs inside the FINOS Developer Experience.
Gab Columbro, Symphony Software Foundation: Welcome & KeynoteFINOS
Gab Columbro, Symphony Software Foundation: Welcome & Keynote.
Gabriele is an open source leader and technologist at heart, having spent more than 10 years building thriving communities and delivering business value through open source. He thrives in working with open source communities to drive disruptive innovation, whether it’s for an early stage tech startup, a Fortune 500 firm, or a non profit organization.
Gabriele brings a wealth of expertise in executive and technical leadership, ranging from FinTech to enterprise collaboration, and from developer platforms to SaaS ARR business models. Previously Director of Product Management at Alfresco, Gabriele has now built the Symphony Software Foundation from the ground up, with the vision of creating a trusted arena for Wall Street to accelerate digital transformation, engaging in a new model of open source FinTech innovation. Gabriele is a PMC Member for the Apache Software Foundation and an advisor for Bankex.com. Based in San Francisco but originally from Italy, he’s a proud SSC Napoli supporter, a reggae music connoisseur and a South Park groupie.
Building A Business-Facing Mobile Developer CommunityProgrammableWeb
Building A Business-Facing Mobile Developer Community
Andy Jones, Technical Director EMEA, SOA Software
The proliferation of mobile apps has led to increased interaction between two previously separate groups: mobile app developers and corporate managers of enterprise systems. The API is the connector. Creating a developer community that serves your mobile strategy is a challenge on both technical and business levels. Mobile developers are essentially business partners, even if they do not see themselves as such and successfully engaging them will be key to delivering value from the API. In this presentation, we will discuss some proven practices that can ensure that businesses make the best use of APIs to extend themselves into the mobile realm:
Offering business capabilities that are important to partners
Tailoring APIs to each partner
Managing partner registration with workflow
Allowing partners to monitor and analyze their own API usage
Accelerating the process of externalizing applications
Securing the apps
Mediating transports protocols
State of the Union for the Symphony Software Foundation - Presented by Executive Director, Gabriele Columbro, at the 2017 Annual Members Meeting.
Includes projects, working groups, roadmap, state of the union
An introduction to Symphony Softwar Foundation, community, projects, open source and open standards focused initiatives for innovation in financial services and fintech.
For more information check out:
Website: http://symphony.foundation
Wiki: https://symphonyoss.atlassian.net/wiki/
Github: https://github.com/symphonyoss/
Includes an overview of our Projects at github.com/symphonyoss/, our Members only Working Groups at https://symphonyoss.atlassian.net/wiki/spacedirectory/view.action, our current Members at http://symphony.foundation/#members, our Open Developer Platform (ODP) at http://symphony.foundation/#what-we-do and how you can get engaged in our Community
Deutsche Bank announces their contribution of the core technologies of Autobahn, Plexus Interop, to the open source foundation at Symphony Innovate 2017. This is designed to connect thousands of different applications in the financial services industry.
Presented at the Conrad Hotel on October 4, 2017.
Peter Monks - VP of Technology, Symphony Software Foundation
Diane Mueller - Director Community Development, Red Hat
Azi Cohen - Co-founder and GM, WhiteSource
2017 Open Source Strategy Forum
FinJS London 2016 brings together thought leaders in the fintech, financial services and development spaces. The Foundation's presentation, titled "Leveraging open source in the development process to maximize security, compliance and quality," can be found here for your reference.
This deck is from Executive Director Gabriele Columbro's presentation during FinJS NYC 2017. Learn more about how open source and open standards are the dynamic duo that may very well save your platform strategy.
Executive Director Gabriele Columbro spoke at FinDEVr New York 2017 on open collaboration in financial services on the Symphony platform. See the slides here.
201808 - An introduction to FINOS, the Fintech Open Source FoundationFINOS
201808 - An introduction to FINOS, the Fintech Open Source Foundation.
The Value of Open Source in Financial Services, how FINOS can support your open source strategy, our Programs and Community, Value of Corporate membership
[WSO2Con EU 2017] The Role of Open Source and Community in an EnterpriseWSO2
Today, IT takes center stage in an organization's business model. They consist of interrelated architectural, co-operational and financial arrangements designed and developed to achieve its strategic goals and objectives. The products and/or services the organization offers or will offer are based on the arrangements that are built on the IT infrastructure. In this slide deck, we discuss the economic value of open source middleware for achieving the objectives in an enterprise.
OSSF 2018 - Overcoming Compliance Barriers to Open Source Collaboration Infra...FINOS
In this talk Jamie Jones, GitHub’s Principal Architect, Diane Mueller is Director, Community Development at Red Hat, and Maurizio Pillitu, FINOS DevOps Director, present what are the most common barriers and technical frictions that prevent financial institutions to fully embrace open source. The FinsServ Developer Experience is a new FINOS Program that aims to consolidate a safe, accessible and shared workflow for developers in the financial world, who are welcome to join the talk and share their experiences. The program leads will be on stage to present charters, updates and to call for the participation of developers and software vendors wanting to plug their build automation tools and data APIs inside the FINOS Developer Experience.
Gab Columbro, Symphony Software Foundation: Welcome & KeynoteFINOS
Gab Columbro, Symphony Software Foundation: Welcome & Keynote.
Gabriele is an open source leader and technologist at heart, having spent more than 10 years building thriving communities and delivering business value through open source. He thrives in working with open source communities to drive disruptive innovation, whether it’s for an early stage tech startup, a Fortune 500 firm, or a non profit organization.
Gabriele brings a wealth of expertise in executive and technical leadership, ranging from FinTech to enterprise collaboration, and from developer platforms to SaaS ARR business models. Previously Director of Product Management at Alfresco, Gabriele has now built the Symphony Software Foundation from the ground up, with the vision of creating a trusted arena for Wall Street to accelerate digital transformation, engaging in a new model of open source FinTech innovation. Gabriele is a PMC Member for the Apache Software Foundation and an advisor for Bankex.com. Based in San Francisco but originally from Italy, he’s a proud SSC Napoli supporter, a reggae music connoisseur and a South Park groupie.
Building A Business-Facing Mobile Developer CommunityProgrammableWeb
Building A Business-Facing Mobile Developer Community
Andy Jones, Technical Director EMEA, SOA Software
The proliferation of mobile apps has led to increased interaction between two previously separate groups: mobile app developers and corporate managers of enterprise systems. The API is the connector. Creating a developer community that serves your mobile strategy is a challenge on both technical and business levels. Mobile developers are essentially business partners, even if they do not see themselves as such and successfully engaging them will be key to delivering value from the API. In this presentation, we will discuss some proven practices that can ensure that businesses make the best use of APIs to extend themselves into the mobile realm:
Offering business capabilities that are important to partners
Tailoring APIs to each partner
Managing partner registration with workflow
Allowing partners to monitor and analyze their own API usage
Accelerating the process of externalizing applications
Securing the apps
Mediating transports protocols
Similar to The Case for an Open Fintech Ecosystem, Aaron Williamson (20)
State of the Union for the Symphony Software Foundation - Presented by Executive Director, Gabriele Columbro, at the 2017 Annual Members Meeting.
Includes projects, working groups, roadmap, state of the union
Learn what is the vision, mission and progress of the Symphony Software Foundation (http://symphony.foundation) and discover the benefits for your organization to join the Foundation.
Help us build the most secure and compliant communications ecosystem on the Symphony (http://symphony.com) Platform, through Open-ness (as in Open API, Open Architecture, Open Source, Open Standard, Open Communication, Open Governance).
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
2. ~60 Open Source Repos
300+ Contributors
4 Working Groups
27 Member Organizations
2 Individual Members
@symphonyosssymphony.foundation
4 Working Groups
27 Member Orgaizations
@symphonyosssymphony.foundation
An industry-wide open source foundation
See live community reports at symphonyoss.biterg.io
• Open source projects
• Member-run working groups
• Conferences, meetups, and other
events
• Member-directed research &
advocacy
3. @symphonyosssymphony.foundation @symphonyosssymphony.foundation
• Independence
• Transparent Governance
• IP management
• Quality & security checks
TRUST GROWTHEXPERIENCE
Why a dedicated open source foundation for financial
services?
• FinServ & FinTech focus
• Tested collaboration policies &
workflows
• Developer experience
• Community management
• Network building
• Events & promotion
• Advising & enablement
4. @symphonyosssymphony.foundation @symphonyosssymphony.foundation
Cultural
Default closed to
default open,
community RoE
Legal
IP, regulatory
Technical
OSS supply chain,
security-conscious
workflow
✓ Open Source Readiness WG
✓ Open Developer Platform
✓ Partner with open source community
experts
The FinServ Open Source Challenge
What to
Open Source?
Why
Open Source?
Line of Business enablement
Challenges
Value
Decision Makers enablement
5. @symphonyosssymphony.foundationsymphony.foundation @symphonyoss
Wall Street is finally ready to collaborate
• Increasing engagement & contributions
from top-tier banks
• Desire for flexibility & avoiding vendor
lock-in
• Growing coverage in financial press
• Massive interest at Open Source Strategy
Forum
7. @symphonyosssymphony.foundation @symphonyosssymphony.foundation
The whole ecosystem benefits from open platforms
AN OPEN PLATFORM
OPEN SOURCE
• Commoditize to
compete
• Community/customer
contributions
• Scalable GTM
• Focus on Core
Value/IP
• Avoid vendor lock-in
• Lower total cost of ownership
• Workflow self-determination
• Security compliance
• Contribute toward needed
features
YOUR VALUE PROPOSITION
THE VALUE LINETHE VALUE LINE
PLATFORM PROVIDER END USER / INTEGRATOR
Agile and Iterative
Collaborative customer relationship
NETWORK DATA APPS
COMMUNITY
Open Ecosystem
I am gabriele Columbro - executive director of the symphony software foundation.
While I have spent a life in open source, between community and commercial companies, I don’t come from the financial services industry per se. While you could probably say I come from the Valley, that Italian part of the Valley, I guess :)
So when I started as ED of the Symphony Software Foundation less than 2 years ago, I knew a few things about this industry, but had to learn a thing or two about the world of Financial Technology.
I knew there’s amazing technology in this ecosystem but I learned that’s still highly siloed. And I learned that post trade workflows can take days if not weeks. I learned about over time consortiums, standard bodies, working groups tried to build co-opetition models - with generally different degrees of success. And finally, I’ve learned that Open APIs were still a quite new thing for the industry, but - and that I already knew - open source was still looked at with diffidence.
But, I quickly learned that, between Fintech platforms enabling entirely new channels in the ecosystem and disruptive disintermediation source technologies like blockchain, the industry was in the midst of a revolution, one that is bound to drive entirely new business models. One that requires a deep questioning, from each player in the ecosystem, as to what it means to build and consume financial technology.
So, having the luck to seat with some of the largest financial institutions and financial technology vendors, starting a high stake and collaborative in nature use case like the Symphony platform, we realized the massive opportunity to provide an environment where faster innovation could happen by the means of efficient open collaboration between firms on their technology strategies.
But one thing I DID know when I joined was that it was not going to be easy.
In fact with great opportunities come great challenges, and especially in regulated industries, as we probably all have experienced - there are great challenges in collaborating across the firewall.