The Open Finance Conference (OFC’25) is the premier industry conference on open finance. Participants will explore how open standards and open-source technologies are being used by the industry leaders in the finance services sector. From future-proofed infrastructure applications, secure financial transactions at lower costs, to policies and regulations that support industry innovations.
Since the dawn of the computing age, open technologies, that are based open-source and open standards, have played a pivotal role in the growth and adoption of information and computing technologies by consumers, small & medium-sized businesses, and larger private and public-sector enterprises. Open technologies foster the adoption of industry best practices, help guarantee interoperability, allow for customizations and value-add, and by for example lowering entry barriers and mitigating against vendor lock-in open technologies provide platforms where innovations are born, shared, and grow.
From open LLMs for AI such as DeepSeek and Llama, open-source operating systems like Linux and FreeBSD, open-source databases like PostgreSQL and MySQL, to open-source programming languages like C, Rust, and Python the infrastructure for organizations to innovate around open technologies is widely and globally available.
The financial services sector is one of the heaviest users of technology to do things like facilitate rapid transactions, allow for secure transactions by customers using different devices, securely store customers’ data, and communicate with customers. Recently new open technologies, such as open AI agents, blockchains, open wallets, Open APIs and open banking have been introduced, and they will likely have a transformational impact on the technology landscape of financial institutions. As such it is important that every financial services professional becomes well acquainted with these new open technologies.
This conference will bring together industry professionals to share experiences and best practices on the use of open technologies in the industry and to discuss roadmaps for the structured and secure adoption of open technologies. Hosted alongside the OFC’25 at the same venue in Springfield, MA is the 2025 International Conference on Open Finance (ICOF 2025). At ICOF 2025 academic researchers will present the latest findings on open technologies and their potential application to the financial services sector. All participants will be able to access any sessions in OFC’25 and ICOF 2025. Industry professionals will be able to interact with academic researchers in a relaxed and collegial setting in break-out sessions or over meals.
