Video by FINOS via YouTube
Mia Gougisha (Open Innovation Lead at DTCC) explores how industry-led hackathons are moving beyond mere experimentation to create sustained open-source impact. She showcases winning AI solutions from the Innovate DTCC event and their path to maturity through the FINOS ecosystem.
🇬🇧 Join us in London! Catch the latest on Open Innovation at OSFF London on June 25, 2026: https://hubs.ly/Q041YV9Z0 (Use Code: 26YTOSFFLN20C)
🕒 Timestamps:
0:00 Welcome and Role at DTCC
0:45 Why Open Hackathons Matter for Impact
1:15 Designing a Hackathon for Scale
2:15 Industry Participation and Diverse Perspectives
3:30 Evaluation: Balancing Innovation with Trust
4:00 Bronze Winner: Calm Guard (Operational Resilience)
4:45 Silver Winner: Nova Mind (Post-Trade Automation)
5:55 Gold Winner: Needle (Cyber Risk Intelligence)
7:15 Bonus Track: Audit AI (Proactive Risk Planning)
8:15 Closing: Scaling Trusted AI Across Finance
📊 The Problem: The "Hackathon to Nowhere" Trap Traditional corporate hackathons are often one-time events where great ideas die after the competition ends. In the financial industry, building AI in silos prevents these tools from reaching the scale, maturity, and regulatory trust required for real-world adoption in production environments.
🏗️ The Solution: The FINOS Sustained Collaboration Engine
Mia Gougisha demonstrates a new model where hackathons serve as the "ideation pipeline" for the broader industry:
* Open-First Design: Every solution developed during the Innovate DTCC event is open source from day one, ensuring a foundation that extends beyond the event.
* Architecture as Code (Calm Guard): Transitioning hackathon winners into core FINOS repositories to automate compliance and reduce friction in DevSecOps.
* Multi-Agent Pipelines (Nova Mind): Automating post-trade exception handling through an auditable AI model that keeps humans in the loop only for high-ambiguity cases.
⚙️ Why This Matters for Financial Engineering
* Cross-Organizational "Super Teams": Bringing together contributors from multiple firms (e.g., Snowflake and DTCC) to unify fragmented security and risk data.
* Governance-First Innovation: Evaluating solutions based on their scalability and industry relevance ensures they meet the "safety and soundness" requirements of regulated finance.
The takeaway: Innovation does not stop at the finish line. Mia Gougisha proves that by aligning hackathons with the FINOS ecosystem, the industry can turn experimental prototypes into shared, production-grade assets.
🌐 More about FINOS: https://www.finos.org/
📧 Join our newsletter: https://www.finos.org/sign-up
🎙️ Listen to our Open Source in Finance Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@FINOS/podcasts
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/finosfoundation
#FINOS #OSFFToronto #DTCC #OpenInnovation #AIHackathon #OpenSource #FinTech #CyberSecurity #AuditAI