Excellent summary of the day. Thank you James!
[image: Logo] <https://www.fiter.io> *Robert Jakech* *| CTO* *e:* [email protected] *w:* fiter.io <http://www.fiter.io> *m:* +61458166091 [image: twitter icon] <https://twitter.com/Fiter_io> [image: youtube icon] <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfWztdFtHI3PwaSLAEcwTNQ> [image: linkedin icon] <https://www.linkedin.com/company/fiter-io> On Sun, 11 Oct 2026 at 5:49 pm, James Dailey <[email protected]> wrote: > All - > > Today was the Fineract/Fintech Track. Adam Saghy was this year's Track > Chair, and we had a full day of content. Having run the Track in year's > past I know how much work is involved, so a big thank you to Adam. > > My day started with the Keynote speaker Marenza Altieri-Douglas VP from > Cloudera, who described the importance of Data and hosting sovereignty > under EU laws. https://communityovercode.apache.org/events/glasgow-2026/ > <https://communityovercode.apache.org/events/glasgow-2026/> > > This year, thanks to the ASF and our video recording sponsor AWS, we > anticipate being able to share the session recordings and presentations. > We will announce when they are available. > > 1. Carl Johann Larsson from Velmie joined me (James) in a session > observing how AI is reshaping fintechs and the overlap with open source. We > described the potential future directions. > 2. Adam Saghy, Alexandar Vidakovic and Jarek Potiuk (I facilitated) > had a great discussion about using AI in reality and how to think about our > next steps into this brave new world. The key take away for me is that > we're still developing our understanding of AI and this is analogous to > the Gutenberg moment when Copyright law was first written. > 3. Adam presented the 2025 to 2026 progress on the platform - digging > into the FSIPs and describing 134 humans involved in providing over 1,200 > Pull Requests. "We have an active community". > 4. I presented EMI built on top of Fineract, and got into the success > of our customer by building around Fineract with payments, onboarding, > fees, and so on. > 5. Robert from Fiter described several key lessons for selling to and > deploying Fineract solutions for banks. These included: "Unlike every > other Apache project, Boards make the decision to use Fineract" (the others > are engineering teams), Cost savings opened the door, and ownership is why > they stayed, and "make it cheap to test" for the customer. > 6. Aleksandar Vidakovic covered the modularity of Fineract and > provided a deep dive into how the current situation requires all new > developers to touch many parts of the system, making it harder that it > should be. He finished with an "in situ" re-writing strategy. > 7. Adam Saghy described how to configure a number of loan types - > featuring multiple disbursements, all under the progressive loan concept, > and repayment flexibility. > > A big thanks to everyone who attended and presented. Thank you to Adam > for leading us this year. > > Thanks, >
