Main Conference (April 29, 2025)

Navigating the AI Frontier: Secure Adoption of LLMs in FinTec

AI has become increasingly popular the last few years, and the existing frameworks that financial services organisations have for managing AI models, model development and deployment aren’t compatible with the rapidly emerging generative AI models. If security is not considered up front, and learnings/discovery is closed to individual enterprises, it will take much longer to get up to speed.

The FINOS Simple AI Governance framework provides threat enumeration for LLM-based applications in financial services. By collaborating to identify common use cases and common pitfalls, the framework enhances security for everyone whose data is handled by these systems. The Working Group is in its early stages, and have some draft frameworks which are still being developed, but there are already some key lessons that have been identified.

This talk discusses the current state, and what common lessons there are to learn about it.

Rob Kenefeck

Principal Consultant at ControlPlane

I've been Automating toil in Linux for 20 years, but when Kubernetes came along I was initially dismissive, after all I was already building everything in Containers with Docker and orchestrating in a variety of semi-manual ways. I've since come to appreciate all it can do and also what its limitations are and when NOT to use it. I've taught DevOps courses and Kubernetes courses while also helping large enterprises setup internally managed Kubernetes platforms with a product based mindset.