BFSI INSIGHT SUMMIT

BFSI Insight Summit

Agenda

More speakers, sessions to be added soon.

Day 01 29 Oct, 25
Day 02 30 Oct, 25
Day 03 31 Oct, 25

09:45 AM - 10:00 AM

Inauguration

10:00 AM - 10:35 AM Chintaman Deshmukh Hall

A Conversation

M. Nagaraju

Secretary, Dept. of Financial Services, Ministry of Finance

10:40 AM - 11:10 AM Chintaman Deshmukh Hall

Fireside Chat

C S Setty

Chairman State Bank of India

11:25 AM - 12:25 PM Chintaman Deshmukh Hall

Panel Discussion - PSU Banks
Does India need big banks?

Ashwini Tewari

MD State Bank of India

Debadatta Chand

MD & CEO Bank of Baroda

Rajneesh Karnatak

MD & CEO Bank of India

12:00 PM - 12:40 PM Narayanan Vaghul Hall

Panel Discussion - MPC
10 yrs of inflation targeting framework: What's next?

Ashima Goyal

Emeritus Prof of Economics Indira Gandhi Institute for Development Research

Chetan Ghate

Prof of Economics Indian Statistical Institute

Janak Raj

Senior Fellow Centre for Social and Economic Progress

Mridul Kumar Saggar

Prof of Practice, Economics IIM Kozhikode

12:30 PM - 01:00 PM Chintaman Deshmukh Hall

Fireside Chat

K V Kamath

Independent Director & Non-Executive Chairman Jio Financial Services

01:05 PM - 02:00 PM Chintaman Deshmukh Hall

Fireside Chat
Brief synopsis on global & Indian outlook

Poonam Gupta

Deputy Governor Reserve Bank of India

02:00 PM - 03:00 PM

Lunch

03:00 PM - 03:40 PM Chintaman Deshmukh Hall

Keynote Address

Dr V Anantha Nageswaran

Chief Economic Advisor, Government of India

03:45 PM - 04:25 PM Chintaman Deshmukh Hall

Panel Discussion - Foreign Banks
Are foreign banks becoming too niche?

Hitendra Dave

CEO HSBC India

K Balasubramanian

CEO Citi India

PD Singh

CEO Standard Chartered Bank India

03:50 PM - 04:30 PM Narayanan Vaghul Hall

Panel Discussion - Treasury Heads
Navigating global turmoil: Can India stay the course?

Aditya Bagree

MD & Head-Markets, India & South Asia Citi

Arup Rakshit

Group Head Treasury HDFC Bank

Parul Mittal Sinha

Financial Markets Head, India and South Asia, & co-Head ASA Macro Trading Standard Chartered Bank

Shailendra Jhingan

Head-Treasury & Economic Research ICICI Bank

04:25 PM - 05:15 PM

High Tea

05:15 PM - 05:55 PM Chintaman Deshmukh Hall

Panel Discussion - Private Banks
Is it time to revisit the banking model?

KVS Manian

MD & CEO Federal Bank

Prashant Kumar

MD & CEO Yes Bank

Rajiv Anand

MD & CEO IndusInd Bank

05:20 PM - 06:00 PM Narayanan Vaghul Hall

Panel Discussion - Retail Banking
Impact of tech & AI on retail banking – Pros and cons

Ambuj Chandna

MD & Head DBS Bank India

Arvind Vohra

Grp Head, Retail Assets HDFC Bank

Sachin Seth

Regional Managing Director, India and South Asia CRIF

Sanjay Mudaliar

ED Bank of Baroda

Virat Diwanji

National Head - Consumer Banking Federal Bank

06:00 PM - 06:40 PM Chintaman Deshmukh Hall

Panel Discussion - NBFCs
Does a bank license really matter?

Jairam Sridharan

MD & CEO Piramal Finance

Rajiv Sabharwal

MD & CEO Tata Capital

Raul Rebello

MD & CEO Mahindra Finance

Sudipta Roy

MD & CEO L&T Finance

Umesh Revankar

Executive Vice Chairman Shriram Finance

06:00 PM - 06:40 PM Narayanan Vaghul Hall

Panel Discussion - International Banking
Deepening India’s equity capital markets

Amitabh Malhotra

Vice Chairman, Capital Markets and Advisory HSBC India

Gesu Kaushal

MD - Equity Corporate Finance Kotak Investment Banking

Sonia Dasgupta

MD & CEO - Investment Banking JM Financial

Sunil Khaitan

MD & Head of Financing Group India Goldman Sachs

06:45 PM - 07:25 PM Chintaman Deshmukh Hall

Panel Discussion - Economists
Taking India to a higher growth trajectory amid global headwinds

Aditi Nayar

Chief Economist ICRA

Samiran Chakraborty

MD & Chief Economist Citi Bank

Sonal Varma

MD & Chief Economist-India & Asia ex-Japan Nomura

Soumya Kanti Ghosh

Group Chief Economic Advisor State Bank of India

06:45 PM - 07:25 PM Narayanan Vaghul Hall

Panel Discussion - Small Finance Banks
Are SFBs ready to convert to universal banks?

Inderjit Camotra

MD & CEO Unity Small Finance Bank

R Baskar Babu

MD & CEO Suryoday Small Finance Bank

10:00 AM - 10:40 AM Chintaman Deshmukh Hall

Panel Discussion - Life Insurance
Will the GST waiver improve penetration?

Anup Bagchi

MD & CEO ICICI Prudential Life

Mahesh Balasubramanian

MD Kotak Mahindra Life Insurance Company

Ratnakar Patnaik

MD LIC

Tarun Chugh

MD & CEO Bajaj Allianz Life

10:05 AM - 10:45 AM Narayanan Vaghul Hall

Panel Discussion - Crypto
India’s crypto crossroads: Time for a policy rethink?

Dilip Chenoy

Chairperson Bharat Web3 Association

G Padmanabhan

Former Executive Director Reserve Bank of India

S B Seker

Head of APAC Binance

Sumit Gupta

Founder & CEO CoinDCX

10:45 AM - 11:15 AM Chintaman Deshmukh Hall

Fireside Chat

Ajay Seth

Chairman IRDAI

11:25 AM - 12:05 PM Chintaman Deshmukh Hall

Panel Discussion - General Insurance
Managing new-age risks: The changing role of general insurers

Anup Rau

MD & CEO Future Generali India Insurance Company

Naveen Chandra Jha

MD & CEO SBI General Insurance

Tapan Singhel

MD & CEO Bajaj Allianz General Insurance

Yashish Dahiya

Chairman & Group CEO PB Fintech

11:25 AM - 12:05 PM Narayanan Vaghul Hall

Panel Discussion - Wealth Management
Where are the rich investing?

Anas Rahman Junaid

Founder & Chief Researcher Hurun India

Rahul Jain

President and Head Nuvama Wealth

Rajesh Saluja

Co-Founder & MD ASK Private Wealth

Srikanth Subramanian

CEO & Co-founder Ionic Wealth

12:10 PM - 12:50 PM Chintaman Deshmukh Hall

Panel Discussion - UPI
Post-UPI, Indian payments players look to foreign shores

Arif Khan

Chief Innovation Officer Razorpay

Harsh Gupta

CRO Cashfree

Rahul Jain

CFO & CHRO NTT Data

Sanjay Tripathy

Founder BriskPe

12:10 PM - 12:50 PM Narayanan Vaghul Hall

Panel Discussion - Fintech
From pocket to cloud: AI, authentication, and the future of digital banking devices

L Guru Raghavendran

Senior Vice President - Product Head Azentio Software

Mayank Sharma

Regional Head, South East Asia, Android Enterprise Partnerships Google

Ripunjai Gaur

COO Offline Payments Paytm

Sivaramakrishnan Iswaran

CEO Zoho Payment Technologies

01:30 PM - 02:00 PM Chintaman Deshmukh Hall

Fireside Chat
AI and technology in banking

Arundhati Bhattacharya

Chairperson & CEO Salesforce, India

02:00 PM - 03:00 PM

Lunch

03:00 PM - 03:40 PM Chintaman Deshmukh Hall

Fireside Chat

T Rabi Sankar

Deputy Governor Reserve Bank of India

03:45 PM - 04:25 PM Chintaman Deshmukh Hall

Panel Discussion - Cybersecurity & Fraud
Trust no one, verify everything: Cybersecurity for the digital age

Deep Narayan Mukherjee

Partner Boston Consulting Group

Mahavir Jindal

Chief Operations Officer Amazon Pay India

Malcolm Gomes

COO IDfy

Vinod Kumar

CIO Fino Payments Bank

03:45 PM - 04:25 PM Narayanan Vaghul Hall

Panel Discussion - Microfinance
Is the worst over for MFIs in the current cycle?

Alok Misra

CEO & Director Microfinance Industry Network (MFIN)

H P Singh

CMD Satin Creditcare Network

Karthik Srinivasan

Group Head Financial Sector Ratings

Sadaf Sayeed

CEO Muthoot Microfin

04:15 PM - 05:00 PM

High Tea

05:35 PM - 06:15 PM Chintaman Deshmukh Hall

Panel Discussion: PE-VCs
Dry powder vs. deployment challenges – Are PE funds sitting on too much unutilised capital?

Abhishek Kabra

MD Samara Capital

Gopal Jain

MD & CEO Gaja Alternative Asset Management

Hari Gopalakrishnan

Partner, Head India Private Equity EQT Group

Manish Kejriwal

Founder & Managing Partner Kedaara Capital

05:35 PM - 06:15 PM Narayanan Vaghul Hall

Panel Discussion
Can Bima Sugam be a game changer?

Amit Roy

Insurance Partner PwC

Debashish Banerjee

Partner and Insurance Sector Leader Deloitte India

Narendra Bharindwan

President IBAI

Sharad Mathur

MD & CEO Universal Sompo GI

06:15 PM - 06:45 PM Chintaman Deshmukh Hall

Fireside Chat

S Ramann

Chairperson PFRDA

06:45 PM - 07:15 PM

Standup Comedy by Rahul Subramanian

10:00 AM - 10:40 AM Chintaman Deshmukh Hall

Keynote Address

Tuhin Kanta Pandey

Chairman SEBI

10:45 AM - 11:25 AM Chintaman Deshmukh Hall

Panel Discussion - Mutual Fund CEOs
AUM at Rs 75 tn, investor count at 50 mn! How soon do we double from here?

B. Gopkumar

MD & CEO Axis Mutual Fund

DP Singh

Deputy Managing Director SBI Mutual Fund

Navneet Munot

MD & CEO HDFC Mutual Fund

Sid Swaminathan

MD & CEO JioBlackRock AMC

Vetri Subramaniam

CEO-Designate UTI Asset Management Company

10:45 AM - 11:25 AM Narayanan Vaghul Hall

Panel DIscussion - GIFT City
Has Gift City IFSC truly arrived?

Dipesh Shah

ED IFSCA

Revati Kasture

CEO CareEdge Global IFSC

Tushar Sachade

Partner PwC

V. Balasubramaniam

MD & CEO NSE International Exchange

11:45 AM - 12:15 PM Chintaman Deshmukh Hall

Fireside Chat
Why am I bullish on India?

Ridham Desai

MD & Chief Equity Strategist Morgan Stanley India

12:20 PM - 01:00 PM Chintaman Deshmukh Hall

Fireside Chat
Indian markets amid evolving global dynamics

Mark Matthews

Managing Director & Head Research for Asia Julius Baer

01:00 PM - 02:00 PM

Lunch

02:15 PM - 02:55 PM Chintaman Deshmukh Hall

Fireside Chat
Investing in financial markets in an AI-driven world

Shankar Sharma

Founder GQuants

03:00 PM - 03:35 PM Chintaman Deshmukh Hall

Panel Discussion - Equities
Where are the market opportunities – where should investors allocate?

Gaurav Misra

Head Equity Mirae Asset Investment Managers (India) Pvt. Ltd

Hari Shyamsunder

Vice President & Senior Client Portfolio Manager Franklin Templeton

Manish Gunwani

Head-Equities Bandhan MF

Pramod Gubbi

Co-Founder Marcellus Investment Managers

03:30 PM - 04:15 PM Narayanan Vaghul Hall

Panel Discussion - Broking
India’s Broking Industry: Growth pause before the next leap?

Ajay Menon

MD & CEO - Retail Wealth Motilal Oswal

Amisha Vora

Chairperson & MD PL Capital Group

Pranav Haridasan

MD & CEO Axis Securities

Shripal Shah

MD & CEO Kotak Securities

03:40 PM - 04:25 PM Chintaman Deshmukh Hall

Panel Discussion - Mutual Fund CIOs
One year of poor returns. Does it matter?

Mahesh Patil

CIO Aditya Birla Sun Life Mutual Fund

Rajeev Radhakrishnan

CIO Fixed Income SBI MF

Rajeev Thakkar

CIO PPFAS Mutual Fund

Sailesh Raj Bhan

CIO - Equity Nippon India MF

Sankaran Naren

CIO ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund

04:30 PM - 05:00 PM Chintaman Deshmukh Hall

Fireside Chat

Ananth Narayan G

Former Whole Time Member SEBI

Agenda

More speakers, sessions to be added soon.

Inauguration

A Conversation

M. Nagaraju

Fireside Chat

C S Setty

Panel Discussion - PSU Banks Does India need big banks?

Ashwini Tewari

Debadatta Chand

Rajneesh Karnatak

Panel Discussion - MPC 10 yrs of inflation targeting framework: What's next?

Ashima Goyal

Chetan Ghate

Janak Raj

Mridul Kumar Saggar

Fireside Chat

K V Kamath

Fireside Chat Brief synopsis on global & Indian outlook

Poonam Gupta

Lunch

Keynote Address

Dr V Anantha Nageswaran

Panel Discussion - Foreign Banks Are foreign banks becoming too niche?

Hitendra Dave

K Balasubramanian

PD Singh

Panel Discussion - Treasury Heads Navigating global turmoil: Can India stay the course?

Aditya Bagree

Arup Rakshit

Parul Mittal Sinha

Shailendra Jhingan

High Tea

Panel Discussion - Private Banks Is it time to revisit the banking model?

KVS Manian

Prashant Kumar

Rajiv Anand

Panel Discussion - Retail Banking Impact of tech & AI on retail banking – Pros and cons

Ambuj Chandna

Arvind Vohra

Sachin Seth

Sanjay Mudaliar

Virat Diwanji

Panel Discussion - NBFCs Does a bank license really matter?

Jairam Sridharan

Rajiv Sabharwal

Raul Rebello

Sudipta Roy

Umesh Revankar

Panel Discussion - International Banking Deepening India’s equity capital markets

Amitabh Malhotra

Gesu Kaushal

Sonia Dasgupta

Sunil Khaitan

Panel Discussion - Economists Taking India to a higher growth trajectory amid global headwinds

Aditi Nayar

Samiran Chakraborty

Sonal Varma

Soumya Kanti Ghosh

Panel Discussion - Small Finance Banks Are SFBs ready to convert to universal banks?

Inderjit Camotra

R Baskar Babu

Panel Discussion - Life Insurance Will the GST waiver improve penetration?

Anup Bagchi

Mahesh Balasubramanian

Ratnakar Patnaik

Tarun Chugh

Panel Discussion - Crypto India’s crypto crossroads: Time for a policy rethink?

Dilip Chenoy

G Padmanabhan

S B Seker

Sumit Gupta

Fireside Chat

Ajay Seth

Panel Discussion - General Insurance Managing new-age risks: The changing role of general insurers

Anup Rau

Naveen Chandra Jha

Tapan Singhel

Yashish Dahiya

Panel Discussion - Wealth Management Where are the rich investing?

Panel Discussion - PSU Banks
Does India need big banks?

Panel Discussion - MPC
10 yrs of inflation targeting framework: What's next?

Fireside Chat
Brief synopsis on global & Indian outlook

Panel Discussion - Foreign Banks
Are foreign banks becoming too niche?

Panel Discussion - Treasury Heads
Navigating global turmoil: Can India stay the course?

Panel Discussion - Private Banks
Is it time to revisit the banking model?

Panel Discussion - Retail Banking
Impact of tech & AI on retail banking – Pros and cons

Panel Discussion - NBFCs
Does a bank license really matter?

Panel Discussion - International Banking
Deepening India’s equity capital markets

Panel Discussion - Economists
Taking India to a higher growth trajectory amid global headwinds

Panel Discussion - Small Finance Banks
Are SFBs ready to convert to universal banks?

Panel Discussion - Life Insurance
Will the GST waiver improve penetration?

Panel Discussion - Crypto
India’s crypto crossroads: Time for a policy rethink?

Panel Discussion - General Insurance
Managing new-age risks: The changing role of general insurers

Panel Discussion - Wealth Management
Where are the rich investing?

Panel Discussion - UPI
Post-UPI, Indian payments players look to foreign shores

Panel Discussion - Fintech
From pocket to cloud: AI, authentication, and the future of digital banking devices

Fireside Chat
AI and technology in banking

Panel Discussion - Cybersecurity & Fraud
Trust no one, verify everything: Cybersecurity for the digital age

Panel Discussion - Microfinance
Is the worst over for MFIs in the current cycle?

Panel Discussion: PE-VCs
Dry powder vs. deployment challenges – Are PE funds sitting on too much unutilised capital?

Panel Discussion
Can Bima Sugam be a game changer?

Panel Discussion - Mutual Fund CEOs
AUM at Rs 75 tn, investor count at 50 mn! How soon do we double from here?

Panel DIscussion - GIFT City
Has Gift City IFSC truly arrived?

Fireside Chat
Why am I bullish on India?

Fireside Chat
Indian markets amid evolving global dynamics

Fireside Chat
Investing in financial markets in an AI-driven world

Panel Discussion - Equities
Where are the market opportunities – where should investors allocate?

Panel Discussion - Broking
India’s Broking Industry: Growth pause before the next leap?