BFSI Tech Leaders – Roundtable Series

  • BFSI Tech Leaders – Roundtable Series

BFSI Tech Leaders – Roundtable Series

In today’s Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous world, rising consumer expectations are disrupting every industry, especially those with a digital backbone. Leaders in the BFSI industry have been early adopters of leveraging technology to connect with their consumers and also to enable their employees to carry out operations remotely. In the last 12-18 months, this trend has seen an upward shift with users and consumers of banking and financial services leveraging digital channels almost exclusively, to conduct their financial transactions. With this surge in both consumers and employees relying on digital channels to conduct their day-to-day operations, Financial services organizations and institutions are faced with challenges related to balancing between upscaling, performance and security.

Every financial organization, today, is part of an ecosystem of players that rely on each other to exchange business-critical data. With the growing usage of apps and API’s and the emergence of open banking platforms, today cyber security is one of the most important challenges that banking and financial services organizations must address. Traditionally, organizations have been implementing security measures on an adhoc basis and they are saddled with a patchwork security architecture that results in a high TCO. However, we see that more and more, data privacy and security are fundamental building blocks of organizations. This topic is no longer a regulatory tick box, or a product discussion, it is in fact a boardroom strategy. Companies recognize that lack of cybersecurity challenges the very foundation of any business that is growing digitally.

With this context, Economic Times is organizing two roundtables powered by Akamai, to bring together Financial services industry leaders and experts, who would share their points-of-view and their experience on how to strike the right balance between scale, experience and security. The first of the Roundtables would be focused on Banking and Insurance sectors and the second will host Fintech companies.

Register below to join in.

Banking & Insurance Round Table

25th August | 04:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Aseem Ahmed
Senior Product Manager – Cloud security
Asia Pacific at Akamai Technologies

Naseem Halder
CISO
ACKO General Insurance

Pawan Chawla
CISO
Future Generali India Life Insurance Company

Abhilash Balan
CISO
Go Digit

Kunal Pande
Partner
KPMG
Moderator

Fintech Round Table

26th August | 04:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Ashish Anantharaman
CTO & Co- Founder
Zest Money

Karan Mehta
CTO & CO-Founder
Kissht

Nischal
Founder
WazirX

Piyush Ranjan
CTO
Coverfox

Sidharth Pisharoti
RVP, India & SEA
Akamai Technologies

Shantanu
CTO
PayU

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Biswajit Das
Director– Lighthouse (Analytics, AI & Data)
KPMG in India
Moderator

Agenda

25th August

Banking & Insurance Round Table

4.00 PM – 5.00 PM

ROUND TABLE | Being Cyber Ready in the VUCA World

  •  Shifting priorities to support current needs: business continuity, remote work and planning for transition to the next normal
  • Unprecedented digital connections – upscaling, performance and security challenges
  • Unified and pre-emptive approach to cyber security measures
  • Securing apps and API’s – exposed interfaces and security challenges for Banking & Insurance companies
 

Speakers:

Naseem Halder, CISO, ACKO General Insurance
Pawan Chawla, CISO, Future Generali India Life Insurance Company
Aseem Ahmed, Senior Product Manager – Cloud security, Asia Pacific at Akamai Technologies
Abhilash Balan, CISO, Go Digit
Moderator : Kunal Pande, Partner, KPMG

26th August

Fintech Round Table

4.00 PM – 5.00 PM

ROUND TABLE | Striking the right balance between scale, experience and security

  •  Role of emerging technologies such as Cloud, Edge, IOT, 5G in providing scale and performance of services
  • Building digital trust in times of digital disruption
  • Delivering Superior UX as omni-channel consumption is more than ever before
  • Securing user and partner data by securing APIs
 

Speakers:

Ashish Anantharaman, CTO & Co- Founder, Zest Money
Shantanu, CTO, PayU
Piyush Ranjan, CTO, Coverfox
Karan Mehta, Co- Founder & CTO, Kissht
Nischal, Founder, WazirX
Sidharth Pisharoti, RVP, India & SEA, Akamai Technologies
Biswajit Das, Director– Lighthouse (Analytics, AI & Data), KPMG in India

Registration Form

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Aseem Ahmed, Senior Product Manager – Cloud security Asia Pacific, Akamai Technologies

Aseem Ahmed is Senior Product Manager – Cloud security, Asia Pacific at Akamai Technologies. In this role, he is responsible for identifying market opportunities in cloud security, translating ideas into product requirement, gathering and consolidating customer feedback, evangelizing product vision and strategy, as well as partnering with cross-functional teams on Go-to-Market activities. Overall, he has 13+ years of experience in cyber security architecture, threat monitoring and mitigation, cyber incident response, security consulting and services.
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Karan Mehta, CTO & CO-Founder, Kissht

As Co-founder and CTO, Karan Mehta brings almost a decade of technology-focused expertise to the dynamic ensemble at India’s leading digital lending platform, Kissht. A seasoned entrepreneur and an accomplished mind in the field of all things tech, Karan has a profound knowledge of AI, ML and deep tech, successfully leveraging them to substantially improve businesses across India’s fintech landscape.

Karan is a graduate from DJ Sanghvi College of Engineering with a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and completed his Master’s degree in Information Networking from Carnegie Mellon University, Pennsylvania.

He began his journey in corporate India in 2011 with the Chicago-based hedge fund Citadel Investment Group. Working out of the Manhattan office, he learned the tricks of the trade on building financial technologies by manoeuvring through the dynamic and fast-paced ecosystem to deliver products that were state-of-the-art and cutting edge. Equipped with this first-hand knowledge and understanding of the space, he came back to India in 2013 with the vision to start something of his own, a company that merged his two passions – finance and tech.

Fuelled by the belief that a corporate entity would never be able to match the rapid adaptability of a start-up, he set off on his entrepreneurial path with Swipe Payments, a mobile POS solution. From inception to manifestation, Karan worked on the development of the product for two years. Building on from his experience with Swipe Payments he then went on to co-found Kissht in 2015. Since then, he has built a fully digital and completely automated lending life cycle for consumer lending in India.

Over his many years as an entrepreneur, Karan believes that the key to success lies in a researched commitment to one’s ideas and vision.

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Nischal, Founder, WazirX

Nischal Shetty is the Founder, CEO of WazirX, India’s largest cryptocurrency exchange (recently acquired by Binance). He is a huge blockchain advocate and influencer with over 300,000 followers. He has also been featured in Forbes ‘30 under 30’ list in the past. Nischal has been active in the space for a long time with the mission to involve everyone in the blockchain revolution. He’s also been fighting for bringing positive crypto regulation in India with his Twitter campaign called #IndiaWantsCrypto for over 1000 days, and it’s been picked up by crypto advocates globally.
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Piyush Ranjan, CTO, Coverfox

Piyush has done his BTech from IIT Kanpur and has over 13 years of experience working as a techie majorly for internet businesses. He has been associated with large internet companies such as Ola, Cleartrip, Browserstack and has been the Founder and Head of Technology of Doormint. His last stint was with Ola as the Senior Director of
Technology.

In his own words, Piyush lives and breathes technology. He believes there are very few problems in the world which technology can’t solve. He firmly opines that selling Insurance online is ripe for disruption and technology would make it really easy for customers to buy insurance online.

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Sid Pisharoti, RVP, India & SEA, Akamai Technologies

Sidharth Pisharoti is Regional Vice President, APJ Sales at Akamai Technologies. He is responsible for leading sales and driving Akamai’s growth in India, South East Asia and for the Carrier division across APJ. He is responsible for the design and execution of Akamai’s go-to-market strategy in these regions. Sidharth has been with Akamai for 14 years. He has played an integral role in building the Media business at Akamai over the last five years in different roles across the APJ region.

He also held management roles in the Emerging Customers Group – International Markets and was instrumental in incubating the Emerging Customer Group expansion in Krakow in 2011 and building Akamai’s India business over the years. Prior to Akamai, Sidharth worked at Wipro Technologies. Sidharth holds a bachelor’s degree in Electronics & Communications from Madurai Kamaraj University.

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Shantanu, CTO, PayU

Shantanu Preetam leads technological innovation and engineering at PayU India. A seasoned technologist and engineering leader, Shantanu has more than 23 years of experience in building software products and driving digital transformation strategy. An expert in creating “customer-first” technology solutions, Shantanu has led and mentored global teams to build highly scalable cloud platforms such as omni-channel and e-commerce platforms, transportation systems and CRM systems for Fortune 100 companies.

Earlier Shantanu worked with Walmart Labs, India where he played an integral role in building core e-commerce systems, driving end-to-end cloud transformation and facilitating growth. He has also worked with Yahoo!, Dell and GE. He was instrumental in shaping Yahoo!’s shopping platform and at Dell he was responsible for evaluating and creating quick and feasible solutions for complex business problems, using effective architecture frameworks.

A Bachelor of Electronics Engineering from Pune University, Shantanu owns four filed patents. He is based out of Bangalore.

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Biswajit Das -Director– Lighthouse (Analytics, AI & Data), KPMG in India

Biswajit Das currently serves as a Director in the Light House practice that focuses on Analytics, AI & Data at KPMG in India. He has over 16 years of marketing and technology transformation experience in the Telecom, Financial Services and Strategy Consulting space. He started off as a marketer who transitioned to a techno-functional role and, in time, became a technology evangelist. Biswajit is a champion thought leader in large scale, multi-partner, multi-technology, multi geography transformation projects, specifically in the Big-Data (Data at Rest & Streaming Data) and Real Time Event Engines space. He is at the forefront of the charge towards making Data Analytics future ready, which is seeing a paradigm shift from being purely function driven to function & technology led.

  • Leads the Cloud Data Lakes & Big Data practice for KPMG-India
  • Led strategic transformation of the largest marketing insight + campaign management shop in the telecom world.
  • Leading the D&A COE design and transformation for one of the largest beverage manufacturers in APAC for their B2B and B2C retail strategy
  • Partnered the Design and Implementation of Cloud Data Ecosystem for multiple organizations in the Banking, FMCG and Telecom space
  • Program Head for design and set-up of Data and CVM infrastructure of a Digital Payment Bank launched across 23 geographies
  • Was the Global Head of CLM 2.0 Strategy and Operations for a multinational Telco with presence in 18 countries and a quad-play subscriber base of ~ 400 million.

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