Global Blockchain Forum 2019 - Mumbai

08:45 – 09:00

Registration

09:00 – 09:10

Conference Summary

Prasanna Lohar Speaker at Pyramid Learning Platforms

09:10 – 09:50

FinTech and Blockchain Innovations

Speaker – Prasanna Lohar, Head – Technology Innovation, DCB Bank

Suresh S Shan Speaker at Pyramid Learning Platforms

09:50 – 10:30

Future of Payments

Speaker: Suresh A Shan, Head Digital Innovation and Future Technology (BITS) Mahindra and Mahindra Financial Services Limited.

Bio: By Shri shri Ramana Maharishi -Try to use Well Known Ethics to understand from UN Know Epics. Suresh Should as a Transformational Mentor, Train the Masters Trainer, Educator, and Author; I am more passionate about making a difference using Simple things from our Culture habits & Behavior.

Belief Behavior Business, which I am more Passion about achieving and contributing to outcome-focused Individual Results. My Request to transform livelihood happiness stems up from making people’s lives easier and simple to listen, happier, and live more meaningful.

I empower local technology Inspirations to ensure through global Available and affordable Aspirations. My learners through transformational lectures, seminars customized indoor sessions, energizing outbound programs, and insightful one to one personalized Mentoring.

I work with Corporate, Students, Faculty, Expertise, and industry relevant Executives, Innovation Local rural leaders, and training all managers to create powerful growth hacks for individual contributors, Startup Entrepreneurs, People team leaders, and with the tangible Senior Management.

I also work with Educational Promoters, Principals, and Teachers of residential, CSI student chapter schools, and premier Engineering institutions. I share my knowledge and impart leadership programs for Educational Leaders.

My Vision & Mission is to groom and develop national level train the trainers to have trainers in every state building & Bridge the Industry Vs Academics Alignment by 31 Dec 2021. I work with Corporate to empower their Business teams to update, upgrade, and upscale their facilitation skills to handle Simple technology Solutions at Rural India.

Looking for a nice and wonderful Human Beings, who can show me “A drop of knowledge”, that can add up my life with a Value – Experience. Specialties:

Ashish Anand Speaker at Global Fintech Event Mumbai organised by Pyramid Learning Platforms

10:30 – 11:10

Regulatory requirements for business considering Cryptocurrency & Blockchain

Speaker: Ashish Anand, Co-Founder and CEO at Blockchain Advisory Council LLC and Founder at Whrrl

Pyramid Networking Tea

11:10 – 11:30

Networking and Refreshment Break

Sarang Bhoyar Speaker at Pyramid Learning Platforms

11:30 – 12:10

Hype’s over, let’s talk about implementation challenge

Speaker: Sarang Bhoyar, Blockchain Leader at Infosys

Topic Abstract: In this talk, Sarang would share his experiences of real life implementations of Blockchain programs for reputed clients and challenges that you can expect during your Blockchain implementation journeys e.g. Selection of Blockchain Framework, Integration with existing applications, Performance & Scaling, Governance model, etc.

Bio: Sarang is a Blockchain Leader from Infosys that sets large organizations on Blockchain transformation journey and helps them realize the benefits of early-embracing of Blockchain technology that is arguably the next biggest disruption in in all industries, BFSI in specific. Sarang has 18.5+ years of industry experience and has a distinction of being one of the firsts who has ACTUALLY production-implemented BLOCKCHAIN technology for International Remittances and Domestic Trade in India. He is hands-on in architecting a Blockchain products on various Blockchain frameworks (Bitcoin Core, Ethereum, Hyperledger Fabric, R3 Corda, Ripple, etc.) and building industry popular use cases.

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12:10 – 12:50

Panel Discussion – A Cross industry perspective on Blockchain

Panelist 1: Dr. Kaushik Kulkarni, Executive Director at Crecer Digibots Group of Companies

Bio: Dr. Kaushik Kulkarni is the Ceaser in next-gen technologies and Methodologies.

Having worked from a Business Manager role to Executive Director roles for a myriad of top-notch organizations like BorgWarner, Ford, GM, Chrysler, MAZDA, DANA Group, Behr, Gabriel, Cummins, North American Bus Company, Boeing, Mahindra, TATA and having played partner roles in Finance Companies like AMEX, Wells Fargo, JP Morgan Chase, Kaushik has extensive understanding of methodologies such as Connected Car, DevOps, RPA, IoT & AI.

A Six Sigma Black Belt and a PhD in Digital Transformation, Dr. Kulkarni’s understanding spans Business Growth Requirements, Mergers and Acquisitions, Diversification, Process Modelling, Horizontal and Vertical Alignments on multiple business models.

He currently leads the growth of Crecer Digibots Group of Companies as the Executive Director, overseeing services ranging from Digital marketing, Mobility, Cloud to Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.

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Panelist 2: Dr. Kumar Guarav, Chairman Auxesis Group l Co-Founder & CEO Cashaa

Bio: Kumar’s journey in the blockchain has started after he read about the Bitcoin Whitepaper written by Satoshi Nakamoto back in 2013. The World Economic Forum considered the blockchain technology as the most important invention after the Internet.

Due to its power and growth beyond visionary platform it is also called the “Internet of Value”, of course as internet is the FUTURE of present.

Kumar is a popular international speaker and an emerging tycoon who has grown his own suffix of technology and was invited at IIT, TieCON, TechCrunch, European parliament and many conferences and forums across the globe. He was recently nominated among the World’s Top 50 Innovators from the Industries of the future market and tech era.

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Panelists 3: Akash Gaurav, CEO at Auxesis Group

Bio: Akash is a blockchain entrepreneur. He founded India’s first blockchain company, Auxesis Group during his undergraduate studies at IIT Bombay. Auxesis today is counted among The Top 100 Most Influential Blockchain Company in the World. Akash also founded Blockchain Lab, India and Aux ledger Foundation. He is in advisory board of hot Blockchain startup Cashaa, a zero fee money remittance company and VEDA, an enterprise decentralised apps network. He is also a mentor to Entrepreneurship Club of MISB Bocconi. Before founding Auxesis, Akash was the manager of The Entrepreneurship Cell, IIT Bombay which is India’s largest entrepreneurship promoting club. As a manager, he led a team of 120 volunteers to organise global level entrepreneurship programs and summits. He was also a core group member of Innovation Cell, IIT Bombay where the team successfully proposed a new model for India’s first self-driving car.The blockchain is a new technology that holds tremendous potential to bring the 4th industrial revolution. Under his supervision, Auxesis did set-up a Blockchain Lab in India with a dedicated team of entrepreneurs and researchers. They work together on the innovation of blockchain to get solutions of different problems faced by the masses in the developing countries like India. Aux ledger Foundation is setted up with a vision of “Blockchain for Digital India”.This publicly available Blockchain infrastructure is aiming to act asa value chain for Indian economy enabling trust, transparency and efficiency in various business processes.

Lunch Pyramid Learning Platforms

12:50 – 13:50

Lunch Break

Girish Bajaj Speaker at Pyramid Learning Platforms at Global Fintech and Blockchain Forum 2019

13:50 – 14:30

Blockchain for Hotel & Construction Industry

Speaker – Girish Bajaj, Blockchain, AI, Fintech & ICO Global Strategic CEO. International Speaker

Bio – I have been in the Financial Services sector for 17 years plus, with experience and expertise in Equity Markets, Mutual Funds, Forex, Insurance and Real Estate verticals.

Advising/Arranging on fund raising for seed stage and developing overall strategy plan to achieve the start-ups respective vision.

To be competitive in today’s dynamic technology driven global economy and commerce, it is critical to have knowledge about the cutting edge Blockchain technology.

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14:30 – 15:10

Panel Discussion – Impact of Blockchain on Financial industry

Panelist 1: Roopam Asthana, CEO -Whole Time Director of Liberty General Insurance Ltd

Bio: He was the founding employee of the company and has played a pivotal role in the formation of the joint venture, along with the licensing of the company, from the very beginning. With an experience that spans over 25 years, he has worked as the Chief Executive Officer for the SBI Cards and Payment Services Pvt. Ltd. and GE Capital Business Process Management Services Pvt. Ltd.

He has garnered immense experience in the introduction of transformational financial strategies and high-growth consumer financial services, through well thought out and planned progressions of practices. He has also worked across various banking assignments in India and USA; spanning verticals like Financial Control, Credit Cards, NRI Banking, Strategic Planning, Corporate Banking, as well as Consumer Banking.

With a rich background of experience, he brought to Liberty General Insurance, the aim to build lasting relationships with customers as well as stakeholders, remaining grounded in the values, while at the same time moving forth with innovative strategies and technologies.

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Panelist 2: Dr. Kumar Guarav, Chairman Auxesis Group l Co-Founder & CEO Cashaa

Bio: Kumar’s journey in the blockchain has started after he read about the Bitcoin Whitepaper written by Satoshi Nakamoto back in 2013. The World Economic Forum considered the blockchain technology as the most important invention after the Internet.

Due to its power and growth beyond visionary platform it is also called the “Internet of Value”, of course as internet is the FUTURE of present.

Kumar is a popular international speaker and an emerging tycoon who has grown his own suffix of technology and was invited at IIT, TieCON, TechCrunch, European parliament and many conferences and forums across the globe. He was recently nominated among the World’s Top 50 Innovators from the Industries of the future market and tech era.

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Panelist 3: Rajat Sinha, AVP Products & Marketing, LenDenClub

Bio: At the age 20, Rajat started his entrepreneurial journey and built an exclusive online magazine to give young journalists a platform to explore their skills. With the educational background in journalism and advertising, Rajat had also worked with various online entertainment startups helping them build consumer centric products.

His first breakthrough came when Rajat conceptualised digital strategies for a leading Indian brand, creating a digital sourcing channel and generating revenue in millions every quarter. Since then he has conceptualised and built over a dozen products in EdTech, SportsTech and Fintech segments. Today, Rajat is heading the products and digital division as an AVP for India’s leading P2P lending platform, LenDenClub. He and his team has developed products to help consumers get loans faster with the help of automation and innovative features, which eventually helped the growth of LenDenClub’s user base by over 20x in just a year.

Besides this, Rajat is also an active member of the Indian startup ecosystem and has contributed to the success of Startup Saturday Kolkata and Mumbai.

Lunch Pyramid Learning Platforms

15:10 – 15:30

Networking & Refreshment break

Sanket Sarang Speaker Pyramid Learning Platforms

15:30 – 16:10

Implementing tradable Wastewater Reuse Certificates on a public Blockchain to address the world’s growing water challenges

Speaker – Sanket Sarang, CTO – BlobCity

rahul tayal speaker at global blockchain forum 2019 mumbai by Pyramid Learning Platforms

16:10 – 16:50

Blockchain Innovations across domains

Speaker: Rahul Tayal, Senior Technical Architect at Capgemini

Bio: Rahul Tayal specializes in Blockchain and related technologies with a focus to enable enterprises to identify and build new business value through Blockchain. Trained as an architect, he has a unique 15 years background in Security, Cryptography, Linux kernel, device drivers and Intelligent Automation. With an MS in Embedded Systems and multi domain experience in realizing Blockchain based solutions he is regularly involved with clients to advice, innovate and thus partner with them on their digital journey. He has been involved in creating a new business model for the telecom industry, a sea food autonomous marketplace, a supply chain transparency solution that enables organizations to also comply to regulatory requirements amongst others.

Pyramid Learning Platforms End Note

16:50 – 17:00

Closing ceremony with note of Thanks & Felicitation