Global FinTech & Blockchain Forum 2019 - Bangalore

FinTech is another name for staying ahead through rapid development and innovation.

In today’s world, it is impossible to discuss Fintech without the mention of blockchain and cryptocurrencies. The advent of Blockchain and ICOs, have paved new paths for disruptive and innovative businesses.

This new tech is rapidly increasing its forte in the Fintech space and is giving birth to new opportunities; but not without its own cost, the cost of being misled by some Blockchain based ICOs and startups.

With so much happening in today’s fintech environment, it becomes increasingly important to stay abreast with the latest happenings.

This conference aims at presenting the latest up-to-date topics; by lining up able bitcoin, cryptocurrency and fintech experts; who would share their vision; knowledge and key insights. The forum would discuss the opportunities and challenges spurring this new innovation.

From payments to open banking From AI technology to lending, credit, and DLT; the forum will be a center of the experts power discussing the future of fintech and private banking with blockchain, the role of cryptocurrencies in the fintech space and why blockchain and cryptocurrencies are leading players in this revolution.

Agenda

08:30 am – 09:00 am
Registration & Welcome Note

09:00   – 09:40
FinTech and Blockchain Innovations
Speaker: Girish Nuli, CEO at Antara Software and Consulting (P) Ltd. / CEO at Core Blockchain
Topic Abstract – Blockchain and AI is going mainstream and re-defining how customers and businesses interact with Fintech companies. Innovation is no longer the domain of large companies. In fact, smaller companies are entering the Fintech space with new innovations, causing massive disruption to traditional business models. Big and established is no longer the norm.

In this talk, let us explore some of these use cases and what impact it can have on Fintech companies in the future.

09:40   – 10:20
Blockchain Governance : Building Simple, Secure, Scalable Distributed Ledgers
Speaker: Gokul Alex, Associate Director at PwC / MVP Ambassdor at Hedera Hashgraph

10:20  – 11:00
Emergence of Blockchain IoT
Speaker: Prasanna Padmanabhan, Co-Founder at Pichain Innovations Pvt Ltd/ Hyperledger Blockchain Head at Kerala Blockchain Academy

11:00 – 11:20
Networking and Refreshment Break

11:20 – 12:00
Regulatory requirements for business considering Cryptocurrency & Blockchain
Speaker: Sunil Aggarwal, Author “Bitcoin Magnet”; VP Research MinersINC; Program Dean (Blockchain Bundle), TalentSprint & Director, Trustmachines

12:00 – 12:40
Blockchain Platform as a service
Speaker: Rajan Kotadi, Founder, Blockchain Innovation Lab

12:40 – 13:40
Lunch Break

13:40 – 14:40
Panel Discussion – FinTech – A Friend or Foe?

 

14:40 – 15:20
Blockchain for the Enterprise
Speaker: Krishnaprasad Shastry, Distinguished Technologist at Hewlett-Packard Enterprise

Abstract: The growing number of proofs-of-concept and pilots has validated the transformational potential of Blockchain on everything from banking, to supply chains, medical records, voting, and even personal identity. It has also validated that, for the enterprise, there is still a great deal of work to be done before Blockchain is ready for large-scale production. In this talk, we will discuss Blockchain’s impact and give practical advice to address the challenges enterprise organizations face as they move forward.

Bio: KrishnaPrasad Shastry is a Distinguished Technologist and head of Advance Development Center part of Hewlett Packard Enterprise CTO office. In this role he is responsible for driving strategic programs and advance development in emerging technologies like blockchain, AI and intelligent edge. In his 15 years with HPE, Prasad has led several research and advance development activities in the areas of big data, software accelerators, in-storage computing and memory-driven computing.

15:20  – 15:40
Networking & Refreshment break

 

15:40 – 16:20
Risk considerations while implementing blockchain
Speaker: Rohit Sharma, Sr. Manager Risk Advisory / Practice Head for Blockchain at Deloitte

Bio: Rohit is a Senior Manager with the Risk Advisory practice of Deloitte.Heis an information security professional with an overall 12 years of consulting experience in information security domain. He has hands on experience in designing and deploying integrated security frameworks that address the risk spectrum from People, Process and Technology for clients in various verticals.
He specializes in executing and managing projects in the areas of Information security, Data privacy and Information technologyrisk assessment, GDPR, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI DSS, Vendor Risk Management, RBI Guidelines, Cloud Security and GRC.
Rohit has successfully drafted a Blockchain Cyber Risk Management framework for Deloitte and also carried out R&D on various blockchainplatforms like MultiChainand Ethereum. He has also explored Smart contracts in Ethereumwith Solidity programming along with Python and supported the team to implement Trade finance use case. He holds CISA, ISO 27001 Lead Auditor & Implementer, ISO 20000 Lead Auditor, CISSP, CCSP, Blockchain.
He has been a speaker in multiple forum and has actively participated in Corporate Social Responsibility initiatives within and outside Deloitte.
Industry experience: Insurance, Banking, Manufacturing, Life Sciences, Financial services, Telecom, Retail and Media sector

16:20 – 17:00
The convergence of AI and Blockchain: what’s the deal for Fintech?
Speaker: Sujan Gowda, CTO, Nvest / Founder, YoloCard Protocol

17:00 – 17:30
Fintech, future is personalized
Speaker: Chakrapani Sakhumalla, Associate Director at Myntra/ Co-Founder, Investor at kenvault/ Ex Cisco

Topic Abstract – Future of personalisation in Fintech is disrupting the brighter side of the eco system with the influentials from technology, consumers and governance, etc.

Bio – Innovator and entrepreneur with 20 years in business leadership.

Experienced in all aspects of business formation, operation, finance, and management. A seasoned results-oriented leader and expert in communicating business and its strategies to generate improving revenue and profitability by maximizing effectiveness of technology and inspiring team members to heightened achievement.

Relentless optimist who believes there is no failure, only feedback. I’m disciplined, cost-conscious manager resolve to accomplish company objectives within budget through best practices.

Specialties: E(M)-Commerce (Fashion, Apparel and R(E)-Tail), Data Analytics, Client-Server, SOA, Micro Services, Embedded, Set Top Box, Digital TV, IP, Home-Networking and Cloud Computing.

End 2 End Portfolio/Product/Program, Operations and Delivery Management.

Agile and Waterfall life-cycle framework

17:30 – 17:45
Closing ceremony with note of Thanks & Felicitation