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Three days of ideas, foresight, and conversations that shape the future of Indian business & finance.
Insights
Hear from the voices that shape BFSI as they discuss the trends, opportunities and challenges transforming the sector.
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Connections
Join BFSI's most influential minds for three days in an environment designed for meaningful engagement and relationship building.
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Innovations
Explore breakthrough solutions and emerging technologies driving the next era of financial services.
032025 at a Glance
40Sessions
120Speakers
75+Exhibitors
50,000Sq. Ft. Exhibition Area
Speakers
Hear from the policymakers and innovators influencing banking, fintech, insurance, markets and policy.
T Rabi Sankar
Reserve Bank of India
Tuhin Kanta Pandey
SEBI
Ajay Seth
IRDAI
Dr V Anantha Nageswaran
Government of India
M. Nagaraju
Department of Financial Services
C S Setty
State Bank of India
Shankar Sharma
GQuants
Abhinav Bansal
Boston Consulting Group
Gallery 2025
Event
Schedule
09:45 am - 10:15 am
Inauguration
Inauguration by C S Setty.
10:15 am - 10:45 am
SBI Fireside Chat
C S Setty, Chairman, SBI.
10:50 am - 11:30 am
The FCNR(B) Playbook
PSU banks panel with Debadatta Chand, MD & CEO, Bank of Baroda; Kalyan Kumar, MD & CEO, Central Bank of India; Ashok Chandra, MD & CEO, Punjab National Bank.
11:35 am - 12:00 pm
Financial Sector: The Road Ahead
Discussion with Uday Kotak.
12:05 pm - 12:35 pm
Axis Bank Fireside Chat
Amitabh Chaudhry, MD & CEO, Axis Bank.
12:35 pm - 01:20 pm
Navigating the Rate Cycle and a Volatile Bond Market
Treasury heads panel with Arup Rakshit, HDFC Bank; Parul Mittal Sinha, Standard Chartered; Aditya Bagree, Citi; Shailendra Jhingan, ICICI Bank.
12:40 pm - 01:30 pm
The AI Factor in Banking
Private banks panel with Rajiv Anand, IndusInd Bank; KVS Manian, Federal Bank; V Vaidyanathan, IDFC First Bank; R Subramaniakumar, RBL Bank.
01:30 pm - 02:30 pm
Lunch
02:30 pm - 03:00 pm
McKinsey Book Launch
Launch of “Shapers and Founders: The Inside Story of Asia's Extraordinary CEOs” with author Joydeep Sengupta and Falguni Nayar, Founder & CEO, Nykaa.
02:30 pm - 03:15 pm
Has the MFI Sector Come Out of the Woods?
Microfinance panel on whether growth and structural hurdles are behind for recovery to begin, with Alok Misra, MFIN; Manoj Nambiar, Arohan Financial Services; Ganesh Narayanan, CreditAccess Grameen.
03:00 pm - 03:45 pm
Growth Opportunities and Challenges for Foreign Banks
Foreign banks panel with PD Singh, Standard Chartered Bank; Rajat Varma, DBS India; K Balasubramanian, Citibank.
03:50 pm - 04:30 pm
Is the NBFC Advantage Over?
NBFC panel with Umesh Revankar, Shriram Finance; Jairam Sridharan, Piramal Finance; Raul Rebello, Mahindra Finance; Hitesh Sethia, Jio Financial Services.
05:00 pm - 05:45 pm
Mandate Fulfilled. Universal Bank Next?
Small finance banks panel with Baskar Babu Ramachandran, Co-founder & CEO, Suryoday Small Finance Bank; Ajay Kanwal, MD & CEO, Jana Small Finance Bank; PN Vasudevan, MD & CEO, Equitas Small Finance Bank.
05:15 pm - 06:00 pm
The Changing Approach of PE Investors
Is the age of spray and pray over? Conversations with Amit Chandra, Partner, Private Equity & Chair of India, Bain Capital, and Renuka Ramnath, Founder & CEO, Multiples Private Equity. High tea served concurrently.
06:05 pm - 06:45 pm
India's Growth Story
Economists on the role of the financial sector, with Aditi Nayar, ICRA; Sonal Varma, Nomura; Samiran Chakraborty, Citibank; Aastha Gudwani, Barclays.
06:50 pm - 07:30 pm
Challenges in the AI World
Fireside chat with Arundhati Bhattacharya, President & CEO, Salesforce South Asia.
07:30 pm onwards
Cocktails & Evening Snacks
10:00 am - 10:40 am
The New Sales Paradigm
Life insurance panel on going back to the agency model, with Vibha Padalkar, MD & CEO, HDFC Life; R. Doraiswamy, MD & CEO, LIC; Mahesh Bala, MD & CEO, Kotak Life; Kamlesh Rao, MD & CEO, Aditya Birla Sun Life.
10:10 am - 10:45 am
Machines with Mandates
Agentic payments panel on building India's trust layer for agentic payments, with Nirav Kamdar, CTO, Amazon Pay; Pramod Mulani, VP Global Strategy, Juspay; Tarun Singh, COO, SBI Payments; Rishi Chhabra, Country Manager, India, Visa.
10:40 am - 11:10 am
Keynote Address
Shaktikanta Das, Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister.
11:15 am - 11:45 am
IRDAI Fireside Chat
Ajay Seth, Chairman, IRDAI.
11:45 am - 12:30 pm
Climate & Cyber Risks
General insurance panel on whether insurance can keep pace with India's emerging threats, with Sarbvir Singh, CEO, Policybazaar; Parthanil Ghosh, MD & CEO, HDFC Ergo; Animesh Das, MD & CEO, Acko General Insurance; Hitesh Joshi, CMD, GIC Re.
11:45 am - 12:30 pm
Making India's Growth Story More Equitable
Economists panel with Sajjid Chinoy, MD & Chief India Economist, JP Morgan; Soumyakanti Ghosh, Group Chief Economic Adviser, State Bank of India.
12:35 pm - 01:20 pm
Autonomous Banking & Security
Business Next whitepaper launch by Nishant Singh, Founder & CEO, Business Next, followed by a panel with Ramesh Lakshminarayanan, Group Head of IT & CIO, HDFC Bank, and Sameer Shetty, Group Head, Digital Business & Transformation, Axis Bank.
01:30 pm - 02:30 pm
Lunch
02:45 pm - 03:30 pm
RBI Fireside Chat
Poonam Gupta, Deputy Governor, RBI.
03:35 pm - 04:05 pm
NFRA Fireside Chat
Nitin Gupta, NFRA.
03:40 pm - 04:15 pm
Taxed but Not Trusted
Crypto panel on whether India can regulate an asset it doesn't recognise, with Ashish Singhal, Founder & CEO, CoinSwitch; SB Seker, APAC Head, Binance; Edul Patel, CEO & Co-founder, Mudrex; Vikaas Sachdeva, BitDelta.
04:15 pm - 04:40 pm
High Tea
04:45 pm - 05:05 pm
SEBI Fireside Chat
K.V.R. Murty, Whole-Time Member, SEBI.
05:00 pm - 05:45 pm
What Next for Affordable Health Insurance?
Health insurance panel after GST rationalisation, with G Srinivasan, MD & CEO, Galaxy Health Insurance; Satish Gidugu, Medi Assist.
05:10 pm - 05:55 pm
Payments at Scale
Fintech panel on whether security can match scale, with Karan Sapra, Head of Payments & Financial Services India, Google Pay; George Sam, Co-founder, Mindgate Solutions; Arif Khan, CIO, Razorpay; K. Satyanarayana Raju, CEO, IDPIC.
06:00 pm - 06:30 pm
PhonePe Fireside Chat
Sameer Nigam, Founder & CEO, PhonePe.
06:35 pm - 07:10 pm
PFRDA Fireside Chat
S. Ramann, Chairperson, PFRDA.
07:15 pm - 08:00 pm
Stand-up Comedy
Entertainment break with Viswa Kalyan Rath.
08:00 pm onwards
Cocktails & Evening Snacks
10:00 am - 10:40 am
SEBI Keynote + Fireside
Tuhin Kanta Pandey, Chairman, SEBI.
10:45 am - 11:30 am
The Future of Asset Management
Mutual fund CEOs panel with Sundeep Sikka, MD & CEO, Nippon India Mutual Fund; Radhika Gupta, MD & CEO, Edelweiss MF; Nimesh Shah, MD & CEO, ICICI MF.
10:45 am - 11:30 am
Is High Net Worth Investing Getting Democratised?
SIF & PMS panel with Trideep Bhattacharya, President & CIO, Equities, Edelweiss MF; Gaurav Mehta, Head, SIF (Equity), SBI Mutual Fund; Sunil Singhania, Founder, Abakkus Asset Manager; Vikas Khemani, Founder, Carnelian Asset Management & Advisors.
12:00 pm - 12:45 pm
Navigating Volatile Markets
Mutual fund CIOs on navigating uncertainties, with Rajeev Thakkar, CIO, PPFAS; S Naren, CIO, ICICI MF; R Sivakumar, CIO, Axis Mutual Fund; Taher Badshah, President & CIO, Invesco Mutual Fund.
12:00 pm - 12:45 pm
Getting the Next (Rupee) Ten Trillion
ETFs, passives & quants panel with Vetri Subramanian, CEO, UTI MF; Vishal Jain, MD & CEO, Zerodha MF; Swarup Mohanty, CEO, Mirae MF.
12:50 pm - 01:20 pm
Fireside Conversation
Shankar Sharma, Founder, GQuant Investech.
01:30 pm - 02:30 pm
Lunch
02:45 pm - 03:15 pm
Panel Discussion
Prashant Jain, Founder & CIO, 3P Investment Managers; Lakshmi Iyer, Group President, Investments and MD & CEO, Bajaj Alts.
03:20 pm - 04:05 pm
Markets Through the Global Lens
Foreign brokerages panel with Sandeep Bhatia, MD & Head of Equity India, Macquarie; Gautam Chhaochharia, Head of Global Markets, India, UBS; Venugopal Garre, MD, Bernstein; Sanjay Mookim, Head of India Equity Research, JP Morgan.
03:20 pm - 04:05 pm
Reinventing Financial Intermediation
Financial & wealth intermediaries panel on fintech disruption, with Swapnil Bhaskar, MD & CEO, JioBlackRock Investment Advisors; Gaurav Rastogi, Founder & CEO, Kuvera; Nilesh Naik, Head, MF, PhonePe.
04:10 pm - 04:55 pm
GIFT City: India's Gateway to the World
Dipesh Shah, Executive Director, IFSCA; V. Balasubramaniam, MD & CEO, NSE International Exchange; Vijay Krishnamurthy, MD & CEO, India INX; Suresh Swamy, Partner, Price Waterhouse & Co LLP.
05:00 pm - 05:30 pm
SEBI Fireside Chat
Kamlesh Chandra Varshney, Whole-Time Member, SEBI.
05:30 pm
Closing Note
By the Business Standard Editor.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do I know which event to attend, BFSI Insight Summit or Smart Investor Arena?
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Will I get an opportunity to interact with the speakers?
The BFSI Insight Summit does not include one-on-one interactions with speakers. However, attendees can participate in the Q&A discussions during the sessions.
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