Redefining the Future of Banking: Powered by Technology, Driven by Innovation’ which was the theme for this year’s edition of Trescon’s Big BFSI Future Tech Show & Award, opened to a packed house of over 150+ pre-qualified C-suite executives, speakers, and solution providers at The Taj Lands End, Mumbai.

#TresconBFSI featured technical presentations, and panel discussions to enlighten the delegates with real-time use-cases about BFSI Infrastructure, Customer Experience, and Cyber Security to name a few.

Some of the top speakers included:

• Amitabh Ranjan, Chairman, Reserve Bank of India
• Anila Rao, VP, APAC, Haptik
• Sumeet Puri, Chief Technology Solutions Officer, Solace Corporation
• Chandan Gupta, Vertical Head, Data Center Services, Web Werks – Iron Mountain India DCs
• Harshwardhan Mittal, CTO, Yubi (Formerly CredAvenue)
• Somayajula Shekhar Rao, Head Sales, Strategic Accounts, EFLV India, Tata Communications Limited
• Srinivasa Raghavan, Director, Product Management, Site24X7
• Mohan Bhat, MD & Co-founder, Accops
• Mahesh Ramamoorthy, CIO, Yes Bank
• Amit Saxena, CTO, RBI, Innovation Hub
• Prasanna Lohar, Chief Innovation Officer, DCB Bank
• Prashant Thakkar, COOT, LIC Mutual Fund Asset Management Ltd (LICMF)
• Nandkishore Purohit, Chief Digital and Technology Officer-IIFL Securities
• Pinak Chakraborthy, CIO, Airtel Payment Bank
• Navaneethan M, SVP- CISO & Head-it, Groww
• Dheepak Rajoo, SVP, Digital Banking Technology, PMO, HR Technology, IT Governance RBL Bank, to name a few…

The event addressed important issues in the banking landscape such as the rise of challenger banks in India; the future of money; transactions and the decline of cash; data-driven CX for higher ROI; chatbots as ‘financial concierge’; a transition towards green banking and much more.

The event kick-started with an opening keynote on ‘The Future of Banking in the Age of Digital Disruption’ delivered by Dr. Amitabh Rajan, Chairman, Services Board at Reserve Bank of India. In his keynote, he elucidated on post-2008 developments--economic, as well as technological and explained authentically the meaning of these changes for the next steps in the BFSI sector in the global context. He was quoted saying, “Market behavior is disruptive; technology is not the only thing that is on display. Therefore, it is necessary to have a deeper awareness of the financial condition.”

Sumeet Puri, Chief Technology Solutions Officer at Solace Corporation, spoke at length on the topic ‘Enabling the event-driven Digital Banking’. In his tech talk he was found quoting, “The approach of leveraging data on a product in real-time is actually saving lives.”

Anila Rao, VP, APAC at Haptik shared her insights on ‘Unlocking the power of WhatsApp Commerce for Financial Services’. Anila gave an exciting overview of Haptik’s WhatsApp integration, which is the World's Largest WhatsApp Chatbot Provider, and how customers can power an end-to-end shopping experience and how to boost sales with our WhatsApp Chatbot Solution.  

Chandan Gupta, Vertical Head, Data Center Services at WebWerks, shared his insights from his tech talk on ‘Colocation emerges as Interconnection Hub for Hybrid Landscape’.

The event also featured BIG BFSI Awards, an awards ceremony to honor the top 100 Leaders in India for their technology leadership, strategic influence, and significant contribution toward delivering excellence and innovation in their organization.

Several Contests and Lucky draws were conducted during the conference session and followed by the Cocktail Networking session.

“We’re very glad to successfully host yet another edition of #TresconBFSI. We are extremely happy to learn that this event is well on course to be India’s most important tech event in the BFSI & NBFC space. I congratulate all the Big BFSI Award winners for their hard work, dedicated, and excellence during tough times of the Covid-19 pandemic,” stated Mithun Shetty, CEO, Trescon.

Partners at Big BFSI Future Tech Show & Awards include:

Supported By - NITI Aayog,
Gold partners - Web Works and Iron Mountain, Haptik Technologies Limited, Solace,
Award Partner - Yubi (Formerly CredAvenue),
Silver partners – Site 24X7, Tata Tele Business Services and Accops,

Bronze partners – Kaleyra, ManageEngine, Dista and NeoSOFT