Agenda - 2020 | Virtual Connect


09.00 am – 10.15 am   Registration & Networking

10.15 am – 10.30 am  Welcome Address

10.30 am – 11.25 am   Panel Discussion Session 1

Theme: #LEADERSHIP4.0 : Leadership in Payments 4.0 – Promise and challenges in the new ecosystem

  • Mr. Mihir Gandhi, Partner, Leader - Payments Transformation, PwC India (MODERATOR)
  • Ms. Jaya Janardanan, Chief Operating Officer, IndoStar Capital Finance Ltd.
  • Mr. Jagdish Narayanan, Chief Information Officer, Reliance Jio Payments Bank
  • Mr. Niraj Tralshawala, Business Head - Payment Solutions & Consumer Finance ICICI Bank Ltd.
  • Mr. Bikram Yadav, Business Head - Credit Cards, RBL Bank Ltd.
  • Mr. Sathish Narayana Mohan, Dy Chief Product Officer, FSS (Financial Software and Systems)
  • Ms. Deeksha Kaushal, Managing Director, Head of Cash Product and Innovation, Treasury and Trade Solutions, Citibank India

11.30 am – 12.30 pm   Panel Discussion Session 2

Theme: #DIGITALLYUNPLUGGED : The rise of extreme digitization - What to do Now, What to do Next

  • Mr. Raghu Ramanujam, Director of Product (Payments), Flipkart (MODERATOR)
  • Mr. Abhishek Gupta, Senior Director, Product Management, Payments, UPI, Freecharge (A subsidiary of Axis Bank)
  • Dato' Arif Siddiqui, SEVP/ Chief Digital Officer, Faysal Bank Ltd., Pakistan
  • Ms. Anjit Anand, Product Head: Mobile, Internet & API Banking, DCB Bank
  • Mr. Amit Saxena, Deputy Chief Technology Officer Digital Banking, State Bank of India
  • Mr. Padmanaban T A, Head - Digital Banking, City Union Bank

12.30 pm – 13.30 pm   Lunch & Networking Break

13.30 pm – 14.25 pm   Panel Discussion Session 3

Theme: #NEOBANKING : Demystifying Payment Strategies for Millennials in the Digitized Era

  • Mr. Vikrant Khorana, Chief Innovation Officer, Payswiff (MODERATOR)
  • Mr. Avishek Banerjee, Senior Industry Consultant, IBM, Australia
  • Mr. Jayanth Ananthakrishnan, VP, Product & Portfolio Head - Mashreq Neo, Mashreq Bank, UAE
  • Mr. Nityanand Sharma, Co-Founder & CEO, Simpl Technologies Pvt Ltd.
  • Mr. Alok Arora, Co-Founder, Nupay

14.30 pm – 15.30 pm   Panel Discussion Session 4

Theme: #CROSSBORDERPAYMENTS : Going Global – Connecting Payment Systems Across Borders

  • Mr. Anand Sagar, Program Director- Head of Deployment Mobile Financial Services, Ericsson (FINTECH, Business Advisory) (MODERATOR)
  • Mr. Shafique R Ibrahim, Chief Digital Information Officer, Al Fardan Group, UAE
  • Mr. Kannan R, Head – NRI Business & Personal Inward Remittance, Federal Bank
  • Mr. Sharad Somani, Leader - Digital Go To Market, South East Asia & South Asia, Western Union
  • Mr. Akhil Rao, Director, Nth Exception
  • Mr. Kaushik Ghosh, Regional Director - Partnerships & Revenue, South Asia, Thunes
  • Mr. Sheshagiri Malliah, Regional Director – Asia, TerraPay
  • Mr. Naved Ashraf, Head - India and South Asia, MoneyGram International

15.30 pm – 15.45 pm   Tea / Coffee & Networking Break

15.45 pm – 16.45 pm  Panel Discussion Session 5

Theme: #GOINGCASHLESS : Digital Is The Present And Future

  • Mr. Abhay Johorey, Digital Strategy, ICICI Bank Ltd. (MODERATOR)
  • Mr. Venkatram Jayanthy, MD & CEO, India Post Payments Bank
  • Mr. Ravi Joshi, Deputy General Manager - Digital Banking & Emerging Payments, IDBI Bank Ltd.
  • Mr. John Alex, National Head-UPI & Strategic Alliances, Bajaj Finserv Direct Ltd.
  • Mr. Richard Anderson, Company Director & Business Head – India, JCB
  • Mr. Vivian Chandru J, Head - Cobrand Cards, Payments Innovations, Bank & Network Partnerships, InterMiles (Jet Privilege Pvt. Ltd)
  • Mr. Prasanna Nagarajan, Vice President -Digital Products, Equitas Small Finance Bank
  • Mr. Vineet Toshniwal, Founder & CEO, CityCash

16.50 pm – 17.45 pm  Panel Discussion Session 6

Theme: #OPENBANKING – Open Banking Payments : Together Towards a Seamless Smarter Tomorrow

  • Mr. Palani Balasubramanyam Nama, VP - Head - Open Innovation & Digital Transformation and Global Trade Execution (IT & OPS), Societe Generale Global Solution Centre (MODERATOR)
  • Mr. Bhanukumar Gangaraju, Lead Business Analyst - Open banking and Fintech integration (APIs and digitalization), DBS Bank
  • Mr. Vivek Gopalakrishnan, Head of Open Banking, Federal Bank
  • Mr. Nitin Bhandari, Managing Director & Global Head - Digital API Banking, Blockchain & Open Ecosystem portfolio, Standard Chartered Bank, Singapore
  • Mr. Aveek Chaudhuri, Group Product & Innovation Lead - Digital Business, Lending & Open API Framework, Axis Bank Ltd.
  • Mr. Abhishek Seth, Director, Digital Engineering. Head of Open Banking, Digital Micro services /APIs & Integration Technology, Citi, Singapore

17.50 pm – 18.30 pm   Payments & Cards Awards





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