FSI

• 14:00 – 14:15 - Opening Address
  
  Creating Value in a Highly Volatile World
  
  Financial institutions are navigating unprecedented volatility, regulatory pressure and rising financial crime, while AI is rapidly evolving from experimentation to industrialized decision-making. This track explores how banks and insurers can create value in uncertain times by moving to governed, agentic and scalable AI.
  
  Radhakrishna B - Director - Customer Advisory, SAS India

• 14:15 – 14:45 - Insights and trends on AI/ML in Fraud and Fin crime

  As digital transactions grow in scale and speed, fraud and financial crime are becoming more sophisticated, driven by scams, mule networks, and AI-enabled threats. Banks must strengthen real-time detection and decisioning while maintaining seamless customer experiences and trust. This session explores how AI/ML, real-time analytics, and intelligent profiling can enhance fraud detection and operational efficiency. It will also highlight best practices to reduce fraud losses, minimize false positives, and build stronger, trust-driven digital banking ecosystems.

  Ravindra S Negi, Group Chief Risk Officer, Bank of Baroda

• 14:45 – 15:15 - Spotlight Session: SAS x KPMG 
  
  Navigating Regulatory Evolution: Risk, Resilience & AI-Driven Decisioning
  
  This session explores how financial institutions are responding to evolving regulations by transforming processes, technology, and data. It also highlights how organizations are strengthening risk management and operational resilience while increasingly adopting AI-driven decisioning to enhance agility, governance, and business performance.
  
  Speakers –  
  
  Jitesh Khaitan - Risk Management Practice Lead, SAS India
  Rajosik Banerjee - Partner National Head, Risk and Finance Advisory, KPMG
  
  
• 15:15 – 15:30 - Operationalizing Fraud Intelligence with SAS – From Detection to Investigation
  
  This session explores how banks can combat the evolving fraud landscape across digital channels. It provides an overview of a robust fraud decisioning framework, spanning multi-channel monitoring, real-time detection, and advanced analytics including AI/ML and behavioural intelligence. Through a use-case driven demo, attendees will experience the end-to-end fraud alert lifecycle—from detection and prioritization to investigation and case management. The session highlights how integrated workflows and actionable insights enable faster response, reduced false positives, and improved customer trust.
  
  Dipen Shah - Vice President, Sales & Consulting Services, Nupeak
  
  
• 15:30 – 15:45
  
  Break
  
  
• 15:45 – 16:30 - Panel Discussion 
  
  Risk to Resilience: Managing Emerging Risks & Threats Across Modern Banking
  
  Banking risks are increasingly interconnected, with traditional risk categories converging alongside emerging threats from digital ecosystems, real-time payments, AI-driven fraud, and cybercrime. As banks accelerate innovation, they must also strengthen governance, customer protection, and enterprise resilience. AI and advanced analytics are enhancing risk visibility and decision-making, while introducing new challenges around trust and accountability. This panel will explore how financial institutions can break down silos and adopt integrated, intelligence-led strategies to manage evolving risks and safeguard customers.
  
  Speakers –
  
  Manish Agrawal - Head of Fraud and Credit Intelligence, HDFC Bank
  Raj K Singh - Chief Risk Officer, Central Bank of India
  Wilson Ho - Vice President, Financial Services, Asia Pacific, SAS
  
  Moderator - Guruprakash Ramachandran - Senior Solution Sales Specialist, SAS India

• 16:30 – 16:45 - Driving Intelligent Credit Portfolio Strategy with AI
  
  Jay Modi - Analytics and AI lead, Sutra Management Consultancies

• 16:45 – 17:05 - Human + AI: Building Smarter Defenses Against Fraud & Financial Crime
  
  As fraud and financial crime grow increasingly sophisticated, organizations are facing a new era of AI-enabled threats, real-time scams, synthetic identities, and highly organized fraud networks. Traditional rule-based controls and siloed investigations are no longer sufficient to combat the scale and speed of emerging risks.
  
  This session explores how the combined power of human expertise and Artificial Intelligence is transforming fraud prevention and financial crime risk management. From predictive analytics and behavioral intelligence to real-time decisioning and AI-driven investigations, financial institutions are building smarter, adaptive defenses that can proactively identify, prevent, and mitigate evolving threats.
  
  Weder Souza - Risk, Fraud and Compliance Global Principal Industry Consultant

Data and AI

• 14:00 – 14:15 - Unlocking AI-Driven Value in the Modern Data Landscape
  
  Sachin Kotian - Head of Architecture, SAS India

• 14:15 – 14:30 - Building the Frontier Firm
  
  AI is redefining the enterprise operating model, shifting work from app centric processes to agent driven, human–AI collaboration.
  Frontier firms differentiate by embedding AI deeply into their core workflows, enabling faster innovation, productivity, and decision making at scale.
  This transformation succeeds only when built on strong foundations of cloud, data, and digital capabilities—positioning AI as the central layer of the business.
  
  Sajan Padikkala - Director - Azure Cloud AI, Microsoft

• 14:30 – 15:15
  
  Panel Discussion: Trusted Decisioning in the Age of Agentic AI
  
  As AI evolves into autonomous, decision-making agents, organizations must redefine how they ensure trust at scale. This panel will examine how leaders across industries are balancing innovation with governance, transparency, and human oversight to enable trusted decisioning.
  
  This discussion will focus on practical applications of Agentic AI from customer engagement to risk and compliance, along with the role of AI co-workers, synthetic data, and regulatory frameworks.
  
  Speakers –  
  
  Shashwat Kumar - Head - Analytics, DCB Bank
  Debashish Roy - Chief Digital Transformation Officer, CEAT
  Gyan Pandey - Executive President and Chief Digital & Information Officer, Polycab India
  Shuchi Mahajan - Senior Vice President II - Head Fraud Prevention, Analytics & Customer Awareness, HDFC Bank
  
  Moderator - Sachin Kotian - Head of Architecture, SAS India
  
  
• 15:15 – 15:30
  
  Break
  
  
• 15:30 – 16:00 - Running Agentic AI at Scale: SAS Retrieval Agent Manager on Intel Xeon
  
  This session showcases practical use cases of SAS Viya on Intel Xeon 6 in various operating models – including public cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments.
  Participants will gain insights from both business and technical perspectives on how a unified Intel architecture consistently supports analytics and AI workloads across all environments, enabling flexibility without compromising performance or cost.
  The session will also explore how digital sovereignty and data security can be enhanced.
  
  Xin Ru Lee - Senior Solutions Architect, Global Technology Practice, SAS
  Vikram Chauhan - Director & Head – Enterprise & Government Business, Intel
  
  
• 16:00 – 16:15 - From Prototype to Production: Deploying Scalable and Secure AI Agents with AWS and SAS
  
  Scalability, security, and data integration are key to deploying Agentic AI in production. In this session, see how AWS and SAS combine strengths to bring structured and unstructured data into agent workflows, with built-in governance and authentication. Explore how SAS's Retrieval Agent Manager and AWS services support real-time execution, performance monitoring, and deployment of agents that meet enterprise security and compliance needs — all while accelerating cloud-native innovation. 
  
  Mandar Patil - Solutions Architecture - Financial Services, AWS India
  

• 16:15 – 16:35 - Infusing Analytics into Agents
  
  Niket Vyas - APAC Regional Lead – Data & AI Solutions, SAS