PAYMENTS INNOVATION SUMMIT 2023

"Driving the future of payments enhanced by digital innovations"

8th June 2023, Novotel Mumbai International Airport, India.

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Overview

       India touched 20.57 billion transactions via debit cards, credit cards, prepaid payment instruments such as mobile wallets, prepaid cards and UPI for the second quarter of 2022 with Rs 36.08 trillion in terms of value which were processed through various platforms. UPI overtook all other forms of payments at 34% in terms of volume at merchant transactions. With the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) releasing its Payments Vision document, the sector is positioned for further growth in the digital payment landscape in India.

      The Payments Innovation Summit, will unravel the opportunities across the payments landscape in India. The event is an exclusive gathering of the top most financial experts, payments leaders, stakeholders from the BFSI sector who will deliberate on futuristic payments technologies & innovations, a growth strategy for the future of the sector and engage with peers and decision makers from across the ecosystem

Payment Innovation Summit 2023 | (June 8 - Mumbai )

Market Scenario



Payment Innovation Summit 2023 | (June 8 - Mumbai )

 India’s card payments market is set to grow by 23.6% to reach INR26.9 trillion ($361.6 billion) in 2023

 India’s card payments market is set to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 18.7% between 2022 and 2026 to reach INR43.3 trillion ($581.1 billion) in 2026.

 POS terminals activity increases, with the total number of terminals deployed by banks standing at 6.59 million in Sept 2022 a rise of 43% from a year-ago.

 Indian prepaid card market likely to witness a compounded annual growth rate of 40.5%, between 2021 and 2026

 Digital payments, will continue to see the strong growth of recent years, touching an estimated $153 billion in transaction value in 2023

Why Attend PIS 2023?

 Connect with leading Industry stakeholders, influencing innovation in the Payments Industry in India

 Hear about future focused topics and access the collective expertise of the entire Indian payment ecosystem

 Hear about future focused topics and access the collective expertise of the entire Indian payment ecosystem Take advantage of opportunities to establish connections across India’s BFSI sector & Corporate India

 Gain critical knowledge from leading industry thought leaders who will be delivering technology presentations and strategic keynotes

 Dedicated platform for emerging payments innovators and key decision makers to collaborate

 Understand the dynamics of India’s Card payments, prepaid payments, UPI, digital payments, remittances & POS sector



Payment Innovation Summit 2023 | (June 8 - Mumbai )

Why Sponsor PIS 2023?

Payment Innovation Summit 2023 | (June 8 - Mumbai )

  Get an opportunity to connect with a niche audience who are influencing the payments ecosystem

 Showcase your technology and products impacting the payments domain and collaborate with potential partners and clients

  Access a focused and curated platform designed for start-ups and innovators disrupting the Indian payments Industry

  Connect and build partnerships with your peers from the FinTech and PSPs sectors

  Utilize the opportunity to brand yourself as a thought leader at India’s dedicated Payments Summit of the year

 Gain Immediate access to decision makers from across SMEs, & other consumer intensive industries, who are seeking solutions

Key Topics Being Discussed

Digital Payments & Faster Payments

CBDC & Digital Currencies

Financial Inclusion & Payments Innovation

Payments As a Service, Micro Payments, Real Time Payments

Regulations, Compliance & Security

Retail Payments & Interoperability

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Attending Industries

Financial Institutions

Banks

NBFCs

Corporate & Consumer Sectors
     (Retail, D2C, Ecommerce)

FinTech & PSPs

Consulting Companies

Government

Associations & Academia

Media



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Attending
Job title

CEOs, MDs, COOs

Payments (Heads, VP, Director Etc.)

Treasury & Finance (Heads, VP, Director Etc.)

Product & Customer Management
     (Heads, VP, Director Etc.)

Sales & Marketing (Heads, VP, Director Etc.)

Digital & Technology
    (Heads, VP, SVP, CIO, Director Etc.)

Risk & Security (Heads, VP, Director Etc.)

Consultants/ Media Professionals

Event Speakers

Joachim Samuelsson

Joachim Samuelsson

CEO/ Crunchfish AB

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Joachim Samuelsson

CEO
Crunchfish AB

Joachim Samuelsson is the CEO and main owner of NASDAQ First North listed Crunchfish from Malmö. Joachim is a deep tech pioneer and a serial entrepreneur. Crunchfish pursues the global business opportunity making payments and other digital applications robust, trusted, and secure by a patent-pending Trusted Application Protocol enabling survivability in the face of temporary failures on links and nodes.

Crunchfish Digital Cash will future-proof payment ecosystems with a more robust payments that work regardless if the payer is online or not and even when backend servers are down. In India, Crunchfish Digital Cash offline is piloted by HDFC Bank and IDFC First Bank in the Regulatory Sandbox of RBI. There are also integrations for offline payments using Digital Cash telecom for the eRupee and PPI on UPI.

Joachim has been in a leadership position in seven successful business exits of which four involved his automatic frequency planning innovation for mobile telecom networks. Joachim holds more than 20 patents in digital payments and communications and has been awarded many times for his entrepreneurship.

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Nalin Bansal

Nalin Bansal

Chief of Fintech, Corporates and New Initiative / NPCI

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Nalin Bansal

Chief of Fintech, Corporates and New Initiative
National Payments Corporation of India

Nalin is a Product & Business Strategy Professional with a rich experience of 20+ years on global assignments covering Technology, Telecom & Payments domain.

He has spearheaded the launch of many initiatives in the telecom and payments business and incubated new age payment solutions with organizations like Airtel, MasterCard and NPCI. He has also been an advisor to multiple start-ups for their go-to-market strategy.

He started his career with Bharti Airtel in 2001 and was a part of the India’s telecom revolution. He had been responsible for spearheading some key projects for Airtel which included Strategic outsourcing, Telecom roll outs, Tower cost optimization and GIS based Market planning. Later as part of the principal team at Bharti group he evaluated and executed projects in new areas like DTH, Mobile wallets and International acquisitions. At MasterCard he led the product launch for and their Bill Payments platform in India.

Presently he is serving as Chief of Corporate Business and Key Initiatives at National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI). Under his leadership, NPCI was able to swiftly launch the prestigious Bharat Bill Payment System (BBPS) platform for Reserve Bank of India (RBI), National Common Mobility Card (NCMC) for Transit operators and Smart Cities and rolled out solutions in the area of Contactless Payments, Secure Online Commerce and Tokenization.

At NPCI, he has been contributed extensively in building the ecosystem of payments enabling Governments, Corporates, Merchants, MSMEs and driving consumption for consumers in all segments. In his current role he is tasked to set up partnerships to drive new use cases for Fintech, Startups & Merchants not just in payments but also in areas of loyalty, analytics and identification.

Nalin is a Communications engineer from University of Pune and holds a Master’s degree in Diploma (Strategy) in Business Management from FORE, Delhi.

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Shanthi Kartheeswaran

President - Risk / Tutelar Fintech Private Limited

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Shanthi Kartheeswaran

President - Risk
Tutelar Fintech Private Limited

Ms. Shanthi Kartheeswaran : is an enthusiastic risk engine architect with over 15 years of proficiency in combating a broad spectrum of online fraud. She has extensive experience in analyzing e-commerce fraud patterns, developing mitigation techniques, and creating data-driven strategies. Her expertise in designing and building real-time risk solutions has benefitted businesses in lowering fraud rates.

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Santhosh

Santhosh Reddy

Co-Founder & VP-Technology / ShakePe

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Santhosh Reddy

Co-Founder & VP-Technology
ShakePe

Santhosh Reddy is the Co-founder and CTO at ShakeDeal, one of the fastest-growing B2B procurement solutions providing and distributing platforms in India. He is the man behind designing and developing end-to-end technological solutions at the company.

After pursuing Bachelor of Engineering (Computer Science) from Visvesvaraya Technological University, Santhosh went ahead to work for Mindtree in various capacities and developed expertise in developing applications for different business processes. He bagged a plethora of experience mentoring project teams on numerous topics, including responsive web design, design thinking and bootstrap. As a consultant, he has helped many start-ups build their end-to-end products in the field of Finance, Video streaming, IoT, Entertainment & Ecommerce sectors. Before onboarding ShakeDeal, Santhosh’s experience as a Development Architecture in developing reporting solutions for the Zoom platform and building a PDS management system empowered him to take over further challenges and ace them with his know-how and hands-on industry expertise.

With over 15 years of technical experience working for various Fortune 500 clients, Santhosh has mastered defining technological roadmaps that lead to operational efficiency. He is committed to developing high-end, technologically-backed solutions to resolve multiple pain points in the B2B industry. His tech-savvy outlook and zeal for designing and implementing sustainable solutions have helped him achieve notable milestones in his entrepreneurship journey.

As a CTO at ShakeDeal, Santhosh is responsible for building technology solutions to improve business processes, increase productivity and efficiency and reduce cost for ShakeDeal’s customers, vendors and internal employees. Santhosh also oversees the skill development of all internal employees by designing appropriate upskill programmes.

In his leisure time, Santhosh loves to sketch, read screenplays, and watch theater. He also likes to mentor technology enthusiasts and learn about other businesses and their business models.

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Prasanna Lohar

Prasanna Lohar

Chief Executive Officer / Block Stack

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Prasanna Lohar

Chief Executive Officer
Block Stack

Prasanna Lohar : I have Over 22+ Years of Industry Experience in Engineering and Development, Product Development, Organization Strategy & Governance, Risk Audit Compliance Management, Business Process Management, Enterprise Architecture, Mobile Apps, Digital Transformation, Fintech, E-Commerce, Payments, Platform & Product Innovation, Data Science, Automation, AR & VR , Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, Open Stack, Cloud Computing, Analytics, Big Data, IOT, Blockchain, UI-UX & Business Development.

As part of Professional career into worked Globally for Bank, Fintech, Micro-Finance, Engineering, Multi-National companies for Digital & Architecture Transformation, I am closely associated with New & latest technology Strategy, Assimilation, Experimentation, Innovative Customer Servicing & Engagement, Robust Architecture Implementation, Fintech & Startup Alignment, Open Innovation practices, Collaboration with other Banks on various initiatives.

I have done 100+ Digital Deliveries on Digital Front for My DCB bank into Innovation, Digital Channels e.g. ATM, Internet banking, Mobile banking, SMS Banking, Social Command Center, Enterprise Innovation for Operational excellence, ATMChain, Smartstart an Blockchain Initiatives, Zippi – Straight thru A/c Open with API Banking, DCB Remit, Video KYC.

I am Part of various deliveries like India’s first Aadhaar & Biometric enabled ATM, Paperless A/c Opening India’s first Omni-Channel Framework for Bank, KYC, Blockchain, Mobile banking & Mobile Apps, Virtual Reality based App, Open Banking & Internet Banking Initiative, Unified Payment Interface (UPI), Bharat Bill Payment, API Management, Blockchain, Switch & Cards relevant initiatives

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Abhishek Mody

Abhishek Mody

Digital Banking & Transformation Expert

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Abhishek Mody

Digital Banking & Transformation Expert

Abhishek Experienced professional in Retail & Business Payments, MSME & Consumer Lending & Digital Banking as Product/Strategy SME. Worked with Banks, Payment aggregators, Technology & Entities in Product & Solution Roles. MBA from US, incubated career with likes of Washington Mutual & Wells Fargo (for their Retail & Mortgage divisions) as Business Systems Analyst.

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Prithwish Sinha

Associate Director / PwC India

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Prithwish Sinha

Associate Director
PwC India

Prithwish Sinha: MBA from MDI Gurgaon with 14+ years of experience in Payments and Banking Domain

- Leading Business Development and Engagements for Large Accounts (Mega Banks and Conglomerates)
- Have advised Clients across payment form factors ranging from Strategy to Implementation
- Leading the Ecosystem and Cards Strategy for the practice

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Sunil

Sunil Kulkarni

CEO / BCFI

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Sunil Kulkarni

CEO
Business Correspondents Federation of India (BCFI)

Sunil is the CEO of Business Correspondents Federation of India (BCFI), a member institution with over 60 Corporate BCs servicing 20 Lakh BC Agents pan India. He is also Strategic Advisor – Payments & Digital Banking to select banks. As a Fintech Professional, he provides strategic advisory services in Fintech & Payments space to select initial & growth stage start-ups, Sunil has over 35 years of cross-industry experience in technology-led businesses. In his last assignment (Dec 2019), he was the Joint Managing Director for Oxigen Services, a company he helped build over 15 years.

Sunil is referred to as the techno-savvy brain behind developing a successful business model, using technology, for varied services & products, including the Oxigen Mobile Wallet, an innovative payment mechanism and prepaid wallet, accessible online/on-mobile. He successfully led the company's Business Development and was also the architect for the technology solutions in the initial phase. He, alongside the Oxigen core team, converted Oxigen from a Recharges/BillPay company, to an integrated Branchless Banking & Payment Solutions company with state of art Oxigen SuperPoS MicroATM. He was responsible for taking the company in 2010-15 period to its next greenfield opportunity in Domestic & International Remittances, Merchant Payments, Aadhaar enabled payments, Loyalty & Corporate Expense Management Solution using Mobile Wallets/cards.

Before taking the role of CEO-BCFI, he was the founding member & Director on board of the BCFI and also co-chaired Prepaid Payments Instruments (PPI) committee in Payments Council of India (PCI). He has contributed through PCI, enabling environment for PPI industry with his interactions with government (Ministry of Finance) and regulator (Reserve Bank of India). He actively participated in Mobile Payments Forum of India (MPFI) in 2007-10 for facilitating RBI’s first prepaid payments instruments (PPI) guidelines in 2009. He also co-chaired the Prepaid Payments Instruments (Mobile Wallets) Committee in the Payments Council of India (PCI) and through his interactions with government and regulator during and post demonetisation, made an immense contribution to creating an enabling environment for the Digital Payments/Wallet industry.

Prior to joining Oxigen, Sunil served as General Manager - Marketing & Business Development in Motorola India Wireless Infrastructure business. He started his professional journey with Siemens Ltd., where he last served as the Head of Semi-Conductor Division. Sunil is an Engineering Graduate in Electronics & Communication with Gold medal in 1986 from Jodhpur and completed his Management Education from Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad in 1992-93.

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Abhishek Kothari

CEO / Pepper Money India

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Abhishek Kothari

CEO
Pepper Money India

Abhishek is an alumnus of IIT Bombay and ISB Hyderabad. He is an accomplished serial entrepreneur and most notably the founder of one of the largest SME lending Fintechs in India – FlexiLoans. After he exited his last venture, he is now ambitiously building Pepper Money - one of India’s most loved financial services brands.

Apart from being an active angel investor, he is one of the top speakers and content contributors in Indian Fintech ecosystems and has spoken at events like TiE Mumbai, IAMAI, Digital Money 2017, DLAI (Digital Lenders Association of India), Payments Summit by Economic Times, India Fintech Awards and many more.

Prior to FlexiLoans.com, Abhishek was the Europe head of financial services for one of the recent unicorns - Fractal Analytics. In 2016, he permanently moved back to India to be a part of the emerging FinTech landscape and founded FlexiLoans.com.

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Sandeep Sharma

Founder CEO / HiSAVE

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Sandeep Sharma

Founder CEO
HiSAVE

Sandeep Sharma : Hands on management professional with tenacity to handle large and complex business environment. Track record in top notch banks and financial institutions, to grow top line with enhanced focus on bottom line. Proven leadership in handling large branches network/ distribution , with expertise in driving complex roles in area of operation , sales across all client segments including microfinance , fintech, retail, MSME & digital initiatives. Have scripted successful roll out of platform based digital banking, International and proprietary cards, agent banking – mobile wallet strategy, and full services on NeoBanking , leading to enhanced innovations in all market segments, with special focus on the bottom of the pyramid.

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Harsh Vardhan Masta

Harsh Vardhan Masta

Head of Digital Payments /Policybazaar

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Harsh Vardhan Masta

Head of Digital Payments
Policybazaar

Harsh Vardhan Masta is Head of Digital Payments at Policybazaar where he is leading the digital payments initiatives. With more than 14 years of experience in product development, management, tech, and new initiatives, he has been passionately involved in the Fintech space. Prior to Policybazaar, Harsh led the digital payment initiatives at IndiaMART and also served as the Director for their payment gateway, Pay with IndiaMART. He is credited with the ideation and launch of this product and more such initiatives at the organization.

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Vishesh Sharma

Vishesh Sharma

Chief Marketing Officer /Bajaj Financial Securities

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Vishesh Sharma

Chief Marketing Officer
Bajaj Financial Securities

Vishesh Sharma has been recognized for his remarkable professional accomplishments. In 2020, he was named Content Marketer 40u40 by Exchange for Media and the Marketing Leader of the Year in the BFSI segment by Nasscom. A year later, he was honored as the Rising Media Star by Best Media Info, Corporate Communications Person of the Year by AdGully, and 40u40 PR Professional by Reputation Today. He won Gold at Inkspell awards under the category of Content Marketing Professional 2021. Vishesh was also bestowed with Excellence in PR award by Adgully under their Leader 2.0 awards in 2022 and was also felicitated by World Marketing Congress as one of India’s Top 50 Influential Marketing Leaders.

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Vaibhav

Vaibhav Joshi

Co-founder, CBO & Global Head BFSI / Ayekart Fintech

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Vaibhav Joshi

Co-founder, CBO & Global Head BFSI
Ayekart Fintech

Vaibhav Joshi : A proven strategist, planner & able business leader with strong experience in creating and implementing predictable revenue & sustainable business models. Proficient in Business & Product functions with key domain expertise across Digital Banking. Has recognised proficiency in spearheading a product or business with an aim to accomplish corporate goals successfully, having successfully led small to mid-size teams from diverse backgrounds across different geographies.

An enthusiast for Innovations with a result oriented approach, achieving product innovations within regulatory compliances. A result oriented leader with a strong focus on new technology innovations and changing market realities.

An avid learner/ student of life with a flare for all things digital. A BFSI Industry expert who participates across various industry forums as a panelist/ speaker for sharing his knowledge.

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Abhishant

Abhishant Pant

founder / The Fintech Meetup

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Abhishant Pant

founder
The Fintech Meetup

Abhishant Pant is founder of “The Fintech Meetup” India’s largest Fintech ecosystem. TFM works closely with 50+ large Financial institutions, 1500+ Fintech startups and 500+ Venture Investors. Key focus are acting as Innovation bridge between large FI and Fintech startups, Financial Inclusion : Focussing on Digital txn literacy. Before starting TFM Abhishant was heading new banks, financial Inclusion and Fintech for Visa India and SA.

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Ishan

Ishan

Lead - Research and M&A / The Fintech Meetup

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Ishan

Lead - Research and M&A
The Fintech Meetup

Ishan is currently heading research and M&A at The Fintech Meetup, India's largest Fintech ecosystem and YAN Angel Fund (India's only fintech focused angel fund). Prior to this, has been associated with The Economic Times and Moneycontrol as Financial Journalist, covering Banking, NBFC, Insurance & Fintech segments.

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Sahil Shah

Sahil Shah

Domestic Payment and Receivables Head
Citi India

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Sahil Shah

Domestic Payment and Receivables Head
Citi India

Sahil Shah : is the India Head for Domestic Payments & Receivables, covering the full suite of domestic transactional payments and receivables needs of corporate, commercial, financial institution and public sector clients in India. Sahil’s responsibilities include product development & management and driving innovation in payments space by leveraging new technologies as well as building external partnerships. Sahil has 11+ years of experience in Trade Operations & Cash Management businesses in India. He holds the MBA degree from Asian Institute of Management, Manila – Philippines.

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Sameer Gupta

Sameer Gupta

Head – Business Development – Payments, Financial Services / Amazon Web Services

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Sameer Gupta

Head – Business Development – Payments, Financial Services
Amazon Web Services

Sameer is the Head of Payments, Go-To-Market for India in the Amazon Web Services Worldwide Financial Services Go-To-Market (GTM) Specialist team. He has 19+ years of experience in the financial services industry. Sameer was most recently the Director of Product Innovation & FinTech Partnerships (South Asia) in Transaction Banking (Treasury & Trade Solutions) business at Cit India. In his 15 years career at Citi, Sameer has been responsible for roles across Product Management, B2B sales, Operation & Technology, Innovation & Partnerships and Implementation. Sameer also had a product management stint at Infosys Finacle (now EdgeVerve).

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Abhijit Dey

Abhijit Dey

Vice President - API Banking Product Head,DBAT / Axis Bank

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Abhijit Dey

Vice President - API Banking Product Head,DBAT
Axis Bank

Abhijit Dey is currently the Vice President – Product Head API Banking at Axis Bank. He is an experienced Product Head with a demonstrated history of working in the BFSI sector. Abhijit is skilled in API management and API monetization and has created Open API framework for banks.

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Crunchfish is a deep tech company developing a Digital Cash platform for Banks, Payment Services and CBDC implementations and Gesture Interaction technology for AR/VR and automotive industry. Crunchfish is listed on Nasdaq First North Growth Market since 2016, with headquarters in Malmö, Sweden and with a subsidiary in India. Crunchfish Digital Cash augments any form of payment. It is the future of payments on any form factor – mobiles, web, cards and wearables, on any payment rail – Instant, EMV, CBDC and crypto, and for online as well as offline payments. Crunchfish has the bold ambition to take a global leadership position within payments.

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Acemoney is a start-up expertised in developing and delivering multiple fintech products to different categories of end users considering their needs. The solutions of Acemoney are purposefully designed to facilitate ultimate user experience and meet the individual requirements of specific use cases

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ShakePe: India’s largest procurement tech platform, ShakePe is India’s Premier Expense Management Suite that helps corporates streamline and manage different forms of business spend. The ShakePe business was started in mid 2020 and has quickly grown to become one of the leading spend management platforms in Asia.

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Policybazaar is one of India's largest insurance marketplaces. It is the flagship platform of PB Fintech, which owns the fintech brand, Paisabazaar.com, and the lending & insurance marketplace in the UAE region, Policybazaar.ae. The Policybazaar.com Group has backing from a host of investors including the likes of PE funds and other family offices. Policybazaar.com started with the purpose to educate people on insurance products and with its offerings has addressed the large and highly underpenetrated online insurance markets.

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India Blockchain Forum (IBF) is a confluence of thought leaders and key influencers in the Indian Blockchain Industry. It draws leaders from policymakers, Industry associations, corporate leaders, Startup founders, and ecosystem enablers. IBF has a singular mission of making India a blockchain powerhouse by building an enabling environment for collaboration between multiple stakeholders in the Web 3.0 ecosystem.

The forum aims to educate, collaborate, and facilitate discussions and knowledge sharing related to blockchain technology and its various applications. It may organize events, conferences, workshops, and meetups to bring together individuals and organizations from different sectors and industries to discuss blockchain's impact on various domains such as finance, supply chain, healthcare, governance, and more.

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India Blockchain forum has representation from top blockchain technology companies, large IT services companies, policymakers, startups. leading academicians and blockchain community evangelists. The forum has more than 40+ key influencers and is setting up special interest Groups (SIGs) to tackle various aspects of web3.0 evolution.

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India Blockchain Forum envisages a collaboration model with Government, Regulator, Industry , Corporates , Banks, and Academia to help build a holistic framework for the right adoption of Web 3.0. It shall also create community chapters across the country to increase awareness and access to global best practices on blockchain and Web 3.0.

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Event Schedule

Here is our event schedule

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Registration & Networking

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Opening Remarks

Keynote

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Opening Keynote : The Indian Payment Landscape & The Future Outlook


" Nalin Bansal - Chief of Fintech, Corporates and New Initiative / NPCI "

SESSION ONE – FUTURE OF PAYMENTS

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Key Presentation: Revolutionizing Modern Digital Payments Through Faster Payments


" Vaibhav Joshi - Co-founder, CBO & Global Head BFSI / Ayekart Fintech "

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Strategic Insight: Digital Rupee- Unpacking India's CBDC Pilots


"Prasanna Lohar- Chief Executive Officer / Block Stack"

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Key Presentation: Catalyzing India’s FinTech Ecosystem to Drive Financial Inclusion


" Abhishant Pant- founder / The Fintech Meetup"

Alejandrin Littel

TEA & NETWORKING

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Tech Talk: Seamless Onboarding Strategies with Risk Managed Payment Processing & Fraud Prevention

"Shanthi Kartheeswaran- President-Risk / Tutelar Fintech Private Limited"

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Key Presentation: PSPs- Facilitating SME Sector growth in India - Abhishek Mody, Digital Banking & Transformation Expert

"Abhishek Mody- Digital Banking & Transformation Expert"

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Strategic Panel: Driving India Towards Becoming a Cashless Economy

Moderator

"Sunil Kulkarni- CEO / BCFI"

Panelist

"Dhaval Jariwala- Director - Advisory - Payments Transformation / PwC India"

"Abhishek Kothari- CEO / Pepper Money India"

"Joachim Samuelsson- CEO/ Crunchfish AB"

"Sameer Gupta- Head – Business Development – Payments, Financial Services / Amazon Web Services"

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LUNCH & NETWORKING

SESSION TWO – INNOVATION IN PAYMENTS

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Keynote Topic: Innovations in B2B Fintech

"Santhosh Reddy- Co-Founder & VP-Technology / ShakePe"

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Key presentation: Enabling Financial Institutions and large brands - to Future Proof through innovation in payments

"Sandeep Sharma- Founder CEO / HiSAVE"

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Keynote: Enabling offline payments in an online world

"Joachim Samuelsson- CEO/ Crunchfish AB"

Alejandrin Littel

TEA & NETWORKING

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Strategic Panel: Digital Payments & Their Impact on India’s Ecommerce

Moderator

"Ishan Shah- Lead - Research and M&A / The Fintech Meetup"

Panelist

"Vishesh Sharma- Chief Marketing Officer /Bajaj Financial Securities"

"Abhijit Dey- Vice President - API Banking Product Head,DBAT / Axis Bank"

"Sahil Shah- Domestic Payment and Receivables Head Citi India"

"Harsh Vardhan Masta- Head of Digital Payments /Policybazaar"

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