‘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, panel discussions to enlighten the delegates with real-time use-cases about BFSI Infrastructure, Customer Experience and Cyber Security to name a few. The event addressed important issues in 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 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.”
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 top 100 Leaders in India for their technology leadership, strategic influence, and significant contribution towards 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.