An exclusive, invite-only thought leadership event featuring leading fintech startups, influencers and leaders
who will discuss on the latest innovations and trends in the fintech space
Please register here to get access to the on-demand content of
AWS Fintech Forum 2021 which was held on November 25th & 26th, 2021
The startups in digital payments, InsurTech and WealthTech are turbocharging the fintech industry’s growth in India. Indian fintech startups are already reshaping the financial services landscape in the country. With over 2,000+ fintech startups in India, we are the 2nd largest fintech hub in the world.

Hear from experienced founders on how to navigate through a complex business environment and take this
opportunity to learn & network with your peers.
Agenda
Business Edition: For Enterprise and Startup CXOs
9:30 AM - 9:45 AM
Welcome
Networking in the lounge
9:45 AM - 10:15 AM
Fintech State of the Union - Learn about the latest fintech trends
Overview of the fintech ecosystem and a deep dive into fintech startups in lending, payments, capital markets and the insurance space
10:15 AM - 11:00 AM
Raising funds in fintech industry – hear from top venture capitalists
Best practices on raising funds for fintech startups
11:00 AM - 11:45 AM
Founder panel discussion: Building a fintech company in current times
Listen from late-stage fintech founder’s on how they have built their startups and how they are scaling in current times
11:45 AM - 12:45 PM
Fintech growth stories
Hear from global fintech startups about global best practices
12:45 PM - 1:45 PM
Fireside chat with a unicorn fintech startup - learn do's & dont's of scaling fintech startups
Discussion with a fintech unicorn/soonicorn founder
1:45 PM - 2:15 PM
AWS Startup program
Hear about AWS Activate, AWS Capital connect and other startup programs from Amazon
2:15 PM - 2:30 PM
Closing note
Technical Edition: For Developers, Data Scientists and Architects
August 27,2020 | 9.30 AM to 2.30 PM
Schedule for day 2 TBD
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Agenda
Business Edition: For Enterprise and Startup CXOs
August 26th Wednesday, 2020 | 9.30 AM to 2.30 PM
9:30 AM - 9:45 AM
Welcome
Shradha Sharma
Founder & CEO, YourStory
9:45 AM - 10:15 AM
Fintech State of the Union - Learn about the latest fintech trends
Puneet Chandok
President, India, Amazon Internet Services Pvt. Ltd.
10:15 AM - 10:45 AM
Fintech Landscape in India
Amit Goel
Founder & CSO, MEDICI Global
10:45 AM - 11:45 AM
Fintech Founder Stories
Upasana Taku
Cofounder, MobiKwik
Navin Surya
Chairman, Fintech Convergence Council & Chairman Emeritus, Payments Council of India
Gaurav Arora
Head of Startup Ecosystem, APAC, Amazon Web Services (Moderator)
11:45 AM - 12:45 PM
Fintech Trends: Payments, Neobanking & Beyond
Vinay Bagri
CEO & Co-founder, Niyo Solutions Inc.
Ramgopal Subramani
Chief Operating Officer, Perfios Software Solutions Pvt. Ltd
Sameer Hoda
President - Strategy and Operations, Mswipe Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
Sandeep Laxman
Head, Fintech, Amazon Internet Services Pvt Ltd (Moderator)
12:45 PM - 1:45 PM
Fireside Chat: Building Fintech Unicorns
Lizzie Chapman
CEO & Co-Founder, ZestMoney
Ashish Kashyap
Founder - INDmoney.com
Navdeep Manaktala
Director & Head, Startup Business, Asia-Pacific & Japan, Amazon Web Services (Moderator)
1:45 PM - 2:15 PM
AWS Startup program
Digbijoy Shukla
Business Development Lead, Startup Ecosystem ASEAN, AWS
2:15 PM - 2:30 PM
Closing note
Sandeep Laxman
Head, Fintech, Amazon Internet Services Pvt Ltd.
Technical Edition: For Developers, Data Scientists and Architects
August 27 Thursday ,2020 | 9.30 AM to 2.30 PM
9:30 AM - 9:45 AM
Welcome
Shradha Sharma
Founder & CEO, YourStory
9:45 AM - 10:15 AM
Keynote: Tech in Fintech
Mackenzie Kosut
Global Startup Advocate, AWS
10:15 AM - 11:15 AM
Panel Discussion: Putting the Tech in Fintech
Shrini Viswanath
Co-founder, Upstox
Rohan Bhargava
Co-founder, CashKaro.com
Kunal Shah
Co-founder, Turtlemint
Natasha Jethanandani
CTO, KaleidoFin  Pvt. Ltd.
Sandeep Cashyap
Head - Startup Business, India, AWS (Moderator)
Track 1: AI & ML
11:15 AM - 12:15 PM
AI in Fintech
Praveen Jayakumar
Specialist AI/ML Solutions Architect, Amazon Internet Services Pvt. Ltd.
Vamsikrishna Ithamraju
VP Engineering, NeoGrowth Credit Ltd.
12:15 PM - 1:15 PM
KYC & document analysis using AWS AI
Gaurav Jagavkar
Technologist, Principal Architect, Amazon Internet Services Pvt. Ltd.
Rudrajeet Desai
Founder & CEO, WorkApps Product Solutions
Shankar Borate
Co Founder & CTO, WorkApps Product Solutions
1:15 PM - 2:15 PM
Credit Risk Analysis and Fraud Detection leveraging AI
Ashish Anantharaman
Co-founder & CTO, ZestMoney
Rajdeep Tarat
Solutions Architect, Amazon Internet Services Pvt. Ltd.
Track 2: Compliance & Security
11:15 AM - 12:15 PM
FSI Compliance
Nitin Bhatnagar
Associate Director -India, PCI Security Standards Council
Deepak Umapathy
Senior Consultant, Crossbow Labs
Swati Sharma
FSI Compliance Specialist, India, Amazon Internet Services Pvt. Ltd.
12:15 PM - 1:15 PM
Demystifying RBI Audit on AWS Cloud
Dharshan Shanthamurthy
Founder & CEO, SISA
Kaushik Pandey
Principal Consultant, SISA
Ramki Gaddipati
Co-founder & CTO, Zeta
Swati Sharma
FSI Compliance Specialist, India, Amazon Internet Services Pvt. Ltd.
1:15 PM - 2:15 PM
Fraud and Anomaly detection
Rohini Gaonkar
Senior Developer Advocate, India, Amazon Internet Services Pvt. Ltd.
Track 3: Startup Stories
11:15 AM - 12:15 PM
Contactless Finance & Digital User Engagement
Ramprasad Gurumoorthy
Solutions Architect, Amazon Internet Services Pvt. Ltd.
Murari Sridharan
CTO, BankBazaar.com
12:15 PM - 1:15 PM
Enabling clients to launch digital payment solutions faster
Krishnan Sarangapani
CTO, MatchMove Pay Pte. Ltd.
1:15 PM - 2:15 PM
KreditBee’s journey into AWS Serverless
Karthikeyan K
Co-Founder & CTO, KreditBee
2:15 PM - 2:30 PM
Closing note
Sandeep Laxman
Head, Fintech, Amazon Internet Services Pvt. Ltd.
Key Takeaways
Speakers
Aditi Namdeo
Chief Partnerships Officer (CPO),
Reserve Bank Innovation Hub
Alok Kumar
Co-founder & CTO, Karza
Amitabh Nagpal
Head of Startup Ecosystem, India (AWS) at Amazon Internet Services Pvt. Ltd.
Arun Kumar Lokanatha
AI/ML Solutions Architect, Amazon
Ashish Anantharaman
Co-founder & CTO, ZestMoney
Darshan Shanthamurthy
Founder & CEO, SISA
Japan Doshi
Head of Product, Engineering and Data Science, Rupeek
Jaya Manohar
Founder & CPO, Streak
Jaydeep Ruparelia
CEO & CO, Infopercept
Jitendra Gupta
Founder, Jupiter
Joseph Healy
Co-founder & CEO,
Judo bank
Kriti Gera
Solutions Architect, AWS
Kumara Raghavan
India Head, Startup Sales Segment, AWS
Lalit Kumar
Security Architect
Mabel Chacko
Co-founder & COO, Open Financial Technologies Private Limited
Naveen Asrani
Head - Startup Growth Initiatives, Asia-Pacific & Japan, AWS
Neil Dcruz
Solutions Architect, AWS
Nikhil Khokhar
Solutions Architect, AWS
Nikhil Kumar
Co-founder, Setu
Nitin Gupta
Founder & CEO, Uni
Pandurang Nayak
India Head of Startup Solution Architects
Amazon Web Services
Pravin Kumar
Chief Information Security Officer, Wibmo Inc
Puneet Chandok
President, AWS India and South Asia, (AISPL)
Raghunandan G
Founder and CEO, Zolve
Rahul Shringarpure
Solutions Architect for the Amazon Cloud, AWS
Ramgopal Subramani
COO, Perfios Software Solutions
Rohini Gaonkar
Senior Developer Advocate, India, AWS
Sandeep Laxman
Head, Fintech, Amazon Internet Services Pvt Ltd
Sayali Karanjkar
Co-founder & CBO, PaySense
Shannon Murphy
Chief Technology Officer,
Hyphen Group
Shradha Sharma
Founder & CEO, YourStory
Sunny Shah
Vice President Of Engineering, IND Money
Suresh Seetharaman
Sr Database Specialist, Amazon Internet Services Private Limited (AISPL)
Swati Sharma
Chief Information Security Officer, Emerging Markets-Amazon Pay at Amazon
Utkarsh Pandey
Solutions Architect, AWS
Varun Malhotra
Partner, Quona Capital
Ved Ravindra
Security Solution Architect, AISPL 
Vikram Mehta
CEO & Founder, Cy5.io
Vivek Gupta
CTO, CoinDCX
Vivek YS
Vice President Data Science, Jupiter Money
Yashoraj Tyagi
CTO, CashE
AGENDA
Day 1 - November 25
10:15 am - 10:25 am
Fireside Chat
Opening Fireside Chat
Puneet Chandok, President, India, Amazon Internet Services Pvt. Ltd.
Shradha Sharma, Founder & CEO, YourStory
10:25 am - 10:45 am
Helping Fintechs Grow & Scale
Sandeep Laxman, Head, Fintech, Amazon Internet Services Pvt Ltd
10:45 am - 11:30 am
Panel Discussion
Fintechs' Road to Success: Growth, Acquisitions & IPOs
Nitin Gupta, Founder & CEO, Uni
Sayali Karanjkar,
Co-founder & CBO, PaySense
Raghunandan G, Founder and CEO, Zolve

Moderator - Naveen Asrani, Head - Startup Growth Initiatives, Asia-Pacific & Japan, AWS
11:30 am - 12:15 pm
Panel Discussion
Reimagining Banking for the 21st century
Jitendra Gupta, Founder, Jupiter
Joseph Healy, Co-founder & CEO, Judo bank
Mabel Chacko, Co-founder & COO, Open Financial Technologies Private Limited
Nikhil Kumar, Co-founder, Setu

Moderator - Sandeep Laxman, Head, Fintech, Amazon Internet Services Pvt Ltd
12:15 pm - 1:00 pm
Fireside Chat
Trends, opportunity & challenges for next decade in Fintech
Aditi Namdeo, Chief Partnerships Officer, Reserve Bank of India Innovation Hub (RBIH)
Varun Malhotra
, Partner, Quona Capital 

Moderator - Sandeep Laxman, Head, Fintech, Amazon Internet Services Pvt Ltd
1:00 pm - 1:10 pm
Closing Note
Amitabh Nagpal, Head of Startup Ecosystem, India (AWS) at Amazon Internet Services Pvt. Ltd.
Day 2 - November 26
9:30 am - 9:45 am
Registration
9:45 am - 10:15 am
Keynote
Tech for every Fintech
Japan Doshi, Head of Product, Engineering and Data Science, Rupeek
10:15 am - 11:00 am
Panel Discussion
Best Practices & Challenges in FinTech
Jaya Manohar, Founder & CPO, Streak
Shannon Murphy, Chief Technology Officer, Hyphen Group
Vivek Gupta, CTO, CoinDCX
Yashoraj Tyagi, CTO, CashE

Moderator - Pandurang Nayak, India Head of Startup Solution Architects, Amazon Web Service
11:00 am - 11:10 am
Keynote
Scaling the Tech behind Fintech
Kumara Raghavan, India Head, Startup Sales Segment, AWS
11:15 am - 12:00 pm
Use-case based Databases for Fintechs
Suresh Seetharaman, Sr Database Specialist, Amazon Internet Services Private Limited (AISPL)
12:00 pm - 12:45 pm
Fraud and Anomaly Detection
Rohini Gaonkar, Senior Developer Advocate, India, AWS
12:45 pm - 4:00 pm
Analytics Workshop
Performing RFM analysis using Amazon Redshift and Amazon SageMaker, no ML expertise required
Rahul Shringarpure, Solutions Architect for the Amazon Cloud, AWS
Live Session:
- Learn how Personalization and Hyper-personalization is logical step for organizations to identify their most valuable customer cohorts.

- Learn how RFM analysis is used to identify segments that could be targeted for retention, offers and discounts, or even for acquisition for products and services with high adjacency.

- You will learn how to implement similar workflows within your organization and have a better understanding of various AWS analytics services, and how to architect using said services.

Rahul Shringapure, Solutions Architect, Amazon Cloud and Nikhil Khokhar, Solutions Architect
11:15 am - 12:00 pm
Security best practices for Fintechs
Ashish Anantharaman, Co-founder & CTO, ZestMoney
Lalit Kumar, Security Architect
12:00 pm - 12:45 pm
Panel Discussion
How Managed Detection and Response is enabling FSI Regulatory Compliance
Swati Sharma, Chief Information Security Officer, Emerging Markets-Amazon Pay at Amazon
Pravin Kumar, Chief Information Security Officer, Wibmo Inc
Darshan Shanthamurthy, Founder & CEO, SISA
12:45 pm - 04:00 pm
Security Workshop
Preventive & detective security controls workshop
Lalit Kumar, Security Architect at AWS
Utkarsh Pandey, Solution Architect
Lightning Talks
Don't leaeve the key under the carpet
Kriti Gera, Associate Security Architect, AWS 

Build & operate Native Cloud Security strategies – a serverless SOC
Vikram Mehta, CEO & Founder Cy5.io 

Don’t let that DDoS ruin your day
Ved Ravindra, Security Solution Architect, AISPL 

Defense In Depth: Partner session
Jaydeep Ruparelia, CEO & CO Founder Infopercept

11:15 am - 12:00 pm
Intelligent document processing
Arun Kumar Lokanatha, AI/ML Solutions Architect at AWS
Ramgopal Subramani, COO Perfios Software Solutions
Sandeep Laxman, Head, Fintech, Amazon Internet Services Pvt Ltd
12:00 pm - 12:45 pm
Automating lending cycle with AWS AI/ML
Alok Kumar, Co-founder & CTO, Karza
Neil D'cruz, Solutions Architect, AWS
12:45 pm - 04:00 pm
ML Fraud Workshop
Detect Malicious Users and Transactions using Machine Learning
Arun Kumar Lokanatha, AI/ML Solutions Architect, Amazon
Key Takeaways
• Learn about different supervised and unsupervised methods to build Fraud Models. 

• Train and Deploy Models on Amazon SageMaker using different algorithms like XGBoost, Random cut forest, Autoencoders etc. 

• Build the complete solution using Amazon SageMaker features.

Arun Kumar Lokanatha, AI/ML Solutions Architect, Amazon
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