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Insurers may be digitising quickly, but few have harnessed the full power of India’s insurtech revolution: technology, regulation and ecosystem collaboration. Vishal Gupta of PhonePe Insurance decodes how innovation, when aligned with policy and purpose, transforms insurance from an annual obligation to an intelligent and proactive service for every Indian.

Predictive AI is reshaping digital payments anticipating failures, detecting fraud in real time, and powering resilient, self-correcting infrastructure. Satyajit Kanekar of 86400 explores how this is enhancing accuracy, uptime, and trust across fintech, telecom, and banking while ensuring regulatory compliance.

AI is transforming financial services from reactive to proactive, and now, autonomous. From credit underwriting and payment gateways to fraud detection and personalised portfolio management—fintech startups are leveraging intelligent, hyper-personalized systems to make finance smarter, more inclusive, and human for a billion Indians.

AI is transforming financial services from reactive to proactive, and now, autonomous. From credit underwriting and payment gateways to fraud detection and personalised portfolio management, fintech startups are leveraging intelligent, hyper-personalised systems to make finance smarter, more inclusive, and human for a billion Indians.

As AI transforms core industries, India stands at the cusp of an industrial leap. The challenge now is scaling AI beyond software into machines, factories, and orbits. Can India build the data, compute, and policy backbone to power intelligent manufacturing, robotics, and spacetech at scale?

India's next startup ecosystem growth won't be from consumer apps but from deeptech. However, these ventures need more than funding—they need conviction, patience, and ecosystem backing. As India’s future innovators tackle spacetech, energy, and advanced materials, VC investing must evolve to enable long-term growth.

Traditionally, debt collection has been a transactional and confrontational process. Today, it is transforming into a collaborative and empathetic experience, powered by AI. Ananth Shroff, Founder & CEO of DPDzero, explores how AI and GenAI tools, from behavioural analysis to real-time sentiment adaptation, are enabling ethical, personalised, and human-centred repayment experiences that build trust, not tension.

AI is in vogue as Myntra CEO Nandita Sinha leads the charge to build an AI-powered, creator-led global fashion business that keeps winning. Here's how.

Empowered by AI and deeptech, India's agri economy is set to see yet another revolution. What will be the on-ground impact of GenAI, IoT, satellite imagery, and other innovations on this industry and India's farm output? Deep dive into how innovators are building a connected ecosystem to enhance farmer livelihoods through intelligent, scalable solutions.

Every breakthrough AI model in India hits the same invisible walls -- bandwidth, throughput, and “good enough” infrastructure. E2E Networks' Mohammed Imran, a pioneer in open-source cloud innovation, decodes how India can build systems that make world-class AI performance truly accessible.

AI’s real power lies not merely in models, but in marrying imagination with execution. From creative workflows to massive datasets and real-time decision engines, the future belongs to organisations that can effectively blend human inventiveness with scalable intelligence. This is how organisations can translate powerful AI models and future-forward ideas into real-world, operational products and services, and deliver value at industrial scale.

As part of the Sweden India Innovation Bridge, India and Sweden are rewriting the playbook for collaboration across technology, investment, government, academia, entrepreneurship and more. Hear how this ecosystem is building bridges that go beyond partnerships - shaping how innovation truly works in a borderless world.

Enterprise technology buying has quietly shifted from global headquarters to India’s Global Capability Centers (GCCs). Sankara Srinivasan, Co-founder of Koot.business, explores how GCCs have become the new nerve centres of enterprise decision-making, and what this means for SaaS founders, investors, and partners looking to tap global enterprise markets from India.

AI training models and workloads are reshaping global energy consumption, with data centers vying for electricity alongside cities and hyperscalers making direct deals with grid operators. As affordable, green, local power emerges as a competitive advantage, India's distinct opportunity is to leverage the data centre expansion alongside its solar power capabilities.

From finance to HR, AI agents are quietly automating decision layers once handled by humans. As agentic AI evolves from task executors to autonomous collaborators, it is reshaping workplace hierarchies, creativity, and accountability. Are we ready to treat algorithms as co-workers, not just tools?

As India’s data & technology laws evolve, startups face a defining challenge -- balancing deep tech innovation with the growing weight of privacy rights, AI, policy & regulations. Drawing from her regulatory expertise, Shivaarti Bajaj Founder of RSD Bajaj Global Law Firm, decodes how founders can stay compliant without slowing down breakthrough innovation.

Today, every interaction sits at the intersection of creativity, data, and automation. But how are modern CMOs balancing technology and the "human" aspect of marketing? Learn the art and science of building connected brand ecosystems in today's intelligence-led world, reshaping the way enterprises connect, convert, and grow.

The movement for Sovereign AI is accelerating—and meeting its promise requires vertically integrated AI stacks spanning data, models, and reasoning systems that remain sovereign while adhering to global collaboration. Ganesh Ramakrishnan unpacks how BharatGen is building AI for the many, creating multilingual datasets, benchmarks, and models across text, speech, and vision; designing data pipelines rooted in India’s realities; and advancing frugal AI methods that cut costs and democratise access.

Built on the belief that credit shouldn’t be complicated. CheQ has helped millions pay, track and earn smarter on their credit card bills. With Wisor, we’re taking it a step further- Your conversational AI credit advisor, helping you pick the best card for every purchase, maximize rewards and make every spend count.

Insurance is no longer just distribution — it’s a real-time underwriting, personalisation and servicing engine powered by data and AI. At PolicyBazaar, advanced machine learning, behavioural analytics, and digital verification systems turn millions of customer signals into smarter product matching, personalised pricing insights, fraud reduction, and instant policy issuance. This conversation will dive into how the company’s technology foundation — spanning conversational AI, risk-assessment models, and digital claims workflows is transforming insurance from paperwork-laden to predictive, proactive, and seamlessly digital for millions of Indians.

The enterprise landscape is witnessing a profound shift — from User Experience (UX) to Agent Experience (AX) — as intelligent agents redefine how humans interact with systems, data, and decisions. What began as isolated AI pilots is now evolving into production-grade ecosystems where autonomous agents orchestrate workflows, learn from context, and collaborate seamlessly across business functions.

In the rapidly evolving landscape of GenAI, organisations are increasingly seeking efficient and cost-effective methods to develop and deploy GenAI solutions across industries. Explore how NVIDIA's GenAI SDKs and workflows, particularly the NeMo framework, facilitate the entire lifecycle of GenAI model development—from data curation to fine-tuning, implementation of guardrails, and optimised inference RAG Services.

Every Indian developer who learned cloud computing knows Ohio—the AWS default. But as India builds its AI future, will the next generation still deploy there or in Bangalore? Vishnu Subramaniam of E2E Networks reveals what’s possible when India powers AI on its own terms.

Autonomous industrial operations promise efficiency gains but raise critical questions: Who's accountable when AI decides? Rajesh Ramachandran reveals how ABB's semi-autonomous approach balances machine efficiency with human judgment, enabling strategic oversight without bottlenecks while amplifying innovation.