Chief Guest

Smt. Droupadi Murmu Hon'ble President of India

In The August Presence Of

Shri Mohan Charan Majhi Chief Minister Odisha
Dr Mukesh Mahaling Minister, Health and Family welfare, Parliamentary Affairs, Electronics & Information Technology Odisha
Shri Suryabanshi Suraj Minister, Higher Education, Sports & Youth Services, Odia Language Literature & Culture Odisha

All speakers

Takeshi Kito

Co-founder & Chief Executive Officer, GFTN Japan

Global Finance & Technology Network (GFTN)

Takeshi is a serial Fintech entrepreneur, and Co-founder & CEO of Elevandi Japan, actively leading ecosystem building and international partnerships.

Additionally, he serves on the committee for the Government of Japan's Regulatory Sandbox and is a member of the experts group at the Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry for cross-border data transfers.

Before starting his own startup, Takeshi worked as an investment banker at Merrill Lynch, gaining expertise in capital markets. Prior to joining Merrill Lynch, he worked at Boston Consulting Group.

He also held the position of Vice-chair at Fintech Association of Japan, where he played a pivotal role in navigating international collaborations for 6 years.

Speaking at

3:00–4:15pmThu 5 FebBlack Swan DebatesCentral HallPremiumChair
Accelerating Sector Transformation

Benchmarking India's FinTech Trajectory: Are we expecting a Black Swan Disruption triggered by AI-Tokenisation-Quantum in the Financial Services Industry?

Black Swan DebatesCentral HallPremiumChair
About this session

India's FinTech ecosystem has evolved rapidly on the foundation of UPI, account aggregators, and digital lending. But as artificial intelligence, tokenization, and quantum computing converge at unprecedented speed, a critical question emerges: are we approaching a black swan disruption that could fundamentally transform or destabilize India's financial services industry within the next few years?

Black swan events are characterized by their extreme rarity, severe impact, and retrospective predictability. The convergence of AI-powered autonomous finance, comprehensive asset tokenization, and quantum computing presents precisely this profile: AI agents executing complex financial decisions without human oversight; every asset tokenized and settled instantly on decentralized rails; quantum algorithms simultaneously breaking current encryption systems while enabling previously impossible risk modeling and fraud detection.

First: Is this convergence genuinely a black swan threat/opportunity—extreme, unpredictable, and transformative—or are we overhyping predictable technological evolution? Second: If disruption is plausible or probable, how should India prepare? What infrastructure, regulatory frameworks, and strategic capabilities need strengthening now?

The session will explore actionable strategic planning: identifying early warning signals, stress-testing current infrastructure and regulatory frameworks against disruption scenarios, evaluating India's capability gaps, and defining concrete preparedness measures that position the country to either lead the transformation or build resilience against its destabilizing effects.

Past Speakers

Takeshi Kito

Speaking at

Benchmarking India's FinTech Trajectory: Are we expecting a Black Swan Disruption triggered by AI-Tokenisation-Quantum in the Financial Services Industry?