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

Saurav Mohanty

Chief Risk Officer

Nucleus Software Exports Limited

Saurav Kumar Mohanty brings over 17 years of experience in strategy, enterprise risk, governance, information security, crisis management, and compliance. As Chief Risk Officer at Nucleus Software, he leads the company’s risk and compliance strategy, focusing on building robust frameworks, enhancing organizational resilience, and driving risk-aware decision-making across global operations.

Saurav has worked with leading organizations including FIS Global, AXA Singapore, Bharti-AXA General Insurance, TCS and Citigroup, bringing extensive expertise in managing complex, matrixed environments. He also adds valuable international experience from AXA Singapore, where he successfully navigated multi-country regulatory landscapes and strengthened enterprise risk controls.
An alumnus of IIM Calcutta and LIBA Chennai, Saurav is a member of Global Association of Risk Professional (GARP) and certified lead auditor in ISO 27001 and ISO 9001, demonstrating a strong foundation in compliance, quality assurance, and operational governance. His leadership style is characterized by strategic foresight, collaboration, and an unwavering focus on stakeholder confidence and organizational integrity.
At Nucleus Software, Saurav is committed to fortifying the company’s risk management architecture and fostering a culture of proactive governance that supports sustainable growth and customer trust.

Speaking at

3:00–4:15pmThu 5 FebBlack Swan DebatesCentral HallPremium
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 HallPremium
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

Saurav Mohanty

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