Overview

• The three-day sixth edition opened at Mumbai’s Jio World Centre with regulators, investors, and innovators focused on how artificial intelligence is reshaping finance.
• RBI’s Suvendu Pati invited delegates to the central bank’s Innovation Pavilion designed to connect regulatory sandbox and hackathon innovators with industry participants.
• NPCI’s Ajay Kumar Choudhary said AI brings both progress and risk, citing gains in fraud detection and productivity while urging human-guided governance and robust data oversight.
• Organisers project significant scale with over 800 speakers, thousands of delegates, more than 7,500 companies, and 400-plus exhibitors, including a Bharat AI Experience Zone by NPCI and NVIDIA.
• Keynotes by India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi and UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer are scheduled for Thursday, with Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman slated for the inaugural session.