SOCIETE GENERALE CATALYST DEMO DAY

UNLOCKING THE GIG ECONOMIES BY PAYONEER

NIPP-GIC OPEN INNOVATION

INDIA FINTECH DAY  

In this edition,

Flashback

August - September

2017

(Mumbai) Page 1

(Bangalore) Page 4

(Ahmedabad, Pune, Indore) Page 4

(Gurgaon) Page 5

INDIA FINTECH DAYThe keynote speaker, Deepak

Sharma, CDO, Kotak Mahindra,

talked about the business models &

opportunities where fintech can start

working with banks.

NIPP CORPORATE KONNECT8 startups presented during NIPP

Corporate Konnect Session, in which

25+ corporates attended.

STARTUP EXPO

13 top-notch Fintech startups

showcased their products. They were

Authbase, Airpay, Cateina

Technologies, EarlySalary, FTL

Technology, Safehats, Inteliment,

KrypC, Morph.ai, Paysack,

Rupeeseed, Scalend, Signzy,

Smokescreen, Spocto Trace, Stride,

Techforce.ai, Valuefy, vPhrase at the

Startup Expo during the event.

The 2nd edition of India Fintech

Day was held at Mumbai on 13th

September, 2017. It was a day-

long event organized by

NASSCOM 10,000 Startups. The

theme of this event was "Fintech

in 5 – Trends disrupting traditional

financial services in the next 5

years" with a focus on Artificial

Intelligence, Blockchain, Alternate

Lending and SecureTech.

The day started with a talk by

Surekha Shenoy, ED & CEO,

Morgan Stanley where she spoke

about technology adoption and

digital disruption in BFSI. It was

followed by an opening keynote

by Mr. Sudarshan Sen, Executive

Director – RBI who gave a deep

insight about blockchain and

cryptocurrency.

VC PANEL DISCUSSION

The panel discussion of the day

was on the Emerging Fintech

trends and investment scenario.

K.A. Srinivasan introduced

Ventureast, Dhyanesh Shah

introduced his firm

RoadVentures, Amit Somani

introduced Prime VP and TCM

Sundaram introduced IDG

Ventures at India Fintech Day.

The team discussed about the

integration of Finance and

Technology. TCM Sundaram

quoted “When you exit, Fin

matters than the Tech in

Fintech".

INVESTOR KONNECT 7 Startups pitched to 20+

investors during the Investor

Konnect Session

Deepak Sharma  -  CDO, Kotak Mahindra Bank

Sudarshan Sen, Executive Director – RBI

Surekha Shenoy, ED & CEO, Morgan Stanley

VC Panel Discussion NIPP Corporate Konnect Startup Expo

INDIA FINTECH DAY

Eminent Speakers shared insights on Intelligent Automation, Alternate Lending, Blockchain, SecureTech during the Deep Dive Session

Manavjeet Singh, Founder and CEO at

Rubique

Mukund Venkatesh, VP & GM, Global Analytics

Vivek Srivastav, Sr. VP Research & Innovation at

ReBIT

Pravesh Sharma, Head, Information Security 

 and Technology Risk, Fidelity Investments

 Nitin Vyakaranam,  Founder &  CEO of Artha

YantraKalpana B, 

Partner, KPMG IndiaMadhusudan Shekar - Amazon

Rahul Joshi, Consultant and Former Head of Mobility &

Payments ICICI Bank

Swati Bhide, Blockchain Leader, India Global Delivery,

IBM India

Bipin Singh, CEO, MobiKwik and Leslie D'Monte, National

Tech Editor, had a chat on the future of Fintech industry.

They discussed how the Fintech domain will shape up and

what the startups need to look out while building the

solutions for huge economy like ours. Leslie D’Monte also

gave a talk in the revolution of Fintech industry.

FIRE SIDE CHAT - COLLABORATION BETWEEN ENTERPRISES AND FINTECHS

FIRE SIDE CHAT - FUTURE OF FINTECH

CXO ROUNDTABLEThe CXO Round Table session was themed on the agenda of

‘Open Innovation and Collaboration in Fintech’. It was

introduced by KS Viswanathan, VP (Industry initiatives,

NASSCOM) and 13 industry stalwarts participated and

contributed to the discussion, they were;

The discussion was detailed and touched upon many facets of

corporate-startup engagement, including the need for deep

domain knowledge and context for startups, effectiveness of

innovation activities such as hackathons, and how to mix

technology and business, etc.The discussion focused on the

problems in Fintech industry and how Open Innovation

Practices are driving the future of finance.

Deepak Sharma – CDO, Kotak Mahindra Bank

Tarun Sareen – MD, Deutsche Bank

Nitish Agrawal – APAC Head, Start-up Focus, SAP Lab

Hitesh Sachdev – Head of Innovation, ICICI Bank

Srinivas Lingam – CIO, Banca Sella

Gangadhar SJ – Head-IT, Bajaj Allianz

Arjun Singh – MD, Asia, Yodlee Infotech

Kaushik Majumdar- MD, Principal Global

Surekha Shenoy – ED, Morgan Stanley

Harish Mehta- CMD, Onward Technologies (NASSCOM

Founding Member)

Paresh Degaonkar - Regional Head, NASSCOM.

Hanuman Tripathi- Entrepreneur & Angel Investor

Mukesh Thumar – CEO, Paramatrix Technologies Ltd.

Tarun Sareen, MD-Deutsche Bank; Neha Punater, Partner-

KPMG; & Adhil Shetty, Founder - BankBazzar discussed

about Fintech industry and how to co-create solutions in a

FireSide Chat. Adhil Shetty quoted “The ecosystem that is

built in India is often under- appreciated. Consumers are the

ones who are driving the change”.

FORD CITY OF TOMORROW CONFERENCE

NIPP Partner Ford organized the “City of Tomorrow” conference, for the first time in Asia, on 25th of September in Delhi. It was a day-long symposium which put limelight on the theme of Mobility Needs and their implications for the future.

It was also an official TED event, and included sessions by opinion leaders, academics, innovators, policymakers, and TED fellows, who shared their views and ideas on how to create a better tomorrow.

SOCIETE GENERALE CATALYST DEMO DAY

NIPP Partner Societe Generale GSC, organized the Demo Day of their accelerator Catalyst 2.0 on the 5th of September at Bangalore. 8 startups graduated in the2nd Cohort, and the event saw participation from a pool of Investors, Ecosystem and Industry Players. The start- ups and their domains are as below: 1) Transerve/UDIO - Payment e-Wallet 2) Scapic - Virtual Reality/Mixed Reality/Augmented Reality 3) GAVS - Predictive Analytics 4) FRSLabs and Signzy - Digital On-boarding 5) CVVIz - HR Tech 6) Fyle - Data Capture and Digitization 7) Recital.ai - Smart Email Assistant 8) Greenpool - Tech for Good

UNLOCKING THE GIG ECONOMIES BY PAYONEER

A Multi-city Roadshow was organized for NIPP Partner- Payoneer, in Ahmedabad, Pune and Indore, that focused on providing opportunities to understand the brewing GIG economy from the experts. The idea was to help them learn the tricks and trades to reach out to global customers and grow their businesses beyond borders.

The broader agenda for the Roadshows included a session on the GIG Economy, Impact of GST on Cross Border Transaction, Leapfrog from Freelancing to Gig Economy.

SOCIETE GENERALE

FORD

PAYONEER

NIPP-GIC SESSION ON OPEN INNOVATION

NIPP - GIC Session on Open Innovation was

organized at the Alight Solutions office in Gurgaon on

22nd August, 2017. Participants included CXOs from

Ford, Royal Bank of Scotland, Ernst & Young, Boston

Scientific, Amdocs, FIL, Yamaha Corporation, Alight

Solutions and others. The round table discussion was

on the different ways and models in which large

organisations (GICs) are engaging with the open

innovation ecosystem in India. Post discussion, four

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Startups

namely Ikarus, Lattice Innovations, THB, Corseco

presented their ideas and solutions.

TECHNOLOGY MEETUP - BLOCKCHAIN FORUM

NIPP along with Blockchained India team

organized a meetup on Crypto Currencies and the

rise of Initial Coin Offerings at the event space in

NASSCOM 10,000 Startups Warehouse,

Bangalore on 5th August,2017. Around 80+ Block

chain enthusiasts and startup founders

participated.

UNILEVER INNOVATION OFFSITE

30 senior executives of different functional teams ofUnilever, visited NASSCOM 10,000 Startups Warehouse, Bangalore on 27th Sept to meet some startups working on innovative ideas. 6 startups - Touchwizard, Monk.ai, Datoin, Wisense, Relatas, Toolyt showcased their products and presented their solutions to the enthusiastic audience.

The attendees were excited to see the product demos in the emerging tech areas of Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning, Robotic Process Automation, Chatbots, Analytics etc.

UNILEVER IOT EVENT

Unilever organised the event at their premises, to create awareness about the developing IOT ecosystem and the way it is changing the tech landscape in Retail businesses. Audience were their IT employees, ranging from Analysts to Managers to Directors/VPs. 5 Startups got an opportunity toshowcase products and give a demo to Unilever Employees. The startups were IOT POT, iFuture Robotics, Sensovision, Profile Quest, instore AI.

UNILEVER IOT EVENT UNILEVER INNOVATION OFFSITE

NIPP-GIC OPEN INNOVATION

TECHNOLOGY MEETUP - BLOCKCHAIN FORUM

GLOBAL LEADERSHIP VISIT - A.P. MOLLER - MAERSK

The leadership team of A.P. Moller - Maersk led by Navneet Kapoor, Global Head, A.P. Moller – Maersk and Girish Aggarwal, Head of Group Business Units, Maersk GSC at Maersk Group, visited the NASSCOM 10,000 Startups Warehouse, Bangalore on 1st August. They interacted with 4 startups in the Logistics, Supply Chain, FNA and Artificial Intelligence areas. The team discussed with the NIPP team regarding Indian Startup Ecosystem and Open Innovation in India.

PARTNER DELEGATION - WALMART LABS

Walmart Leadership team from United States along with Walmart Labs - India Team, visited the NASSCOM 10,000 Startups Warehouse, Bangalore on 9th August. They met 3 growth-stage Startups in Logistics and Supply Chain domains.

PARTNER DELEGATION  - SONY CORPORATION

Sony - India team led by Kaneaki Fujishita, SISC along with Mr. Hioki, Terumasa, HR SGMO, Mr. Toyonaga, Soma, HR SID, Mr. Shimomura Shunsuke, HR SID, Mr. Hiroyuki Tamaki, Deputy MD of SISC and Mr. Masayuki Toriumi, MD-SISC, visited the NASSCOM 10,000 Startups Warehouse, Bangalore on 19th August. The team met and discussed the solutions with 5 Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning startups in Logistics-tech, HR-tech and Deep-tech domains.

WALMART LABS 

A.P.MOLLER - MAERSK

SONY - INDIA  

LEADERSHIP VISIT - SOPRA STERIA 

Francois Marie Lesaffre, Digital Transformation

Officer and Mael Humbert, Head of Operations -

Bangalore from Sopra Steria, visited the NASSCOM

10,000 Startups Warehouse, Bangalore on 18th

August. The team discussed various domain related

solutions with 4 Artificial Intelligence and Machine

Learning Startups.

LEADERSHIP VISIT - SIEMENS  

The Leadership Team of Siemens led by Lak

Ananth, Head of Next47 initiative, visited

NASSCOM 10,000 Startups Warehouse,

Bangalore on 16th August. The team met startups

in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and

Internet of Things space.

ECOSYSTEM EXPLORATION - XERO

Ralph Hays, Consul General & Trade Commissioner, New Zealand Consulate General – Mumbai, visited NASSCOM 10,000 Startups Warehouse, Bangalore on 23rd August and got Alex Campbell, Managing Director, Xero – Asia and Matt Vickers, Senior Vice President – Products and Emerging Markets, Xero along with them

They discussed the opportunities for New Zealand Corporate to engage with Indian Startup Ecosystem and interacted with 3 Fintech startups providing solutions in Natural Language Processing and Blockchain.

 ECOSYSTEM EXPLORATION   - EXXONMOBIL

ExxonMobil team led by Allen Johnson, Head of Strategy Group in the IT Organization along with Ulises Burgus, IT Architecture and Cloudio Coelho, Head Vendor Management - India, visited NASSCOM 10,000 Startups Warehouse, Bangalore on 31st August.

The team came for exploring opportunities to collaborate with startups in India. The team met 3 startups in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Big Data space

EXXONMOBIL XERO  

SOPRA STERIA SIEMENS