FinAI Conclave 2025: Accelerating India’s AI-Led Financial Services Transformation
FinAI Conclave 2025, held on 10 September 2025 in Bengaluru, marked the largest Capgemini–NASSCOM financial innovation event ever conducted, bringing together over 165+ attendees, 100+ clients, 30+ client organizations, 11 start-ups, 3 tech partners, and leading industry analysts. The event was jointly shaped and delivered by Capgemini’s Applied Innovation Exchanges (AIEs) and the Financial Services (FS) Strategic Business Unit.
The Conclave served as a platform for global and India-based financial institutions, GCC leaders, start-ups, academia, and big-tech players to explore AI-driven modernization across banking, capital markets, and insurance. The agenda featured roundtables, keynotes, innovation showcases, and multi-theme panels covering AI value extraction, trust and governance, and talent transformation.
Key Capgemini and NASSCOM leaders—including Nisheeth Srivastava (CTIO, Capgemini India), Allen Gilbert (COO, FS India), Gautam Nehra (EVP, BCM Americas), Gareth Wilson (EVP, Global Banking Industry Leader), and Sangeeta Gupta (SVP & CSO, NASSCOM)—outlined India’s position as the global hub for trusted, scalable, responsible AI, shaping the future of financial innovation.
The Conclave strengthened the long-standing Capgemini–NASSCOM collaboration, showcasing impact across research, innovation, workforce enablement, and AI-led societal initiatives. Major contributions included:
• Industry Leadership: Positioned India as a global benchmark for digital transformation and enterprise AI maturity through dialogues with GCCs, fintechs, and analysts.
• Thought Leadership: Highlighted joint research such as NASSCOM AI Adoption Index 1.0 and 2.0, co-authored with Capgemini, creating enterprise AI benchmarks for the BFSI sector.
• Ecosystem Activation: Enabled collaboration across start-ups, tech partners, academia, and government through live showcases, roundtables, and panel engagements.
• Social Impact Innovation: Reinforced commitment to AI-for-good initiatives—employability, climate action, and urban innovation—highlighted as part of the Capgemini–NASSCOM continuum.
• Strategic FS Acceleration: Supported clients in framing future AI operating models, trust frameworks, governance structures, and talent transformation strategies.
• High-level cross-industry engagement with 20 roundtable panelists across GCCs, tech companies, academia, and Capgemini leadership.
• Actionable insights on scaling AI beyond pilots, risk governance, regulatory alignment, and human–AI collaboration, captured in multi-panel discussions.
• Technology and start-up showcases demonstrated ~10 breakthrough AI capabilities across agentic automation, privacy engineering, voice AI, blockchain, and enterprise orchestration.
• Strengthened India’s roadmap for trusted, enterprise-scale AI adoption—framing India as the global hub for talent, innovation, and responsible AI.
• Reinforced a multi-year Capgemini–NASSCOM innovation partnership, spanning research, upskilling, awards, and social-good programmes.
• Deep Capgemini AIE involvement, with program leadership and execution teams from AIE Hyderabad and AIE Mumbai shaping roundtables, showcases, and client experiences
paresh.gupta@capgemini.com
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