INNOVATION FORUM
Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman
Hon’ble Union Minister of Finance, India
Shri Sanjay Malhotra
Governor
Reserve Bank of India
Shri Tuhin Kanta Pandey
Chairman
Securities and Exchange Board of India
Aparna Kumar
Founder, Nexora Tech, Former CIO- SBI & HSBC
Aman Dalal
Country Head - Transaction Banking, IDFC FIRST Bank
Aditya Harkauli
Chief Business Officer, Unity Small Finance Bank
Aditya Goenka
Chief Legal & Compliance Officer, YES Securities (India) Limited
Abhishek Lahiri
VP & Head of Public Policy, Mastercard
Ratan Kumar Kesh
Executive Director &COO, Bandhan Bank
Pravash Dash
Founder & CEO-Arthan Finance
Prasanna N
Head AI Digital Innovation, Federal Bank
Pankaj Gupta
Chief Digital Officer-Ujjivan Small Finance Bank
Narendranath Mishra
Head Retail & Agri Loans, DCB Bank
Hemant Verma
Chief Vigilance Officer, Punjab & Sind Bank
Govindraj Ethiraj
Editor , The Core
Akshay Yadava
Director, UIDAI
Rajeev Ranjan Prasad
Chief General Manager, Digital Banking & Transformation, State Bank of India
Prabhat Chaturvedi
CEO NUCFDC
Bhasker Rao
CISO , Bharat Co-Op Bank
Sumanta Panda
General Manager at State Bank of India
Aman Singla
Head Trade Finance & CMS AU Small Finance Bank
Hitesh Sachdev
Head- Start-up Engagement, Innovation & Investments, ICICI Bank
Ashish Singhal
CEO, Indian Banks Digital Infrastructure Company
Nitin Sawant
Managing Director & CEO, OMS Account Aggregator
Murali Mohan Rao Manduva
Chief Technology Officer, DCB Bank
Gaurav Goel
Group President, Yes Bank
Dr. Suresh A Shan
Chairman, CSI Mumbai Chapter
V Venkatasubramanian
Deputy General Manager Information Technology, City Union Bank Ltd
Suvendu Pati
Chief General Manager, Reserve Bank of India
Sanjay Hinduja
Managing Director & CEO, Shapoorji Pallonji Finance Pvt Ltd
Sandeep Ubale
Chief General Manager, State Bank of India
Naveen Chaluvadi
Chief Digital Officer, Yes Bank
Mahesh Raman Kutty
Chief Risk Officer, DCB Bank
Ketan Gaikwad
MD&CEO, RXIL
Amit Khanna
Partner, GT Bharat
Golok kumar Simli
President for Technology and Innovation, BLS International
SV Sunderkrishnan
CEO , Clarimonde Solutions Private Limited
Kamlesh Nagware
Co-Founder Token Layer , India Blockchain Forum , Lead LFDT India Chapter
Lizzie Chapman
Co-founder & Chief Commercial Officer Baysys
George John
Executive Director , ESAF Small Finance Bank
Prasanna Lohar
President India Blockchain Forum
Bharat Panchal
Chief Risk & Regulatory Officer - APAC and Middle East, Global Payment Network, CapitalOne
Thomas Muthoot John
Executive Director, Muthoot Microfin Ltd
Sivakumar Nandipati,
Chief Digital Officer, FedBank Financial Services Ltd
Rohit Das
Partner - Cyber Advisory, Grant Thornton Bharat LLP
Rakesh Ranjan
CDO Digital Financial Services and Innovation, Kyndrl
Padmabhushan Bahadure
Chief Technology Officer, NUCFDC
Vikram Pandya
Founder and Director, Association for Emerging Technologies
Suresh Sethi
Managing Director & CEO, Protean eGov Technologies Ltd
Suresh Rajagopalan
Chief Executive Officer, Samunnati Agri Innovation Labs Pvt Limited
Shashwat Sharma
Senior Partner and Financial Services lead, India, Kearney
Sanjeev Kumar
Founder & CEO-Whitesight
Manoj Kumar Jain
Scientist-G,Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Govt of India
Manoj Sarangi
Chief Information Security officer, Induslnd Bank
Dr. Vaibhav S Joshi
Additional Director (Non-Executive Independent Director) Pahal Financial Services Pvt Ltd
Anish Chowdhary
CBO, IBDIC
Ashutosh Jain
CXO Advisor India, CISCO
Om Prakash Seth
Chief Information Officer (CIO) IDBI Bank
Suresh Khadakbhavi
CEO, Digi Yatra Foundation
Indraneel Pandit
Chief Digital Officer (Cdo) Federal Bank
Sunil Kulkarni
Chief Executive Officer , BCFI
Deepak Kumar Sharma
Digital Expert, CXO Advisor, Board Member, Suryoday Small Finance BankNational Vision & Economic Leadership
Setting India’s Financial Direction Reflections on a Decade of Reform, Growth & Transformation Plenary Keynote: Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman, Hon’ble Minister of Finance, India Narrative focus:
- India’s financial evolution over the last decade
- Fiscal policy, inclusion, and growth priorities
- India’s role in the global financial order
Monetary Policy & Financial Stability
Designing the Pathways to the Future Policy, Regulation & Systemic Resilience Plenary Keynote: Shri Sanjay Malhotra, Governor, Reserve Bank of India Narrative focus:
- Monetary policy and macro stability
- Digital public infrastructure & payments
- Balancing innovation with risk and resilience
Leadership & Insights
Visionary Keynotes, Panels & Roundtables
Innovation & Discovery
Startup Challenges, Tech Zones, Demos
Business & Networking
FIF Innovation Bridge & Matchmaking
Knowledge & Recognition
Awards & Knowledge Report
Experiences & Engagement
Exhibition, Fireside Chats, Sessions
Finance As a
Force For Good
Advancing Financial Inclusion & Equitable Access
Enabling
Wealth Creation
Unlocking Financial Freedom for Individuals & Enterprises
Future of Finance
[Viksit Bharat 2047]
Designing Resilient Financial Systems for the Next Decade
The Financial
Innovation
Ideas, Models & Technologies on the Rise
Tech Discovery Zones &
Innovation Pavilion
Live Demos &
Product Launches
Media &
Youth Engagement
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IFIF 2026 is built for anyone who shapes, influences, or operates within India’s financial ecosystem. That includes policymakers, central bank officials, banking executives, fintech founders, capital market professionals, regulators, institutional investors, startup innovators, and technology leaders. Whether you’re setting policy or building the next payments platform, there’s a seat at the table for you.
Participants get direct access to India’s most senior financial leadership, including the Honorable Finance Minister, the RBI Governor, and the SEBI Chairman, alongside 250+ speakers and 10,000+ delegates. Beyond the keynotes, you’ll benefit from curated matchmaking sessions, startup showcases, innovation labs, and a knowledge report that keeps delivering value after the event.
One of the forum’s three strategic tracks is dedicated entirely to ‘Future of Finance: Viksit Bharat 2047’. Sessions explore how India can design resilient financial systems, modernise its regulatory frameworks, expand digital public infrastructure, and build inclusive growth models, all in service of transforming India into a fully developed economy by 2047.
Absolutely. The forum features a dedicated Startup & Innovation Showcase with 500+ participating startups and innovators. There are Tech Discovery Zones, an Innovation Pavilion, live product demos, and a competitive AI Hackathon. It’s genuinely one of the best stages in India to present a fintech or AI-driven financial solution to investors, banks, and decision-makers.
Networking is a first-class feature, not an afterthought. The forum offers the FIF Innovation Bridge, a structured matchmaking platform, alongside open networking zones, fireside chats, and institutional roundtables. With 500+ institutions and 100+ global leaders in one venue, the connections you make at IFIF tend to be high-quality and purposeful.
IFIF 2026 runs from 16-18 March 2026 at Center 1, World Trade Centre, Cuffe Parade, Mumbai. The WTC Mumbai is one of India’s most prestigious business venues, centrally located and well-connected, a fitting setting for a forum of this scale.
IFIF carries the highest level of institutional endorsement. The forum’s three keynote speakers are the Union Finance Minister Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman, RBI Governor Shri Sanjay Malhotra, and SEBI Chairman Shri Tuhin Kanta Pandey, a line-up that reflects the forum’s standing as India’s definitive platform for financial dialogue.
Most events focus on one area, either banking, fintech, or capital markets. IFIF uniquely brings all three worlds together under one roof, bridging policy, regulation, and innovation simultaneously. The involvement of the top three financial authorities in India, combined with 500+ startups and a structured three-day agenda, makes it genuinely unique in scale and ambition.
