IIM Bangalore Hosts International Symposium On ‘Digital Innovations, Financial Inclusion & Sustainability’

As part of its Golden Jubilee celebrations, IIM Bangalore concluded a two-day International Symposium highlighting issues of inclusivity, digitalisation and financial innovations in India at IIMB campus. Chaired by Dr G Shainesh, Professor of Marketing at IIMB, the symposium was inaugurated by IIMB Director Professor Rishikesha T Krishnan and Professor N S Vishwanathan, Non-Executive Chairperson, Axis Bank and Former Deputy Governor, RBI.

The symposium brought together experts to deliberate on the global experiences in digitalization and financial inclusion, along with highly successful business models. The discussions delved deeper into areas focusing on policies, cultural practices and financial behaviour.

The two-day event saw participation from industry experts and leaders including Prof Alnoor Bhimani, Director, South Asia Centre, London School of Economics; Ms. Shriya Sethi, Director - Call for Social Impact, McKinsey;  Rahul Shukla, Group Head, Commercial & Rural Banking, HDFC Bank;  Amit Nanda, Director Selling Partner Services, Amazon;  Harishankar Krishnan, CTO, ONDC; Dr V Anbumozhi, ERIA, Jakarta Indonesia and  Malladi Chandra Mohan, Global Head - Financial Inclusion, TCS featuring Dr Shirish Srivastava, GS1 France Chair Professor, HEC Paris;  Debajyoti Ray Chaudhuri, MD & CEO, NeSL;  Ganesh Narayanan, CEO, Credit Access Grameen;  Bhavdeep Bhatt, Head, Retail Sales, Aditya Birla Sun Life AMC; Prof MS Sriram, from the Centre for Public Policy at IIMB;  Padmanabhan Raghavan, Co-Founder and CEO, Multipl;  Timmana Gowda, Founder CEO, WhatsLoan and  Kavin KK, Head, IDFC First Startup Banking.