AI at Scale: Blueprint for Data Center Innovation in BFSI
September 3, 2025 | 3:00 - 4:00 PM IST | Virtual
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Event Overview
As banks, insurers and financial institutions accelerate digital transformation and embed AI into critical workflows, data centers have become more than just an IT backbone; it is now the foundation of customer trust, regulatory compliance and operational resilience.
From fraud detection and real-time risk modeling to hyper-personalized customer experiences, BFSI workloads are compute-intensive, data-hungry and highly regulated. Traditional infrastructure is struggling to keep pace with AI model training, real-time analytics and the stringent uptime requirements mandated by regulators and service-level agreements.
To stay competitive, financial enterprises need intelligent, agile and automation-ready data centers designed for hybrid cloud environments, low-latency edge deployments and AI-native applications, while ensuring data sovereignty, regulatory compliance and sustainability.
In this webinar, hosted by Sify, attendees will explore how future-ready facilities are powering AI-driven BFSI operations.
Discussion Points:
- Scaling AI workloads for fraud detection, risk modeling and customer personalization;
- Ensuring SLA-driven business continuity and regulatory compliance with resilient architectures;
- Protecting sensitive financial data across hybrid cloud and edge environments;
- Meeting ESG commitments through energy-efficient and sustainable data centers;
- Real-world BFSI use cases powered by Sify’s AI-ready data center stack.
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Speakers

Yamini Kalra
Senior Associate Editor,
ISMG (Moderator)

Sojan Joy
Vice President, Product and Solutions Head, Data Center Services,
Sify Technologies Limited

Gitesh Mahajan
Head, Data Center Business,
Sify Technologies Limited
Agenda
2:50 PM - 3:00 PM
Registrations
3:00 PM - 3:05 PM
Opening Remarks
Yamini Kalra, Senior Associate Editor, ISMG
3:05 PM - 3:20 PM
Presentation by Sify
Gitesh Mahajan, Head, Data Center Business, Sify Technologies Limited
Sojan Joy, Vice President – Product and Solutions Head, Date Center Services, Sify Technologies Limited
3:20 PM - 3:45 PM
Panel Discussion by Industry Thought Leaders
This panel will explore how forward-thinking enterprises are designing and managing AI-ready data centers to remain resilient, regulatory-compliant and sustainability-aligned. From integrating ESG goals and meeting localization requirements to ensuring power continuity and disaster recovery, data center leaders will share real-world strategies to future-proof their infrastructure against tomorrow’s risks.
Discussion Pointers:
- Why low-latency AI use cases demand edge infrastructure;
- Designing for resilience and recovery in power-constrained or high-risk regions;
- Balancing high-density AI compute needs with sustainability targets and cost.
Gitesh Mahajan, Head, Data Center Business, Sify Technologies Limited
Sojan Joy, Vice President – Product and Solutions Head, Date Center Services, Sify Technologies Limited
Abhay Johorey, Managing Director, Protiviti India
Anish Koshy, VP – Information and Cyber Security Risk Officer, Standard Chartered GBS
Arjun Bikas Dutta, CCO, HDB Financial Services Ltd
Anirban Guha, Head of Risk Analytics, Aditya Birla Capital
3:45 PM - 3:55 PM
Q&A
3:55 PM - 4:00 PM
Closing Remarks