An executive‑only gathering for fintech leaders, centered on the real challenges you are navigating today and how Cognizant is solving them in practice. Each session tackles a critical issue through client perspectives and live demonstrations, offering tangible insights and proven outcomes over theory.

What we'll cover - Real challenges. Real proof.

Agentic Legacy Modernization: Modernizing Legacy at the Speed of Intelligence
Financial institutions and fintech companies spend most of their IT budget maintaining legacy systems. This session shows how orchestrated AI agents handle discovery, code transformation, and validation, cutting timelines and technical debt while enabling engineers to shift focus from execution to governing outcomes.

Agentic SDLC (ADLC): Building Software the Agentic Way
As financial institutions and fintech companies move from manual to digital to agentic PODs, the human role shifts from approving every task to governing outcomes. Agents design, build, and deploy within guardrails while new roles like Frontier Engineers manage risk and strategy.

The AI Governance Gap: The Compliance Risk Banks Are Underpricing
In effect since April 2026, SR 26-2 establishes the new federal standard for Model Risk Management (MRM) in U.S. banking, yet excludes generative and agentic AI from its scope, leaving banks exposed regardless of their size. This session prices what closing that gap costs, and shows why smaller institutions have the strongest case for acting now.

Themes shown are representative of the program. Additional speakers forthcoming!

Keynote Speaker

R "Ray" Wang
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Speakers

Satvik Sharma
EVP, Global Chief Development Officer
FIS
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Will Hicks
Head of FIS Global Retirement
FIS
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Daniel Haisley
Chief Data and AI Officer
CSI
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Solomon Francis
Vice President of Software Engineering
Capital One
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Ronak Doshi
Partner
Everest Group
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Dana Daher
Executive Research Leader
HFS Research
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Ed Merchant
Global Head of Banking & Financial Services
Cognizant
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Naveen Sharma
SVP & Global Practice Head of AI & Analytics
Cognizant
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Why attend - A summit designed for proof, not theory.

Problem-led, not trend-led
Every session starts from a challenge you recognize — AI and agentic models are the enablers, not the headline.

Proof over slideware
Live demonstrations and candid "how we did it" narratives — including the tradeoffs and the lessons learned.

Your peers, in the room
A curated, executive-only group of fintech leaders — and client voices who have done the work.

Built and delivered by Cognizant
Everything shown is grounded in what Cognizant has actually built, deployed, and delivered for clients.

Meet our Leaders

Ajay Pandita
SVP & Business Unit Head – Financial Services, Fintech & Insurance
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Nitin Bahl
Strategic Business Unit Head – Financial Services, Fintech and Insurance
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Munish Arora
Strategic Business Unit Head – Issuers & Networks
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Animesh Goyal
Strategic Business Unit Head - Cards1
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Sponsors

Thank you to our 2026 Sponsors!

Registration closes on August 14, 2026