Webinar
Future of Finance 2021 (4th Edition)
CFO panel on taking finance operations beyond OCR and RPA, with finance leaders from Wipro, Panasonic, Schindler India, Capgemini, and the Oberoi Group.
The fourth edition of Future of Finance, recorded in April 2021, brought together CFOs and finance leaders in the middle of a hard year. The immediate pressures were concrete: data management, liquidity, cost control, disrupted supply chains, and automation programs that had to show results quickly. The session’s argument is that finance leaders who answer those pressures with data-driven decisions — not just headcount and spreadsheets — end up running a more strategic function.
What the session covers
Three practical themes, then proof. First, how to deliver a finance digital transformation program in weeks rather than quarters. Second, how to take F&A operations past the OCR-plus-RPA pattern — extraction that stops at characters on a page, and bots that stop at keystrokes — toward systems that actually understand the documents finance runs on. Third, how document AI can surface risk buried inside enterprise documents before it becomes a problem, rather than after. The session closes with a case study and a live demo of the unified platform handling document-heavy finance work end to end.
Speakers
- Jayaprakash Kalappan — CFO & Company Secretary, Panasonic
- Sandhya Sharma — CFO, Schindler India
- Jatin Dalal — CFO, Wipro Limited
- Benoy Nambiar — CFO, Insights and Data, Capgemini
- Kallol Kundu — EVP and Group CFO, The Oberoi Group
- Pawan Jain — CFO, Aditya Birla Renewables
- Manish Sanghai — Senior Director Finance, Thermo Fisher Scientific
- Baskar Lakshmanan — Group CFO, TVS Automobile Solutions
- Ramesh Iyer — CFO, NITCO Limited
- Sumedha Varma — Regional Sales Director, SAP
- Rinessh Kalra — Head of Automation (RPA), Team Computers
- Mukul Jain — Solution Architect, Automation (RPA), Team Computers
- Gokul Ganapathi — Co-Founder & CEO, Botminds
- Vikas Anand — VP, Sales & Marketing, Botminds
Why it still holds up
The specific pressures of 2021 passed; the structural one did not. Finance still runs on documents — invoices, statements, filings, contracts — and the teams that read them fastest and most accurately make better calls. That is the document-to-decision problem Botminds is built for, with every number cited to its source page and every decision human-approved.