Darshan Jain

Senior Director, Banking & Financial Services Blue Prism

Darshan is Senior Director, Banking & Financial Services at Blue Prism. In this role, Darshan uses his 30 years of experience leading transformative change to help organizations navigate the intelligent automation journey using Blue Prism’s digital workforce. Always keen to exceed stakeholder expectations, Darshan has successfully delivered high-impact outcomes in several industries including banking, insurance, asset management, telecom, retail, manufacturing, and commercial real estate. Darshan also teaches intelligent automation at the University of Toronto and is a guest faculty lecturer at McGill University where he shares real world stories of what works and what doesn’t with undergrad and graduate business students. Darshan holds an MBA from McGill, a Certificate in International Management from the Stockholm School of Economics, and a BSc from the University of Toronto.

Day One - 20th July 2021

10:00 AM The Tesla-Effect: Applying Lessons from the Automotive Sector to Financial Services

With many industries undergoing radical shift on the advent of new technologies, now is an opportune time to learn and apply the best lessons from each. In the automotive industry, established players are rapidly scaling their electric product lines, while the financial services sector has recently begun to address the rise of FinTechs through the deployment of leading-edge automation and AI technologies. In this session, Giovanni Gentile brings together his unique perspective and experience as a former business leader within the automotive industry with his current role as Head of Automation and AI at State Street. Reflecting on successful approaches carried out in his previous industry, Giovanni will discuss how financial services organizations can apply similar methods in governance, executive sponsorship, process selection, and cultural adoption to dramatically accelerate the pace of automation.