Abhishek Chawla, Chief Product & Technology Officer at SMC Global Securities, shares how the firm undertook a bold, ground-up transformation to overcome the limits of legacy, vendor-built systems and create a future-ready digital trading platform. SMC rebuilt its entire broking and distribution ecosystem in-house—covering mobile and web platforms, pre-trade systems, middleware, payments, KYC, and mutual funds—while adopting a cloud-first, cloud-native strategy on AWS. Instead

Ramesh Lakshminarayanan, CIO & Group Head-IT, HDFC Bank  shares how AWS became the foundation of the bank’s cloud transformation journey, driving innovation, resilience, and industry-first digital experiences.   Since 2020, AWS has been the bank’s first choice for cloud adoption , enabling a secure transition from on-prem to public cloud through an industry-benchmark landing zone architecture.   Today, core digital platforms including net banking, mobile banking, AZAP, and la

Rohit Kilam , Chief Technology Officer at  HDFC Life , shares how the organization is building a next-generation  InsurTech platform  to scale insurance access across India’s fast-evolving digital ecosystem.   Aligned with  India@2047 , HDFC Life has transitioned from legacy systems to a hybrid model and is now  nearly 98% on the cloud , with  AWS as the predominant platform . The focus has moved from cloud adoption to  cloud-native architectures , enabled by  containerizatio