Prashant Fuloria
Fundbox CEO
Neha Narkhede is the co-founder and CEO of Oscilar, an AI Risk Decisioning™ platform helping fintechs and banks fight fraud, manage credit risk, and ensure compliance at scale. She previously co-founded **Confluent (NASDAQ: CFLT)**, a leading data infrastructure company with a market cap of over $8 billion. As one of the original creators of **Apache Kafka**, Neha helped build the open-source technology that now powers real-time data pipelines for over 80% of the Fortune 500. She is also an active investor and advisor, with deep expertise in building mission-critical systems that power real-time decisioning and innovation in financial services.
2026 Agenda Sessions
Can agentic startups win by replacing ops, not just scaling them?
As lean teams look for exponential leverage, a new class of agentic fintechs is rewriting the playbook on growth. Instead of hiring armies of operations staff, these companies are deploying autonomous AI agents to run support queues, close compliance gaps, and even manage reconciliation workflows. But what’s hype, and what’s hitting real milestones?
Join a candid conversation with founders, engineers, and investors behind some of the boldest AI-native companies in fintech. We’ll explore how they’re deploying agentic systems in production, what tooling they rely on, and how they measure value beyond the demo.
Takeaways:
• Understand how AI agents are being used to replace, not just augment, core operations.
• Learn which tools and frameworks startups are using to operationalize agentic workflows.
• Gain insights into early benchmarks and investor criteria for AI-native traction.
Tuesday 31 March 08:50 - 09:30 The Pulse
AI & Agentic Systems
Data & Personalization
Infrastructure & APIs
Join a candid conversation with founders, engineers, and investors behind some of the boldest AI-native companies in fintech. We’ll explore how they’re deploying agentic systems in production, what tooling they rely on, and how they measure value beyond the demo.
Takeaways:
• Understand how AI agents are being used to replace, not just augment, core operations.
• Learn which tools and frameworks startups are using to operationalize agentic workflows.
• Gain insights into early benchmarks and investor criteria for AI-native traction. The Pulse US/Pacific
