In this special episode of Innovators Playground by NPCI, Mr. C S Setty, Chairman of State Bank of India, joins Dilip Asbe for a rare insider look at how SBI is reimagining banking at national scale, from village touchpoints to AI-driven risk systems and global ambitions.

Here’s what you’ll learn:

✅ High-Tech + High-Touch Banking - how SBI is fusing AI, predictive risk models, and YONO 2.0’s omni-channel experience with human trust

✅ Scaling India’s Financial Backbone - serving 520M+ customers through 1.6 lakh+ touchpoints and 140+ patented AI/ML models

✅ Driving Viksit Bharat 2047 - financing new-age sectors like semiconductors & green energy while powering financial inclusion

✅ Leading Through Complexity - lessons from steering India’s biggest bank across disruption, regulation, and global expansion

🎧 Listen now for a masterclass in building and leading the institution that moves India’s economy.

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What does it really take to build India’s future?

In Episode 4 of Innovators Playground by NPCI, Kunal Shah, Founder of CRED, joins Dilip Asbe for an unfiltered conversation on ambition, risk, AI, and the mindset to scale big.

Here’s what you’ll learn:

✅Why ambition is India’s biggest untapped resource

✅ How founders turn chaos into clarity

✅ Why risk-taking is essential to building for scale

✅ How AI can be a 100x productivity multiplier

✅ Why valuing time is central to becoming a developed nation

🎧 Tune in now for insights from one of India’s most dynamic entrepreneurs.

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In the third episode of Innovators Playground by NPCI, Dilip Asbe speaks with Dr. Pramod Varma, Former Chief Architect of India Stack, Co-Creator, Finternet & Beckn, to explore what it takes to engineer systems at billion-user scale.

Key takeaways:

• Advice for young engineers to move beyond coding into problem-solving and execution

• Principles behind building modular, resilient, and future-ready architecture

• Why protocol thinking is the key to scaling globally without central bottlenecks

• The vision for tokenizing real-world assets through the Internet initiative

• Lessons from Aadhaar, UPI, and India Stack on innovation at population scale

🎧 Tune in for a masterclass on technology, scale, and imagination shaping India’s digital future.

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