The Always-On Core: Solving for Resilience, Residency, Sovereignty & Multi-Cloud in the Agentic Era

India has already solved the population-scale problem in digital banking. Instant payments, digital lending, embedded finance and real-time customer experiences have set a global benchmark and permanently raised expectations around availability, speed and trust. The next decade will demand more. As banking enters the Agentic Era, AI systems will increasingly sense, decide and act across financial workflows. At the same time, institutions must navigate growing expectations around resilience, data residency and sovereignty, while operating across increasingly complex multi-cloud environments. All of this rests on one critical foundation: the operational data layer. As financial institutions modernize their core platforms, the question is no longer simply how to modernize. It is: How do you build a technology foundation that remains always-on at population-scale while being resilient, sovereign, portable and ready for an agentic future? This closed-door, invitation-led Executive Leadership Circle brings together CIOs, CTOs, Chief Architects and senior technology leaders from banks, NBFCs, insurers and fintechs for a candid exchange of perspectives, experiences and strategic priorities. The conversation is grounded in the realities financial institutions are solving for today and the architectural choices that will define what comes next.