CEO
ThoughtLinks
Sumeet Chabria is Founder and CEO of ThoughtLinks, advising Fortune 500 banks and capital-markets leaders on technology innovation and AI-driven transformation. He brings deep, enterprise-wide expertise across retail, commercial, wealth, capital markets, and payments, and is a trusted partner to top firms, fintechs, VCs, and boards. He focuses on technology-enabled growth, efficiency, risk, resilience, and the future of work.
Previously, he was Global COO for Technology & Operations and Head of Global Business Services at Bank of America, and Global CIO for Banking & Capital Markets at HSBC. He teaches executive education on technology and AI at Carnegie Mellon University’s Heinz College, holds senior advisory roles with leading firms, and serves on the board of Liberty Science Center. He was named to Business Insider’s 100 People Transforming Business.
Financial institutions that are looking to generate business outcomes with artificial intelligence (AI) must identify use cases that drive adoption by creating a strategic framework that aligns business value, data readiness and risk management. The goal is to achieve production-grade deployment that delivers a return on investment. The challenges that institutions face: data ecosystems are often fragmented and unprepared for AI scale, and risks—bias, privacy, security and regulatory compliance—can derail adoption if not addressed early. Among the points to be discussed by panelists: