Speakers

Adri Purkayastha

Adri Purkayastha

Group Head AI Technology OpRisk

BNP Paribas

Adri is an enterprise AI leader with a proven track record of driving multi-billion Euro cumulative value through artificial intelligence over the past six years. Having founded his current AI team in 2019, he oversees the strategic deployment and scaling of more than 1,000 AI use cases in production, including hundreds of generative and agentic AI models, generating €500 million in yearly value in 2025 and targeting €750 million in 2026.

With extensive experience across the entire project lifecycle, he handles complex, multi-geography AI integrations within multi-billion Euro technology budgets. His sector expertise spans investment banking, wealth management, insurance, commercial banking, and asset leasing. Additionally, Adri serves on a cloud maturity team, reviewing and deciding on SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, and AI deployments across all group subsidiaries, building upon an enterprise career that began as an AI higher-education startup founder.