World Congress 2026 North America • Sep 24, 2026 • Session details

Acquired Live Interview: Sri Shivananda (CIO, JPMorganChase) with Ben & David from Acquired

Sri Shivananda , Ben Gilbert , David Rosenthal

Sri Shivananda proves that flawless security is the ultimate prerequisite for financial innovation. Discover how JPMorgan Chase leverages a proprietary AI model to process $12 trillion daily.

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#1 about 3 min

Early software career and the origins of Google Groups

How archiving early online news groups led to the creation of foundational search and e-commerce technologies.

#2 about 3 min

Returning to technology leadership for JPMorgan payments scale

The transition from managing consumer payment volumes to handling trillions in daily institutional transactions.

#3 about 3 min

Managing global architecture for high-value institutional payments

The complexities of securely routing money across multiple currencies and international jurisdictions behind the scenes.

#4 about 3 min

Achieving absolute reliability for high-value transaction networks

Why critical government and corporate wire operations require a flawless infrastructure without dropped payments.

#5 about 3 min

Bridging early consumer fintech with traditional banking rails

How internet commerce speeds forced a re-architecture of slow traditional payment methods to handle growing consumer volume.

#6 about 3 min

Deploying artificial intelligence across the engineering lifecycle

Expanding generative development tools from code generation to continuous discovery and deployment workflows.

#7 about 2 min

Exploring blockchain and tokenization for near-instant settlement

Maintaining investments in distributed ledger technology to prepare for future agentic commerce and cross-border needs.

#8 about 2 min

Partnering with developers to scale commercial innovations

Why the world's largest financial institution relies on external developer imagination to build the future of commerce.

#9 about 3 min

Training an internal large payment model for transaction screening

Building a specialized transformer model on historical payment messages to proactively flag compliance and security issues.

#10 about 3 min

Prioritizing security and stability over immediate execution speed

Balancing the need for rapid innovation with the absolute requirement for operational trust and system resilience.

#11 about 2 min

Shifting from technology obsession to direct customer enablement

Realizing that pure technical curiosity must take a back seat to solving tangible problems for users.

#12 about 2 min

Maintaining technical relevance through weekend system development projects

How hands-on coding and infrastructure experiments help technology leaders stay connected to architectural realities.

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