Production AI in Financial Services: What Breaks, and the Controls That Hold It Together
Generative AI works beautifully in the demo. The harder question is what happens once real customers arrive.
This talk comes out of my experience architecting generative AI for large North American financial institutions. I walk four ways these systems surprise the teams that deploy them: what they inherit from the systems underneath them, what they cost once real customers use them, how they can be attacked through the text they read, and how they can leak one session’s data into another session. The fix is the same move each time. Keep the AI, and move the guarantee outside it: a clear source of truth for what it inherits, a spending limit with an owner for what it costs, a gatekeeper the model cannot talk past for what attacks it, and a boundary enforced on every step against leaks. The few AI terms the talk needs are introduced in plain language up front, so no background in AI is required.
This session is for engineers, architects, and technology leaders putting AI into real systems. It is a practitioner's account of what breaks in production and the engineering that holds it together, not a framework overview.
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- 2302 Bridge Rd,
- Oakville,, Ontario
- Canada L6L 2G6
- Building: Queen Elizabeth Park Community and Cultural Centre
- Room Number: Boardroom
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- Starts 14 August 2026 12:48 AM UTC
- Ends 17 September 2026 11:00 PM UTC
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Rohith Rayapu
Production AI in Financial Services: What Breaks, and the Controls That Hold It Together
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Rohith Rayapu
Rohith Rayapu is Principal Solutions Architect and Technology Strategy Lead at RAVL, with 14 years of experience across financial services and enterprise technology. He advises insurers, banks, and payments organizations on AI strategy, modernization, architecture, and delivery. Before RAVL, he held senior architecture and consulting roles at CGI Inc. and PwC. He is a TOGAF certified architect, a member of IASA Global and the Chief Architect Forum. He holds an MBA from Rotman, and M.Tech and B.Tech degrees in Electrical Engineering from IIT Madras.
Agenda
7:00PM - Introduction of IEEE Hamilton Section
7:15PM - Presentation
8:00PM - Q&A
8:15PM - Refreshments