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PRESS RELEASE

SBI Group announces 3rd edition of ‘SBI Green Marathon’ in 15 cities

After a major success of the first two editions of SBI Green Mr. Alok Kumar Chaudhary, DMD (HR) & CDO, SBI
Marathon, country’s largest financial services group SBI said, “With a deep commitment for environment protection
Group announces the launch of its 3 rd edition. This financial and sustainable development, we are delighted to step into
year, SBI Group is hosting this mega event in 15 cities across yet another milestone with third edition of SBI Green
the country pledging for a greener future. Marathon. It has been a great 2 years for this event and
The SBI Group is organizing the run of 5Km, 10Km, 21Km we at SBI would like to thank all the stakeholders, who
on the 23rd of February, 2020 in Jaipur. The 3 rd edition of made the past two editions memorable & successful.
SBI Green Marathon, which is going to a zero waste event, We, once again call upon all to join hands with us and come
would witness close to 1 lakh participants who will run to together to run for a clean and healthy future”.
spread awareness about the importance of cleaner and
The “Run for Green” theme of this marathon event
greener society.
recognizes every participating individual as agents of change
SBI General Insurance is going to be the health partner for for a greener globe. All the participants will be given
SBI Green Marathon whereas SBI Life, SBI Mutual Funds organic t-shirts to promote healthy and greener city. Even
and SBI Cards are also significantly contributing to this the runners’ bib would consist of seeds which can be
cause. The 15 city marathon event will start from planted after the Marathon.
September 15, 209 in Lucknow followed by Guwahati,
Also-bio degradable and recyclable material is to be used
Mumbai, Bengaluru, New Delhi, Chennai, Hyderabad,
by the bank making this a zero waste event.
Bhubaneswar, Kolkata, Thiruvananthapuram, Ahmedabad,
Bhopal, Patna, Jaipur and concluding in Chandigarh on People interested in running in the third edition of SBI
March 1, 2020. The run category for SBI Green Marathon Green Marathon can register themselves on
would include 5K, 10K and 21K. bookmyshow.com and youtoocanrun.com.

Andhra Bank partners with Floatbot to launch AI Virtual Assistant -

Abhi (Chatbot) to Digitally Engage its 5 Crore+ Customers

Bangalore based AI start up, Floatbot has launched AI Chatbot integrated with Core Banking Servers of Andhra Bank, to
digitally engage and automate customer support for its 5 Crore customers. Floatbot will also develop a chatbot for 20,000+
internal employees of Andhra Bank to automate on-boarding and training. Floatbot is incubated at NASSCOM Center of
Excellence DS-AI, an initiative of the Department of IT, BT and S&T, Government of Karnataka. Floatbot has launched
the chatbot for Andhra Bank after going through end to end security audit and a rigorous user acceptance testing (UAT).
More than 50,000 queries were tested before the final sign-off.
Commenting on the initiative Shri. Gaurav Gupta, Principal Secretary, Department of IT,BT and S&T, Government of
Karnataka said, “This is a perfect testimony to the various initiatives that the Government of Karnataka is undertaking
to encourage innovation in emerging technologies such as Artificial Intelligence. The NASSCOM Center of Excellence was
set up by the Government of Karnataka to promote and nurture start ups with path breaking ideas involving new age
technology. The idea is to provide a platform for these start ups to have access to technology, mentors, resources and
like minded professionals.”
“We are happy to partner with Andhra Bank in its Digital transformation journey to automate customer support through
Conversational AI, that can resolve customers queries and provide banking services in English, Hindi and Hinglish. In next
phase, we intend to enable banking services for all regional languages on channels such as WhatsApp and Google Assistant.
We have provided AI Chatbot solution ABHi to Andhra Bank on Floatbot's cloud, that is MietY approved. This is one of
very few launches in India where a bank has allowed a cloud based Chatbot delivery. We are hopeful that this will set a
trend for other Banks and Insurance companies in India to start accepting AI solutions on cloud” said Jimmy Padia, CEO
of Floatbot.

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