Cognizant Podcasts

Businesses can more effectively pivot to a fully integrated digital infrastructure, and establish a cloud strategy that works for them. Learn how from today's conversation between Bill Martorelli, Principal Analyst, Forrester, Venu Lambu, Vice President of Cognizant Cloud Services and Baiju Panicker, Chief Technology Officer, Comerica Bank.

James Jeude, AI leader from Cognizant and Steve Levitt, the much acclaimed economist continue their conversation in part 2 of this AI/economics series. In this episode, they discuss about ways machine intelligence and data analytics can inform business strategy and market leadership.

In part 1 of this 2-part series, James Jeude, Vice President of the AI & Analytics practice and Steve Levitt, the award winning economist, exchange their views on how artificial intelligence is changing economic theory. Do not miss part 2 of this series to learn how the AI/economics interface helps inform business strategy and market leadership.

Just as the role of pilots has shifted from flying a plane to monitoring auto-pilot systems and intervening as and when required, our recent research at Cognizant Center for the Future of Work suggests that the role of L&D professionals will move from being a “controller” of learning systems to a “facilitator” of learning. In today's episode, our expert panel exchange their views on the roles...

Businesses and educators know they need to prepare people for very different jobs in the future of work, but they’re slow to revamp their education and training models, or collaborate with each other, according to our research. In this podcast, we discuss the findings from Cognizant’s Center for the Future of Work survey of top businesses and higher education institutions globally to gain insight...

Leaders of companies across the globe are struggling to fill vital digital roles within their organizations. This isn’t due to inept hiring practices but rather a severe lack of digital talent within the jobs market. Many companies are therefore looking to reskill their current workforce to help address this talent gap. In this podcast we get to grips with the intricacies of this reskilling.

Digital technologies are fundamentally changing the way we live, socialize and work. Blockchain, artificial intelligence, machine learning and connected devices are supercharging industry at an astonishing rate. On the face of it, our business and personal lives seem to be heading for a state of nirvana. However, behind the scenes at many organizations, leadership is struggling to cope with one ma...

In this second part of the AI podcast series, our experts Poornima Ramaswamy, Dr. Jerry Smith and James Jeude from Cognizant Digital Business’ AI & Analytics Practice share their views on how to bring AI into the business mainstream. They also throw light on aspects of AI that companies must address to prevent their AI efforts from falling short.

A real and responsible Artificial intelligence deployment is about strategy, governance and ethics than technology. In this 2-part episode series, experts from Cognizant’s AI & Analytics practice, Poornima Ramaswamy, Dr. Jerry Smith & James Jeude suggest ways to get these elements right and responsibly embrace machine intelligence.

With every click we make online, our interests, preferences, intent and even location are revealed to those we trust – and those we don’t know. In this conversation moderated by Gary Beach, publisher emeritus of CIO magazine, and a columnist with the Wall Street Journal’s CIO Journal, our panel of experts - Ben Pring and Rob Brown, from Cognizant’s Center for the Future of Work, and Jonathan Zittr...

In today's episode, Babak Hodjat, Vice President of evolutionary innovation within Cognizant Digital Business's AI & Analytics practice, discusses AI's ongoing evolution & future with Ojas Rege, Chief Strategy Officer at MobileIron, a mobile enterprise security company. We thank MobileIron and Ojas Rege for their permission to repurpose this podcast. Make sure to listen to a complimentary...

At the end of 2017 the Center for the Future of Work published a landmark report titled 21 jobs of the future. Here we laid out in no uncertain terms 21 jobs that are going to emerge over the next 10 years. For the 9th CFoW podcast Rob Brown and myself will be speaking to Marta Michelle Colon, who has experience with individuals who through disaster, have lost everything and see how she sees the r...

At the end of 2017 the Center for the Future of Work published a landmark report titled 21 jobs of the future. Here we laid out in no uncertain terms 21 jobs that are going to emerge over the next 10 years. We categorized these jobs into the three C’s: Coaching, caring and connecting. So we predicted these jobs, but when are they going to start emerging and who is going to be pioneer in bringing t...

The banking industry in Europe is changing, rapidly! Fintechs and challenger banks, further enabled by PSD2, are changing the competition dynamic for incumbent banks. In some cases these new entrants are disintermediating banks in their very own value chain, specifically in lending. For the 7th CFoW podcast we spoke to one of these disruptors. Alwin Meyer from Swisspeers breaks down the dynamics o...

As the Agile Development Methodology goes mainstream, many organizations are embracing the digital software engineering tenets of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery. Let's listen to Brian Roche, a Cognizant Digital Business VP of Digital Engineering, share his views on CI/CD across multiple dimensions.

To contend with persistent change and challenges, organizations need to embrace more agile ways of working that will not only help them deliver tailored services to a new generation of users, but also unlock the vast potential of emerging digital business opportunities. Alan Alper, Cognizant’s Editorial Director discusses the operational agility imperative with leaders from Cognizant Consulting’s...

What was once science fiction is fast becoming business reality. Intelligent automation holds vast potential for insurers interested in reinventing their business models and transforming customer experience. Tune into a conversation between Cognizant automation experts and learn how carriers can add more machine intelligence to the core of their businesses processes.

Companies are either investing in or experimenting with blockchain technologies. What is your organization doing to remain digitally relevant? Tune in to today’s episode on blockchain readiness with our panel of experts, to understand how blockchain works and where it fits into your business.

Communication and collaboration is the lifeblood of any relationship and therefore the lifeblood of all business. But the days of meeting at the water cooler are coming to an end. So how does communication adapt to our new desk-less workforce in industry 4.0? For the 6th episode in our CFoW podcast series we’re going to listen in to a discussion between Stacey Epstein, CEO of communications softwa...

HR, finance, procurement, supply chain and customer experience operate as separate functions within organizations. But are these silos still relevant in today’s digital era? More specifically, does intelligent automation, with its ability to optimize business processes, offer a digital means to break down these corporate walls and create a more homogeneous organization? And if so, to what end? In...

By applying artificial intelligence (AI) to business, social and personal situations at meaningful points of action with deep advice and contextual insights, organizations across industries can enhance humanity, solve business challenges and create new opportunities. Find out if your organization is mobilizing around AI the right way, in this last of applied AI podcasts series with Karthik Krishna...

In this series, Karthik Krishnamurthy, Global head of Cognizant Digital Business’s Analytics and Information Management Practice talks about how companies applying AI for transformation will lead the way, enhance customer relationships, and advance their corporate and social missions. Tune in and learn to navigate the new wave of service robots.

By predicting floods and quickly warning potential victims and first respondents about impending disasters, intelligence systems prove to be quite viable. Learn how from Karthik Krishnamurthy, who leads Cognizant Digital Business’s Analytics and Information Management Practice in the third episode of our Applied AI series.

The idea of empowering a vehicle to act like a human driver may have a long way to go. But, in this second installment of our Artificial Intelligence podcast series, Karthik Krishnamurthy from Cognizant Digital Business discusses a potentially larger and immediate impact of Applied Artificial Intelligence, driver assistance and its benefits.

In this, the first of our Artificial Intelligence podcast series, Karthik Krishnamurthy, Global head of Cognizant Digital Business’s Analytics and Information Management Practice, sheds light on how Applied AI is solving both social and business problems. Everything from how we’re educated, fed, transported, insured, and cared for — to what we buy, where we do business, and who we choose to trust.