Cognizant Podcasts

Stay Cognizant

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Stay Cognizant is a podcast for business leaders eager to find new ways to innovate as they embark on their digital transformation journey. Hosted by Pamela Axtell, Senior Director of Brand Strategy and Marketing, each episode features conversations with Cognizant leaders, partners, and clients about the most exciting innovations shaping the future of business. From AI and workforce upskilling to customer experience and responsible technology, these discussions offer practical insights you can apply today. This is the podcast about the people, ideas, and technology that will help you get ahe...

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How AI Is Rewriting the Rules of Consumer Experience 22.06.2026 40:18

AI in retail, travel, and hospitality is reshaping enterprise operations at scale — but the real challenge is not the technology itself. It’s figuring out where to deploy it, how to rewire the processes around it, and how to build before the infrastructure fully matures. In this episode of Stay Cognizant, host Pamela Axtell is joined by Anup Prasad, Senior Vice President and Business Unit Head of...

Everyone is an AI builder now 19.05.2026 37:34

AI in marketing is transforming enterprise operations, but the real challenge is not the technology itself — it's how organizations build the culture, capability, and governance needed to scale AI across a global team. In this episode of Stay Cognizant, host Pamela Axtell (Senior Director, Global Brand Strategy and Marketing at Cognizant) is joined by Josh Walters (Global Marketing Strategy, Opera...

The Playbook for Responsible AI in Healthcare 30.04.2026 40:53

AI in healthcare is transforming enterprise operations, but the real challenge is not the technology itself—it’s how organizations build the context, trust, and governance needed to scale AI safely and effectively. In this episode of Stay Cognizant, host Pamela Axtell (Senior Director, Global Brand Strategy and Marketing at Cognizant) is joined by Lisa Hersheiser (Client Relationship Manager, Cogn...

Building AI for the Physical World 24.03.2026 26:06

AI is transforming enterprises, but when it moves from dashboards into factories, grids, and warehouses, the stakes—and the risks—become very real. In this episode of Stay Cognizant, host Pamela Axtell (Senior Director, Global Brand Strategy and Marketing at Cognizant) sits down with Vijay Narayan (EVP and Business Unit Head, MLEU, Cognizant) to explore how context, human judgment, and system desi...

De-Fearing the Future: How AI Is Reshaping Enterprise Work Today 16.02.2026 40:49

AI is already reshaping enterprise work, but the real challenge isn’t the technology. It’s how organizations help people navigate fear, build relevance, and redesign work in a world where humans and AI agents operate side by side. In this episode of Stay Cognizant, host Pamela Axtell (Senior Director, Global Brand Strategy and Marketing at Cognizant) is joined by Ganesh Ayyar (President, Intuitive...

Scaling Intelligence: Inside the Agentic Enterprise 16.12.2025 38:18

Agentic AI is redefining how enterprises create value, collaborate, and compete. In this episode of Stay Cognizant, host Pamela Axtell (Senior Director, Global Brand Strategy and Marketing at Cognizant) is joined by Naveen Sharma (Naveen Sharma, SVP and Global Practice Head, Data and AI at Cognizant) and David Schubmehl (Research Vice President for AI and Automation at IDC) to explore the rise of...

Context Engineering: The Hidden Differentiator in Enterprise AI 18.11.2025 30:33

AI is shifting from better prompts to smarter foundations and that’s where context engineering comes in. In this episode of Stay Cognizant, host Pamela Axtell is joined by Shanker Udyaver (Vice President and Global Head of Technology Consulting at Cognizant) to explore why context engineering is emerging as the real differentiator in enterprise AI adoption. Shanker explains how context engineering...

Cognizant’s NeuroSAN Advantage: Driving Business Impact with Open-Source AI 21.10.2025 47:20

Open-source AI is redefining how enterprises innovate, scale, and collaborate. In this episode of Stay Cognizant, host, Pamela Axtell, is joined by Babak Hodjat (Chief AI Officer at Cognizant) and Dan Fink (AVP, Software Architect at Cognizant AI Labs) to explore the launch of NeuroSAN, Cognizant’s open-source, multi-agent AI accelerator. Babak and Dan unpack how NeuroSAN enables organizations to...