Learn how cloud, AI, and automation are elevating the innovation game. Prasad Sankaran, EVP, Software and Platform Engineering, discusses the importance of software product engineering in today's business environment.By Cognizant

Explore what happens to the product lifecycle when gen AI is brought into the workflow. Naveen Sharma, SVP & Global Practice Head of AI & Analytics at Cognizant discusses the transformative power of AI in the business world.By Cognizant

Discover how tech companies can use FinOps to reduce costs, improve utilization, and reduce rates. FinOps expert Scott Schulman delves into strategic cloud cost optimization with host Deb Eastman.By Cognizant

This podcast is the first in a 3-part series highlighting outstanding female leaders among Cognizant's manufacturing clients. In this episode, we interview Audrey Sherman of 3M. Audrey has an inspiring multi-decade career in which 150+ patents have been granted to her name. In the interview, she shares her unique path to manufacturing, her thoughts…

The Creator Economy is changing the way brands and consumers interact, forging new avenues for more authentic and impactful partnerships. In the second installment of this series, we delve deeper into the perspective of creators and what they're looking for when collaborating with brands. Jenna is excited to welcome special guest Casey Bennett, a C…

Join us in this insightful episode as our host David Fearne, Cognizant’s Global Director for Generative AI, converses with Emily Fridman, a strategy and design maven known for her contributions to top brands like Coca-Cola, Walt Disney, Lululemon, and others. Together, they'll dive into the realm of generative AI and its transformative impact on th…

Join us in this insightful episode as our host David Fearne, Cognizant’s Global Director for Generative AI, converses with Emily Fridman, a strategy and design maven known for her contributions to top brands like Coca-Cola, Walt Disney, Lululemon, and others. Together, they'll dive into the realm of generative AI and its transformative impact on th…

Most companies fail to recognize the importance of building a solid data foundation to understand their impact on environmental issues and manage them effectively. Companies must augment their sustainability strategy with a data strategy to reduce overhead costs. In this episode, we explore how brands can leverage technology to operationalize susta…

LOHAS consumers — short for Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability — represent more than one-third of American adults. A remarkably savvy segment, the LOHAS customer is both well-informed and hard to impress – which means that brands need to be ambitious in their goals and authentic in their approach to build lasting relationships with this group.…

LOHAS consumers — short for Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability — represent more than one-third of American adults. A remarkably savvy segment, the LOHAS customer is both well-informed and hard to impress – which means that brands need to be ambitious in their goals and authentic in their approach to build lasting relationships with this group.…

Why should organizations be blending customer and employee experience and what does that mean for brands in today’s world? Hear John McVay, Head of Digital Experience Solutions for the Americas at Cognizant discuss how this methodology can ensure both topline growth and employee retention. It’s clear why a synchronized experience between customers …

Why should organizations be blending customer and employee experience and what does that mean for brands in today’s world? Hear John McVay, Head of Digital Experience Solutions for the Americas at Cognizant discuss how this methodology can ensure both topline growth and employee retention. It’s clear why a synchronized experience between customers …

The pandemic has rapidly accelerated consumer adoption of online purchasing. To meet customer expectations, brands need PIM solutions to support the entire process of collecting, validating, enriching, and syndicating product information. What does product information management (PIM) mean for your brand and your success in the marketplace? Anup Pr…

For media streaming service providers, search plays a crucial role in connecting relevant content to customers. It needs to be constantly tested basis user insights and performance. The focus should not just be on what consumers want via search but what more they can find from the media company’s existing listings.Tune into our final installment of…

One of the key challenges for media companies offering direct-to-consumer streaming services is delivering content that customers want or would prefer to watch. Moreover, cross-content search still remains a challenge and just redesigning the user interface will not suffice. Listen on as we bring you a three-part podcast series featuring Chris Kuth…

Globally, media companies providing direct-to-consumer streaming services operate in an extremely competitive market led by AI, data and engineering. Every advantage counts where sales is tightly intertwined to technology-driven subscriber experience.Listen on as we bring you a three-part podcast series featuring Chris Kuthan, Global Head Of Busine…

Today, just about every company is sitting on a pile of potentially valuable data. Anil Nagaraj, Head of Data Engineering, Cognizant, and Kevin Miller, VP Global Systems Integrators, Snowflake, look at the growing data marketplace to see how organizations are monetizing that data. Listen now to explore how businesses across all industries—including…

Anil Nagaraj, Head of Data Engineering, Cognizant, and Kevin Miller, VP Global Systems Integrators, Snowflake, delve into some of their favourite customer success stories. Whether it’s mobilizing data to create a business advantage, efficiently replacing end-of-life, on-premises platforms, or overcoming fragmented, siloed data, these real-world ins…

Anil Nagaraj, Head of Data Engineering, Cognizant, and Kevin Miller, VP Global Systems Integrators, Snowflake, look at how the two companies are collaborating to enable businesses to enhance their data maturity and make better decisions—faster, repeatedly, and more predictably. They explore how the Cognizant-Snowflake partnership is empowering busi…

The Future Starts Now book is designed to get us thinking about the futures we don’t want to live in, as well as those that we do we want to create – and to suggest some actionable solutions we can implement today to make sure we end up in the future we want for ourselves and our future generations. In this podcast, you will hear expert views on th…

We are witnessing an unprecedented eagerness to go digital across industries accelerated by the pandemic. As a result, the gap between degrees and required skills is widening, traditional white-collar roles are getting outdated, and education as we know it needs to be overhauled, calling for a greater collaboration between corporate and educational…

In the post-pandemic world, we can anticipate new workplace innovations, technology-driven office-space strategies, likeminded communities coming together to ideate and innovate, on-demand onsite collaboration and a machine-augmented workforce.Tune into part two of our three-part ‘Timeline of Next’ podcast series where Vinnie Mirchandani, acclaimed…

In the next decade, the world will be a very different place. Accelerated by the pandemic, new intriguing ideas are emerging on the future of work. Technologies like AI, machine learning and automation are already bringing radical changes that will spawn further out into the future.Tune into our three-part podcast series ‘Timeline of Next’ where Vi…

Remote work may have been the norm during the COVID-19 pandemic, but has its limitations when it comes to innovating through collaboration. Tune into part three of our three-part podcast series ‘Redesigning Work for the Post-pandemic Age’ where Oxford University’s Carl Benedikt Frey, acclaimed author and economist joins Ben Pring, Co-founder and Di…

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted a skill-based technology bias where work that could be done remotely remained unhindered during lockdowns while a few others were at a disadvantage. Tune into part two of our three-part podcast series ‘Redesigning Work for the Post-pandemic Age’ where Oxford University’s Carl Benedikt Frey, acclaimed author and…

The definition of work has completely changed since the COVID-19 mainstreamed remote working. The emergence of automation, AI, robotics and machine learning has also redefined work, efficiency, innovation and what it will take for businesses to thrive in future.Tune into part one of our three-part podcast series ‘Redesigning Work for the Post-pande…

In this episode of Lev's podcast ‘In the Clouds,’ we cover all things SFMC and Sports. Lev Managing Director, Ryan McCambridge, and Account Director, Abbey Sullivan, join our hosts to discuss how teams are scoring big with Salesforce Marketing Cloud. In their past time, sports teams historically have been the last to adapt to digital trends but the…

The COVID-19 pandemic has mainstreamed concepts like work from home (WFH) and remote working that were once thought to be a future construct. As technology, space and work intersect rapidly, accelerated by the coronavirus crisis, industry practitioners look for answers on where the future of work is heading and places that will become next destinat…

Technology is the driving force behind the ongoing fourth industrial revolution that is exponentially transforming the world, work and workplaces. However, a few locations across the globe stand out as hotbeds of innovation, creativity and sustainability. Tune into part two of the ‘Jobs of the Future’ podcast series where the host Jessica Lessin, F…

In the age of automation, artificial intelligence and algorithms it is difficult to predict where jobs of the future will appear. The technology is quickly replacing many traditional job roles to give rise to new ones. A recent report by the Cognizant Center for the Future of Work outlines where many of these new jobs will appear.Listen on as we br…

The Formula One racing is probably the most competitive motorsports on the planet where cutting-edge technologies meet sharpest skills. A few microseconds to milliseconds separate a winner from rest. After 60-plus years, the iconic luxury British sports car manufacturer, Aston Martin, returned to Grand Prix racing with the launch of its new AMR21 F…

In early 2020, everything changed for businesses and people soon after the World Health Organization declared a global pandemic. One of the first and most hard-hit industries was travel and hospitality. Amidst the crisis, IHG faced a business calamity as demand fell across its global properties; it took a slew of measures to counter the pandemic. L…

The enthusiasm around AI has gone through a metamorphosis, especially after COVID-19 pandemic changed how we look at technologies becoming integral to businesses and humans. A range of opinions exist around techs like AI from enthusiasm to outright fear of bots replacing human labor. A lot rests on the shoulders of leadership and government from ed…

To become a modern business and deliver the experiences that customers have come to expect in the digital era, one has to first do away with traditionally slow legacy systems and adopt techs like cloud to be truly customer-centric. The leadership across organizations is expected to drive this business modernization effort to converge vision with re…

The COVID-19 pandemic has completely changed the narrative around digital; embracing digital today will ensure future bottom-line success. The future belongs to those organizations that understand the on-going shift early on and adapt quickly. To understand how organizations worldwide are navigating this tricky transition — as well all things digit…

After navigating the intricate maze that 2020 put us through, we just entered 2021 with a disparate business landscape where accelerated digital transformation is the norm and the future of work is changing. In this metamorphosis, the role of HR is also shifting and it needs to go beyond the usual back-office function to stay relevant in the new re…

The Pandemic Response Challenge is a $550k, four month challenge that focuses on the development of data-driven AI systems to predict COVID-19 infection rates and to prescribe Intervention Plans (IPs) that regional governments, communities, and organizations can implement to minimize harm when reopening their economies.In this podcast episode, Jaso…

The rise of voice isn't going to replace visual interface but instead, complement it in a dual-modality model. Given this development, brands must look at voice holistically and add it to their UX and UI strategy. As consumers increasingly begin to interact with voice, brands can leverage this shift to have greater influence on purchase decisions o…

A key outcome of the COVID-19 pandemic is the emergence of voice-assisted technologies as an alternative to touchscreen enabled interfaces as people are wary of contracting the virulent pathogen. At the same time, people are increasingly concerned around data privacy and security as they interact with voice interfaces across devices and digital pla…

One of the major fallouts in the ongoing pandemic is people abstaining from touchscreen interfaces as they got wary of touching surfaces in fear of contracting the coronavirus. It led to an increase in the use of voice assistant services, which got brands thinking that voice might become an entry point for interactions and help clients engage bette…

The COVID-19 pandemic has shown why every industry needs to accelerate its technology investments, in turn offering a chance for telcos to form deeper associations with industries, while innovating and expanding IoT and 5G solution capabilities, and not limited to the connectivity experience alone. Welcome to part two of the podcast series where ou…

Traditionally, the core business of telcos was to provide widespread connectivity. However, with the advent of Internet of Things and then 5G arriving, the business landscape has completely changed for telcos. To stay relevant and competitive, they have to deal with an extensive network of sensors, ultra-fast connectivity and solve challenges for i…

To embark on a successful AI journey, a business needs the right people with the right talent and excellence ingrained in the organization’s culture. How do you optimize talent for AI? It is important to optimize data at a fundamental level before feeding into AI for better results. On realizing how crucial data is to powering AI and explore its fu…

Simply rolling out an AI solution isn’t going to ensure ROI; there is no one-size-fits-all approach. Multiple discrete AI algorithms should be coordinated and orchestrated in line with business processes and AI models to ensure the desired business outcomes complement each other. Business leaders should also continuously monitor and challenge AI’s …

Artificial Intelligence or AI has gone mainstream for many businesses; the application of technology like machine learning has changed the way personal and professional interactions take place. To learn how companies perceive AI along with challenges they face and opportunities they gain, Cognizant sponsored a study of 1200 executives across indust…

5G connectivity has effectively changed the landscape for IoT as new possibilities and capabilities emerge for latter, especially accelerated by the COVID-19 crisis. The high speed connectivity of 5G, IoT interconnectedness, and mesh of machines sharing and processing data at unprecedented speeds, will unlock new growth opportunities for businesses…

Before the world could get a complete sense of the havoc that the COVID-19 pandemic could cause, Cognizant preemptively partnered with XPRIZE to launch a pandemic response challenge, by inviting the world’s greatest AI minds to find innovative ways to reopen societies and restart economies, using an AI model capable of generating data-driven, actio…

When organizations take the IoT journey, everything may look easy and promising at first, but for scale and success, certain levers must be prioritized over others. From organizational enablement, having a scientific approach toward reaching IoT goals to knowing what KPIs matter, there are specific factors that organizations must address first befo…

Because AI has diffused into so many aspects of our lives and work so seamlessly, it is easy to overlook how significant it will be for the rest of our working lives. In our new Work Ahead research series, executives appear to grasp that something big is going on. Join Cognizant experts as we discuss how you can use AI to build a successful future …

A new survey shows that IoT at scale is a critical path, but many companies struggle to realize value. In fact, over 50% of companies piloting or deploying IoT are struggling to realize returns. according to according to a recent commissioned study conducted by Forrester for Cognizant. Tune into our three-part podcast series on Achieving IoT Escape…