Cognizant Podcasts

In this special episode of Stay Cognizant, Cognizant CMO Thea Hayden and Rob Bloom of Aston Martin Aramco discuss how AI is moving marketing from a campaign-based model to a context-based one.

In this special episode of Stay Cognizant, Cognizant’s Head of IoT Anuj Seth and Aston Martin Aramco’s COO Ben Fitzgerald explore how digital twins are changing the game across multiple industries. They discuss how the Aston Martin Aramco Formula One™ team uses digital twins to improve efficiency, optimize factory processes, and reduce the time it takes to get a car from a concept to the track.

On this special edition of Stay Cognizant, Cognizant President of EMEA Manoj Mehta and Aston Martin Aramco’s Chief People Officer Sophie Ackland explore how AI is fundamentally reshaping businesses and their expectations. They discuss the critical shift from simply automating processes to strategically deciding where humans need to be in the loop. Using the Formula One™ cost cap as an example, they illustrate the economic incentives for companies to invest in AI to drive efficiency.

In this special episode of Stay Cognizant, Cognizant's Naveen Sharma and Aston Martin Aramco’s Sioned Edwards discuss how to build a future-ready, AI-powered tech stack. The Aston Martin Aramco Formula One™ team has a multi-layered tech stack that is built to support engineers and their bright ideas with speed. Naveen explains how Cognizant helps clients build a tech stack by layering on data, AI, and applications.

In this special edition of Stay Cognizant, Cognizant's Prasad Sankaran and Aston Martin Aramco's Andy Cowell dive into the cutting-edge intersection of AI and Formula One. They explore how AI is already being used to optimize business systems and how it could fundamentally change the sport by creating human-plus-agent partnerships.

AI is reshaping how healthcare systems deliver care, build resiliency, and improve patient access. In this episode of Stay Cognizant, host Pamela Axtell is joined by Sean Heshmat (Data and AI Head at Cognizant) and Burak Gümüş (Account Director, Public Sector at Cognizant) to explore the creation of an award-winning virtual clinician for a national health authority in the Middle East.

Sean and Burak share how the AI-powered tool achieves 98 percent diagnostic accuracy across more than 900 conditions, why governments are embracing it as a model for the future, and how empathy and trust were built into its design. They also discuss the downstream impact on healthcare delivery, the cultural factors influencing adoption, and the broader potential of responsible AI to transform public sector services.

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AI is reshaping how utilities confront climate pressures, aging infrastructure, and rising regulatory scrutiny. In this episode of Stay Cognizant, host Pamela Axtell (Senior Director of Global Brand Strategy and Marketing at Cognizant) is joined by Mahua Saha, Global Engagement Delivery Leader and Generative AI Lead for Cognizant’s UKI markets. Together, they explore how an AI-powered spills management system is helping a UK water utility transform environmental performance and set a new industry benchmark.

Mahua explains how her team harnessed Azure Databricks, machine learning operations, and AI-driven data insights to detect and prevent untreated sewage spills delivering measurable results including a 9% reduction in actual spills and $46M in avoided infrastructure costs. She also shares how the project scaled from a rapid proof of concept to deployment across 2,500+ sites, all while navigating regulatory pressures and driving stakeholder confidence.

Discussed in this episode:

• How AI eliminated 9,000+ erroneous spill reports and reduced actual spills by nearly 9%
• The financial and environmental impact of avoiding $46M in infrastructure upgrades
• Why CXO-level engagement and a proof-of-concept mindset accelerated adoption
• How responsible AI drives sustainability, transparency, and trust in the water sector
• The future of multi-agent AI in utilities, retail, banking, and beyond

On this special feature episode of Stay Cognizant, Geraldine Trefethen, Director of Transformation Retails at Cognizant, shares how mindfulness, holistic health, and a supportive workplace help silence self-doubt and empower confidence.

AI is transforming the way critical infrastructure organizations approach resilience, disaster recovery, and operational efficiency. In this episode of Stay Cognizant, host Pamela is joined by co-host Gisela Dauer (Associate Director of Corporate Communications at Cognizant) and guest Damian Bunyan (CIO of Uniper) to explore how AI helped a global energy company strengthen its IT foundation and rethink its approach to disaster recovery.

Damian shares how Uniper's cloud-first strategy created the ideal launchpad for AI innovation—including an MVP developed with Cognizant that intelligently assesses and improves disaster recovery plans. He also explains why being “customer zero” for AI initiatives has helped drive broader organizational buy-in and demonstrates how AI can enable people to do their best work.

Discussed in this episode:

• How Uniper replaced Excel-based tracking with an AI agent to evaluate and enhance disaster recovery plans
• Why Damian chose to be a “customer zero” for AI—and how it’s accelerating enterprise-wide adoption
• The impact of simplifying AI implementation with real-time, grounded models
• Expanding the use case: from disaster recovery to procurement, knowledge management, and beyond

Security automation, AI integration, and global compliance aren’t just buzzwords—they’re business-critical capabilities. For companies in highly regulated industries like pharmaceuticals, the stakes are even higher.

This week, Pamela Axtell is joined by Robert Drumski, Senior Principal Systems Engineer at Boehringer Ingelheim, to explore how his team partnered with Cognizant to streamline ServiceNow development, tackle security orchestration, and pave the way toward a self-healing, AI-enabled infrastructure. Robert shares how they’ve scaled automation without sacrificing compliance, empowered citizen developers, and enabled faster, smarter decisions across the enterprise—all while keeping up with rapidly evolving technology and regulatory demands.

Discussed in this episode:

• Why compliance must be baked into every phase of innovation
• How Boehringer Ingelheim built firewall automation with ServiceNow
• The power and pitfalls of citizen development in large enterprises
• A future vision of autonomous infrastructure powered by AI