Cognizant Podcasts

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 into the changes these entities are making in their training and educational programs, and the challenges they face in preparing tomorrow’s workforce.

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 major issue. A lack of digital skills. And this skills gap is only increasing, the bureau of labor statistics indicates that over the next decade the US will need as many as 100,000 new IT workers, however only around 60,000 relevantly skilled workers enter the workforce each year. In this podcast we get to grips with what organizations are doing to address this hot topic.

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 Zittrain, Professor of Internet Law and Computer Science at Harvard University lay out what privacy means in the age of the algorithm, why it is not dead and highlight how the data privacy fight is playing out across the global internet.

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 MobileIron podcast track where Babak lays out lessons of natural language technology at https://www.mobileiron.com/en/resources/rethink-IT-podcast.

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 role of one of these emerging jobs, Personal Memory Curator, playing out in the next few years.

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 these future jobs to fruition? Well, we’ve had the pleasure of meeting one such company. For the 8th CFOW podcast, my colleague Rob Brown will be talking to a firm that is introducing the next wave of jobs in the field of caring.

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 of P2P lending in Europe.