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 Learning & Development teams and educators play in preparing a workforce for the future of work.

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.