Cognizant Podcasts

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.

As the Agile Development Methodology goes mainstream, many organizations are embracing the digital software engineering tenets of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery. Let's listen to Brian Roche, a Cognizant Digital Business VP of Digital Engineering, share his views on CI/CD across multiple dimensions.

To contend with persistent change and challenges, organizations need to embrace more agile ways of working that will not only help them deliver tailored services to a new generation of users, but also unlock the vast potential of emerging digital business opportunities. Alan Alper, Cognizant’s Editorial Director discusses the operational agility imperative with leaders from Cognizant Consulting’s Organizational Change Management and Cognizant Digital Business.

What was once science fiction is fast becoming business reality. Intelligent automation holds vast potential for insurers interested in reinventing their business models and transforming customer experience. Tune into a conversation between Cognizant automation experts and learn how carriers can add more machine intelligence to the core of their businesses processes.

Companies are either investing in or experimenting with blockchain technologies. What is your organization doing to remain digitally relevant? Tune in to today’s episode on blockchain readiness with our panel of experts, to understand how blockchain works and where it fits into your business.

Communication and collaboration is the lifeblood of any relationship and therefore the lifeblood of all business. But the days of meeting at the water cooler are coming to an end. So how does communication adapt to our new desk-less workforce in industry 4.0? For the 6th episode in our CFoW podcast series we’re going to listen in to a discussion between Stacey Epstein, CEO of communications software provider Zink and Rob Brown, AVP Cognizant Center for the Future of Work to discuss this topic.

HR, finance, procurement, supply chain and customer experience operate as separate functions within organizations. But are these silos still relevant in today’s digital era? More specifically, does intelligent automation, with its ability to optimize business processes, offer a digital means to break down these corporate walls and create a more homogeneous organization? And if so, to what end? In this fifth episode of the CFOW podcast series, we’ll explore just that with Phil Fersht, founder and CEO of HfS Research.