Cognizant Podcasts

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 Kuthan, Global Head Of Business Development for direct to consumer at Amazon Web Services, and Simon Adams, Chief Product Officer at Gracenote, a Nielsen company and Tiran Dagan, Chief Digital Officer and Head Of Industry Solutions for Communications, Media and Technology at Cognizant, who emphasize on the need of bettering content delivery.

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 Business Development for direct to consumer at Amazon Web Services, and Simon Adams, Chief Product Officer at Gracenote, a Nielsen company and Tiran Dagan, Chief Digital Officer and Head Of Industry Solutions for Communications, Media and Technology at Cognizant, who share their take on building a better streaming service using technology and data.

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 telecoms, healthcare, and financial services—are benefiting from the data marketplace and data-sharing capabilities. Hear, for example, how some banks are teaming up with retailers to create unique data sets, which can give valuable information on the buying behaviours of customers. And discover how the data marketplace can ensure supply chain visibility in unpredictable times.

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 insights highlight how companies can make their cloud migration a success, while avoiding some common pitfalls. Listen now to discover how the Cognizant-Snowflake partnership is helping businesses streamline data access, governance, and visibility. Hear how you can unify all your data to make it easy to share and discover, and to execute a range of different workloads.

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 businesses to modernize while maximizing their efficiency gains. And they discuss the Center of Excellence that’s helping organizations successfully and safely use third-party data. Listen now to learn how your business can achieve the outcomes you expect from the cloud and your digital transformation journey.

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 the future of business, technology and society. We encourage you to visit https://thefuturestartsnowbook.com and develop ideas about the future trajectory of your life, work and everything in between.

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 sectors.

Tune into our final installment of the ‘Timeline of Next’ podcast series where Vinnie Mirchandani, acclaimed author, blogger and tech watcher, Beth Porter, CEO of Riff Analytics and Managing Partner of Esme Learning, Manish Bahl, an AVP in the Cognizant Center for the Future of Work and Clay Griffith, Director of Product Marketing, Cognizant Softvision, discuss skills versus degrees, the need to go beyond traditional white-collar roles, the return of apprenticeships and how to fill the skills gap.

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 author, blogger and tech watcher, Beth Porter, CEO of Riff Analytics and Managing Partner of Esme Learning, Manish Bahl, an AVP in the Cognizant Center for the Future of Work and Clay Griffith, Director of Product Marketing, Cognizant Softvision, discuss the post-covid future of the office, learning to cohabit with machines and what to expect when we get back to the office.

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 Vinnie Mirchandani, acclaimed author, blogger and tech watcher, Beth Porter, CEO of Riff Analytics and Managing Partner of Esme Learning, Manish Bahl, an AVP in the Cognizant Center for the Future of Work and Clay Griffith, Director of Product Marketing, Cognizant Softvision, discuss the impact of “now” on the future of education, work, economies and life itself.

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 Director of Cognizant’s Center for the Future of Work and Mariesa Coughanour, AVP & Head of Cognizant’s Intelligent Automation Advisory practice, discuss the difference between onsite and distributed IT development, the demise of traditional offices and the upcoming automation wave.