Cognizant Podcasts

Artificial Intelligence or AI has gone mainstream for many businesses; the application of technology like machine learning has changed the way personal and professional interactions take place. To learn how companies perceive AI along with challenges they face and opportunities they gain, Cognizant sponsored a study of 1200 executives across industries worldwide.

Tune into our three-part podcast series on Upping Your Data Game: How Leaders Are Getting Greater Bang from AI. The series features Ben Pring, Co-founder and Managing Director of Cognizant’s Center for the Future of Work, Bret Greenstein, Senior Vice President of Cognizant’s AI & Analytics Practice, Damon Caiazza, Director of Digital Strategy and Innovation at AbbVie, and Michele Goetz, Vice President & Principal Analyst at Forrester. They discuss what it takes to deliver AI at scale, overcome steep technological and skills challenges, and deliver on its business potential.

5G connectivity has effectively changed the landscape for IoT as new possibilities and capabilities emerge for latter, especially accelerated by the COVID-19 crisis. The high speed connectivity of 5G, IoT interconnectedness, and mesh of machines sharing and processing data at unprecedented speeds, will unlock new growth opportunities for businesses while making them more resistant to uncertainties and events like the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

Tune into part 3 of our podcast series on Achieving IoT Escape Velocity, featuring Eddie Gotherman, Senior Director, Enterprise IoT, Bright Wol,f Michele Pelino, Principal Analyst, Infrastructure and Operations, Forrester and Randal Kenworthy, Vice President, IoT and Engineering Services, Cognizant. They discuss where IoT is heading, the evolution of autonomous buildings and COVID-19’s impact on IoT roll-outs.

Before the world could get a complete sense of the havoc that the COVID-19 pandemic could cause, Cognizant preemptively partnered with XPRIZE to launch a pandemic response challenge, by inviting the world’s greatest AI minds to find innovative ways to reopen societies and restart economies, using an AI model capable of generating data-driven, actionable plans.

In this podcast episode, Jason Stoughton, a veteran technologist, AI enthusiast, author and entrepreneur, speaks with Amir Banifatemi of Xprize and Babak Hodjat of Cognizant on a new XPRIZE Challenge which is designed to develop AI driven insights and solutions to help government officials make better policy decisions around closures and re-opening efforts in response to COVID-19. To learn more, visit cognizant.com/ai.

The content of this episode is a reproduction of Jason Stoughton’s podcast episode titled ‘Xprize and Cognizant Team Up to Address Covid with AI’ that was originally posted on www.thepulseofai.com.

When organizations take the IoT journey, everything may look easy and promising at first, but for scale and success, certain levers must be prioritized over others. From organizational enablement, having a scientific approach toward reaching IoT goals to knowing what KPIs matter, there are specific factors that organizations must address first before rolling out their IoT strategy.

Tune into part 2 of our podcast series on Achieving IoT Escape Velocity, featuring Eddie Gotherman, Senior Director, Enterprise IoT, Bright Wolf … Michele Pelino, Principal Analyst, Infrastructure and Operations, Forrester … and Randal Kenworthy, Vice President, IoT and Engineering Services, Cognizant. They discuss how to prioritize levers that drive IoT success at scale, as well as meaningful KPIs and ways to connect all the dots along the way.

Because AI has diffused into so many aspects of our lives and work so seamlessly, it is easy to overlook how significant it will be for the rest of our working lives. In our new Work Ahead research series, executives appear to grasp that something big is going on. Join Cognizant experts as we discuss how you can use AI to build a successful future of work.

Cognizant’s Work Ahead research series provides insight and guidance on how organisations are evolving to the next stage of the digital economy. With the rise of new machines, new generations of talent and new business models based on insight and intelligence, the rules of global competition have changed. Now, these tectonic shifts are being further catalysed and accelerated by the global pandemic.

A new survey shows that IoT at scale is a critical path, but many companies struggle to realize value. In fact, over 50% of companies piloting or deploying IoT are struggling to realize returns. according to according to a recent commissioned study conducted by Forrester for Cognizant.

Tune into our three-part podcast series on Achieving IoT Escape Velocity, featuring Eddie Gotherman, Senior Director, Enterprise IoT, Bright Wolf … Michele Pelino, Principal Analyst, Infrastructure and Operations, Forrester … and Randal Kenworthy, Vice President, IoT and Engineering Services, Cognizant. They discuss how organizations can identify their IoT maturity to ensure that strategies and deployments pay off more quickly, how to activate key IoT levers to accelerate organizational change, and best practices to apply from real-world success stories.

The auto industry is going through an accelerated metamorphosis driven by Data and AI. AI's applications in the automotive industry is not restricted to self-driving cars, but extends to a host of activities from managing workflows to identifying component defects at the manufacturing unit.

In this podcast episode, Jason Stoughton, a veteran technologist, AI enthusiast, author and entrepreneur, speaks with Jay Gopinath, GM of Advanced Tech, Platforms, Innovation Data and Analytics at Toyota North America and Bret Greenstein, SVP and Global Head of AI and Analytics at Cognizant, about the sweeping changes that data and AI are driving in the over century old automotive industry. To learn more, visit cognizant.com/ai.

The content of this episode is a reproduction of Jason Stoughton’s podcast episode titled ‘Data and AI are changing the Auto Industry Forever’ that was originally posted on www.thepulseofai.com.

Globally, work has increasingly gone virtual for many, accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic. The sudden shift from working in groups to working from anywhere has given rise to many challenges and newfound opportunities. This is where technology comes into the picture and has the power to transform a virtual workplace into a more inclusive nest where everyone thrives.

Tune into part three of our ‘Belonging’ podcast series where Gavriella Schuster, Corporate Vice President, One Commercial Partner at Microsoft, and Alan Alper, Vice President of Global Thought Leadership Programs at Cognizant, discuss how technology enhances inclusion and creates a more inclusive economy.

Amidst the COVID-19 crisis, top companies are those that not only weathered the pandemic successfully but also demonstrated how progressive leadership and policies can drive inclusiveness. Such organizations have a diverse leadership team who are transparent and do not shy away from expressing honestly and openly. They even make room for differently-abled contributors and ensure that no employee is disenfranchised.

Listen to part two of our ‘Belonging’ podcast series that featuring Gavriella Schuster, Corporate Vice President, One Commercial Partner at Microsoft, and Alan Alper, Vice President of Global Thought Leadership Programs at Cognizant, who discuss the top-down impact of leadership culture, inclusion and intersectionality, microaggressions, the human nature of work, vulnerability and empathy amid COVID-19.

For most of us, a large part of our adult lives is spent in a professional work environment, either physical or virtual. Humans as we know are social animals and have a constant urge to feel like we belong, even at work. However, this need is largely ignored by employers who still tend to believe that this will happen without any intervention and they do not have an active role to play. To better understand the importance of belonging at work, Cognizant and Microsoft partnered to gather insights from nearly 11,000 full-time workers worldwide.

Tune into our three part podcast series on ‘Belonging’ that features Gavriella Schuster, Corporate Vice President, One Commercial Partner, at Microsoft, and Alan Alper, Vice President of Global Thought Leadership Programs at Cognizant, as they discuss our research findings and how we can collectively nurture belonging in the workplace.