Cognizant Podcasts

The travel industry is experiencing unprecedented disruption. What does the current situation teach us about how complex networks respond to unexpected challenges? In the second episode of this two-part series, David Womack, Cognizant’s Head of Experience Strategy, talks to members of KLM Mainport and TU Delft Hyperloop about building resilient networks. We specifically discuss the future of multi-modal transportation and how industry giants, like KLM and innovators such as Hyperloop are finding common ground through enabling a seamless travel experience.

The travel industry is experiencing unprecedented disruption. What does the current situation teach us about how complex networks respond to unexpected challenges? In the first episode of this two-part series, David Womack, Cognizant’s Head of Experience Strategy, talks to members of KLM Mainport and TU Delft Hyperloop about building resilient networks and macro-trends transforming the industry. We specifically discuss the future of multi-modal transportation and how industry giants, like KLM and innovators such as Hyperloop are finding common ground through enabling a seamless travel experience.

Rethinking the use of technology to counter challenges and chaos caused by the COVID-19 pandemic is top of mind for every decision maker. The new normal has pushed enterprises to enable remote workforce an overnight reality and move data to cloud. Enterprises that use this crisis to their advantage by transforming and reinventing themselves with technology will indeed emerge stronger.

In this fourth and final installment of our 4-part podcast series, our expert panelists Paul Roehrig, Head of Strategy & Growth at Cognizant Digital Business, and guest speaker, J.P. Gownder, VP & Principal Analyst at Forrester share their “no-regret” recommendations for enterprises seeking shelter from the COVID-19 pandemic, and ideas on how bounce back stronger.

For many enterprises, the COVID-19 pandemic has shown that consumer experience takes precedence, where software becomes the only means of customer interaction during this crisis. The need of the hour is to create software that offers intuitive and seamless usability. Data is another front that can aid organizations to turn chaos into opportunity.

In the third installment of our 4-part podcast series, our expert panelists Paul Roehrig, Head of Strategy & Growth at Cognizant Digital Business, and guest speaker, J.P. Gownder, VP & Principal Analyst at Forrester, share their “no-regret” recommendations for enterprises seeking cover from the COVID-19 crisis, and catalysts to emerge stronger from the prolonged pandemic.

The coronavirus outbreak has led to a host of learnings and opportunities to rethink on the benefits of work from home, the use of technology to effectively steer change, the need for application modernization and the role technology can play in unlocking capital.

In the second installment of our 4-part podcast series, our expert panelists Paul Roehrig, Head of Strategy & Growth at Cognizant Digital Business, and guest speaker, J.P. Gownder, VP & Principal Analyst at Forrester, share their “no-regret” recommendations for enterprises seeking cover from the COVID-19 crisis, and catalysts to emerge stronger from the prolonged pandemic.

The global COVID-19 pandemic has shaken the foundation of businesses in ways unimaginable until recently. The epidemiological, professional and socioeconomic impact due to the crisis requires unique ways to cope with the unfolding epidemic. Enterprises have started to accelerate digitization of core business processes and functional areas. Organization leaders have also stepped on the gas in addressing imminent operational challenges.

We bring you a 4-part podcast series featuring Paul Roehrig, Head of Strategy & Growth at Cognizant Digital Business, and guest speaker, J.P. Gownder, VP & Principal Analyst at Forrester, who discuss the various moves that enterprises are taking to deflect the challenges presented by COVID-19 and emerge stronger.

As businesses and society continue to rely on AI, concerns around trust and explainability have become more apparent. Future adoption of AI can be impacted by a failure to successfully address these issues. In this scenario, Evolutionary AI can be a key tool in helping create more trustworthy AI.

In this podcast episode, Jason Stoughton, a veteran technologist, AI enthusiast, author and entrepreneur, speaks with world-renowned AI thought leaders Joydeep Ghosh and Risto Miikkulainen on a wide range of subjects centered around the issue of Trustworthiness in AI and ways that top companies and scientists are successfully addressing this challenge. To learn more, visit cognizant.com/ai.

The content of this episode is a reproduction of Jason Stoughton’s podcast episode titled ‘Trustworthiness in AI: Featuring Joydeep Ghosh and Risto Miikkulainen’ that was originally posted on www.thepulseofai.com.

We’ve been well on the road to the future of work for a while, and it has to travel straight through the human resources function to come to pass. Meanwhile, the black swan event of the COVID-19 crisis has compressed time like an accordion, and the future is NOW for HR (while seeming to shred “the now of work” before our very eyes). This is HR’s moment of truth to lead organizations to a post-contagion world.

Join Rob Brown from the Cognizant Center for the Future of Work as he and Future Workplace’s Managing Partner Jeanne Meister in broad discussion of new HR roles ranging from Human Bias Officer to Chief Purpose Planner. If you’re an HR professional, you never know – one day soon, one of these jobs MAY be yours!

The global COVID-19 pandemic has pushed many to ask the question “where is AI in this fight”? The challenge with a new pandemic is the lack of a large amount of training data, which AI initiatives require. A project developed at Cognizant is the closest to answering questions raised around AI's response to the pandemic.

In this podcast episode, Jason Stoughton, a veteran technologist, AI enthusiast, author and entrepreneur, speaks with Babak Hodjat and Risto Miikulainen, on how a system developed as part of a project by them uses evolutionary AI which requires less data, utilizes creativity and goes beyond forecasting to basically providing advice.

In addition to Babak and Risto, Bret Greenstein, who is the Senior Vice President and Global Head of the Ai and Analytics Practice at Cognizant, also joins the conversation. To learn more, visit cognizant.com/ai.

The content of this episode is a reproduction of Jason Stoughton’s podcast episode titled ‘People Have Asked “Where is AI in the Fight against Covid”? Cognizant has an Answer.’ that was originally posted on www.thepulseofai.com.

Adopting a digital transformation strategy across all aspects of business is not easy, however, some enterprises thrive at it and successfully complete their journey to AI and data transformation.

In this podcast episode, Jason Stoughton, a veteran technologist, AI enthusiast, author and entrepreneur, speaks with Saket Malhotra of Takeda and Bret Greenstein of Cognizant, on the importance of data strategy, establishing KPIs and Metrics, and more importantly what change management plays in successful digital transformation efforts. To learn more, visit cognizant.com/ai.

The content of this episode is a reproduction of Jason Stoughton’s podcast episode titled ‘Deep Dive Into Best Practices of a Data and AI Centered Enterprise’ that was originally posted on www.thepulseofai.com.