Cognizant Podcasts

The pandemic has rapidly accelerated consumer adoption of online purchasing. To meet customer expectations, brands need PIM solutions to support the entire process of collecting, validating, enriching, and syndicating product information. What does product information management (PIM) mean for your brand and your success in the marketplace? Anup Prasad, VP and Market Leader of Retail and Consumer Goods, Cognizant and Stephanie Wiles, Senior Director of Consulting in Retail and Consumer Goods, Cognizant, discuss and dive into why PIM is key to staying relevant with consumers, how it is evolving, and why your brand could lose market share if it doesn't embrace PIM today.

For media streaming service providers, search plays a crucial role in connecting relevant content to customers. It needs to be constantly tested basis user insights and performance. The focus should not just be on what consumers want via search but what more they can find from the media company's existing listings. Tune into our final installment of our 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 discuss the importance of enhancing search's role and improved content browsing capabilities.

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.

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted a skill-based technology bias where work that could be done remotely remained unhindered during lockdowns while a few others were at a disadvantage. Tune into part two 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 technology-induced inequalities in the labor market, the upcoming productivity boost from automation and its impact on IT innovation.

The definition of work has completely changed since the COVID-19 mainstreamed remote working. The emergence of automation, AI, robotics and machine learning has also redefined work, efficiency, innovation and what it will take for businesses to thrive in future. Tune into part one 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, who leads Cognizant's Center for the Future of Work and Mariesa Coughanour, AVP & Head of Cognizant's Intelligent Automation Advisory practice, discuss the need for humans to effectively and productively co-exist with software robots and how the widespread deployment of automation technologies will help businesses succeed in the post-pandemic era.

In this episode of Lev's podcast ‘In the Clouds,' we cover all things SFMC and Sports. Lev Managing Director, Ryan McCambridge, and Account Director, Abbey Sullivan, join our hosts to discuss how teams are scoring big with Salesforce Marketing Cloud. In their past time, sports teams historically have been the last to adapt to digital trends but these organizations have quickly realized they are being left behind. Hear what the industry leaders like the NBA and XFL leagues are doing to stay relevant and optimize the fan experience. Learn how teams are using Salesforce to develop a 360 view of the customer and the most critical pieces to streamline the brand experience.

The COVID-19 pandemic has mainstreamed concepts like work from home (WFH) and remote working that were once thought to be a future construct. As technology, space and work intersect rapidly, accelerated by the coronavirus crisis, industry practitioners look for answers on where the future of work is heading and places that will become next destinations of innovation and ideation. Tune into our podcast ‘Changing Dynamics of the Future of Work' where Jessie Feller Hahn, Executive Director at Meeting of the Minds talks to Robert Hoyle Brown, VP at the Cognizant Center for the Future of Work on future workforce dynamics and where work is headed next. This is a reproduction of the webinar titled ‘How Cities Are Preparing for the Future of Work' that originally appeared on www.meetingoftheminds.org.

Technology is the driving force behind the ongoing fourth industrial revolution that is exponentially transforming the world, work and workplaces. However, a few locations across the globe stand out as hotbeds of innovation, creativity and sustainability. Tune into part two of the ‘Jobs of the Future' podcast series where the host Jessica Lessin, Founder & Editor-in-Chief, The Information, Sinead Bovell, Futurist & Founder, WAYE, and Cognizant Center for the Future of Work's Robert Hoyle Brown, Vice President and former Senior Manager Desmond Dickerson, take a deep dive into what makes certain locations the place of the future of work.

In the age of automation, artificial intelligence and algorithms it is difficult to predict where jobs of the future will appear. The technology is quickly replacing many traditional job roles to give rise to new ones. A recent report by the Cognizant Center for the Future of Work outlines where many of these new jobs will appear. Listen on as we bring you a two-part podcast series on ‘Jobs of the Future' where the host Jessica Lessin, Founder & Editor-in-Chief, The Information, Sinead Bovell, Futurist & Founder, WAYE, and Cognizant Center for the Future of Work's Robert Hoyle Brown, Vice President and former Senior Manager Desmond Dickerson, discuss key learnings from the 21 Places of the Future report and how different regions are responding to the ongoing technology transformation.

The Formula One racing is probably the most competitive motorsports on the planet where cutting-edge technologies meet sharpest skills. A few microseconds to milliseconds separate a winner from rest. After 60-plus years, the iconic luxury British sports car manufacturer, Aston Martin, returned to Grand Prix racing with the launch of its new AMR21 Formula One car. Cognizant is the official title partner for the Aston Martin Team. Listen on as podcast host Jason Stein of Automotive News’ Daily Drive sits down with Otmar Szafnauer, CEO and Team Principal at Aston Martin Cognizant Formula One Team and Gaurav Chand, CMO at Cognizant to discuss the business rationale behind the partnership and how technology will ultimately yield lap-time benefits. This track is a reproduction of the podcast titled ‘How data drives the pursuit of performance in Formula One’ that originally appeared on www.autonews.com.

In early 2020, everything changed for businesses and people soon after the World Health Organization declared a global pandemic. One of the first and most hard-hit industries was travel and hospitality. Amidst the crisis, IHG faced a business calamity as demand fell across its global properties; it took a slew of measures to counter the pandemic. Listen on as George Turner, Chief Commercial and Technology Officer for IHG Hotels and Resorts, shares how the pandemic impacted IHG and how his team turned innovative ideas into practical, prudent solutions – all for the sake of creating a more resilient business that will continue to earn the confidence and brand loyalty of its guests worldwide.

The enthusiasm around AI has gone through a metamorphosis, especially after COVID-19 pandemic changed how we look at technologies becoming integral to businesses and humans. A range of opinions exist around techs like AI from enthusiasm to outright fear of bots replacing human labor. A lot rests on the shoulders of leadership and government from educating people on new-age techs like AI to ensuring availability of proper training. Tune into part 3 of ‘The Modern Business Imperative’ podcast series where our panel of experts John Reiners – Managing Editor, Thought Leadership, Oxford Economics and Cognizant Center for the Future of Work’s Ben Pring – VP and Managing Director and Euan Davis – AVP, discuss the expected role of AI, and the need to extend human capabilities with machine intelligence, as well as the requisite skills, attitudes and government assistance required to thrive in modern business.

To become a modern business and deliver the experiences that customers have come to expect in the digital era, one has to first do away with traditionally slow legacy systems and adopt techs like cloud to be truly customer-centric. The leadership across organizations is expected to drive this business modernization effort to converge vision with reality. Tune into part two of ‘The Modern Business Imperative’ podcast series where our panel of experts John Reiners – Managing Editor, Thought Leadership, Oxford Economics and Cognizant Center for the Future of Work’s Ben Pring – VP and Managing Director and Euan Davis – AVP, define what modern business entails in the digital era.

The COVID-19 pandemic has completely changed the narrative around digital; embracing digital today will ensure future bottom-line success. The future belongs to those organizations that understand the on-going shift early on and adapt quickly. To understand how organizations worldwide are navigating this tricky transition — as well all things digital — the Cognizant Center for the Future of Work partnered with Oxford Economics to survey 4,000 executives at leading organizations around the globe and across industries. Tune into our 3-part podcast series ‘The Modern Business Imperative’ where our panel of experts John Reiners – Managing Editor, Thought Leadership at Oxford Economics, Ben Pring – VP and Managing Director and Euan Davis – AVP of the Cognizant Center for the Future of Work, explore the increasing primacy of digital and assess what’s next for the future of work.

After navigating the intricate maze that 2020 put us through, we just entered 2021 with a disparate business landscape where accelerated digital transformation is the norm and the future of work is changing. In this metamorphosis, the role of HR is also shifting and it needs to go beyond the usual back-office function to stay relevant in the new reality. Amidst the rise of bots, automation and algorithms, the HR needs to be re-skilled to become the agent of transformation instead of becoming obsolete. Tune into this podcast on the role of HR in the future of work featuring Enrique Rubio, Founder & CEO, Hacking HR, and Rob Brown, Vice President at the Cognizant Center for the Future of Work.

The Pandemic Response Challenge is a $550k, four month challenge that focuses on the development of data-driven AI systems to predict COVID-19 infection rates and to prescribe Intervention Plans (IPs) that regional governments, communities, and organizations can implement to minimize harm when reopening their economies. In this podcast episode, Jason Stoughton, a veteran technologist, AI enthusiast, author and entrepreneur, speaks to Toby Phillips, the executive director of the Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker at the Blavatnik School of Government at Oxford and Bret Greenstein, Senior Vice President of AI and Analytics at Cognizant, on Xprize Pandemic Response Challenge. To learn more, visit cognizant.com/ai. The content of this episode is a reproduction of Jason Stoughton’s podcast episode titled ‘Xprize: Pandemic Response Challenge’ that was originally posted on www.thepulseofai.com.

The rise of voice isn't going to replace visual interface but instead, complement it in a dual-modality model. Given this development, brands must look at voice holistically and add it to their UX and UI strategy. As consumers increasingly begin to interact with voice, brands can leverage this shift to have greater influence on purchase decisions of consumers and improve their top-line. Tune into part three of our podcast series ‘From Eyes to Ears: Getting Your Brand Heard in the New Age of ‘Voice’’ where our panel of experts Jason Pedone, Senior Vice President, Mobile Banking & Emerging Channels, Truist; Mark Taylor, Senior Vice President, Cognizant Digital Experience, and Manish Bahl, Associate Vice President, Cognizant Center for the Future of Work, explore voice and visual becoming a part of a dual-modality strategy, investment priorities and the top-line influence of voice on sales.

A key outcome of the COVID-19 pandemic is the emergence of voice-assisted technologies as an alternative to touchscreen enabled interfaces as people are wary of contracting the virulent pathogen. At the same time, people are increasingly concerned around data privacy and security as they interact with voice interfaces across devices and digital platforms. It is a brand’s responsibility to build trust when it comes to managing people’s data and that their policies around it are upfront and clear. Tune into part two of ‘From Eyes to Ears: Getting Your Brand Heard in the New Age of ‘Voice’’ podcast series where our panel of experts Jason Pedone, Senior Vice President, Mobile Banking & Emerging Channels, Truist; Mark Taylor, Senior Vice President, Cognizant Digital Experience, and Manish Bahl, Associate Vice President from Cognizant’s Center for the Future of Work, discuss the importance of ensuring data privacy, building trust, and the skills need to make voice technology truly brand expanding.

One of the major fallouts in the ongoing pandemic is people abstaining from touchscreen interfaces as they got wary of touching surfaces in fear of contracting the coronavirus. It led to an increase in the use of voice assistant services, which got brands thinking that voice might become an entry point for interactions and help clients engage better. To learn how organizations are preparing for a brand landscape dominated by voice, Cognizant’s Center for the Future of Work surveyed 1,400 top marketing and IT executives at leading companies across Asia Pacific and the Middle East. Tune into a three part podcast series ‘From Eyes to Ears: Getting Your Brand Heard in the New Age of ‘Voice’’ where our panel of experts Jason Pedone, Senior Vice President, Mobile Banking & Emerging Channels, Truist; Mark Taylor, Senior Vice President, Cognizant Digital Experience, and Manish Bahl, Associate Vice President from Cognizant’s Center for the Future of Work, explore how brands can forge ahead in the new age of voice.

The COVID-19 pandemic has shown why every industry needs to accelerate its technology investments, in turn offering a chance for telcos to form deeper associations with industries, while innovating and expanding IoT and 5G solution capabilities, and not limited to the connectivity experience alone. Welcome to part two of the podcast series where our panel of experts, Tiran Dagan, Chief Digital Officer for Cognizant, Brian Burk, Global Leader of Healthcare, Health Insurance and Life Sciences, Verizon, Bob Pike, General Manager, Intel Smart Edge, and Craig Donald, CIO of the UK Football Association, explore how the convergence of 5G and IoT can create better experiences and lower costs and most importantly, generate new value for businesses.

Traditionally, the core business of telcos was to provide widespread connectivity. However, with the advent of Internet of Things and then 5G arriving, the business landscape has completely changed for telcos. To stay relevant and competitive, they have to deal with an extensive network of sensors, ultra-fast connectivity and solve challenges for industries from healthcare, life sciences to media, logistics, entertainment, etc. Tune into a two-part podcast series where our panel of experts, Tiran Dagan, Chief Digital Officer for Cognizant, Brian Burk, Global Leader of Healthcare, Health Insurance and Life Sciences, Verizon, Bob Pike, General Manager, Intel Smart Edge, and Craig Donald, CIO of the UK Football Association, examine the business to vertical or B2V shifts that are underway due to 5G and IoT.

To embark on a successful AI journey, a business needs the right people with the right talent and excellence ingrained in the organization’s culture. How do you optimize talent for AI? It is important to optimize data at a fundamental level before feeding into AI for better results. On realizing how crucial data is to powering AI and explore its full potential, Cognizant sponsored a challenge with the XPRIZE Foundation to apply algorithmic thinking to mitigate and manage the ongoing COVID-19 crisis. Tune into part three of our podcast series ‘Upping Your Data Game: How Leaders Are Getting Greater Bang from AI’ featuring 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 how to solve for AI talent, share insights on GPT-3 l, and AI practice & governance challenges.

Simply rolling out an AI solution isn’t going to ensure ROI; there is no one-size-fits-all approach. Multiple discrete AI algorithms should be coordinated and orchestrated in line with business processes and AI models to ensure the desired business outcomes complement each other. Business leaders should also continuously monitor and challenge AI’s performance and fine-tune algorithms so their AI solution doesn’t deviate from the anticipated performance outcome needed to ensure ROI. In this second instalment of our three-part podcast series ‘Upping Your Data Game: How Leaders Are Getting Greater Bang from AI’, 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, discuss the mainstreaming of machine intelligence, causality clarity and workarounds for AI’s success.

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.

A 9-to-5 workweek is almost synonymous with work and productivity. However, its relevance to our current times is significantly different from what it was originally intended – fixed work timings and rules have outlived their purpose and are a byproduct of the bygone industrial revolution. Freedom, flexibility and personal space now define the future of work and help employees perform better and be more effective. In part 3 of our Future of Work with Twitter podcast series, our host Deborah Eastman, Head of Cognizant’s Internet Business Unit, Donald Hicks, a Vice President at Twitter, and Robert Brown, a Vice President within Cognizant’s Center for the Future of Work, discuss what it means to take care of your employees and how that results in many other indirect benefits.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, technology has emerged as a major force in shaping the future of customer experience, communication and delight. Timely investments in technologies by organizations will aid in decision-making and drive performance. As everything is going digital, technology will also ensure that erroneous information get filtered while meaningful conversations flourish. In part 2 of our Future of Work with Twitter podcast series, our host Deborah Eastman, Head of Cognizant’s Internet Business Unit, Donald Hicks, a Vice President at Twitter, and Robert Brown, a Vice President within Cognizant’s Center for the Future of Work, discuss the role technology plays in ensuring positive customer experience.

We are only beginning to realize the scale of impact the COVID-19 pandemic has had on our lives both personally and professionally. However, it will eventually return to pre-pandemic times, but with a myriad of changes. A permanent work-from-home option like Twitter has offered, will enable its employees to tap into their creative side from the comfort of their homes. Tune in to a three-part podcast series on the ‘Future of Work with Twitter’ in which our experts Deborah Eastman, Head of Cognizant’s Internet Business Unit, Donald Hicks, a Vice President at Twitter, and Robert Brown, a Vice President within Cognizant’s Center for the Future of Work, discuss where the future of work is heading in the post COVID-19 era.

As we slowly get back to normalcy of getting back to work in a layered approach, we begin to put building controls in place. The idea is to mitigate infectious diseases that spread indoors, especially via air. We all have some idea about air filtration systems and other sanitization methods, but then what is new and where to start? In this Part 4 of the Safe Buildings podcast series, our experts Euan Davis, AVP from the Cognizant Center for the Future of Work and Joseph Allen, acclaimed author and Assistant Professor of Exposure Assessment Science at the Harvard School of Public Health, as well as a leading expert on urban resilience, discuss ways to fight COVID-19, newfound air cleaning technologies and approaches to future workplaces, and offer tips on where to start.

The looming concerns on safe buildings have garnered a new level of attention since the coronavirus pandemic hit our shores. Some of the obvious questions around monitoring, tuning-up, and maintaining indoor air quality have been the key discussion points. What's even more important is to ensure that indoor air remains clean and healthy consistently over years to come. In this Part 3 of the Safe Buildings podcast series, our experts Euan Davis, AVP from the Cognizant Center for the Future of Work and Joseph Allen, acclaimed author and Assistant Professor of Exposure Assessment Science at the Harvard School of Public Health, as well as a leading expert on urban resilience, discuss simple ways to ensure healthy indoor air and the benefits of creating healthy buildings.

Data is moving from the IT department into the business units and the heavy lifting of digital transformation going forward is really going to be around creating a culture that is data driven and that treats data as a first class citizen. In this podcast episode, Jason Stoughton, a veteran technologist, AI enthusiast, author and entrepreneur, speaks with Phil Le-Brun, former CIO of McDonalds and now Enterprise Strategist at AWS, and Bret Greenstein, SVP and Global Head of AI and Analytics at Cognizant, on how companies can create a data centered and driven culture, and why treating data as a first class citizen is important to this process. To learn more, visit cognizant.com/ai. The content of this episode is a reproduction of Jason Stoughton’s podcast episode titled ‘Creating a Data Driven Culture’ that was originally posted on www.thepulseofai.com.

As restrictions around COVID-19 ease, employees and customers will look up to businesses for ensuring their safety indoors. Key focus will be given to factors, such as health performance indicators in buildings, mitigation of risk exposure, identifying leadership responsible for healthy buildings, and making a business case for healthy buildings. In Part 2 of the Safe Buildings podcast series, our experts Euan Davis, AVP from the Cognizant Center for the Future of Work and Joseph Allen, acclaimed author and Assistant Professor of Exposure Assessment Science at the Harvard School of Public Health, as well as a leading expert on urban resilience, talk about the nitty-gritties around the creation of safe and healthy buildings.

Face masks? Check. Distancing? Check. Floor markers and acrylic dividers? Check and check. But as businesses reopen post-pandemic, more comprehensive safety measures are needed to inspire lasting trust and confidence in employees and customers. We bring you a 4-part podcast series featuring Euan Davis, AVP from the Cognizant Center for the Future of Work and Joseph Allen, acclaimed author and Assistant Professor of Exposure Assessment Science at the Harvard School of Public Health, as well as a leading expert on urban resilience, who go at length to discuss smarter and safe ways to reopen and manage a healthy workplace.

As companies increasingly look to leverage data in their business processes, and as data has moved from the IT department to the business units, the need to understand the value of data, set up processes and build a culture to include business partners in the use of data has become critical to a company's success. In this podcast episode, Jason Stoughton, a veteran technologist, AI enthusiast, author and entrepreneur, speaks with Pallab Deb, Head of Partner Solutions and AI Partnerships at Google Cloud and Bret Greenstein, SVP and Global Head of the AI and Analytics Practice at Cognizant, about the value of data. These two thought leaders offer insights, advice and real world examples. To learn more, visit cognizant.com/ai. The content of this episode is a reproduction of Jason Stoughton’s podcast episode titled ‘What is the Value of Data?’ that was originally posted on www.thepulseofai.com.