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<h3><span class="text-white">Stay Cognizant</span></h3>
<p><span class="text-white">Stay Cognizant highlights the voices of Cognizant leaders, partners and clients speaking about our most strategic topics. From technology to skilling, from industry perspectives to sponsorships, our guests help you stay cognizant across our entire ecosystem.</span></p>

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/stay-cognizant/id1847659121

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The $2 billion difference: What separates AI leaders from the rest

Ollie O'Donoghue, Head of Research at Cognizant

On this episode of Stay Cognizant, Ollie O'Donoghue joins Pamela Axtell to explore what's driving that gap and what leaders can do to turn AI investments into measurable business outcomes.

Real Value, Real People: Accelerating Growth with Human-Centered AI

Sushant Warikoo, Chief Business Officer, AI

In this episode of Stay Cognizant, Sushant Warikoo, Chief Business Officer for AI, shares how organizations can move beyond AI pilots to enterprise-scale value by building the right teams, governance models and operating structures.

How AI Is rewriting the rules of consumer experience

Anup Prasad, SVP & BU Head, Consumer Business, Retail, CPG, Travel & Hospitality

As AI changes how consumers find, compare, and book everything from products to travel, the rules are shifting. In this conversation we look at what success now looks like across the consumer industries.

Everyone is an AI builder now

Josh Walters, Global Marketing Strategy, Operations & Transformation Lead, Cognizant

Explore what it means to create an AI builder marketing organization, one where every marketer owns the agents embedded in their daily work.

How to scale AI in Regulated Healthcare

Lisa Hershiser, Client Relations Manager, Cognizant, Allen Fredrickson, Founder/Executive Chairman, Signature Performance

Scaling AI in regulated healthcare isn't just a technology challenge — it's an execution one. In this episode, Lisa Hershiser of Cognizant and Allen Fredrickson of Signature Performance join host unpack what it really takes to move from AI experimentation to real-world impact in complex, mission-critical environments.

Building AI for the physical world

Vijay Narayan, EVP and Business Unit Head, MLEU, Cognizant

Discover why human judgment remains essential as AI moves from digital systems into the physical world.

De-Fearing the Future: How AI Is Reshaping Enterprise Work Today

Ganesh Ayyar, President, Intuitive Operations and Automation and Industry Solutions Group at Cognizant

Examine how AI is reshaping enterprise work—not by replacing people, but by empowering them to lead, adapt, and grow in an AI powered world.

Scaling intelligence: Inside the agentic enterprise

Naveen Sharma, SVP and Global Practice Head, Data and AI and David Schubmehl, Research VP for AI & Automation at IDC

Explore how agentic AI is reshaping enterprise workflows, decision-making, and the future of business.

Cognizant’s NeuroSAN advantage: Driving business impact with open-source AI

Babak Hodjat, Chief AI Officer at Cognizant and Dan Fink, AVP, Software Architect at Cognizant AI Labs

Explore how NeuroSAN, Cognizant’s open-source AI accelerator, enables scalable, secure multi-agent systems and transforms enterprise innovation.

Context engineering: The hidden differentiator in enterprise AI

Shanker Udyaver, Vice President and Global Head of Technology Consulting at Cognizant

Discover why context engineering is key to scaling enterprise AI responsibly.

Building AI for impact: Lessons from Cognizant’s virtual AI clinician

Sean Heshmat, Data and AI Head at Cognizant and Burak Gümüş, Account Director, Public Sector at Cognizant

In this episode of Stay Cognizant, host Pamela Axtell speaks with Cognizant leaders Sean Heshmat and Burak Gümüş about how an award-winning AI-powered virtual clinician—achieving 98% diagnostic accuracy across 900+ conditions—is transforming healthcare delivery.

Silencing your inner critic: Strategies for building confidence and conquering imposter syndrome

Geraldine Trefethen, Director of Transformation, Retail, Cognizant

On this special feature episode, Geraldine Trefethen shares how mindfulness, holistic health and a supportive workplace help silence self-doubt and empower confidence.

Inside the AI agent that outsmarts disaster

Damian Bunyan, CIO at Uniper

Uniper’s CIO, Damian Bunyan, joins Stay Cognizant to share how a cloud-first strategy and AI MVP with Cognizant boosted resilience, disaster recovery and IT strength.

Scaling ServiceNow without breaking compliance

Robert Drumski, Associate Director at Boehringer Ingelheim

Robert Drumski shares how his team boosted ServiceNow, security and AI-driven infrastructure on Stay Cognizant.

From individual excellence to collective significance

Alexis Samuel, SVP and Head of Global Delivery Excellence & Abhay Kukreja, Corporate IT Cloud Management Office Leader

Learn about Cognizant's approach to responsible AI, cultural shift and effective AI practices.

AI and the journey to value (1 of 2)

Viji Krishnamurthy, VP, Generative AI Solutions at Oracle

Tune in as we dive into product innovation at Oracle, including enterprise use cases and success stories with generative AI.

AI agents and the future (2 of 2)

Viji Krishnamurthy, VP, Generative AI Solutions at Oracle

In the second half of our conversation, Viji shares insights on helping enterprises leap into the unknown, and possibilities for the future of innovation with AI agents.

How responsible AI is shaping business and society

Amir Banifatemi, Chief Responsible AI Officer

Amir Banifatemi joins Pamela to explore how organizations can integrate responsible AI principles to drive meaningful change.

Decision-making at scale in the age of AI

Ray Wang, Founder at Constellation Research & Babak Hodjat, CTO, AI

Ray Wang and Babak Hodjat explore the transformative power of decision intelligence and the evolving role of humans in an AI-driven future.

Become a learning athlete in the age of AI

Kathy Diaz, Chief People Officer

Kathy Diaz explores gen AI's transformative potential and the importance of comprehensive training in unlocking its benefits.

Transforming customer experience with Cognizant Moment

Ben Wiener, Global Head of Cognizant Moment

On this episode of Stay Cognizant, Ben Weiner discusses how his team drives growth through AI, design and digital innovation.

Preparing one million people for the AI-enabled future

Tobi Young, SVP for Legal and Chief Corporate Affairs Officer at Cognizant

In this episode of Stay Cognizant, Tobi Young talks about Synapse, Cognizant's ambitious initiative to upskill 1 million people over three years.

Innovation and ideation workshop

Ananth Kuravi, Head – NEON Studio, Bangalore, Cognizant

Tune in to this episode where we dive into the transformative power of ideation-led engineering workshops at our Neon studios, showcasing the incredible results we’re achieving.

Gen AI and healthcare

David Fearne, Cognizant’s Global Head of Gen AI

Tune in as David discusses Cognizant’s award-winning Virtual AI clinician and delves into the world of synthetic intelligence.

Retail and the power of AI

Sushant Warikoo, Cognizant's Business Unit Head of Retail

In this conversation, Sushant shares his vision of Cognitive Retail and the transformative power of AI in creating unparalleled customer experiences.

Transformative potential of AI

Elisabeth Sund – Senior product designer, Cognizant and Jyotirmoy Bhardwaj – Data scientist, Cognizant

Elisabeth and Jyotirmoy discuss the critical significance of our planet’s life-giving waterways.

Cognizant and NVIDIA partnership

John Fanelli, VP, NVIDIA Enterprise Software & Mykola Hayvanovych, Offerings lead for AI/ML and Gen AI, Cognizant

John and Mykola discuss the Cognizant and NVIDIA partnership and the benefits to clients.

Innovation and gen AI

Prabha Anand – VP, Delivery Excellence & Ravishankar Ganesan – VP, Delivery Excellence

In this episode we discuss the momentum of Cognizant’s grassroots innovation program, Bluebolt.

Transform wealth management

Nageswar Cherukupalli, SVP & BU head – Banking and Capital Markets & Strategic Initiatives

Cutting-edge technology empowers advisors and account holders in an ever-evolving financial landscape.

Gen AI's impact on the future of work

Ollie O’Donoghue (Senior Director, Cognizant Research) & Duncan Roberts (Associate Director, Cognizant Research)

Explore generative AI’s impact on productivity and the future of work.

Transparency, accountability & responsible AI

Babak Hodjat – CTO, AI & Tahir Latif – Global Practice Lead, Data Privacy & Responsible AI

AI algorithms, data sources, data privacy concerns and decision-making processes.

Healthcare and life sciences consulting

Monica Weekes – VP & Practice Lead

Listen in to hear how Cognizant crafts trust-focused AI healthcare solutions with expert collaboration.

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The open agentic web: Building the internet of AI agents

Ramesh Raskar, Founder of Project NANDA and Associate Professor at MIT

Today’s AI agents operate across disparate systems, but what happens when billions of agents can freely discover, trust, communicate and transact with one another, without needing to know in advance that the others exist? In this episode, MIT professor and NANDA founder Ramesh Raskar explores the rise of the open agentic web, a decentralized ecosystem he compares to the emergence of the World Wide Web in the 1990s. He unpacks why today’s internet infrastructure isn’t enough for a world of autonomous agents and what new layers of identity, authentication, reputation, security and commerce will be needed to make that future possible. From agents that can communicate bidirectionally to marketplaces where intelligence itself can be exchanged, discover how an open agentic web could connect disparate agentic systems and create an entirely new digital economy.

<h3><span class="text-white">The Agent Effect</span></h3>
<p><span class="text-white">Hear from AI pioneers and enterprise leaders on “The Agent Effect,” where we explore how autonomous AI agents and multi-agent systems transform the way businesses operate and innovate. This podcast unpacks real-world AI implementations and ethical considerations—offering a strategic roadmap for getting ahead in the era of agentic AI.</span></p>

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-agent-effect/id1829730565

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Cognizant CEO’s vision on building smarter enterprises with AI agents

Ravi Kumar S, Chief Executive Officer, Cognizant

Cognizant CEO Ravi Kumar S unpacks how AI agents are changing the enterprise equation—from expanding capacity through agentic capital to building entirely new operating models. He shares how Cognizant is applying agents internally, why context is critical to scaling them safely and what leaders need to do now to stay ahead in this new era of intelligent collaboration.

How Cognizant Scaled Agentic AI Across 350,000 Employees

Dan Fink, Associate Vice President-Platform Engineering Venkatesh Balaji, Associate Vice President - AVP Enterprise Architecture

Most enterprise intranets have many disparate, isolated chatbots representing different departments which can cause confusion for employees on where to get their answers and can result in overloaded support tickets. Cognizant took a different path, transforming its OneCognizant platform into a multi-agent system to help streamline inquiries and deliver more accurate responses faster. In this episode, we unpack how agentification turned a traditional intranet into a unified, conversational decision layer—serving 350,000 employees, reducing support tickets by 50%, and delivering 10M+ agent interactions with 92% positive feedback. Learn how orchestration, governance, and distributed intelligence come together to move from AI agent pilots to real enterprise impact.

When AI agents make the call: Governing autonomy at scale

Benjamin Larsen, AI Safety Lead, WEF

Enterprises are racing to deploy AI agents and discovering that “it works in a pilot” isn’t the same as “it’s safe in production.” In this episode, Benjamin Larsen unpacks the World Economic Forum’s AI Agents in Action report, exploring how organizations can classify agentic systems, assess risk, measure performance, and design governance frameworks that enable — rather than slow — innovation in the decade of AI agents.

Laying the groundwork for autonomous decision-making across agricultural operations

Patricio Salvatore La Rosa, Head of E2E Decision Science, Seed Production Innovation, Bayer | Paul Jarratt: Head of Thought leadership, Cognizant AI Lab

Patricio Salvatore La Rosa shares how Bayer is building the foundational components of agentic AI in a complex, biologically driven production environment. He explains the prerequisites for adoption –data quality, system connectivity, governance, and cultural trust – and how these elements enable agents to support everything from operational scheduling to future autonomous field interventions.

How Cognizant leveraged agentic AI to host and judge the world’s largest GenAI hackathon

Arumugam Kamaradassan, Head of Automation and AI Industrialization, Cognizant | Deepak Singh, Senior Data Scientist, Cognizant AI Lab

Cognizant set a Guinness World Record by hosting the world’s largest GenAI hackathon with over 53,000 participants across 40 countries. In this episode, Arumugam Kamaradassan and Deepak Singh share how Cognizant vibe coded the submissions process including the entry portal and used a multi-agent system for judging, evaluating over 30,000 submissions in under 24 hours.

Enabling agentic AI: Why trust, ethics, and partnership come first

Leo S. Mackay Jr. SVP, Ethics and Enterprise Assurance and Chief Audit Executive of Lockheed Martin

Leo S. Mackay, Jr. shares what it takes to scale agentic AI at the enterprise level — and why most organizations are starting in the wrong place. Drawing on leadership roles in national defense, ethics, and the boardroom, he unpacks how trust, domain expertise, and the right strategic partners create the conditions for real AI transformation.

Designing for scale: Building the enterprise playbook for agentic AI

Kim Krogh Andersen, Product & Technology Group Executive at Telstra

Kim Krogh Andersen joins Paul Jarratt to share how enterprises can move beyond AI hype and build the foundational systems and leadership mindset to scale agents safely and strategically.

Building a trust layer with AI agents

Krishna Gade, CEO of Fiddler

Krishna Gade explores how businesses can build trust in agentic AI—from investing in responsible practices to implementing observability tools that ensure agents behave reliably at scale.

Without responsible AI, can multi-agent systems truly scale?

Lisa Bechtold, Zurich Insurance’s Global Head of AI Governance | Amir Banifatemi, Cognizant’s Chief Responsible AI Officer

Lisa Bechtold and Amir Banifatemi share what it takes to scale agentic AI safely and why strong governance is essential for delivering ROI and long-term impact.

The evolution of AI agents: The past and the present (Part 1)

Adam Cheyer, VP of AI Experience at Airbnb and Co-Founder of Siri | Babak Hodjat, CTO of AI at Cognizant

Adam Cheyer and Babak Hodjat reflect on the evolution of AI agents since Siri—and what makes multi-agent systems so powerful in today’s enterprise landscape.

The evolution of AI agents: The past and the present (Part 2)

Adam Cheyer, VP of AI Experience at Airbnb and Co-Founder of Siri | Babak Hodjat, CTO of AI at Cognizant

In part two, Adam Cheyer and Babak Hodjat break down how businesses can begin their agentic transformation—from collapsing silos to designing systems that think, act and scale with intelligence.

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<h3><span class="text-white">Product Engineering</span></h3>
<p><span class="text-white">Cognizant’s “Powering Product Innovation” podcast series offers an inside look at emerging trends in product engineering from industry experts and leaders from top technology organizations.</span></p>

How Salesforce keeps innovating, from cloud to industries to Agentforce

Lashonda Anderson-Williams, Chief Customer & Commercial Officer at Salesforce

Tune in for a lively discussion about how Salesforce remains a disruptor—and where AI is taking it.

How Qualcomm uses AI to personalize automotive services

Nimish Shrivastava - Senior Director, Product Management, Qaulcomm

Tune in for a lively discussion about Snapdragon Car-to-Cloud Services and how AI is reshaping in-car experiences.

The Microsoft digital way

Natalie D'Hers, Corporate VP, Microsoft Digital

Product development’s role in transforming Microsoft into an AI-led organization.

Product engineering’s new dream team

Prasad Sankaran, EVP, Software and Platform Engineering

Learn how cloud, AI, and automation are elevating the innovation game.

Gen AI in product engineering

Naveen Sharma, Senior VP, Head of Global Pracice AI Analytic

Explore what happens to the product lifecycle when gen AI is brought into the workflow.

Instilling FinOps culture

Scott Schulman, Director

Discover how companies can use FinOps to reduce costs, improve utilization, and reduce rates.

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