Cognizant Discovery Americas 2025
[[icon:location-pin]]Austin, Texas
[[icon:calendar]] October 16-19
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<h3><b>Engineering AI for impact</b></h3> <p>Effective AI implementation is no longer next year’s goal—it’s today’s business necessity.</p> <p>Leading companies are applying AI across their organisations to drive smarter operations, hyper-personalised experiences and intelligent innovation.</p> <p>Yet the transition is challenging. At this year’s summit, we’ll discuss how AI can be engineered for meaningful business impact. Helping you move beyond pilot implementations to unlock breakthrough results—at enterprise scale.</p>
<h3>Keynote speakers</h3> <p>Join us for an inspiring roster of guest speakers who will share their unique stories and lessons learned in leadership, resilience and maximising team performance. Prepare to gain new perspectives and walk away with valuable insights that can transform your approach to business and life.</p>
<h5>Indra Nooyi</h5> <h6>Corporate leader, board member and best-selling author</h6> <p>Indra Nooyi served as Chairman and CEO of PepsiCo from 2006 to 2019, where she led the company through a period of significant growth, driving an 80% increase in revenue. She was the chief architect of the “Performance with Purpose” program, which emphasized healthier products, environmental sustainability and community empowerment. Before becoming CEO, she held roles as president and CFO at PepsiCo, and previously worked in senior positions at Asea Brown Boveri, Motorola and The Boston Consulting Group.</p>
<p>Nooyi currently serves on the boards of Amazon, Philips and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. She is also featured in the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery and is the author of My Life in Full, a memoir exploring leadership and work-life balance. Her academic background includes degrees from Madras Christian College, the Indian Institute of Management, and Yale University.</p>
<h5>Ethan Mollick</h5> <h6>Innovation Expert & Artificial Intelligence Thought Leader; Professor of Entrepreneurship, The Wharton School</h6> <p>Ethan Mollick is the Ralph J. Roberts Distinguished Faculty Scholar and Associate Professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he studies the effects of artificial intelligence on work, entrepreneurship and education. His academic research has been published in leading journals and his work on AI is widely applied, leading him to be named one of TIME Magazine’s Most Influential People in Artificial Intelligence. Ethan also writes to a wider audience about AI, including in his book, Co-Intelligence, a New York Times bestseller.</p>
<p>In addition to his research and teaching, Ethan is the Co-Director of the Generative AI Labs at Wharton, which build prototypes and conduct research to discover how AI can help humans thrive while mitigating risks. Prior to his time in academia, Ethan co-founded a startup company, and he advises numerous organizations.</p> <p>Mollick received his PhD and MBA from MIT’s Sloan School of Management and his bachelor’s degree from Harvard University.</p>
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