The Pulse of AI

Ever since the Covid pandemic spread across the globe many have asked the question "where is AI in this fight"? And it is a valid question because many of the techniques used in AI require large amounts of training data, which a new pandemic like Covid simply lacks. However, a project developed by Babak Hodjat and Risto Miikulainen and their team at Cognizant has come the closest I have seen to answering this question. The system uses evolutionary AI which requires less data, utilizes creativity and goes beyond forecasting to basically providing advice. Babak gave me a demo last week and it is pretty exciting and so I wanted to bring them on the podcast so that they could share it with you and talk about what is under the hood. In addition to Babak and Risto I am also joined by Bret Greenstein who is the Senior Vice President and Global Head of the Ai and Analytics Practice at Cognizant to talk about how the amazing work they have done is also relevant for business leaders. This is a really interesting podcast and I hope you enjoy it.. Let's get to it.

This podcast will help you successfully complete your journey to AI and data transformation. I am joined by Saket Malhotra of Takeda and Bret Greenstein of Cognizant to talk about the importance of data strategy, establishing KPI's and Metrics, and the importance that change management plays in successful digital transformation efforts. Digital transformation is hard and it is exciting to hear from a company that is doing it right. Lots of great insights to say the least.

Join me on this podcast as I speak with Bret Greenstein of Cognizant and Inder Kochar of Novartis Oncology about the challenges, opportunities and best practices around centering an enterprise around data and AI. Inder brings to light his "Journey to AI" experience over the past several years while Bret brings a cross-industry global perspective. We talk about data strategy, change management, using design thinking to understand and improve the customer journey and much more. If you are struggling with trying to successfully digitally transform your organization then this is a must listen! Note: The opinions expressed by Inder are his alone and do not reflect those of Novartis Oncology

In this podcast I speak with Babak Hodjat, VP of Evolutionary AI at Cognizant, and his collegue Naveen Sharma who is Head of AI and Analytics for Life Sciences about the exciting and profound changes that are occuring in pharma and healthcare driven both by Covid and the opportunities presented by AI techniques like Evolutionary AI. I am a big believer that AI will enable innovation throughout the life sciences ecosystem from better and faster drug discovery to more efficient manufacturing to new business models that will change how patients interact with healthcare. All of which, in my opinion, will foster better health outcomes while lowering the cost curve. Which of course means treating more people better and cheaper. It is a really exciting time for this industry and Babak and Naveen really lay out the changes that are happening.

On this podcast I speak with Babak Hodjat, VP of Evolutionary AI at Cognizant, and his associate Maria Nazareth who is Head of AI and Analytics for the Banking and Financial Services Industry. Covid is forcing banks to accelerate their digital transformation efforts, re-think how they interact with customers, build more resilient models to evaluate risk and much more. And to do all of this they are leveraging data and AI in exciting and innovative ways. Part of the solution in my mind is using an Evolutionary AI approach and Babak explains how this works. The bank of the future is almost here!

Some companies are dealing with the disruption caused by the Covid crisis better than others. Cognizant virtually overnight changed the entire way their almost 300k global workforce operated. It is an amazing story. Join me as I talk to Seth Bartlett, Global Chief Operating Officer of Cognizant's Digital Business, and Bret Greenstein, SVP and Global Head of the AI & Analytics Practice, about how Cognizant immediately responded to the crisis and over the following weeks changed the way the entire company operated. It is a fascinating story and a must listen to every business leader that is trying to transform their enterprise to deal with the disruption caused by Covid.

Join me as I speak with AI thought leader Dr. Michael Zeller about how companies should be focused on quickly accelerating their AI efforts in light of the crisis caused by the Covid pandemic. Business leaders that were already well down the path of AI deployment have weathered this storm better than those that weren't. The time to deploy AI is now. We cover many interesting topics that will be interesting to business leaders who are trying to figure out how to both quickly deploy AI during this crisis and how to build a strategic roadmap for longer term transformation. I hope you enjoy the podcast!

Join me as I talk to Dr. Ashutosh Saxena, founder and CEO of Casper.ai, to learn how their technology, using AI and IoT, power robot homes and how when implemented in nursing homes and assisted living facilities it greatly reduces death from communicable diseases. Covid has exposed just how vulnerable seniors are who live in nursing homes and assisted living facilities. In fact, studies show that so far fully 20%+ of all deaths due to Covid in the US have occured in assisted living facilities. But it isn't just Covid that is a threat to them. With their compromised and fragile immunities many in assisted living facilities die of the seasonal flu and other contagious maladies every year. Building "robot homes" could dramatically reduce these deaths and increase life expectancy. Casper.ai's vision is to fundamentally change how seniors age in their homes and how assisted living facilities are run. I This is a really interesting podcast and offers a true vision of the future. Enjoy!

Join me in this engaging and insightful conversation with Marco Iansiti, David Sarnoff professor of Business Administration and co-director of the Labratory for Information Science at Harvard and of the Digital Initiative at Harvard Business School, and Bret Greenstein, Senior Vice President and Global Head of the AI & Analytics Practice at Cognizant, where he leads over 26,000 associates worldwide focused on Data and AI based transformation We talk about how the Covid-19 pandemic is impacting companies, accelerating their digital transformation, opportunities for innovation in this time of crisis and examine how various companies are succeeding based on their previous digital transformation efforts while still others are forced to play catch-up. This is a must listen for business leaders seeking to deploy data and analytics to build resiliency and business success in this time of crisis.

Over the coming weeks and months, in partnership with Cognizant, we have an exciting line-up of AI thought leaders drawn from academia, business, and the technical sides of Applied AI as well as interviews with business leaders on the front lines of digital transformation. The mission of this exciting speaker series is to make AI understandable and actionable to help you unleash the power of data and AI in your enterprise. In this podcast I talk to two Cognizant executives, Bret Greenstein who is the SVP and Global Head of the AI and Analytics Practice at Cognizant and Babak Hodjat who is the VP of Evolutionary AI at Cognizant. I ask them about their AI journey, how Cognizant is focused on AI delivery, thoughts around the importance of this podcast series for business leaders and we also talk about how the Coronavirus pandemic we are experiencing will drive digital transformation going forward.