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What if your best people never had to write another status report? The Agentic Employee isn't a concept — it's already live in enterprise environments, handling the high-frequency, lower-judgment work that consumes 50%+ of a senior professional's time. Human led. Agent operated. That's the model. Natarajan Venkataraman [Nats] at Cognizant Moment breaks down what this means for your workforce strategy — and why 2026 is the year it becomes a competitive imperative. Read the full blog: https://cgnz.at/6040vEYaj

Cognizant is honored to celebrate top educators and mentors expanding access to STEM opportunities across New York City with The New York Academy of Sciences. Their work is opening doors for the next generation of STEM leaders through rigorous classroom learning and high-impact mentorship. Having served as a member of the Academy’s Board of Governors since 2020, our CEO Ravi Kumar S attended the event alongside Jatin Dalal, CFO, and John Kim, CLO and Outreach and Synapse executive sponsor, who conferred inaugural awards for the Cognizant STEM Teacher of the Year: Rocheli Apilan from High School for Health Professions & Human Services and Cognizant STEM Mentor of the Year: Samay Garg, PhD, Department of Chemical Engineering, Columbia University. Learn more about how Cognizant is investing in AI education at scale through Synapse: our upskilling initiative that combines company-wide learning, STEM volunteering, and jobseeker training — advancing our goal to help provide technology job training for 2 million people globally by 2030: https://cgnz.at/6042vDmfM

AI changes how IT services firms create value, how they deliver it, how they price it and ultimately how they themselves are valued. The firms that win will be those that own and underwrite the operational outcomes powered by AI. In Fortune, Cognizant CEO Ravi Kumar S makes the case that the next wave of enterprise value will be captured by the firms that have the conviction to put outcome-driven results on the line. The market at stake: $6 trillion. More than three times the size of IT services today. Read on: https://cgnz.at/6043vDRjZ

Cognizant has established a dedicated Gemini Enterprise Practice, in collaboration with Google Cloud, to accelerate enterprise AI deployments at scale. The practice brings forward-deployed engineers into client environments, working directly alongside Google Cloud teams to compress time-to-value on Gemini Enterprise. Not consulting from a distance. Engineering on site, in production. The results are already visible. A leading North American telecom engaged us to deploy AI agents targeting billing discrepancies across hundreds of millions in revenue and surfaced more than a dozen additional Gemini Enterprise use cases in the process. Our joint portfolio with Google Cloud is expanding: from Agentic Retail CX to the Agentic Employee Platform, which automates 60–70% of manual effort in targeted workflows and deploys in weeks. Cognizant is also recognized as a Google Cloud Diamond Partner, the highest tier in the program. Read the full announcement: https://lnkd.in/eaYBEmRg Cognizant Partners Google Cloud Partners Annadurai Elango Sandra Notardonato Rashmi Chakraborty Scott Collins Brian DeLarber Kevin Ichhpurani Vikram Rajkondawar Victoria Araujo Yolanda Landow Paisley Parker Anirban G.

Cognizant has been named among a select group of partners that will work to scale the impact of OpenAI's Codex worldwide. The recognition is tied to our focus on scaling AI-powered engineering across complex enterprise environments. We are embedding OpenAI Codex directly into our Software Engineering Group – supporting code generation, refactoring, testing and documentation – so teams can focus more of their time on applying human judgment, problem-solving and delivering higher value work. As an AI builder, we are designing, deploying and operating AI systems at scale. These capabilities are already being applied across client engagements, helping improve delivery speed, code quality and efficiency. Together with OpenAI, we aim to further help clients reduce complexity, move faster and scale AI responsibly. Read more: https://cgnz.at/6045v85Jl

Enterprise clients don't want payments bolted on. They want them built in, intelligent, and connected to everything they run their business on. That's why Cognizant joined the J.P. Morgan Payments Consultant Implementation Program and why we're proud to bring our AI Builder approach to this work. Building on nearly 25 years of collaboration, we'll engineer AI-native integrations that bring J.P. Morgan Payments capabilities to life inside clients' existing systems, backed by 30 years of payments expertise and more than 10,000 certified payments professionals. Most enterprises have the tools. What they need is a partner who embeds industry context end-to-end, connects systems, and stays accountable for performance in production, not just deployment. That's what it means to be an AI Builder, and that's exactly what we're bringing to this partnership. Read more: https://cgnz.at/6041v8jiN

Work is evolving faster than most organizations can retrain, and that gap is becoming impossible to ignore. Today, we’ve announced Cognizant Skillspring™, a new AI-native talent transformation platform built to help companies develop talent at the pace modern work now demands. Rather than rely on static training programs, the platform is designed to continuously adapt, aligning learning directly with changing roles, technologies and business priorities. Cognizant Skillspring™ brings learning into the flow of work through personalized, multi-modal experiences powered by AI agents. It connects skill development to real tasks, projects and outcomes, helping employees build capabilities while actively contributing to the business. The platform is also being extended to academic and workforce development partners, reinforcing a broad push to expand access to AI-relevant skills and prepare talent for emerging roles. Already in use internally, this launch builds on Cognizant’s ongoing investment in large-scale upskilling and reflects a clear direction. Continuous learning is no longer optional – it’s becoming core infrastructure for the AI era. Read more: https://cgnz.at/6049v8uQf

Many enterprises have AI governance frameworks. Very few have ones that actually keep up with AI.   Your AI updates daily. Your governance model runs quarterly. That gap is where risk lives and most leaders are still underestimating it. Read more. 

We are proud to announce that Jessica Finn, Cognizant’s Health, Life Sciences & Education Lead for Australia and New Zealand, has been selected to join the World Economic Forum's Young Global Leaders (YGL) Class of 2026. The YGL program brings together the world’s most promising leaders who are driving positive change and redefining leadership. Each year, a select cohort is chosen for their commitment to solving the world's most complex challenges through transformative contributions across fields like public service, innovation, civil society and culture. Jess’s selection is a testament to her career built on purpose, transforming public services, advocating for women in technology and her deep commitment to community impact. Congratulations to Jess on this outstanding achievement! We are excited to support you on this journey and see the incredible impact you'll continue to make. Read more: https://cgnz.at/6046Qh0Qs