Cognizant | Insurance Savvy

Cognizant | Insurance Savvy

Insurance and technology expertise and discussion

Episodes

May 22, 2025 30 mins

Chad Hersh is a leader in the insurance vertical forAWS, and an expert in insurance platforms. In this episode, we explore how GenAI today is changing the trajectory of insurer legacy modernization efforts, with even more exciting possibilities emerging at an amazing pace.Starting Thought: The Pursuit of Savvy

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Surajit Datta leads the financial services and fintech delivery organization at Cognizant. He has a passion for setting younger staff on a career path that fosters their growth while delivering value for Cognizant’s customers. Optimizing for a combination of technical skills, business acumen, and domain-specific knowledge is key.

Craig's Starting Thought: Feeling confused and out of sorts? We're all suffering from Full Brain...

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Mom always said don't follow the crowd...

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Sometimes an insult is a show of affection...

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Matt Keane is Vice President of Data Science, Analytics, AI & Shared Platforms at Aflac. As a longtime “data science and innovation guy,” in our conversation he explains how he thinks about AI data readiness and the creation of business value. As he prepares Aflac’s data for future AI use cases, he's bullish on treating data like an asset and the potential for AI to create "more human" service experiences.

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Robert Reiss is founder and CEO of The CEO Forum Group. He has a weekly radio show with 600k listeners, runs in-person and virtual CEO events, and has interviewed more than 1,200 CEOs. (!) In this episode we mine those conversations for insights into how the C-suite thinks about strategy, what makes senior leaders effective, and how creative sparks drive breakthrough thinking.

Starting Thought: The Crowd Likes AI

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Deepak Kumar leads insurance delivery for Cognizant. His current passion and focus? Converting all the early energy and action around GenAI into tangible business benefits. In this episode he shares insights based on Cognizant’s extensive GenAI capabilities and client work. Spoiler alert: the best of those POCs are moving toward production and business value.

Starting Thought: You Learned It Waiting Tables

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In this Starting Thought from an upcoming episode, I explore the "last mile" issue of GenAI, which is how human insights are often extensions of the machine output.

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April 1, 2025 2 mins

This special video Starting Thought will appear in an upcoming episode.

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Mahesh Natarajan is a creative IT consultant who has helped blue-chip retirement plan administrators and insurers hone their technology strategies. In this episode, he explores the pursuit of exponential advantages in the retirement industry.

Starting Thought: An Uncomfortable Game of DOGEball

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March 10, 2025 24 mins

Jeff Goldberg is a long-time industry thought leader,analyst, and consultant who has advised insurers extensively on core systems strategy. In this episode, he proposes a modernized approach to modernization that captures the best of both buy and build.

Starting Thought: That Feeling of Urgency

Host: Craig Weber

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March 10, 2025 22 mins

Mike Fitzgerald is an insurance data and analytics expert who works in the insurance vertical at SAS. In this episode, he shares how insurers are ramping up their data transformations in support of hybrid human/AI business models.

Starting Thought: What You Do Matters

Host: Craig Weber

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March 6, 2025 21 mins

Mykola Hayvanovitch is helping shape the future of AI as the global leader of Generative AI for Cognizant. In this episode, he discusses the current state of agentic AI in insurance.

Host: Craig Weber


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