The Agent Effect
by Cognizant Podcasts
Latest episode
The open agentic web: Building the internet of AI agents
The open agentic web: Building the internet of AI agents
About this podcast
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. Brought to you by Cognizant
Episodes
- The open agentic web: Building the internet of AI agents · 24 minToday’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…
- How Cognizant Scaled Agentic AI Across 350,000 Employees · 26 minMost enterprise intranets have many disparate, isolated chatbots representing different departments which can cause confusion for employees on where to get their answers and can…
- When AI agents make the call: Governing Autonomy at Scale · 31 minEnterprises 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…
- Laying the groundwork for autonomous decision-making across agricultural operations · 31 minPatricio Salvatore La Rosa shares how Bayer is building the foundational components of agentic AI in a complex, biologically driven production environment. He explains the…
- How Cognizant leveraged agentic AI to host and judge the world’s largest GenAI hackathon · 24 minCognizant 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…
- Enabling agentic AI: Why trust, ethics, and partnership come first · 18 minLeo 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…
- Building the enterprise playbook for agentic AI · 37 minKim 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…
- Building a Trust Layer with AI Agents · 43 minKrishna Gade, Founder and CEO of Fiddler, explores how businesses can build trust in agentic AI – from investing in responsible practices to implementing observability tools that…
- Cognizant CEO’s Vision on Building Smarter Enterprises with AI Agents · 21 minCognizant 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…
- Without Responsible AI, Can Multi-Agent AI Truly Scale? · 31 minLisa Bechtold, Zurich Insurance’s Global Head of AI Governance, and Amir Banifatemi, Cognizant’s Chief Responsible AI Officer, share what it takes to scale agentic AI safely and…
- The Evolution of AI Agents | The Past and the Present (Part 2) · 26 minIn 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…
- The Evolution of AI Agents | The Past and the Present (Part 1) · 24 minAdam 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.







