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The #CognizantImpactAwards2026 brought together the very best of Cognizant. Live from Hyderabad. Watch parties filling offices across the world. People cheering for colleagues they have never met, for work they recognize because they live it too. This year's honorees represented every part of what we do: landmark wins, delivery excellence, AI innovation, social impact, and the individuals shaping our culture from the inside. Congratulations to every winner and nominee.

Frontier AI has become more than a cybersecurity challenge. It is an architectural reckoning. Every fragmented system, undocumented dependency and unsupported stack your teams have worked around for years? A frontier model finds it, maps it and ranks it by exploitability in hours. The discovery-to-exploit gap has inverted, and enterprises still running AI modernization and AI security as separate programs are missing their biggest opportunity to close the gap. In his latest piece, Vishal Salvi, SVP & Global Head of Cybersecurity at Cognizant, argues that security is the entry point, but what comes through the door behind it is the entire enterprise transformation agenda. Read the full blog: https://cgnz.at/6042vgEsq

Cognizant Government Solutions is proud to announce a landmark partnership with the State of Iowa and Amazon Web Services (AWS) to modernize Iowa's executive branch IT infrastructure. Governor Kim Reynolds has directed the migration of the state's legacy data centers and physical servers to a secure, cloud-first environment on AWS. Cognizant Government Solutions will serve as the state's managed service partner, assuming responsibility for daily IT operations — including infrastructure management, on-site agency support and end-user assistance — effective August 3, 2026. This transformation is projected to deliver more than $525 million in savings over 10 years, while significantly strengthening cybersecurity posture and operational resilience across state government. As part of this transition, approximately 200 experienced state IT professionals will receive competitive offers to join Cognizant, preserving institutional knowledge and ensuring continuity of service for Iowa residents. We are committed to executing this transition with the precision and accountability that this initiative demands. Read more: https://lnkd.in/eRXbSpyB

Cognizant has been positioned as a Leader in Everest Group's ServiceNow Services PEAK Matrix® Assessment 2025, recognized across 30 global providers for market adoption, innovation, delivery footprint and value delivered. At the core of this recognition is the work we've done to build genuinely differentiated ServiceNow capabilities: ✅ Our Neuro® AI platform, purpose-built to deploy ServiceNow-native agents, custom LLMs, and AI applications in regulated environments ✅ A deep proprietary IP portfolio spanning accelerators, industry solutions and automation tools ✅ Our acquisition of Thirdera, which significantly expanded our certified talent base and reinforced our Global Elite Partner status ✅ Deep domain expertise across BFSI, healthcare & life sciences and retail & CPG As an AI builder, we remain focused on helping enterprises move beyond workflow automation and use ServiceNow as a platform for AI-driven transformation at scale. Read more: https://lnkd.in/eUqjn-76

Cognizant is proud to join the US Tech Force as an industry partner. Tech Force is recruiting an elite corps of engineers and technologists to build the next generation of government technology, tackling the nation's most complex civic and national security challenges. As a partner, we will provide technical training resources, executive programming, and help create pathways between public service and the private sector. We look forward to contributing to this important initiative. Learn more: https://cgnz.at/6046v57C0

Tomorrow, nearly a thousand nominations come down to one night. Cognizant's Impact Awards recognize the best of the best across our organization — teams that have secured incredible wins, delivered with excellence, innovated with AI and enabled the business, plus extraordinary individuals setting the bar for social impact, careers and our culture. 19 categories. One extraordinary celebration. We'll bring it to you. Stay tuned. #CognizantImpactAwards2026 #LifeAtCognizant

Healthcare's AI opportunity is becoming clearer, and it is showing up where enterprises least expected it. In a recent podcast with Fierce Healthcare, our SVP and Head of Healthcare Payer Business, Sanjay Subramanian, shares how the industry has shifted from AI experimentation to AI economics. The strongest returns are emerging in back-office functions — claims processing, prior authorization, and revenue cycle — where AI can operate at scale and deliver measurable impact across the enterprise. His central point: the organizations leading in healthcare AI are the ones moving deliberately from pilots to enterprise-wide industrialization, with responsibility and governance built in from the start. As an AI Builder, that is the work we are focused on, helping healthcare enterprises close the gap between AI potential and business results. Listen here: https://lnkd.in/ew_Vbq8i

We are elated to announce that Cognizant has been recognized with the Blueprint Pioneer Award 2026 from Pegasystems at PegaWorld 2026 for our innovation and depth of expertise in leveraging Pega Blueprint™ across more than 30 enterprise deployments globally.   Cognizant's Pega practice is among the world's largest and longest running, spanning two decades. Working closely with Pegasystems, we have developed solutions that tackle the real demands of enterprise transformation across AI-powered process orchestration, agentic AI, intelligent automation and low-code application development.   For global enterprises looking to close the gap between AI experimentation and business outcomes, Cognizant and Pegasystems deliver both the technical expertise and the delivery experience needed for sustained transformation. Learn more about our services: https://lnkd.in/gF-b5C9E    #CognizantPartners #Pegasystems #PegaBlueprintPioneer #PegaWorld2026

The conversation around AI and jobs tends to focus on which roles will be impacted. Our Chief People Officer, Kathy Diaz, offered a different lens at today's AI Forum. The more useful question is how you build a workforce around the reality of AI. At Cognizant, that means redesigning careers around future-oriented job families, building clear pathways and developing truly interdisciplinary AI Builders. Cognizant Skillspring™ is the engine making it real.

Three sessions at today's AI Forum painted a clear picture of what it actually takes to scale AI across the enterprise. Prasad Sankaran, President, AI Platform and Products, made the case for how the services model is inverting and platforms are how we scale. Naveen Sharma, Global Practice Head, AI & Analytics, zeroed in on something the industry keeps underestimating: models will commoditize, but context will not. That's where real engineering work happens. Sandeep Bhasin, Global Head of Intuitive Operations and Automation, brought it to operations, moving beyond generic AI to contextual, domain-specific solutions that are opening up entirely new value pools for clients.