Across enterprises today, AI adoption is accelerating, with growing investment, expanding tool deployment and increasing workforce engagement. Yet productivity gains are not consistently translating into measurable enterprise value. This webinar will examine why that gap persists and what organizations can do to move from AI activity to AI value realization.
The session will explore four forces contributing to this disconnect. These include fragmented tools, workflows and data; perceived productivity gains that outpace validated outcomes; AI initiatives that remain experimental rather than embedded in the operating model; and measurement approaches that emphasize usage rather than business value. Attendees will examine how these forces can create a productivity illusion in which AI activity increases without a corresponding improvement in enterprise outcomes.
The webinar will then focus on four critical shifts: from AI adoption to AI value realization, from task productivity to enterprise productivity systems, from pilot success to operating-model transformation and from linear gains to compounding value loops. The discussion will consider why local efficiency improvements do not automatically translate into broader business impact and what structural changes are required to close that gap.
Attendees will also explore how current AI ROI narratives are being challenged, how to measure impact beyond usage and perception, what it takes to industrialize AI at enterprise scale and how organizations can approach AI as an integrated, compounding system rather than an isolated tool.
AI rarely fails at the point of capability. It fails at the point of integration, operating model and measurement. Addressing these areas is central to moving from perceived productivity gains to sustained enterprise value.
Register for this webinar to learn how AI can move beyond task-level productivity and support measurable enterprise value through stronger integration, operating models and measurement.
Speakers
Shweta Singh Maniar, Global Director, Healthcare & Life Sciences, Google Cloud
Shweta leads the Life Sciences Strategic Industries practice at Google Cloud. Shweta has quickly risen through the ranks as a well-known innovator and Relationship Ambassador. She is motivated by creating a collaborative ecosystem to maximize value from data within the Healthcare & Life Sciences ecosystem to ultimately benefit patients.
With 20+ years’ experience in Healthcare, Pharma, Med Tech and BioTech, she has proven time and time again how valuable relationships can be by enabling dozens of start-up firms with access to capital from Federal grants and VC firms alike. She brings an eye for detail, winning contract negotiations and financial insight to support her commercial partnership strategy expertise.
Shweta has been recognized as a trailblazer for Life Sciences in the PharmaVoice 100. She has received multiple awards at Genentech, including two “Innovation Awards,” “MVP Award” and more. Shweta currently serves on the board of directors for Orthofix (NASDAQ: OFIX), a global orthopaedic and spinal technology company, and for RXSight (NASDAQ: RXST), an ophthalmic medical technology company. Shweta also serves on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Allen Institute, a bioscience research institute aimed at unlocking the mysteries of human biology through foundational science.
Shweta brings an extensive network of established healthcare system relationships across Digital Health & Technology, Investor, Pharmaceutical, Medical Device, BioTech and Hospital Systems Industries. She is passionate about keeping current with trends in medical devices, ‘omics’ data, wearables, IoT, generative AI and machine learning- how it impacts the world today and in the future.
Message Presenter
Gaurav Sharma, Market Innovator, Life Sciences, Cognizant
Gaurav Sharma is a Global Market Leader and Strategic Innovator with over a decade of experience driving digital transformation across the Life Sciences sector. At Cognizant, he leads and manages a broad Life Sciences portfolio spanning R&D, Commercial and Enterprise functions, with deep expertise across account management, delivery execution, stakeholder engagement and people leadership.
Gaurav’s work is anchored in enabling better patient reach, faster patient engagement and optimised R&D value chain operations. His core expertise spans Data & AI, Digital Engineering, Cloud Platforms and IoT. Beyond his corporate role, he is the founder of REFRACTION360.com – a non-profit strategic innovation platform dedicated to helping leaders unlock clarity, navigate market disruption and transform vision into reality.
Message Presenter
Akshat Jhaveri, Vice President, member of ELT- Software Platform and Engineering, Cognizant
Akshat Jhaveri is Vice President and member of the Executive Leadership Team at Cognizant, where he manages the Software Engineering Group (SEG) across the Americas for strategic Business units such as Health Sciences. He specializes in helping Fortune 500 leaders transform their legacy business processes and systems to create a competitive advantage through AI-powered engineering and modern target operating models.
Akshat spearheads AI initiatives across the Americas for the practice, including serving as Cognizant’s GTM Lead for Anthropic/Claude. He is a leading advocate for deploying agentic AI frameworks such as pioneering the use of autonomous agent frameworks to solve legacy technical debt challenges that has historically stunted enterprise growth or to optimize clinical trials or reduce R&D timelines. By harmonizing the reasoning power of Anthropic’s models with Cognizant’s proprietary intelligence layers, Akshat and his team are redefining the speed and safety at which institutions deliver services for their patients.
In order to help his clients reimagine the flow of work around AI and the operating model changes needed to drive adoption at scale, he conducts several “Art of AI Possible” workshops where they explore, co-create and commit to the adoption of AI to achieve operational agility and drive innovation driven in synergy with Microsoft.
Message PresenterWho Should Attend?
This webinar will appeal to:
- Chief Digital Officers and Chief Information Officers in life sciences
- VP / Director-level leaders in Patient Services, Customer Experience and Commercial Operations
- Heads of Digital Transformation and Innovation
- IT and Technology leaders supporting healthcare platforms and data strategy
- Clinical Operations and Patient Engagement Leads
- Compliance, Regulatory Affairs and Risk Leaders involved in AI adoption
- Strategy and Transformation Consultants working in the life sciences space
What You Will Learn
Attendees will:
- Learn why rising AI adoption isn’t translating into real enterprise value and what’s really behind the gap
- Discover hidden forces quietly killing AI ROI across enterprises
- Get a practical framework to measure AI impact beyond usage and perception
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Cognizant
Cognizant (NASDAQ: CTSH) is an AI Builder and technology services provider, building the bridge between AI investment and enterprise value by building full-stack AI solutions for our clients. Our deep industry, process and engineering expertise enables us to build an organization’s unique context into technology systems that amplify human potential, realize tangible returns and keep global enterprises ahead in a fast-changing world. See how at
www.cognizant.com or @cognizant.
Google Cloud
Google Cloud offers a powerful, optimized AI stack—including AI infrastructure, leading models like Gemini, data management capabilities, multicloud security solutions, developer tools and platform, as well as agents and applications — that enables organizations to transform their business for the Agentic Era. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted technology partner. http://cloud.google.com
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