Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly acting as a powerful tool to drive greener practices across various industries and sectors — from energy management to waste reduction and sustainable agriculture.
Manoj will share his experiences and describe how Cognizant is leveraging Artificial intelligence (AI) to contribute to sustainable innovation by enabling companies to optimize operations, reduce waste, predict environmental changes, and develop new products and services that are more environmentally friendly.
Manoj Mathew
Global Practice Leader – Sustainability Engineering
Cognizant
Manoj Mathew passionately leads the Sustainability Practice at Cognizant, actively collaborating with G2000 clients on business and technology changes. The practice engages with diverse industry sectors to build innovative AI-driven solutions for managing net-zero transformation. Cognizant aims to help customers move beyond ESG disclosure to enable businesses to drive performance against targets and devise commercially scalable models.
Cognizant is driven by a vision to Engineer modern businesses to better everyday life. Cognizant’s engagements span multiple verticals, including financial services, manufacturing, mining, pharmaceuticals, food and food service, travel, and hospitality. Heavily leveraging a systems-design approach, and multidisciplinary engineering competencies Cognizant delivers AI-driven, transformative solutions.
Manoj works closely with clients to comprehensively embed sustainability goals and performance models into core business activities, such as circular product development, supply chain surveillance and resilience, and critical infrastructure management for asset efficiency and energy transition. These efforts are helping clients achieve significant reductions in carbon emissions and successfully transform their business models.
Manoj holds a degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the University of Kerala, India, and has over 25 years of experience in product development, supply chain, corporate strategy, and performance management across various industry sectors. Manoj’s interests include AI-engineered solutions for precision resource management, asset risk management, and designing circular logistics models.
Manoj is based out of The Hague in the Netherlands.
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Cognizant
Cognizant is one of the world’s leading professional services companies, helping clients become data-enabled and data-driven in the digital era. We enable our clients to develop ESG strategies and programs that account for present and future environmental risks, regulations, and expectations.
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