Daijiworld Media Network – New York

New York, Aug 30: IT major Cognizant has announced a strategic initiative to industrialise ‘agentic AI’ across enterprises by deploying 1,000 context engineers over the next year. The move signals a major investment in the emerging field of context engineering, which enables AI agents to reason, act, and adapt in line with enterprise goals.

As part of the initiative, Cognizant has partnered with Workfabric AI, the company building the ContextFabric platform for enterprise AI. The platform translates an organisation’s workflows, data, rules, and processes into actionable context, powering AI agents with enterprise-specific intelligence.

“Every technology shift creates a services shift. In the microprocessor era, the lever was code. In the cloud era, it was workload migration, and in the LLM era, the lever is context,” said Ravi Kumar S, CEO of Cognizant. “By training 1,000 context engineers and equipping them with Workfabric AI’s platform, we are enabling clients to move beyond experimentation to scalable AI adoption.”

Kumar, recently named to the TIME100 AI 2025 list of the most influential people shaping the AI landscape, noted that Cognizant’s engineering and domain expertise positions it to deliver unique value in this transition.

Under Kumar’s leadership, Cognizant pledged $1 billion in 2023 to accelerate enterprise AI. He also initiated the world’s largest AI literacy event among employees, which earned a Guinness World Records title for the most participants in an online generative AI hackathon. More than 53,000 employees from 40 countries created over 30,000 prototype projects during the event.