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Named to the 2026 TIME100 AI List

Profiles & Recognition

TIME • 27 August 2026

Nigel Vaz has been named to the 2026 TIME100 AI, TIME’s list of the 100 most influential people in artificial intelligence.

TIME recognised Nigel, CEO of Publicis Sapient, for helping enterprises turn AI ambition into meaningful business results. TIME's profile highlights Publicis Sapient’s approach of helping businesses build agentic AI and automate their IT operations. It points to the company’s Sapient Slingshot, Bodhi and Sustain AI platforms.

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Interview with Nigel Vaz, CEO of Publicis Sapient
Interviews
Interview with Nigel Vaz, CEO of Publicis Sapient
Interviews

Adam Mendler

Technology is expanding what organizations and individuals can do at remarkable speed. That should be exciting, but it should also make us more deliberate about the choices we make. The goal should not be technology for technology’s sake, or speed without direction. It should be to create more value, widen access to opportunity, and solve problems that matter.

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Interviews
Driving AI Value Across the Enterprise
Interviews
Driving AI Value Across the Enterprise
Interviews

WSJ Business

A Q&A with Nigel Vaz on how AI creates value when intelligent systems and human judgment are engineered to work as one integrated operating model.

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Interviews
World Economic Forum ‘Meet The Leader’
Podcasts
World Economic Forum ‘Meet The Leader’
Podcasts

World Economic Forum

How to Lead People Through AI Change: Questions to Ask from a Transformation Expert.

Nigel Vaz explains why many AI strategies fall short and what's needed to lead teams through technological change

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Podcasts
Why AI Transformation Needs a Human Touch
Podcasts
Why AI Transformation Needs a Human Touch
Podcasts

HBR

AI needs to be central to any organization’s strategy today, but many are still not implementing the technology in the most effective ways. HBR editor in chief Amy Bernstein speaks with Nigel Vaz, CEO of Publicis Sapient, about why many enterprise-wide AI initiatives fail because incentives, talent strategies and a sense of trust aren’t considered thoroughly enough. He shares lessons from his front row seat to AI transformations in the last few years, and how he thinks you can create real operational value at scale.

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Somebody Feed Phil: Mumbai
Broadcast
Somebody Feed Phil: Mumbai
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Netflix

Nigel joins Phil Rosenthal in Mumbai to explore the city’s food and history, India’s potential, and Publicis Sapient’s work supporting hands-on education.

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How companies can best deploy AI
Events
How companies can best deploy AI
Events

CNBC Technology Executive Council Summit

Speaking with CNBC's Jon Fortt at the eighth annual TEC Summit in New York, Nigel Vaz shares how companies can best deploy AI and why context matters more than model debates.

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Events
What Anthropic’s S-1 says about revenue streams tied to agentic AI
Broadcast
What Anthropic’s S-1 says about revenue streams tied to agentic AI
Broadcast

Schwab Network

Publicis Sapient CEO Nigel Vaz discusses how enterprises can translate AI investment into real economic value, moving from measuring tokens to delivering meaningful units of work. He explores how AI agents can help companies modernise code, build applications faster and improve business outcomes, and why giving those agents the right enterprise context is essential.

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Broadcast
Interview with Nigel Vaz, CEO of Publicis Sapient
Interviews
Interview with Nigel Vaz, CEO of Publicis Sapient
Interviews

Adam Mendler

Technology is expanding what organizations and individuals can do at remarkable speed. That should be exciting, but it should also make us more deliberate about the choices we make. The goal should not be technology for technology’s sake, or speed without direction. It should be to create more value, widen access to opportunity, and solve problems that matter.

Read more →
Interviews
On AI, we are Navy SEALs, never the army: Publicis Sapient CEO
Interviews
On AI, we are Navy SEALs, never the army: Publicis Sapient CEO
Interviews

Business Standard

Nigel Vaz explains why Publicis Sapient skipped the low-cost, headcount-driven model that built India's IT industry and bet on AI instead.

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Interviews
How Leveraging Tech Makes You A Superhero
Broadcast
How Leveraging Tech Makes You A Superhero
Broadcast

Economic Times

Nigel Vaz on how leveraging technology can make teams more capable than they have ever been.

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Broadcast
AI, the Future of Work and India’s Opportunity | ET WLF 2026
Events
AI, the Future of Work and India’s Opportunity | ET WLF 2026
Events

Economic Times

At the ET World Leaders Forum, Nigel Vaz breaks down the "Iron Man" approach to AI, why enterprises need to reimagine how work gets done, and where agentic AI can create real business value.

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Events
AI is forcing IT services to trade headcount for expertise
Interviews
AI is forcing IT services to trade headcount for expertise
Interviews

Fortune India

Nigel Vaz on why AI is pushing IT services companies away from headcount-driven growth and towards specialist expertise.

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Interviews
AI’s Execution Problem
Writing
AI’s Execution Problem
Writing

TIME

In a bylined piece for TIME, Nigel Vaz argues that the gap between AI ambition and AI execution is now the defining challenge for enterprise leaders.

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Publicis Sapient CEO Sees Demand for Consultant AI Projects Picking Up
Interviews
Publicis Sapient CEO Sees Demand for Consultant AI Projects Picking Up
Interviews

The Wall Street Journal

Nigel Vaz tells the WSJ that a wave of CEO turnover at big U.S. companies delayed some projects, but demand for consultant-led AI work is picking up.

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Interviews
Creating value in AI: Focus on enterprise over consumer uses
Broadcast
Creating value in AI: Focus on enterprise over consumer uses
Broadcast

CNBC

Speaking to CNBC from the World Governments Summit, Nigel Vaz explains where the full value of AI can be unlocked and why the Middle East stands to benefit from the wave of capital into the sector.

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