Publicis Sapient CEO Nigel Vaz Named to TIME’s Fourth Annual List of the TIME100 AI

Publicis Sapient, a technology company that provides enterprise AI platforms and services, today announced that TIME named CEO Nigel Vaz to the 2026 TIME100 AI, a list recognizing the 100 most influential people in artificial intelligence. To assemble the list, TIME’s editors and reporters examined the key stories in AI over the past year and consulted with expert sources and industry leaders for recommendations. The result is a list of 100 leaders, innovators, shapers, and thinkers who have a stake in the future of AI.

As organizations invest in AI, many continue to struggle to move from pilots to enterprise-wide impact. Vaz was recognized on the list for helping enterprise companies move beyond AI experimentation to execution and turn AI ambition into meaningful business results. Under his leadership, Publicis Sapient has adopted a “People + Products” approach that combines the expertise of its people with enterprise AI platforms to enable organizations to redesign how they operate and create business value with AI.

“It’s an honor to be named to the 2026 TIME100 AI List alongside so many other leaders who are shaping how this technology is changing business and society,” said Nigel Vaz, CEO of Publicis Sapient. “This recognition reflects the experience and expertise of our people at Publicis Sapient who, together with our clients, are turning the promise of AI into meaningful impact through our People + Products approach. We believe the greatest value comes from combining human expertise and judgment with intelligent technology, and I’m incredibly proud of how our teams are bringing the two together to deliver better outcomes for our clients.”

Publicis Sapient’s portfolio of enterprise AI platforms includes:

• Sapient Slingshot, which modernizes legacy systems and accelerates the software development lifecycle
• Sapient Bodhi, which enables organizations to build, orchestrate and track intelligent agents and AI workflows
• Sapient Sustain, which leverages AI for IT operations through autonomous, self-healing workflows

Together, Publicis Sapient’s platforms and services are delivering tangible results for clients: 

• A major healthcare organization leveraged Sapient Slingshot to compress a ten-year COBOL modernization effort into three years.
• A leading pharmaceutical company used Sapient Bodhi to transform its content production process, accelerating content creation by 75% and reducing costs by up to 45%.
• A global auto manufacturer used Sapient Sustain to reduce operational costs by 40% and achieve a 62%+ same-day issue resolution rate.

Vaz’s profile and the full 2026 TIME100 AI list are available at https://time.com/time100ai/.

The 2026 TIME100 AI will appear in the September 7, 2026, issue of TIME, available on newsstands on Friday, August 28.

Publicis Sapient is a technology company that provides enterprise AI platforms and services. With over 30 years of digital business transformation experience, we enable enterprise clients to transform how they operate and serve their customers, unlocking new value and enabling them to thrive in an AI-driven world. Our platforms Sapient Slingshot, Sapient Bodhi and Sapient Sustain use AI built off this deep enterprise context to help organizations modernize their legacy tech systems, build agentic solutions, and automate their IT operations. The combination of our AI platforms and the expertise of our people enables us to deliver faster and more effective outcomes through solutions that are specific to the unique needs of our clients’ businesses, their industries and their customers. Publicis Sapient is the technology hub of Publicis Groupe, uniting 20,000 people worldwide across 28 countries. For more information, visit publicissapient.com.