Driving EX, Productivity & Efficiency in 2025
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With mounting pressure to streamline operations, cut costs, and improve security, IT leaders are accelerating tech consolidation. According to Gartner, by 2026 75% of organizations will pursue vendor consolidation to boost efficiency and reduce costs.
But consolidation isn’t just an IT initiative—it’s key to enhancing employee experience (EX) and productivity. A fragmented EX stack leads to inefficiencies, disengagement, and a drop in productivity.
Join Andrew J. Cohen, VP of Technology Strategy and Operations at Hillel International and Vijai Shankar, VP of Product Marketing as they explore what’s driving this shift, the hidden costs of fragmentation, and how a unified EX platform—combining intranet and AI-powered search with extensibility—boosts engagement, productivity, and experience.
About the presenters
Vijay Shankar
VP, Product Marketing, Simpplr
Vijai Shankar brings two decades of enterprise marketing experience as Vice President of Product Marketing at Simpplr. Vijai leads the product marketing team and drives strategic initiatives relating to market positioning, differentiation, go-to-market strategy and analyst relations. Before Simpplr, Vijai held senior marketing roles at Uniphore, Xactly, 247.ai, Kony and Genesys.
Andrew Cohen
VP of Technology Strategy and Operations at Hillel International
Andrew Cohen oversees Hillel’s technology strategy, budget, software, cybersecurity, CloudOps, and enterprise IT for the largest Jewish student organization in the world — serving more than 100,000 students on 600 campuses in 18 countries.
His team’s responsibilities include the technical administration of the “Hillel Hub,” a Simpplr-powered Extranet that provides resources, events, and collaboration for over 1,500 Hillel professionals on local college campuses.
Previously, Andrew served 10 years as managing director of digital strategy at Forum One in Washington DC., where he provided technical strategy, digital design, and online community consulting to major nonprofit organizations. His clients included the American Red Cross, Consumer Reports, Energy Star, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the Gates Foundation. Equally adept in technology platforms and design thinking approaches, Andrew has nearly 20 years of experience balancing business considerations with user needs.