Benjamin Pring
VP, Head of Thought Leadership & Managing Director - Center for the Future of Work
Cognizant
E About Benjamin Pring
Ben Pring is the head of thought leadership at Cognizant, co-founded and leads Cognizant’s Center for the Future of Work, and is a member of Cognizant’s Executive Leadership Team. Ben is a co-author of the best-selling and award-winning books, What To Do When Machines Do Everything (2017) and Code Halos; How the Digital Lives of People, Things, and Organizations are Changing the Rules of Business (2014). His latest book, Monster: Taming the Machines that Rules our Lives, Jobs, and Future will be out in early 2021.
Ben sits on the advisory board of the Labor and Work Life program at Harvard Law School. In 2018 Ben was a Bilderberg Meeting participant. Ben was named as one of 30 management thinkers to watch in 2020 by Thinkers 50. He was recently named a leading influencer on the future of work by Onalytica.
Ben joined Cognizant in 2011, from Gartner, where he spent 15 years researching and advising on areas such as Cloud Computing and Global Sourcing. In 2007, Ben won Gartner’s prestigious Thought Leader Award. Prior to Gartner Ben worked for a number of consulting companies including Coopers and Lybrand.
Ben’s expertise in helping clients see around corners, think the unthinkable, and calculate the compound annual growth rate of unintended consequences has made him an internationally recognized expert on leading edge technology and its intersection with business and society. His work has been featured in the Harvard Business Review, the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, the London Times, BBC’s News Night, PBS’s News Hour, the Drucker Forum Report, Business Insider, Forbes, Fortune, The Sun, the MIT Review, the Daily Telegraph, the Daily Mail, Parade, the Times of India, Quartz, Inc., Axios, the Australian, and the Economic Times.
Based near Boston since 2000, Ben graduated with a degree in Philosophy from Manchester University in the UK where he grew up.
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Here are 21 future of work focused themes to keep an eye on in 2021; 1 Zoom-lag will grow. 2 Audio only calls will come back...
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The Work Ahead is a research series providing insight and guidance on how organizations are evolving to the next stage of the...
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2020 was … 1 the most ironically numbered year of all time – literally no one saw the pandemic coming. 2 the year the Internet...
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The Work Ahead is a research series providing insight and guidance on how organizations are evolving to the next stage of their...
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Ben Pring spoke on the topic of social media during the webinar “Taming Social Media – Before It Eats Us Alive” for the Big Idea...
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Our recent research reveals that organizations are reassessing the pros and cons of captive services. The advantages - technology...
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Picture the scene. It's a summer Saturday morning. Camden, North London. 1978. I'm 15 years old. I look at the new releases and...
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We started working on what turned out to be What to Do When Machines Do Everything in 2015. Debates were beginning to heat up...
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In a world that we increasingly experience through screens, things seem increasingly unreal; Fake sports fans – though...
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It’s May 2025, and the Cognizant Center for the Future of Work is looking back at the months and years following the COVID-19...
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COVID-19 will change everything -- and the way we work and learn will be no exception. Will the traditional office structure...
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This weekend, the President of the United States held a badly attended rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma. On the other side of the world,...
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