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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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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As senior managers assess the fallout of the pandemic, top priorities range from accelerating digital initiatives amid cost-cutting...
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This special edition of From/To is a snapshot of how millions of people around the world are living and working today –...
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Harvard Business Review features Cognizant’s 21 HR Jobs of the Future Getting – and Staying – Employed in HR...
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It's been 10 weeks since the virus turned our lives upside down. Here are a few musings about the good and the bad of living...
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After the virus the world is going to be quite different. Whether the current lockdown lasts weeks or months (heaven help us,...
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Cognizant’s Ben Pring lends his voice to a series of discussions around the COVID-19 implications hosted by The Nantucket...
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The coronavirus is changing our lives before our very eyes. How and where we work may be among the biggest disruptions. If you’re...
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