E About Benjamin Pring
Ben Pring co-founded and leads Cognizant’s Center for the Future of Work. 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).
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 joined Cognizant in 2011, from Gartner, where he spent 15 years researching and advising on areas such as Cloud Computing and Global Sourcing. Prior to Gartner Ben worked for a number of consulting companies including Coopers and Lybrand.
At Gartner Ben was the lead analyst on all things “Cloud”; he wrote the industry’s first research notes on Cloud Computing (in 1997!), and Salesforce.com (in 2001), and became well known for providing provocative but accurate predictions about the future of IT. In 2007, Ben won Gartner’s prestigious annual Thought Leader Award.
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 Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, the London Times, Forbes, Fortune, the MIT Review, the Daily Telegraph, Quartz, Inc., Axios, the Australian, and the Economic Times.
Based in Boston since 2000, Ben graduated with a degree in Philosophy from Manchester University in the UK where he grew up.
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What will it take to win and lead in the digital economy? Cognizant’s Center for the Future of Work along with experts...
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From the Promenade to behind the velvet rope, here's what it's really like at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos....
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Jobs of the Future Morph into Jobs of the Now The Fourth Industrial Revolution is changing the future of work for the 164 million...
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In collaboration with MIT Sloan Management Review, The New Leadership Playbook for the Digital Age: Reimaging What It Takes To...
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If you’re wondering what’s ahead for the future of work, read on. Below are 13* dynamics to pay attention to in the...
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It’s lately become fashionable amongst those whose job it is to sit in a tank and think to pronounce on the need for businesses...
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The upcoming World Economic Forum meeting in Davos promises to be eventful, with its prevailing focus on a resetting of capitalism...
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Inclusion and a culture of belonging are critical to every organization's ability to compete in the digital global economy.
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Video Webinar: Thriving Amid the Ever-Morphing Future of Work Based on the Center for the Future of Work’s report From/To:...
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In time, 2019 will come to be seen as an epochal year – perhaps as significant as 1066, 1776, 1848, 1939. As in those moments...
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