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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To those of us old enough to remember the hiss of a clunky dial-up 2400 baud modem, the impending ability of 5G networks to deliver...
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Along with “software is eating the world”, “data is the new oil” has become one of the key chakras of...
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Cognizant’s Center for the Future of Work analyzes the major technology, business and societal trends. The new From/To...
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A recurring theme in future of work-related commentary goes along the lines of, we must use AI for the benefit of humanity, we...
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Inclusion is the future of work, and it’s more than an HR issue for Silicon Valley and the world of technology. It’s...
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Futures are always a reaction to the present; tomorrow is always a judgment on today. By training a microscope on how we work...
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The concept of “digital transformation” has been a rallying cry in IT executive circles for over ten years now. Born...
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Emerging technologies are driving a rapid and radical transformation in the workplace in all industries, for large and small...
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Is data really the new oil? Can we trust what we read? Will clicks replace bricks? Will we be replaced by robots? Will there...
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In 2017, Cognizant proposed 21 jobs that will emerge in the next 10 years and be central to the future of work. In 2018, we presented...
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As the techlash continues to gather momentum, and as legislators in Washington and Brussels start to sharpen their pencils, I...
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Diverse groups of people and an inclusive corporate culture are needed to design tomorrow's technology and AI standards. Are...
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