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. Thinkers 50 named him as “one of 30 management thinkers to watch in 2020”.
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 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, 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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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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Getting – and Staying – Employed in HR by Helping Employees Find the Future of Work. Over the past three years, we’ve...
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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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I’ve just celebrated the twentieth anniversary of moving to America. In those 20 years, I’ve lived in four houses...
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The annual WEF meeting in Davos was full of contradictions that we'll continue to grapple with in the future of work. The World...
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