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Robert H. Brown

Vice President, Cognizant’s Center for the Future of Work

Robert Hoyle Brown is a Vice President in Cognizant’s Center for the Future of Work. Since joining Cognizant in 2014, Rob has specialized in the topics of robotics, automation and augmented reality and their impact on business processes.

He was the lead author on the Center for the Future of Work whitepapers “The REAL Reality of Augmented Reality” (2019 | Video) and “Augmenting the Reality of Everything” (2017 | Video | 360 VR). He also spearheaded the project “21 HR Jobs of the Future” (2020) – outlining the future role of “VR Immersion Counselor” – which was recently published in the Harvard Business Review.

Prior to joining Cognizant, Robert served as a Managing Vice President of Research at Gartner, Inc. He holds a BA in History from UC Berkeley and, prior to his graduation, attended the London School of Economics as a Hansard Scholar.

Cognizant’s Center for the Future of WorkTM is chartered to examine how work is changing, and will change, in response to the emergence of new technologies, new business practices and new workers. The Center provides original research and analysis of work trends and dynamics, and collaborates with a wide range of business, technology and academic thinkers about what the future of work will look like as technology changes so many aspects of our working lives. For more information, visit www.cognizant.com/futureofwork or contact Ben Pring, Cognizant VP and Managing Director of the Center for the Future of Work, at Benjamin.Pring@cognizant.com.

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