Ben Pring
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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 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.
Videos
The Future of Artificial Intelligence in the Workplace - Featuring Benjamin Pring
WorkPod Minisode: Misconceptions, Skills, Trust, And #FutureofWork
SMAC Expert Series: Paul Roehrig and Ben Pring
WorkPod Minisode: Rapid Fire With Ben Pring
New Normal: Ben Pring of Cognizant Center for The Future of Work
Ben Pring - The Future Workforce Panel, Davos
Ben Pring on Taming The Machines and Systems That Rule Our Lives - Highlights
The Future Is Here: How Prepared Are You? | Ben Pring | EmTech Caribbean | Cognizant
Digital Transformation Expert Interview: Author Ben Pring
BR WEEK 2018 I Ben Pring I Vice President I Cognizant Technology Solutions
Taming Social Media – Before It Eats Us Alive with Ben Pring | Big Idea webinar series
Benjamin Pring (US) / Future of Work / RISEBA Career Days 2021
Impact with John Shegerian - Ben Pring
Ben Pring on Taming The Machines and Systems That Rule Our Lives
Hub Culture Davos 2019 - Benjamin Pring, Director of the Cognizant Center for the Future of Work
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