Feb 3, 2021
The head of thought leadership at Cognizant, Benjamin Pring co-founded and leads Cognizant’s Center for the Future of Work, and is a member of Cognizant’s Executive Leadership Team. Ben is a co-author of the bestselling 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). His latest book, Monster: Taming the Machines that Rules our Lives, Jobs, and Future, will be out in early 2021.
He sits on the advisory board of the Labor and Work Life program at Harvard Law School. In 2018 he participated in the Bilderberg Meeting. In 2020 he was named as one of 30 management thinkers to watch by Thinkers50, a business publisher. He was recently named a leading influencer on the future of work by Onalytica.
Ben joined Cognizant in 2011 from Gartner, where he spent 15 years researching and advising on areas such as Cloud Computing and Global Sourcing. 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. Prior to Gartner, Ben worked for a number of consulting companies including Coopers and Lybrand.
Ben’s expertise in helping clients see around corners, think the unthinkable, and calculate the impact 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 Harvard Business Review, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, London Times, BBC’s News Night, PBS’s News Hour, NPR’s On Point, Drucker Forum Report, Business Insider, Forbes, Fortune, The Sun, MIT Review, Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail, Parade, Times of India, Quartz, Inc., Axios, Australian, and Economic Times.
Based near Boston since 2000, Ben graduated with a degree in Philosophy from Manchester University in the UK where he grew up.