Ben Pring is a Vice President and Head of Thought Leadership at Cognizant. He also 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 best-selling 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 joined Cognizant in 2011 from Gartner, where he spent 15 years researching and advising on areas such as Cloud Computing and Global Sourcing. 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.