In this podcast, Ben Pring co-founded and leads the Center for the Future of Work at Cognizant discussed the challenges of technology and transformation as we go through the future of work. Ben shared some challenges of not doing technology transformation properly. He also talked about his book Monster sharing similar insights as it relates to technology and its adoption.

Introduction: Ben Pring co-founded and leads the Center for the Future of Work at Cognizant, a $16+ billion American multinational technology company that provides consulting, information technology, and outsourcing services and has over 289,500 employees. 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 was named as one of 30 management thinkers to watch in 2020 by Thinkers 50. He was recently named a leading influencer on the future of work by Onalytica. In 2007, Ben won Gartner's prestigious Thought Leader Award. His work has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, the London Times, the Drucker Forum Report, Business Insider, Forbes, and Fortune. Based near Boston since 2000, Ben graduated with a degree in Philosophy from Manchester University, in the UK where he grew up.

Here's the GPS for the questions (These are just the boundaries questions to give a rough journey for the conversation):

Stage 1: Lead-in 1. Starter: Give your starter pitch 1 point that this book points to: 2. Vishal briefly introduce guest

Stage 2: Subject Matter Expertise 3. What is the state of work today? 4. Why did you chose to invest yourself in FutureOfWork 5. How has the future of work changed since the last year? 6. What is one thing people get wrong about Work & Technology?

Stage 3: Introduction as an author 7. Why do you call technology a "monster" that we can't yet tame? 8. Why did you feel it was important for you as tech insiders to speak up about a topic that many others are running from? 9. What's been missing from today's heated conversation about technology's rising power? 10. Why write monster? 11. Why relate technology with a monster? 12. How to reclaim control of technology? 13. What is the role of government? 14. What is the role of business? 15. What is the role of a leader?

Stage 4: Rapid Fire with Ben Pring [Say what comes to your mind] 16 a. #FutureOfWork 16 b. #Technology 16 c. #Leadership 16 d. #Monster 16 e. #Equity 16 f. #Diversity 16 g. #Legislature 16 h. #JobsOfFuture 16 i. #FutureOfLearning 16 j. #Something exciting 16 k. #Things that keep you up at night?

Stage 5: Closing 17. What are 1-3 best practices that you think are the key to success in your journey? 18. Do you have any favorite read? 19. As a closing remark, what would you like to tell our audience?

About TAO.ai[Sponsor]: TAO is building the World's largest and AI-powered Skills Universe and Community powering career development platform empowering some of the World's largest communities/organizations. Learn more at https://TAO.ai

About WorkPod: Work Pod takes you on the journey with leaders, experts, academics, authors, and change-makers designing the future of work, workers, and the workplace.

About Work2.org WorkPod is managed by Work2.org, a #FutureOfWork community for HR and Organization architects and leaders.

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Discussing AI First Company and AI First mentality with Ash Fontana. He sheds light on how organizations could embrace analytics, data and AI to retain competitive edge.

Bio: Ash Fontana became one of the most recognized startup investors in the world after launching online investing at AngelList. He then became a Managing Director of Zetta, the first investment fund that focused on AI. The firm was the lead investor in category-defining AI companies such as Kaggle, Domino, Tractable, Lilt and Invenia. He has appeared in Fast Company, Bloomberg, Forbes, CNBC and at the UN. This is his first book.

Ash's Book: The AI-First Company: How to Compete and Win with Artificial Intelligence by Ash Fontana https://amzn.to/33C2OL5

Ash's Recommendations: On Intelligence: How a New Understanding of the Brain Will Lead to the Creation of Truly Intelligent Machines by Jeff Hawkins, Sandra Blakeslee https://amzn.to/3vZhksk Neurophilosophy: Toward a Unified Science of the Mind-Brain by Patricia S. Churchland https://amzn.to/2RiKrYO

Discussion Timeline: TIMELINE

Some questions we covered: 1. Starter: Give your starter pitch 1 point that this book points to: 2. Vishal briefly introduce guest

Stage 2: Subject Matter Expertise 3. What is the state of startups today? 4. State of AI in mature organization? 5. AI and Enterprise outlook? Cautionary tale or hopeful story 6. Who will win the AI race? 7. Challenges in AI adoption?

Stage 3: Introduction as an author 8. What is an AI-First company? 9. Why write AI-First? 10. Why does every company need to prioritize AI over the next decade? 11. What are the most common mistakes companies make when trying to become AI-First? 12. What’s the difference between “lean-startup” and “lean AI”? 14. How do AI-First companies retain more of the “first mover” advantage than others? 15. AI + Business, will make it more science or art? 16. Can AI be a competitive edge

Stage 4: Rapid Fire with Ben Pring [Say what comes to your mind] 17 a. #MachineLearning 17 b. #Technology 17 c. #Leadership 17 d. #FutureOfWork 17 e. #Culture 17 f. #DigitalTransformation 17 g. #Disruption 17 h. #JobsOfFuture 17 i. #FutureofStartup 17 j. #FutureofOrganization 17 k. #AIFirst

Stage 5: Closing 18. What are 1-3 best practices that you think are the key to success in your journey? 19. Do you have any favorite read? 20. As a closing remark, what would you like to tell our audience?

About TAO.ai[Sponsor]: TAO is building the World's largest and AI-powered Skills Universe and Community powering career development platform empowering some of the World's largest communities/organizations. Learn more at https://TAO.ai

About FutureOfData: FutureOfData takes you on the journey with leaders, experts, academics, authors, and change-makers designing the future of data, analytics, and insights.

About AnalyticsWeek.com FutureOfData is managed by AnalyticsWeek.com, a #FutureOfData Leadership community of Organization architects and leaders.

Sponsorship / Guest Request should be directed to [email protected]

Keywords:

FutureofData #Work2.0 #Work2dot0 #Leadership #Growth #Org2dot0 #Work2 #Org2