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Key Tech Trends & Disruptions in 2026

In 2025, AI moved from content generation to autonomous action, with multi-step agentic AI workflows forcing a rethink of work, decisions, and value creation. In 2026, organisations will focus on scaling these systems – balancing speed, control, and trust – while redesigning workflows, decision rights, and value creation.

Leading with People and Planet: New Zealand’s Tech Imperative 

New Zealand’s public sector is redefining what it means to innovate with technology. The focus has shifted from just “digitisation for efficiency,” to purpose-driven outcomes – rooted in sustainability, equity, and trust and guided by Māori worldviews that emphasise the relationship between people and the environment (te tangata me te taiao).

Ground Realities: New Zealand’s Tech Pulse  

Innovation is a shared national mission in New Zealand – one grounded in trust, inclusion, and long-term value. Technology is evolving faster than ever, but what defines the country’s progress is how purposefully it’s being applied.

Whitepaper: From Planning to Progress: AI-Driven Sustainability in Practice

Ecosystm, in partnership with Kyndryl and Microsoft, presents the findings of the 3rd edition of the Global Sustainability Barometer Study. This year the research takes a deeper look at how organisations are using AI to turn sustainability ambitions into measurable outcomes.

Ecosystm VendorSphere: Inside Lenovo’s Strategy for the Distributed AI Future 

At Lenovo’s Global Industry Analyst Conference held in Raleigh, North Carolina, the conversation was unmistakably centred on AI. The company’s leadership spoke with the confidence of an organisation that no longer views AI as a feature or a future trend, but as the operating principle of its business.

Whitepaper: Accelerating SME AI Adoption Through Open Source in Malaysia’s Digital Future

Ecosystm, in collaboration with Red Hat and supported by the National AI Office Malaysia (NAIO), has released a new study exploring Malaysia’s ambition to become an artificial intelligence (AI) leader.

Modernising the Banking Core: Commonwealth Bank of Australia’s Banking Platform Re-architecture

Discover how Commonwealth Bank modernised its core platform to boost resilience, innovation, and AI-ready banking capabilities.

Report: AI in Practice: How Malaysia’s Banks & DFIs are Adopting and Governing AI

Discover how Malaysia's financial institutions are scaling AI, strengthening governance, and building the capabilities needed to move from experimentation to enterprise-wide adoption.

Report: Data Readiness for AI: Building the Foundation for Enterprise Scale AI

AI is accelerating cyber threats and shrinking response windows, forcing organisations to rethink security models built for a slower-paced threat landscape.

Report: The Narrowing Window: How AI Compresses Cybersecurity Response Times

AI is accelerating cyber threats and shrinking response windows, forcing organisations to rethink security models built for a slower-paced threat landscape.

Report: Structural Constraints in India’s AI & Deep Tech Ecosystem

The factors that are likely to accelerate India’s shift from a participant to an owner in the deep-tech ecosystem.

AWS Analyst Summit: Highlights from Singapore

At the AWS Analyst Summit in Singapore, AWS leadership outlined their vision for AI and how they are helping customers keep pace with rapid technological.

AI in Insurance: Risk, Automation & Accountability

Across Asia Pacific, insurers are applying AI across risk, claims, fraud and pricing. Six trends emerge across the region's insurance sector.

Follow the Money: 5 AI Trends Investors are Betting On

Explore how AI is transforming education across Asia Pacific and reshaping how institutions prepare students for the future of work.

AI in Education: Solving Capacity, Access & Skills Gaps

Explore how AI is transforming education across Asia Pacific and reshaping how institutions prepare students for the future of work.

The Philippines’ AI Agenda: Building Capability, Access & Resilience

The Philippines AI landscape is evolving rapidly, with recent developments spanning infrastructure, regulation, public-sector resilience, workforce readiness, and economic development. These five developments offer a clearer view of where the country's AI strategy is heading.

AI in Telecom: Control, Scale & Competitiveness

Here are five trends shaping AI adoption across Asia Pacific telecom, and what they mean for the networks operators are building.

AI in Singapore: Strengthening the AI Ecosystem

Singapore’s AI agenda is expanding beyond adoption

2026 Tech Trends: CIO Playbook

AI is transforming enterprise technology at unprecedented speed. Agentic AI platforms are automating complex workflows, while domain-specific and edge AI are scaling rapidly.

New Zealand Tech Trends 2026

The foundations of New Zealand’s past and its culture of experimentation have set the stage, but 2026 will test which organisations can scale, govern responsibly, and leverage emerging technologies effectively.

Resilience: Top 5 Cyber Trends for 2026

In 2026, many organisations will have agentic AI – with direct access to critical data – operating as a non-human workforce, demanding controls beyond traditional oversight.

Intelligence: Top 5 Enterprise AI Trends for 2026

AI has firmly become a strategic imperative, transforming decisions, work, and competitiveness. Yet tech and business leaders often struggle to navigate the rapid pace of innovation, emerging players, and enterprise providers layering new features – particularly around platforms and integrated intelligence.

Foundations: Top 5 Infra Trends for 2026

AI adoption is accelerating, but infrastructure is becoming the bottleneck. Legacy data centres, fragmented cloud estates, and years of technical debt are slowing innovation, inflating costs, and amplifying risk.

Key Tech Trends & Disruptions in 2026

In 2025, AI moved from content generation to autonomous action, with multi-step agentic AI workflows forcing a rethink of work, decisions, and value creation. In 2026, organisations will focus on scaling these systems – balancing speed, control, and trust – while redesigning workflows, decision rights, and value creation.

Rewiring Enterprise Applications AI Driven Execution

Many enterprise applications were designed to record and manage work. Today’s priorities demand something different. As organisations embed AI into business processes, applications must support faster decisions, coordinated execution, and greater operational visibility. Here is what you need to know about the forces reshaping enterprise applications.

Infrastructure Rewired: From Capacity to Coherence

The conversation around infrastructure is shifting from capacity to coherence. Here is what you need to know about the infrastructure trends emerging across Asia Pacific.

How Shadow AI Manifests Across Tools Systems

Where are the biggest Shadow AI risks coming from? Explore here.

India’s Digital Shift Being Tested Inside Enterprise Systems

India’s digital shift is changing the role of technology leaders. The focus cannot be just on on delivering systems, but on shaping business outcomes across risk, cost, performance, and growth.

Hybrid Cloud 2.0: Designing for Sovereign AI

This video explores why Hybrid Cloud 2.0 is becoming a broader rethink of infrastructure design, control and resilience.

Scaling Agentic AI: The Governance Framework

Here are the key governance layers and technical controls to consider.

Ecosystm Podcast Episode 37- Insights from Shayan Hazir (HSBC)

Join us for an enlightening conversation with Shayan Hazir, Chief Digital Officer, ASEAN at HSBC, and Sash Mukherjee, VP of Industry Insights at Ecosystm, as they explore the profound impact of Technology on the financial landscape. In this comprehensive discussion, Shayan sheds light on the shape of innovation in today’s tech-centric world and the challenges […]

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