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Ecosystm Predicts: Key Tech Trends & Disruptions in 2026

From sovereign AI and the global compute race to agentic systems transforming how work gets done, 2026 won’t be defined by more AI – it will be defined by where AI runs, who controls it, and how safely it acts. So what should tech providers, enterprises, and investors watch? Discover the top forecasts from Ecosystm analysts.

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.

Salesforce’s Agentic AI Vision at Dreamforce 2026

At Dreamforce, Salesforce outlined its vision for AI agents across applications and interfaces. Ecosystm explores the announcements, demos and messaging, examining the thinking behind Salesforce’s strategy, culture and long-term direction.

Report: Software Delivery Beyond Code

This report examines how developer experience, platform engineering, and observability are reshaping software delivery.

AI Policy: Managing the Risks of Action and Inaction

AI policy must balance the risks of moving too quickly with the costs of delaying useful AI. This report examines the policy trade offs shaping AI governance across Asia Pacific, including deployment risks, cybersecurity and the growing need for controls around AI agents.

Report: Workforce Blueprint for AI

AI is changing the tasks, tools, and roles people encounter at work, while reshaping how organisations, industries, and education systems operate. The report examines what this means for young people and the wider workforce across Asia Pacific and sets out priorities for building the capabilities needed as work continues to evolve.

Fujitsu Oceania Executive Analyst & Advisor Day 2026: Highlights

Fujitsu’s 2026 Oceania Analyst & Advisor Day highlighted a broader shift in how the company is shaping its portfolio and operating model.

AI Inference Economics: Managing the Cost of Scale

Ecosystm Principal Advisor Darian Bird explores AI inference consumption, evolving pricing models, and the future of inference economics.

Australia’s AI Agenda: Policy, Compute & Capability

A closer look at five developments shaping Australia’s evolving approach to AI in 2026.

Building Experience When AI Changes the Starting Point

AI may not replace entire roles yet, but it is reshaping entry-level work, reducing routine tasks that once helped young workers build experience and judgement.

Vietnam’s AI Agenda: Policy, Infrastructure & Adoption

Discover six emerging AI trends shaping Vietnam’s digital economy, technology sector, regulation, and innovation.

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

A closer look at where venture capital is concentrating across Asia Pacific and global markets in 2026.

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.

Australia’s Enterprise AI Adoption: Where the Work Gets Harder

Discover five emerging trends shaping AI adoption, implementation, and challenges across Australian enterprises.

Enterprise AI in Vietnam: Adoption, Applications & Readiness

Vietnam’s AI adoption is growing, shaped by national priorities in data, computing, skills, and governance, with enterprises exploring applications at varying stages.

AI in the Philippines: Building on Existing Strengths

The Philippines is building its AI agenda across several fronts: domestic compute and data infrastructure, AI and semiconductor capabilities, public-sector applications, and wider access to AI skills and tools.

AI in Singapore: The Enterprise Reality

Singapore has made AI a national priority, with significant investment in adoption, skills, infrastructure, research, and governance.

AI in Malaysia: Connecting the Foundations

Five trends shaping Malaysia’s next phase of enterprise AI adoption.

AI in Hong Kong: The Enterprise Adoption Story

Explore five AI trends shaping enterprise priorities in Hong Kong, from governance and data to workforce readiness and adoption.

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.

The Architecture of Specialised AI Agents

How AI is shifting from single systems to agent networks, and why orchestration and governance are key to scaling them.

Finding the Sweet Spot for AI Agents

Where agentic AI is delivering impact, what is slowing adoption, and how organisations can scale it with the right balance of autonomy, oversight, and risk.

Themes Defining New Zealand’s Next Wave of Enterprise Innovation

Enterprise innovation in New Zealand has to advance on several fronts – from purpose-driven technology and Māori data stewardship to sovereign AI, deep tech adoption, and human-AI collaboration.

Ensuring Trust and Control: CISO Playbook

AI does not improve security by default. For CISOs, adoption of AI is a given; the focus now shifts to accountability. As the executives responsible for enterprise risk, data protection, and security architecture, CISOs are uniquely positioned to govern how AI is deployed, monitored, and controlled.

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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