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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.

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.

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.

From Discovery to Readiness: Building Quantum Capability in Aotearoa

Louise Francis provides an overview of New Zealand’s evolving quantum capabilities and outlines six key areas that will determine how effectively the country can build readiness for the next generation of technology.

AI in Public Sector: Turning Government Strategy into Public Value

Learn how AI is reshaping the public sector across Asia Pacific through government investment and innovation.

Building Hong Kong’s AI Advantage: Infrastructure, Innovation & Industry

Six trends emerging across Hong Kong's technology landscape and what they suggest about the direction of AI over the coming years.

Manufacturing in Asia Pacific: AI, Resilience & Industrial Competitiveness

AI is reshaping Asia Pacific manufacturing, enabling smarter factories, resilient operations, and new models of industrial competitiveness.

New Zealand’s AI Productivity Paradox: The Gap Between Deployment & Redesign

New Zealand has strong sustainability credentials, but the next phase will be defined by whether technology adoption can keep pace with intent.

Banking in Asia Pacific: Faster Systems, Higher Stakes, New Risk Dynamics

From payments to risk management, banks are reworking the foundations of their business for a more complex operating environment.

AI in India: Understanding vs Implementation

Insights from the Pulse of India's CIOs Study, 2026, by Ecosystm show a shift in how organisations are approaching innovation. Boardroom conversations are moving away from AI hype to focus on building technology environments that are stable, resilient, and trusted.

Tech M&A Signals: Compute, Orchestration & Sovereignty

Recent tech deals show where organisations are investing to support AI at scale.

Sovereign AI for Cultural Integrity & Social Legitimacy

Insights from the Pulse of India's CIOs Study, 2026, by Ecosystm show a shift in how organisations are approaching innovation. Boardroom conversations are moving away from AI hype to focus on building technology environments that are stable, resilient, and trusted.

The Human Edge of Enterprise Innovation

AI will strengthen workforce strategy in New Zealand when governance and clarity align.

Stability & Trust: Foundations of Innovation in India

Insights from the Pulse of India's CIOs Study, 2026, by Ecosystm show a shift in how organisations are approaching innovation. Boardroom conversations are moving away from AI hype to focus on building technology environments that are stable, resilient, and trusted.

Scaling Agentic AI: The Governance Framework

A practical roadmap to embed trust, control, and accountability into enterprise-scale Agentic AI systems.

Ground Realities: Thailand Tech Pulse

Thailand is at a pivotal point in its digital journey, where big ambitions meet pressing realities. The country’s future growth and resilience will hinge on how quickly it can close infrastructure gaps, expand inclusion, and accelerate its digital economy. At Ecosystm, our conversations with Thai leaders highlight where the urgency is greatest and what actions are needed to move from vision to impact.

Ground Realities: Malaysia Tech Pulse

Malaysia is shifting from the idea of transformation to tangible impact. Insights from Ecosystm’s market engagements reveal the forces shaping the nation’s innovation agenda and how enterprises are turning digital initiatives into measurable growth.

Ground Realities: Indonesia Tech Pulse

Indonesia’s digital economy is accelerating fast; but execution often trails ambition. Drawing on insights from Ecosystm market engagements, we explore the realities shaping the nation’s tech future and what it will take to scale with real impact.

Unstructured Feedback Analysis Technology

CX vendors are embedding GenAI capabilities into their solutions and launching new products or features, leading to market fragmentation in the VoC space.

Ecosystm Leaders BreakFirst – Panel Q&A

Ecosystm Leaders BreakFirst - Panel Question and Answer session with the audience.

Ecosystm Leaders BreakFirst – A Supply Chain Case Study

In this presentation, Kaushik Ghatak, Principal Advisor, Ecosystm explores how leading organisations are leveraging Industry 4.0 capabilities and embracing digitalisation to make their supply chains more transparent, connected, and collaborative.

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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