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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.

Manufacturing in Asia Pacific: AI, Resilience & Industrial Competitiveness

Explore how AI is reshaping manufacturing in Asia Pacific through smarter operations, greater productivity, and stronger resilience.

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 in Singapore: The Enterprise Reality

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

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.

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.

IBM Think on Tour: Singapore Highlights

Ecosystm analysts share their take on the announcements, demonstrations, and messaging from the IBM Think on Tour Singapore event.

IBM Think Leader Insights: Building the AI-First Enterprise

Large language models have shaped the first wave of enterprise AI, but they are not the optimal choice for every application. This report authored by Ecosystm Principal Advisor Darian Bird examines why small language models are becoming an important part of enterprise AI architectures.

Australia Google Cloud Summit 2026: Highlights From Sydney

The 2026 Google Cloud Summit and Analyst Connect in Sydney highlighted a shift in how competitive advantage is being framed in the cloud market. Here are the 5 key takeaways.

Report: Right-Sizing Enterprise AI: The Rise of Small Language Models

Large language models have shaped the first wave of enterprise AI, but they are not the optimal choice for every application. This report authored by Ecosystm Principal Advisor Darian Bird examines why small language models are becoming an important part of enterprise AI architectures.

Shifting Trends in Data Governance: Sovereignty & AI

Data governance has traditionally sat within policy, compliance, and risk functions. That separation is becoming harder to maintain. Governance is moving closer to how data platforms, AI systems, and infrastructure are designed and operated.

Building AI on Sensitive Data: Privacy-Preserving Approaches

How organisations can train and scale AI when data is sensitive, restricted, and cannot be freely shared or used.

Bridging the AI Gap: Why Data & IT Leadership Are Converging

Why AI is bringing data and IT teams closer together

Hybrid Cloud 2.0: Designing for Sovereign AI in New Zealand

Why Hybrid Cloud 2.0 is becoming the foundation for sovereign AI in New Zealand

Can AI Safety and National Security Coexist?

Darian Bird looks at whether AI safety commitments can coexist with the demands of national security.

AI & the Future of Tech Services: Challenges & Opportunities

IT budgets are rising again. Global technology spend is growing 7-9%, driven by data centres and the AI build-out. Yet the services business tells a very different story.

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.

Cyber Trends & Critical Gaps

Cybersecurity cannot be just the CISO’s job; it’s an enterprise-wide priority. AI is changing the game, powering smarter defences while also driving new threats. Ecosystm research finds nearly 9 in 10 organisations are using AI to strengthen security and accelerate response.

Ground Realities: Singapore Tech Pulse

At Ecosystm, our discussions with policymakers and enterprise leaders show how the Singapore is shaping its digital future with real-world impact, regional relevance, and long-term resilience.

Ground Realities: The Philippines’ Tech Pulse

The Philippines is shifting gears – and the shift is already visible across government, finance, education, healthcare, and commerce, powered by stronger infrastructure, clearer regulation, and a push for inclusion. At Ecosystm, our conversations with business and tech leaders reveal how the country is building equity, resilience, and innovation to fuel its next wave of growth.

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 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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