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2020
Forrester Predictions 2020
- Consumers search for deeper meaning
- CMOs rally around customer value
- CIOs focus on people
- Immersive, adaptive IT takes hold
- CX continues to bifurcate
- Data strategy unlocks transformations
- Data and AI get weaponized
- Privacy concerns gain steam
- Automation reshapes the workforce
- Regulation makes and breaks markets
- For VCs, profitability becomes the new unicorn
Gartner
- Multiexperience
- Hyperautomation
- Distributed Cloud
- Technological Democracy
- Empowered Edge
- Autonomous Things
- Human Augmentation
- Traceability and Transparency
- AI Security
- Practical Blockchain
Forbes Tech Trends
- Bringing Context To Conversational AI
- Tracking Transit With Blockchain
- Cybersecurity: Fear Of The Cloud
- Augmented Reality: Trained On Success?
- The Analytics Of 5G
- Disruption To Transformation
TechRadar
- Growing focus on multi-cloud operations
- Unicorn start-ups will begin repatriating workloads from the cloud
- Public cloud providers will be subject to increased security standards
- Greater level of network automation through AI/Machine learning
- Kubernetes will no longer be seen as the silver bullet
Guardian Tech Trends
- Advertising will come to smart speakers
- 5G will be meaningful
- VR will have a second mini-boom – thanks to one game
- The console wars will restart with a vengeance
- AI will be mobilised in cyberwar
- Cool China
- Digital wellbeing on the statute books
- The loot box bans spread
- The continued death of new media
Adobe Digital Trends
- Digital Inequality
- Putting The Customer In Context
- Cultural Transformation
- Consumer Data Management Defines Our Digital Future
- AI Gets Marketers Back Into Marketing
CES
- Tv makers keep looking for the next expensive thing.
- Foldables aren’t ready yet, but flexible screens are coming.
- The battle between amd and intel will intensify.
- Concepts were everywhere.
- Quibi is ambitious but unproven.
- Smaller companies are chafing under big tech.
- Sex tech de-stigmatization is inevitable.
- Tech companies fetishized ai, 8k, and 5g a little less, finally.
Deloitte TMT Predictions
- Bringing AI to the device
- Robots on the move
- Private 5G networks
- High speed from low orbit
- The smartphone multiplier
- My antennae are tingling
- Coming to a CDN near you
- Ad-supported video
- The ears have it
- Cycling’s technological transformation
IBM Tech Trends
- Meet Your Co-Workers. Their Initials Are A.I.
- Embracing the Flexible Freedom of the Hybrid Cloud
- Quantum Continues on Path to Practicality
- Blockchain Becomes a Business Basic
- Computing Is About to Get a Lot More Edgy
- AI Goes Greener
MIT Breakthrough Technologies 2020
- Unhackable internet
- Hyper-personalized medicine
- Digital money
- Anti-aging drugs
- AI-discovered molecules
- Satellite mega-constellations
- Quantum supremacy
- Tiny AI
- Differential privacy
- Climate change attribution
Futurum
- 5G for You and Me
- Analytics are the Competitive Advantage
- AI and Machine Learning Powering #2
- Privacy Renaissance
- Blockchain beyond Crypto
- XaaS
- RPA Craze
- Conversational AI
- ACPC Heats Up
- Driverless Cars, Drones and Smart Cities
Tableau Data Trends
- Organizations look to academia as a data literacy incubator
- AI moves from abstract to actionable
- Personalized data stories go mainstream
- Transparency around workplace data leads to equity and organizational success
- Data strategy stretches across the C-suite
- Data integration is the catalyst for IT-business harmony
CB Insights Tech Trends
- We see broader and deeper quantum tech commercialization
- The next wave of AR/VR tech and 5G will reshape where and how people work
- Apple doubles down on healthcare products and services
- ‘Slaughterbots,’ ransomware, and worms: cyber-risks become real
- AI bias becomes a top regulatory concern
- Radical biohacking
- Robots’ commercial impact grows with advances in grip, soft robotics, and locomotion
- There will be a new wave of Saudi Arabian & Russian investment in tech & software
- Longevity, health, & wellness rise as an unstoppable cross-industry $8T+ mega-market
- Empathy becomes a must-have in tech product design and development
- Big businesses embrace sustainable ‘cradle-tocradle’ supply hains and the tech enabling them
- Livestreaming takes off as a new shopping trend
- Unicorn-to-unicorn M&A
- Crypto reversal