For companies and IT leaders, tracking trends in strategic technology is vital, helping them to drive their organisations forward via ethical, responsible innovation.

1. Strategic Technology
Trends Set to Make a
Major Impact in 2025
For companies and IT leaders, tracking trends in strategic technology is vital,
helping them to drive their organisations forward via ethical, responsible
innovation.

2. Agentic AI
Virtual Workforce
Augments human endeavour and
takes tasks away from the human
workforce
Autonomous Planning
Works by autonomously planning
and taking action to meet user-
defined goals
Adaptable Systems
Delivers software systems that are
significantly more adaptable and
able to undertake a huge variety of
tasks
Agentic AI technology is expected to vastly uplift productivity through these autonomous systems. Agentic AI represents one of the most
transformative technologies on the horizon.

3. Disinformation Security Systems
Guard Against Misuse
Protects against information misuse and impersonation
Ensure Authenticity
Maintains integrity and authenticity of information
Postquantum Cryptography
Responds to quantum computing security threats
Those with a keen interest in this field, such as Domen Zavrl, know that disinformation security solutions are likely to be widely taken up
in 2025 and beyond. The rise of postquantum cryptography is also expected to be a key trend in response to the continuing development
of quantum computers and the potential threat they pose to security.

4. Ambient Invisible Intelligence
Smart Sensors
Small, low-cost sensors and
tags
Large-Scale
Tracking
Affordable sensing and
tracking capabilities
Immediate
Applications
Assessing perishable goods
logistics in real time
Future Integration
Enhanced intelligence and
sensing in daily lives
Enabled by small, low-cost smart sensors and tags, ambient invisible intelligence will increasingly deliver affordable sensing and tracking
on a large scale. While in 2025 this technology will be primarily deployed to solve immediate problems such as assessing perishable goods
logistics in real time (in retail businesses), in the longer term ambient invisible intelligence will pave the way for the enhanced integration
of intelligence and sensing into our daily lives.

5. Spatial Computing
$110B
2023 Market
Current spatial computing market size
$1.7T
2033 Projection
Expected market growth over next decade
The use of spatial computing is predicted to proliferate over the next few years, driven by innovations in virtual reality and augmented
reality technologies. For organisations, this could mean improved collaboration, streamlined workflows and better effectiveness overall.
The company Gartner, Inc. predicts that this type of computing will grow from $110 billion in 2023 to $1.7 trillion by 2033.

6. Polyfunctional Machines
One of the most hotly anticipated strategic technology trends for 2025 is the use of polyfunctional robots that can undertake more than
one task and are expected to signal the gradual phasing out of task-specific machines. These robots are designed for easy scalability and
fast deployment and to function alongside humans to boost efficiency and offer a faster ROI.
Multi-tasking
Undertake more than one task
Scalability
Designed for easy scalability
Fast Deployment
Quick implementation in various settings
Human Collaboration
Function alongside humans to boost
efficiency

7. AI Governance Platforms
Policy Creation
Create, enforce and manage policies to ensure responsible AI use
Ethical Management
Manage ethical and legal issues related to AI technology
Operational Performance
Monitor and optimize AI systems for better performance
Transparency
Provide transparency and explain how AI systems operate
AI governance platforms could also be on the rise in 2025 to manage the operational performance
and ethical and legal issues related to AI technology. These solutions have the ability to create,
enforce and manage policies to ensure responsible AI use, provide transparency and explain how AI
systems operate.