IDC Technology & AI Predictions | Asia Pacific

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IDC FutureScape surfaces the work ahead for technology leaders. It diagnoses the external drivers reshaping the tech stack and builds strategies to win in the agentic economy. Partner with IDC to win ahead of your competition.
The technology stack you’re running today won’t exist in its current form.
Dozens of forecasts, across every layer of the stack, converging on one conclusion. AI isn’t being added on top of the industry. It’s rewriting the industry underneath, from the compute layer to the balance sheet.
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Intelligence is leaving the cloud for the device itself: AI factories running large-scale inferencing, agents working the network edge.
Robots aren’t on the roadmap anymore; they’re on the floor. Quantum is out of the lab and into five-year plans, with real use cases beyond cryptography.
Connectivity is moving into orbit and under the ocean floor.
Work is being redivided between people and agents, inventing job titles like Agent Supervisor that didn’t exist a year ago.
Even the money is changing: value is shifting from whoever knows to whoever acts, and CFOs are building new discipline just to track what AI costs.
Production AI-agent footprints are set to double in eight months, faster than most governance models can handle. That gap is where winning gets decided, and IDC expects board-level pressure by 2029 for CEOs who haven’t closed it.
Winning in the Agentic Economy means diagnosing these changes, building a strategy, and taking action, or else be left behind in this thriving agentic economy.
Fret not, you can now view the analyst presentations anywhere, anytime, or download the key takeaways of their on-stage presentation.
Every five-year plan assumes the tech stack stays the same. It won’t. Sandra Ng lays out the evidence that the rewrite is already here, and what to do next.
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IDC experts examine what the latest predictions mean for manufacturing, retail, financial services, telecommunications and the public sector, from practical AI deployments to physical AI, robotics and quantum.
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AI is becoming the operating fabric of the enterprise, but most organizations deploy agents faster than they can govern them. Deepika Giri sets out the ten predictions defining the region’s AI decade.
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What decides who scales agentic AI is the infrastructure stack, not the model. William Lee presents IDC’s view of how compute, power and placement, and trust are being re-decided at once.
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A playbook for technology vendors on how to win Asia/Pacific Technology leaders & buyers in 2027.
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In this Great Rewrite, dozens of forecasts, across every layer of the stack and every major industry, converging on the same conclusion. AI isn’t being added on top of the technology industry. It’s rewriting the industry underneath: the compute layer, the org chart, the balance sheet. Nothing is left untouched. To help technology leaders understand these changes and equip them with their IT strategy and business planning, IDC is delivering 24 global reports of predictions along with reports diving deeper into regional and country implications of such predictions. Explore the reports and understand the external drivers shaping 2027. To learn more about our predictions on a specific technology, industry or C-Suite persona. IDC is rolling out series of webinars from November to March 2027. Register now according to what fits your needs best, and be notified automatically once a webinar is available.
From the board’s questions about AI economics to the changing role of the technology leader, IDC analysts show what the predictions mean for your 2027 plans.
From chips to robots, IDC analysts break down the predictions reshaping the infrastructure and devices behind AI.
As AI agents take on more of the work, IDC analysts break down how security, trust and sovereignty are being redefined.
Browse the key slides from the Singapore sessions by then go deeper in the IDC FutureScape 2027 Reports available.
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IDC FutureScape is IDC’s annual technology predictions program, built on FutureScape Reports— strategic planning reports covering the top technology predictions for the coming 1–5 years in a given area. They give IT decision-makers (CIOs, IT directors, IT managers, IT architects and IT buyers) the evidence they need to navigate critical IT investments with confidence.
The sessions and webinars bring those predictions to life. Once the reports are published, IDC analysts present and unpack the findings. FutureScape 2027 for Asia/Pacific kicked off in Singapore on 13 November 2026, and the webinar series continues the conversation by topic, for both technology leaders and technology providers. Watch the Singapore sessions, or register for an upco