The 2026 World Internet Conference Asia-Pacific Summit Concludes Successfully
On April 14, the two-day 2026 World Internet Conference Asia-Pacific Summit, themed "Digital and Intelligent Empowerment for Innovative Development — Jointly Building a Community with a Shared Future in Cyberspace," came to a successful conclusion. This year marks the second consecutive time that Hong Kong has hosted the international conference. Approximately 1,000 participants attended, including ministerial-level officials from government departments, senior representative
Gartner Identifies Seven Behaviors That Define Future-Ready CFOs
CFOs Must Act Now to Prepare Themselves for New Realities Rapid shifts in AI, geopolitics and workforce dynamics require CFOs to invest time cultivating seven future‑ready behaviors, according to Gartner, Inc., a business and technology insights company. “A constellation of macro trends is upending traditional approaches to value creation,” said Emily Riley , Vice Pesident Analyst in the Gartner Finance practice . “Only finance leaders who evolve now will equip their organiza
Gartner Says Organizations with Successful AI Initiatives Invest Up to Four Times More in Data and Analytics Foundations
Through 2030, the D&A Leader’s Mandate is to Deliver New Trusted Data, Context Foundations and Perceptive Intelligence Organizations that report successful AI initiatives invest up to four times more (as a percentage of revenue) in foundational areas, such as data quality, governance, AI-ready people and change management, compared to those that experience poor outcomes from AI, according to Gartner, Inc. , a business and technology insights company. However, a global survey
Gartner Forecasts Supply Chain Management Software with Agentic AI Will Grow to $53 Billion in Spend by 2030
Analysts to Discuss New Agentic AI Workflows at Gartner Supply Chain Symposium/Xpo Supply chain management (SCM) software with agentic AI capabilities will grow from less than $2 billion in 2025 to $53 billion in spend by 2030, according to Gartner, Inc. , a business and technology insights company. The forecast highlights the rapid expansion in both availability and enterprise spend on SCM software that includes AI assistants, and simple AI agents. It also reflects increasin
Gartner Predicts 25% of All Enterprise GenAI Applications Will Experience At Least Five Minor Security Incidents Per Year By 2028
Enterprise GenAI Applications Will Face Rising Security Incidents as Adoption Accelerates By 2028, 25% of all enterprise generative AI (GenAI) applications will experience at least five minor security incidents per year, up from 9% in 2025, according to Gartner, Inc. , a business and technology insights company. As organizations continue to build and integrate agentic AI applications using technologies such as Model Context Protocol (MCP), new attack vectors and immature secu
Frost & Sullivan Warns Invasive AI Agents Could Undermine Mobile Ecosystem Trust and Global Competitiveness
According to Frost & Sullivan ’s new analysis, White Paper on the Governance of Invasive Agents 2026, the rapid evolution of AI agent technology from proof-of-concept to large-scale deployment is beginning to disrupt the foundational trust mechanisms of the mobile internet ecosystem. System-Level Agents Reshape Control and Value Distribution As AI agents increasingly become the primary interface for user interaction, traditional mobile applications risk being relegated to exe
Forrester: Asia Pacific Tech Spending Expected To Grow 9.3% In 2026, But Rising Costs And Regulations Will Impact Real Growth
Escalating tech costs, volatile hardware markets, energy supply disruptions, and sovereignty mandates will erode purchasing power in the region According to Forrester ’s (Nasdaq: FORR) Asia Pacific Tech Market Forecast , 2026 To 2030, the region will spend over US$437 billion on acquiring new technology between 2025 and 2030. Forrester estimates that total spending on technology will grow by 9.3%, driven by investments in software, services, communications equipment, and tech
Gartner Says CFOs Need to Rethink the ROI of AI Investments
Gartner Analysts Are Covering Key Enterprise and Finance AI Topics at the Gartner CFO Symposium/Xpo 2026 in Sydney CFOs are misjudging AI investments by treating them as a single ROI problem rather than as a portfolio of very different bets, according to Gartner, Inc. , a business and technology insights company. “AI does not follow one cost curve, and it does not produce one uniform type of value,” said Twisha Sharma, Senior Principal, Research in the Gartner Finance practic
