Gartner Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2025

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Published Oct 24, 2024

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CIOs, plan for technologies trending for 2025

Amid the challenges of navigating current social and economic disruptions and trends, future success requires CIOs and other IT leaders to look ahead. The Gartner Top Strategic Technology Trends for 2025 are the star map you can use to keep your organization forging safely into the future. Each trending technology represents powerful new tools to vanquish productivity, security and innovation obstacles.

CIO’s Guide to Using the Gartner Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends Report

In selecting this year’s 10 top strategic technology trends, Gartner analysts organized them across three themes: AI imperatives and risks, new frontiers of computing and human-machine synergy.

Three themes: AI imperatives and risks, new frontiers of computing and human-machine synergy

Theme No. 1: AI imperatives and risks drive organizations to protect themselves

Trend 1: Agentic AI: Autonomous AI can plan and take action to achieve goals set by the user.

Business benefits: A virtual workforce of agents to assist, offload and augment the work of humans or traditional applications.
Challenges: Requires robust guardrails to ensure alignment with providers’ and users’ intentions.

Trend 2: AI governance platforms: Technology solutions enable organizations to manage the legal, ethical and operational performance of their AI systems.

Business benefits: Create, manage and enforce policies that ensure responsible use of AI, explain how AI systems work, model lifecycle management, and provide transparency to build trust and accountability.
Challenges: AI guidelines vary across regions and industries, making it difficult to establish consistent practices.

Trend 3: Disinformation security: An emerging technology category aimed at systematically discerning trust.

Business benefits: Decreases fraud by strengthening controls for validating identity; prevents account takeover through continuous risk scoring, contextual awareness and a continuous adaptive trust model; and protects brand reputation by identifying harmful narratives.
Challenges: Requires a continuously updated, multilayered, adaptive learning, team approach.

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These strategic technology trends for 2025 are incredibly insightful! It's exciting to see how these innovations will shape the future of businesses and industries. Looking forward to keeping an eye on these developments as they unfold

VerifyWise - open source AI governance

Gartner’s 2025 Technology Trends highlight a key focus for us: AI governance platforms. At VerifyWise, we’re focused on leading this shift by making AI governance open and accessible. Our mission is to bring AI governance tools to organizations of all sizes, with our open-source platform that helps companies build and enforce responsible AI policies. Yes, AI guidelines vary across regions and industries. But we believe that open-source can help create flexible practices for everyone. We aim to build a future where responsible AI is possible for all.