Gartner identifies the top 10 strategic technology trends for 2025

“This year’s top strategic technology trends span AI imperatives and risks, new frontiers of computing and human-machine synergy,” said Gene Alvarez, Distinguished VP Analyst at Gartner. “Tracking these trends will help IT leaders shape the future of their organisations with responsible and ethical innovation.”

The top strategic technology trends for 2025 are:

Agentic AI

Agentic AI systems autonomously plan and take actions to meet user-defined goals. Agentic AI offers the promise of a virtual workforce that can offload and augment human work. Gartner predicts that by 2028, at least 15% of day-to-day work decisions will be made autonomously through agentic AI, up from 0% in 2024. The goal-driven capabilities of this technology will deliver more adaptable software systems, capable of completing a wide variety of tasks.

Agentic AI has the potential to realise CIOs’ desire to increase productivity across the organisation. This motivation is driving both ...