AVAILABLE JANUARY 14, 2026
Trends 2026 Outlook
Join us for the highly anticipated Trends 2026 outlook with Dan Sommer, Market Intelligence Lead at Qlik. He’ll reveal the trends underpinning a new framework for powering AI that ensures integrity, connects every system seamlessly, and fuels innovation at the edge — and map out how to get there.
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Dare to rewire data, agents, and roles for empowerment
Unified, trusted data becomes the foundation for every intelligent decision, enabling agility without losing governance.
DATA
Unified, trusted data becomes the foundation for every intelligent decision, enabling agility without losing governance.
Consolidated platforms, consistent semantics, and local-first data handling allow data to flow with governance and flexibility in the intelligent enterprise.
AGENTS
Autonomous agents amplify human capability, translating context into continuous, adaptive intelligence.
If agents can operate across your platform using multimodal AI with context at the edge, AI agents, applications, and analytics can act with autonomy and context.
ROLES
New roles emerge as data and AI collaboration reshapes decision-making, empowering everyone to contribute to outcomes.
Roles and associated responsibilities are distributed beyond old hierarchies through central data sovereignty, orchestration via protocols, and new human-AI relations.
EXECUTION
Execution and empowerment are evolving as innovation outpaces policy and governance.
With control planes for EverythingOps, outcome-oriented data products, and freer coding styles, AI execution can be scaled beyond pilots into real value.
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Amp up your AI advantage
Need better AI? Integrate opposing forces.
Organizations, even entire nations, have historically swung between extremes — centralizing for control and decentralizing for innovation. AI success in 2026 requires trading perpetual reactive motion for energizing harmony that compounds progress.
Individual productivity vs enterprise value
The AI paradox: Individual productivity from AI usage is exploding, while enterprise value is stalling. How can we scale that energy out into execution workflows? Until we resolve this, AI remains stuck in prototypes with minimal ROI.
A new architecture closes the gap
Organizations need a functional approach that blends integrity at the core, interoperability throughout, and innovation at the edge. The winners won’t be those who consolidate the most or decentralize the fastest. They’ll be the ones who can wire it all together.