• Forrester published “Top 10 Emerging Technologies in 2026,” flagging shift in AI from digital pilots to deployment in physical environments such as robots and vehicles.
• Report identified near-term investment areas with expected business cases within 2 years, led by agentic commerce in owned channels.
• Forrester also highlighted AI security and trust technologies as near-term priorities as generative and agentic AI scale in high-stakes sectors such as financial services and healthcare.
• Medium-term outlook centered on agentic software development over 2-5 years, with benefits dependent on improved agent coordination and tighter guardrails.
• Quantum computing was positioned as longer-dated opportunity, with broad commercial payoff expected beyond 2030 despite potential early gains in optimization and cryptography.

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