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Global News NTT DATA Foresight Report 2026 Reveals Six Trends Shaping the Future of Technology Innovation
NTT DATA Group Corporation Tokyo - January 27, 2026 - NTT DATA, a global leader in AI, digital business and technology services, today announces the release of the NTT DATA Technology Foresight Report 2026. The annual Technology Foresight report examines how businesses are growing by making the most of digital, AI, and other advanced technologies and identifies trends for the future.
As we enter the age of mass intelligence, businesses are prioritizing tools that are focused on learning, adaptation and autonomous behavior. In this rapidly changing world of artificial intelligence, it is critical that businesses formulate medium- and long-term strategies to establish a presence in the global market.
For the report, NTT DATA examined six trends that indicate the direction of change centered on technology, while taking into account the relationship between technology, business, and society.
Trends Overview for 2026 Human-orchestrated autonomy Autonomy enters a new phase where intelligent systems can operate and act at scale and speed yet remain guided by human intent to ensure that decisions are purposeful, transparent, and aligned with broader enterprise and societal goals. Embodied agency and emotions Emotionally responsive systems are emerging as social infrastructure. Synthetic emotion fosters trust, engagement and ethical interaction, humanizing data and enabling co-evolution between human and artificial empathy which drives well-being, productivity and affective transformation across society. Intelligence we trust Cybersecurity evolves into a trusted layer of adaptive intelligence, learning and adapting to complex threats whi