From AI agents and autonomous software pipelines to hybrid cloud systems and tougher reliability demands, 2026 will test whether AI can move from enterprise experiments into core business operations.
As conflict disrupts supply chains and economic risks deepen, leaders are finding that empathy is not a soft trait but a harder business discipline, shaping judgment, risk control, and decision-making under pressure.
Enterprises have spent years testing AI. The harder challenge is redesigning companies to make it work at scale.
As volatility spreads across trade, energy, and regulation, companies are rethinking who should own geopolitical risk.
India's AI Mission has lowered the barrier to AI development. But the harder management challenge of converting access into capability requires a fundamentally different playbook
