Hunting the Edge of Innovation by Mastering Emerging AI Technologies

What you’ll learn

• Five emerging AI technologies expected to shape tech provider success over the next 12 months

• High-value use cases and opportunities to deliver customer value

• How to inform product roadmaps, R&D planning and investment priorities

As the AI market evolves, the competitive landscape is shifting beyond individual AI agents toward autonomous, multiagent systems with advanced reasoning, vision and spatial intelligence. For tech providers, understanding these emerging technologies is critical to shaping future products, platforms and business models.

Drawing on Gartner’s 2026 Case-Based Research (CBR), this session explores five emerging AI technologies that are expected to have a significant impact on the market. Gartner experts examine key trends, including the rise of multiagent systems, reasoning-enabled models, vision intelligence, spatial intelligence and domain-specific AI models. The discussion highlights the opportunities and challenges these technologies present and their implications for product strategy, R&D investments and long-term growth.