{"id":31191,"date":"2020-12-18T07:33:12","date_gmt":"2020-12-18T12:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centricconsulting.com\/?p=31191"},"modified":"2021-12-15T00:18:44","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T05:18:44","slug":"emerging-tech-trends-for-2021-and-beyond-a-look-into-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centricconsulting.com\/blog\/emerging-tech-trends-for-2021-and-beyond-a-look-into-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Emerging Tech Trends for 2021 and Beyond: A Look Into the Future"},"content":{"rendered":"
If you were placing a big bet on breakout technology in 2021, what would it be? What if your bet was for a little longer horizon, say 2025 or 2030? Would you place your money on artificial intelligence<\/a> (AI), autonomous vehicles (AV), quantum computing<\/a>, or something else entirely?<\/p>\n That question, and others, guided our conversation with CIO<\/a>s and technology<\/a> leaders from mid-market to enterprise-size midwestern companies earlier this week. We hosted an informal session with our own Carmen Fontana<\/a> and guest speaker Brian Kelly<\/a> from the Ohio Turnpike Commission<\/a>. They both shared their expertise and insights into what we can expect on the technology front.<\/p>\n Carmen, lead for our Modern Software Delivery<\/a> practice, discussed several technologies she\u2019s following in her role here at Centric as well as a few leading-edge technologies on behalf of clients. Prominent among those she\u2019s working on and evaluating are quantum computing, machine learning<\/a> (ML) and artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n According to a Tech Republic<\/a> survey she shared, these technologies are likely to be most prominent in 2021: AI and Machine Learning, 5G and IoT.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Those results aligned with a quick survey of our CIO guests — they expected ML to be most prominent in 2021, followed by IoT.<\/p>\n But regarding the pandemic effect on tech deployment priorities this year, as one could imagine the focus was nearly unanimous on collaboration technologies, such as Microsoft Teams<\/a>.<\/strong> Optimization of those tools will be a significant part of their efforts in 2021.<\/p>\n Our own technologists shared their views as well, weighing in on a more expansive list of technologies and envisioning impact and timeliness. Somewhat unsurprisingly, as technologists they expect everything to have a significant impact, but they were less certain about expectations of timing.<\/p>\nOur Insights in 2021 Tech<\/h2>\n