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Across the Asia-Pacific region, CIOs are navigating accelerating AI adoption, regulatory complexity, and rising execution pressure simultaneously. At Info-Tech LIVE 2026 in Brisbane, March 17 – 18, 2026, the Tech Trends 2026 session will equip IT leaders with a strategic lens to assess emerging technologies and make defensible, outcome-driven decisions.
SYDNEY, Jan. 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Across the Asia-Pacific region, technology leaders are operating in environments where the margin for error is narrowing. As AI initiatives scale and regulatory requirements diverge across markets, CIOs are increasingly accountable for ensuring that technology decisions translate into measurable business outcomes. At Info-Tech LIVE 2026 in Brisbane, taking place March 17 – 18, 2026, at W Brisbane, Info-Tech Research Group will host its Tech Trends featured session to help CIOs and senior IT leaders evaluate emerging technologies through the lens of execution readiness, risk exposure, and organisational capacity.
Drawing on Info-Tech's Tech Trends 2026 report and data from the firm's Future of IT Survey 2026, the keynote will explore how IT leaders can prioritise initiatives, sequence adoption, and manage risk when resources, talent, and governance capacity are constrained.
"For CIOs across APAC, technology decisions now carry greater accountability as AI adoption accelerates unevenly across markets," says George Khreish, Managing Partner at Info-Tech Research Group, APAC. "The Tech Trends 2026 report helps leaders separate signals from noise by showing which trends demand action now and which require stronger execution foundations first. At Info-Tech LIVE 2026 in Brisbane, we're focused on turning those insights into disciplined decisions and accountable outcomes."
Tech Trends 2026 at Info-Tech LIVE 2026 in Brisbane
At Info-Tech LIVE 2026 in Brisbane, the Tech Trends 2026 session will examine how emerging technologies are reshaping enterprise priorities as CIOs balance speed, risk, and execution capacity. The session will explore the following eight technology trends through the lens of real-world adoption and operational impact:
- Resilient Supply Chain Sourcing
Technology leaders are reassessing sourcing strategies to reduce dependency risk, improve continuity, and ensure access to critical platforms and capabilities amid ongoing global disruption. - Integrated Organisational Resilience
Risk management is shifting from siloed technical controls to coordinated, enterprise-wide capabilities that link IT, security, and business response planning. - Multi-Agent Orchestration
AI agents are evolving into interconnected systems, increasing productivity potential while raising new governance, oversight, and integration challenges for IT teams. - Smart Sensing Networks
The convergence of IoT and edge intelligence is enabling faster, localised decision-making, while increasing demands on infrastructure, security, and data management. - AI as Adversary and Ally
AI is simultaneously strengthening defensive capabilities while accelerating the scale and sophistication of cyber threats, forcing CIOs to rethink their security strategies and readiness. - Federated Data Governance
Decentralised, domain-based data ownership models are gaining traction, requiring new approaches to automation, accountability, and cross-functional coordination. - Purpose-Built Platforms
Organisations are moving away from general-purpose infrastructure in favour of platforms designed around specific business outcomes, increasing pressure to align architecture decisions to strategy. - Service as Software
AI-enabled automation is transforming services into continuously evolving software-driven capabilities, changing expectations around delivery speed, cost, and value measurement.
As part of the broader Info-Tech LIVE 2026 agenda, this featured session supports CIOs and senior IT leaders who are under increasing scrutiny to demonstrate clarity, accountability, and value delivery. By reframing trends as inputs to disciplined decision-making, the session helps leaders align technology investments with organisational capacity and business objectives, while maintaining flexibility as conditions continue to change.
Info-Tech LIVE 2026 in Brisbane will bring together CIOs, senior IT executives, and technology leaders from across the Asia-Pacific region for two days of research-driven programming. The conference will feature mainstage sessions, interactive breakouts, peer discussions, and one-on-one analyst meetings designed to help IT leaders move from strategy to execution in complex and fast-moving environments.
Additional sessions and speaker announcements will be released in the coming weeks. For more information about the event, please visit the Info-Tech LIVE 2026 in Brisbane page.
For exclusive and timely commentary from Info-Tech's experts and full access to the Tech Trends 2026 report, please contact pr@infotech.com.
Media Passes for Info-Tech LIVE 2026 in Brisbane
Media professionals, including journalists, podcasters, and influencers, are invited to attend Info-Tech LIVE 2026 in Brisbane to gain exclusive access to research, content, and interviews with industry leaders and analysts for their audiences.
Media professionals can apply for complimentary in-person passes by contacting pr@infotech.com.
About Info-Tech Research Group
Info-Tech Research Group is one of the world's leading and fastest-growing research and advisory firms, serving over 30,000 IT, HR, and marketing professionals around the globe. As a trusted product and service leader, the company delivers unbiased, highly relevant research and industry-leading advisory support to help leaders make strategic, timely, and well-informed decisions. For nearly 30 years, Info-Tech has partnered closely with teams to provide everything they need, from actionable tools to expert guidance, ensuring they deliver measurable results for their organisations.
To learn more about Info-Tech's HR research and advisory services, visit McLean & Company, and for data-driven software buying insights and vendor evaluations, visit the firm's SoftwareReviews platform.
Media professionals can register for unrestricted access to research across IT, HR, and software, and hundreds of industry analysts through the firm's Media Insiders program. To gain access, contact pr@infotech.com.
For information about Info-Tech Research Group or to access the latest research, visit infotech.com and connect via LinkedIn and X.
Media Contact: Sufyan Al-Hassan, PR Director, Info-Tech Research Group, salhassan@infotech.com, +1 (888) 670-8889 x2418
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Across the Asia-Pacific region, CIOs are navigating accelerating AI adoption, regulatory complexity, and rising execution pressure simultaneously. At Info-Tech LIVE 2026 in Brisbane, March 17 – 18, 2026, the Tech Trends 2026 session will equip IT leaders with a strategic lens to assess emerging technologies and make defensible, outcome-driven decisions.
SYDNEY, Jan. 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Across the Asia-Pacific region, technology leaders are operating in environments where the margin for error is narrowing. As AI initiatives scale and regulatory requirements diverge across markets, CIOs are increasingly accountable for ensuring that technology decisions translate into measurable business outcomes. At Info-Tech LIVE 2026 in Brisbane, taking place March 17 – 18, 2026, at W Brisbane, Info-Tech Research Group will host its Tech Trends featured session to help CIOs and senior IT leaders evaluate emerging technologies through the lens of execution readiness, risk exposure, and organisational capacity.
Drawing on Info-Tech's Tech Trends 2026 report and data from the firm's Future of IT Survey 2026, the keynote will explore how IT leaders can prioritise initiatives, sequence adoption, and manage risk when resources, talent, and governance capacity are constrained.
"For CIOs across APAC, technology decisions now carry greater accountability as AI adoption accelerates unevenly across markets," says George Khreish, Managing Partner at Info-Tech Research Group, APAC. "The Tech Trends 2026 report helps leaders separate signals from noise by showing which trends demand action now and which require stronger execution foundations first. At Info-Tech LIVE 2026 in Brisbane, we're focused on turning those insights into disciplined decisions and accountable outcomes."
Tech Trends 2026 at Info-Tech LIVE 2026 in Brisbane
At Info-Tech LIVE 2026 in Brisbane, the Tech Trends 2026 session will examine how emerging technologies are reshaping enterprise priorities as CIOs balance speed, risk, and execution capacity. The session will explore the following eight technology trends through the lens of real-world adoption and operational impact:
- Resilient Supply Chain Sourcing
Technology leaders are reassessing sourcing strategies to reduce dependency risk, improve continuity, and ensure access to critical platforms and capabilities amid ongoing global disruption. - Integrated Organisational Resilience
Risk management is shifting from siloed technical controls to coordinated, enterprise-wide capabilities that link IT, security, and business response planning. - Multi-Agent Orchestration
AI agents are evolving into interconnected systems, increasing productivity potential while raising new governance, oversight, and integration challenges for IT teams. - Smart Sensing Networks
The convergence of IoT and edge intelligence is enabling faster, localised decision-making, while increasing demands on infrastructure, security, and data management. - AI as Adversary and Ally
AI is simultaneously strengthening defensive capabilities while accelerating the scale and sophistication of cyber threats, forcing CIOs to rethink their security strategies and readiness. - Federated Data Governance
Decentralised, domain-based data ownership models are gaining traction, requiring new approaches to automation, accountability, and cross-functional coordination. - Purpose-Built Platforms
Organisations are moving away from general-purpose infrastructure in favour of platforms designed around specific business outcomes, increasing pressure to align architecture decisions to strategy. - Service as Software
AI-enabled automation is transforming services into continuously evolving software-driven capabilities, changing expectations around delivery speed, cost, and value measurement.
As part of the broader Info-Tech LIVE 2026 agenda, this featured session supports CIOs and senior IT leaders who are under increasing scrutiny to demonstrate clarity, accountability, and value delivery. By reframing trends as inputs to disciplined decision-making, the session helps leaders align technology investments with organisational capacity and business objectives, while maintaining flexibility as conditions continue to change.
Info-Tech LIVE 2026 in Brisbane will bring together CIOs, senior IT executives, and technology leaders from across the Asia-Pacific region for two days of research-driven programming. The conference will feature mainstage sessions, interactive breakouts, peer discussions, and one-on-one analyst meetings designed to help IT leaders move from strategy to execution in complex and fast-moving environments.
Additional sessions and speaker announcements will be released in the coming weeks. For more information about the event, please visit the Info-Tech LIVE 2026 in Brisbane page.
For exclusive and timely commentary from Info-Tech's experts and full access to the Tech Trends 2026 report, please contact pr@infotech.com.
Media Passes for Info-Tech LIVE 2026 in Brisbane
Media professionals, including journalists, podcasters, and influencers, are invited to attend Info-Tech LIVE 2026 in Brisbane to gain exclusive access to research, content, and interviews with industry leaders and analysts for their audiences.
Media professionals can apply for complimentary in-person passes by contacting pr@infotech.com.
About Info-Tech Research Group
Info-Tech Research Group is one of the world's leading and fastest-growing research and advisory firms, serving over 30,000 IT, HR, and marketing professionals around the globe. As a trusted product and service leader, the company delivers unbiased, highly relevant research and industry-leading advisory support to help leaders make strategic, timely, and well-informed decisions. For nearly 30 years, Info-Tech has partnered closely with teams to provide everything they need, from actionable tools to expert guidance, ensuring they deliver measurable results for their organisations.
To learn more about Info-Tech's HR research and advisory services, visit McLean & Company, and for data-driven software buying insights and vendor evaluations, visit the firm's SoftwareReviews platform.
Media professionals can register for unrestricted access to research across IT, HR, and software, and hundreds of industry analysts through the firm's Media Insiders program. To gain access, contact pr@infotech.com.
For information about Info-Tech Research Group or to access the latest research, visit infotech.com and connect via LinkedIn and X.
Media Contact: Sufyan Al-Hassan, PR Director, Info-Tech Research Group, salhassan@infotech.com, +1 (888) 670-8889 x2418
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Tech Trends 2026: APAC CIOs Confront Rising Risk and Execution Pressure at Info-Tech LIVE 2026 in Brisbane
SINGAPORE, Jan. 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- The Huawei Cloud Global Sales Partner Policy Launch took place on January 22 in Singapore, under the theme "Shared Intelligence, Shared Success." Charles Yang, Senior Vice President of Huawei and President of Huawei Cloud Global Marketing and Sales Service, unveiled Huawei Cloud's global sales partner policies for 2026. These policies emphasize fostering greater trust, enhancing profitability, simplifying cooperation, and promoting growth for partners. The goal is to cultivate a healthy, thriving, and self-sustaining partner ecosystem.
Partner Policies: More Trust, More Profitability, More Simplicity, More Growth
Charles Yang highlighted that the intelligent era presents immense opportunities and challenges for Huawei Cloud and its partners. Huawei Cloud is dedicated to systemic innovation, delivering unparalleled AI computing via the industry's most powerful CloudMatrix supernode. Beyond pioneering Pangu models for key industry scenarios, Huawei Cloud's MaaS platform supports a vast range of models and applications. Combined with comprehensive data governance and end-to-end security, these initiatives foster a thriving ecosystem, driving rapid partner growth. He further elaborated on Huawei Cloud's partner policies for 2026.
Huawei Cloud fortifies partner trust by clearly defining business boundaries and market strategies, ensuring no competition for profits. These policies will remain unchanged for the next three years.
To boost partner profitability, Huawei Cloud introduces five policy enhancements, offering competitive discounts and incentives, strengthening project collaborations to win more projects, and leveraging its brand to attract new customers and broaden market presence for partners.
To streamline partnerships, Huawei Cloud adheres to specific collaboration guidelines and combats corruption. The Partner Center will be upgraded to a seamless one-stop workbench, enhancing efficiency and ease of cooperation.
For partner growth, Huawei Cloud delivers comprehensive support, including tiered enablement and practical incentives.
"Cloud and AI are a 30-year marathon that has only just begun," Yang said. He added: "The partners you choose are just as crucial as your destination. A true partnership is not about short-term benefits, but about a companion for the long haul. Huawei Cloud is committed to standing alongside partners for a mutually sustainable and beneficial future."
Fostering a Healthy, Thriving, and Self-Sustaining Partner Ecosystem
Li Shi, President of Huawei Cloud Computing Global Sales, looked back over the past year, showing how Huawei Cloud and partners have progressed in tandem. In 2025, Huawei Cloud's partner business grew more than 50%. The number of partners has continued to expand and partner collaborations have continued to deepen. To date, Huawei Cloud already has more than 40 global distributors and 50 core/premier cloud solution providers as partners outside China. The ecosystem has over 4,000 global partners, and hundreds of thousands of paying customers.
As a partner ecosystem committed to continuing to enhance trust, profitability, simplicity, and growth, Huawei Cloud has redefined its customer account classification and clarified the responsibilities of Huawei and its partners. Huawei Cloud maintains the stability of this ecosystem and support for partner success through a three-pronged approach of incentives, benefits, and regulations. Huawei Cloud is demonstrating this support for rewarding partners by fully upgrading its partner incentive framework this year.
The upgrade consists of four pillars of support that Huawei Cloud will provide partners to foster their holistic growth. These four pillars are namely: amplifying partner voices on Huawei Cloud's global media matrix, helping partners improve their brand image using over 50 global benchmarks for key communication, upgrading partner benefits such as a bigger Market Development Fund and full support of their promotions, and finally inviting partners to participate in Huawei Cloud's own global marketing activities.
Huawei Cloud will bolster partner enablement with a tailored system, from strategic insights to sales practices, designed for various roles. For CXO-level leaders, Huawei Cloud will facilitate executive exchanges on industry trends, digital transformation, and AI strategy to align visions. Core teams will benefit from courses on business operations, industry insights, and growth strategies. BDs, SAs, and CSMs will receive hands-on training, including sales drills and technical workshops, to enhance their expertise.
Dale Chen, Director of Huawei Cloud Asia Pacific Sales Partner Development, explained how Huawei Cloud is the fastest-growing mainstream public cloud provider in the region and a choice partner for enterprise digital transformation. Over the past five years, Huawei Cloud's compound annual growth rate in the Asia Pacific region has exceeded 40%, with more than half of this revenue coming from partners. In APAC, Huawei Cloud has over 50 financial, 200 government and enterprise, and 500 Internet and cloud native customers. Local teams serve more than 10 countries. In APAC, the focus for Huawei Cloud and partners is on migrating core financial systems to the cloud, helping carriers achieve AI transformation and XtoB transformation, and leveraging AI-powered operational efficiency and public services for government and Internet customers. The AI Token Service is currently active in Hong Kong, with multiple open-source models available for use out of the box. In line with its Platform + Ecosystem strategy, Huawei works with partners in Asia Pacific to create new value for industries.
At the conference, partners from Thailand (Vonosis), Singapore (Wormwood), Argentina (Movistar), and Türkiye (Logosoft) shared testimonials of exploring global markets and growing together.
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Huawei Cloud Unveils Global Sales Partner Policies for 2026 Targeting Shared Success in the Age of AI
Huawei Cloud Unveils Global Sales Partner Policies for 2026 Targeting Shared Success in the Age of AI
Huawei Cloud Unveils Global Sales Partner Policies for 2026 Targeting Shared Success in the Age of AI
