Deloitte has predicted 8 top tech trends for 2016, presented by Global CTO Mark White at an event in Johannesburg targeting journalists and key South African stakeholders.

The event focused on results of the sixth annual Deloitte Tech Trends report, which examines disruptive technologies impacting business.

Nevertheless, White closed by discussing the top candidates for Deloitte’s Tech Trends 2016 report, which he identified as:

  1. Right-speed IT: Connecting high-speed Innovation IT with high-torque Enterprise IT.
  2. Industrialised analytics: Data as value as IoT impacts move from shop floor to C-Suite through “sensing systems”.
  3. Augmented and virtual reality at work: Physical / digital mediation for presence, decision analytics, and collaborative execution that is beyond wearable and mobile devices.
  4. The core awakens: Advancing core renaissance from systems integration to services integration to solutions innovation.
  5. Amplified automation: Robotics, AI, and IoT in the day-to-day core of business process automation that considers job elimination vs augmentation.
  6. BYOE – Bring Your Own Everything: From device to app to data to freelance expert, crafting agile IT from the outside in.
  7. Democratised trust – crowd-sourced identity, credential & cert: Block chain with a business lens that looks at what business gets beyond crypto-currency and presents a distributed, sequential transaction database that is tamperproof, even by operators and hosts.
  8. Fog computing – bringing the cloud down to earth: Next-gen wireless, fully meshed compute, and storage and cotext at the edge – with containerisation, data sovereignty and sovereign computing in an IoT and cloud context.

Meanwhile, the sixth annual Deloitte Tech Trends report examines disruptive technologies with the best potential to impact businesses irrespective of size, industries, and geographies within the next 18 to 24 months

The research process identifying the trends included feedback from executives on current and future priorities, input from Deloitte industry and practice leaders, crowdsourced ideas from the global Deloitte network of practitioners, and perspectives from industry and academic luminaries.

View the full report here: http://www2.deloitte.com/za/en/pages/technology/articles/tech-trends-20150.html