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Gartner's annual CIO and Technology Executive Survey (CIO Survey) is the largest in the world, revealing your CIO peers' top priorities and initiatives for the coming year.

This year, Gartner also analyzed the insights of more than 1,100 CxOs—leaders of business areas and corporate functions outside of IT—to capture the C-suite's perspective and provide you with a CxO viewpoint on the CIO-CxO engagement patterns that lead to successful business outcomes.

The 2025 CIO Agenda will help you navigate changes in technology leadership, strengthen support for CxOs and technology users within and beyond IT, and advance your career.

Gartner’s Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2025 highlight emerging technologies poised to impact businesses and society significantly. These trends are categorized into three themes: AI imperatives and risks, new frontiers of computing, and human-machine synergy. Key trends include Agentic AI, which enables autonomous decision-making by AI systems; AI governance platforms that ensure responsible and ethical AI use; and disinformation security measures to combat the spread of false information. Additionally, post-quantum cryptography is emphasized to protect data against future quantum computing threats, while ambient invisible intelligence integrates unobtrusively into environments to enhance user experiences.

Further trends focus on energy-efficient computing to promote sustainability, hybrid computing combining various computational methods for enhanced performance, and spatial computing combining digital and physical worlds through technologies like augmented reality. Polyfunctional robots capable of performing multiple tasks and neurological enhancements aimed at improving cognitive abilities through brain-machine interfaces are also highlighted. These trends underscore the rapid evolution of technology and its profound implications for the future.