HFS RESEARCH WEBINAR

Emerging tech predictions: What Silicon Valley builds today, enterprises face tomorrow

February 17, 2026 | 10:00 am - 11:00 am EST | Via Zoom

The pace of innovation is accelerating so fast it opens a speed-trust gap between what leading-edge tech start-ups are bringing to market, and what enterprises are capable of ingesting. Waiting for change to happen to you is a sure-fire way to fall behind.

This webinar equips business leaders with insight from the heart of Silicon Valley – home to 72% of all global investment in AI. What The Valley does now, you’ll do next. Grounded in our first-hand experience of the Bay Area’s AI start-up ecosystem, this session allows you to see round the corner.

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What you’ll learn

The AI-led tech-arbitrage race to Services-as-Software™ is real and it’s disrupting every process and every industry. In this session, you’ll gain practical insight into how these shifts are unfolding and what they mean for enterprise leaders.

You’ll gain insights on:

  • Impermanence as a design principle. When change is the only constant and the pace keeps accelerating, learn how to adapt the way you build and maintain code, products, services, and even organizations. This is where the enterprise debt cycle begins to break.
  • The rise of vertical AI. Discover how deep expertise, trusted relationships, and real-world context can outperform even the most heavily funded frontier LLMs.
  • The efficiency inflection. From alternatives to scaling laws and the return of reinforcement learning to the push toward smaller language models at the edge, explore what Silicon Valley’s renewed focus on efficiency rather than raw power signals for the future of AI.
  • Physical AI. For those who fear the AI bubble may burst, the next wave is already forming. Welcome to next-best-atom. As AI moves from the digital world into the physical one, what will this shift mean for your business?
  • We are all founders now. Thousands of first-time entrepreneurs are leaving great jobs and top universities because it’s never been easier, faster, or cheaper to turn ideas into companies. Learn how to harness this founder mindset within your own organization.
  • Closing the speed-trust gap: Understand how to plan for faster innovation ingestion without sacrificing governance, confidence, or control.

Why attend

  • Reduce change-order friction and unlock co-innovation through adaptive governance.
  • Learn how to stop accumulating technology and process debt—and start designing for continuous change.
  • Gain foresight to challenge and reshape your technology roadmap and business strategy.
  • Understand what effective innovation pipelines and an AI-augmented workforce now demand from enterprise leaders.

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