India, Jan. 2 -- Every few years, technology goes through a cleansing phase. The noise fades. The slide decks thin out. What remains is what actually works.

2026 looks like one of those years. Emerging technologies are no longer being discussed as shiny add-ons or innovation theatre. They are being pulled directly into the heart of enterprise operations. Quietly. Firmly. With expectations attached.

What is changing is not the technology itself. It is how businesses buy, deploy and measure it. And that shift, subtle but powerful, is what will define commercial success in the year ahead.

Applied, agentic AI embedded directly into enterprise workflows will have the most immediate commercial impact in 2026, Sumed Marwaha, MD, AHEAD - India...