FutureTech Summit
Unifying Cloud, Data, and Infrastructure to Accelerate AI Innovation at Scale
The IDC FutureTech Summit Spain is a leading event for CTOs, IT architects, and technology leaders shaping the next era of enterprise technology in Europe.
Artificial intelligence is no longer a side initiative—it has become central to business growth. More than half of CXOs expect a direct revenue impact from AI, while 77% of CIOs rank its implementation and scalability as their top priority for 2026. To fully capitalize on this potential, organizations must go beyond technology adoption and transform their mindset, architectures, and leadership models.
We are at a turning point: enterprises are moving from isolated pilot projects to large-scale deployments, where data, infrastructure, and talent must be ready to operate in autonomous, AI-driven environments. In this context, modernizing technology foundations is no longer optional—it is a critical enabler of competitiveness
IDC forecasts indicate that investment in AI, cloud, and edge will account for 15–30% of IT budgets by 2027, reflecting a strong Europe-wide commitment to accelerating innovation and building future-ready infrastructures.
Key drivers of this transformation include:
- The acceleration of AI-driven transformation, with organizations embedding intelligence across infrastructure, operations, and decision-making processes.
- The evolution toward modern, cloud-native and increasingly AI-native architectures designed to support scalable and secure AI workloads.
- The rise of automation, observability, and orchestration to simplify operations and enhance resilience.
- The expansion of open and composable technologies—from containers to DevOps practices—accelerating development and integration.
- The consolidation of data platforms as a key innovation engine, unifying cloud, edge, and AI environments to deliver real-time insights and business value.
This event provides a strategic perspective on Europe’s digital future, combining IDC research, real-world innovation use cases, and practical frameworks that help leaders turn complexity into opportunity and build scalable, sustainable, AI-ready digital ecosystems.
Prediction 2026
By 2026, 90% of digital infrastructure decision-makers worldwide will consider AI a key factor in budget allocation and technology decisions.
Key Topics
AI-Ready Infrastructure
Modernizing legacy systems and building scalable, secure, high-performance platforms designed to support AI workloads and accelerate innovation.
Cloud, Hybrid, and AI-Native Architectures
Adopting cloud-native, hybrid, and multicloud environments, evolving toward AI-native architectures that enable greater agility, resilience, scalability, and regulatory compliance.
Data, Edge, and Real-Time Intelligence
Integrating unified data platforms with edge capabilities to enable real-time analytics, low-latency inferencing, and efficient, sovereign data management.
Automation and Autonomous Operations
Driving operational efficiency through AIOps, intelligent automation, and advanced observability, enabling more resilient, proactive, and autonomous IT environments.
Responsible AI, Cybersecurity, and Digital Trust
Developing governance frameworks for ethical and scalable AI aligned with regulation (such as the EU AI Act), alongside cybersecurity strategies that strengthen trust in digital ecosystems.
Open Innovation, Talent, and Sustainability
Accelerating innovation through open-source and composable technologies, fostering DevOps practices, developing talent, and embedding ESG and sustainability criteria into technology strategies.
Prediction 2026
82% of cloud service buyers plan to modernize their cloud infrastructure, and 88% are implementing or already operating a hybrid cloud.
IDC Analysts
Daniel-Zoe Jimenez
Vice President Research
IDC
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Daniel-Zoe Jimenez
Daniel-Zoe Jimenez is Associate Vice President for IDC’s Asia/Pacific region, based in Singapore. He leads the regional Digital Transformation (DX), Future Enterprise and SMB research practices.
Daniel provides strategic advisory services to the C-Suite (CIOs, CDOs, CMOs, CHROs and CFOs) on how to develop and leverage new business, technology (e.g. AI and Analytics, Cloud, Mobility, IoT) and operating models to become more competitive. He delivers workshops and strategic engagements for customers across Asia/Pacific such as assessing maturity, identifying gaps, crafting strategies and technology roadmaps, determining ecosystem readiness, metrics (KPIs), and skills required to drive growth and profitability.
Daniel leads a team of analysts across Asia/Pacific who provide thought leadership research and insights to technology buyers, suppliers and government institutions on the impact that the evolving market changes, and the new and established technologies have on their businesses.
Earlier in IDC, Daniel was the co-lead for the Big Data/Analytics research practice. Today, he also has a leading role in the Asia/Pacific customer experience (CX), marketing, commerce and broader enterprise applications (e.g. ERP, HCM and CRM) research.
Daniel is a frequent speaker at IDC and client events, as well as in seminars in the region; and is often quoted in business and IT publications.
Daniel has more than 20 years of international experience with large organizations worldwide, from consulting to ICT and market research. Prior to joining IDC, Daniel worked for four years with Fujitsu Services handling presales and marketing roles. He also held a global role with Accenture for almost four years in the marketing and presales groups within the Financial Services Group. At Datamonitor’s London office, Daniel held the positions of research manager and business analyst, covering the internet, telco and mobility markets.
Daniel holds a Bachelor in Philosophy degree with focused on Science, Mind, and Language — courses in Psychology and Anthropology from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain.
Ignacio Martínez De Lizarrondo
Data & Analytics Manager
IDC
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Ignacio Martínez De Lizarrondo
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