Midyear Tech Outlook: Where Industry Activity is Heating Up

As we approach the midpoint of the year and look towards 2025, our experts share the disruptive tech markets and trends they’re tracking across industries.

At the start of 2024, our analysts predicted the trends that will have the biggest impact on the tech world this year. Now, they’re giving their midyear outlook on how these tech trends have reshaped everything from generative AI’s impact on cybersecurity to big tech’s bets on humanoid robotics.

They’ll also share the emerging trends they’re tracking in the second half of the year and into 2025. Discover what our data is signaling for the future of insurance, the state of machine learning security, manufacturing’s disruption, and other breakthroughs across industries.

Download the recording and join them as they dig into the data behind each trend, and where they see the market heading next. You don’t want to miss this.

Your speakers

Kenya Watson

Lead Analyst

Kenya Watson is an analyst at CB Insights covering emerging tech trends.

Prior to joining CB Insights, she worked in equity research covering transportation companies and also as a content developer for a marketing firm. She graduated from Columbia University with a major in economics.

Kenya Watson is an analyst at CB Insights covering emerging tech trends.

Benjamin Lawrence

Senior Lead Analyst

Benjamin is a managing analyst at CB Insights with a focus on advanced manufacturing, semiconductors, aerospace, and defense.

Prior to CB Insights, Benjamin worked in as an engineer in lab-grown diamonds and thin-film coatings. He graduated from Villanova University in Chemical Engineering and Economics. He serves as an Adjunct Professor in Chemistry at BYU.

Benjamin is a managing analyst at CB Insights with a focus on advanced manufacturing, semiconductors, aerospace, and defense.

Chris Sekerak

Senior Analyst

Chris researches the global insurtech landscape at CB Insights.

Prior to joining CB Insights, Chris was the Innovation Leader at Argo Group — a specialty insurance company in the property and casualty market.

Chris is a graduate of Syracuse University, where he majored in both Information Management & Technology and Supply Chain Management.

Chris researches the global insurtech landscape at CB Insights.

Prior to joining CB Insights, Chris was the Innovation Leader at Argo Group — a specialty insurance company in the property and casualty market.

Chris is a graduate of Syracuse University, where he majored in both Information Management & Technology and Supply Chain Management.