Megatrends
Megatrends are the powerful social, demographic, environmental and technological forces shaping our world. Independent of economic cycles, these enduring shifts redefine how societies, businesses and individuals adapt and thrive. Understanding megatrends is key to navigating the challenges and opportunities of a rapidly changing future.
Exploring Megatrends
These articles examine the transformative megatrends reshaping global economies, industries and societies. By exploring themes such as resource scarcity, the shift towards service-driven economies and the complexities of (de)globalisation, they highlight how these forces create both challenges and opportunities.
Technology and science
Entrepreneurship · 27 Oct 2026
Transforming warehouses with robotics and AI
Oana Jinga co-founded Dexory after an experiment to create a home-security robot revealed a much bigger opportunity. A decade and several pivots later, its autonomous robots and AI-powered platform are giving some of the world’s largest logistics companies a real-time view of their warehouses.
Technology & science · 04 Sep 2026
Reclaiming privacy
Professor Carissa Véliz analyses the risks posed to individual freedoms from digitisation.
Technology & science · 23 Aug 2026
How AI is reshaping education
Ed shares how he built Renewed Learning from his first year at university into an international tutoring business working across the UK and Hong Kong.
Technology & science · 28 Jul 2026
What society is getting from drug innovation
For much of the past half century, the social contract underpinning pharmaceutical innovation was clear. New drugs delivered longer lives, fewer hospitalisations and, in some cases, cures. In return, societies accepted steadily rising healthcare spending. That contract held as long as innovation visibly transformed outcomes. It is now being renegotiated.
Technology & science · 08 Jul 2026
Why human judgment still matters in the age of AI
Tracing ivee’s evolution from recruitment technology to AI upskilling and advisory, Amelia Miller, CEO of ivee, explores AI adoption, prompt engineering, governance, automation, and why experience remains a critical asset.
Technology & science · 22 Apr 2026
How AI and Automation are improving NHS GP access
Pete takes us inside the reality of GP practices, from the pressure on front-desk staff to the outdated administrative systems that still shape much of the patient experience.
Technology & science · 05 Feb 2026
Where AI will really be felt
Pictet Asset Management thematic advisory board member Carl Frey looks to the past to understand how AI is likely to transform the global economy.
Technology & science · 17 Nov 2025
Pictet's 31st office officially opens in Lisbon with Pictet Technologies Portugal
On Wednesday 15 April, Pictet Technologies Portugal (PTP) celebrated its official opening, marking a new chapter in our tech development and establishing Pictet's 31st office in Lisbon. This expansion supports the Group’s ongoing digital transformation. Explore insights from our interview with Ricardo Coutinho, Managing Director of PTP, and view images from the celebration, which included Managing Partner Sven Holstenson and Group CTO Peter Wintsch.
Technology & science · 24 Oct 2025
Dialogue-driven development — The human essence of platform engineering
At DevOpsDays Amsterdam 2024, Pictet Tech delivered a session titled ‘Dialogue-driven development — The human essence of platform engineering.’
Technology & science · 01 Oct 2025
We, Robot
In popular imagination, robots have near-unlimited powers: superhuman strength, agility and intelligence. The reality has been much more prosaic, argues Daegal Tsang.
Technology & science · 01 Jul 2025
Chips with everything
The world depends on semiconductors. In this interview, Professor Chris Miller highlights the industry's latest innovations and their implications for our future in a Q&A format with Anjali Bastianpillai, Senior Client Portfolio Manager.
Technology & science · 19 May 2025
Private equity comes to grips with AI
Pictet surveys the private equity industry about what AI means for business.
Technology & science · 13 May 2025
Pictet Team Triumphs at Genev’Hack 2025
At the Genev’Hack 2025 conference, a two-person team from Pictet Tech’s Cybersecurity Engineering department won the ‘Into the Breach’ capture-the-flag (CTF) challenge.
Technology & science · 20 Apr 2025
Platform Perseverance: 1,000 Kubernetes Clusters
The talk described how a team of three platform engineers navigated regulatory requirements, operational constraints and rigorous change management processes in order to operate 1,000 Kubernetes clusters for a Swiss private bank.
Technology & science · 15 Apr 2025
Surveying forecasts of AI’s economic effects
How big will generative AI’s economic footprint be?
Technology & science · 07 Mar 2025
Measuring the impact of anti-obesity drugs
The next wave of GLP-1 treatments will do more than just shrink waistlines.
Technology & science · 11 Feb 2025
Pictet at the EPFL Applied Machine Learning Days
Pictet Tech hosted a session titled “Unlocking the Power of AI and GenAI in Financial Services: Strategies for Maximising Benefits” at the AMLD. The panel included Pictet Tech specialists alongside an external expert from a financial market infrastructure organisation.
Environment
Environment · 12 May 2025
Climate anxiety - Hannah Ritchie
Oxford’s Hannah Ritchie explains why optimism is sustainable.
Environment · 05 May 2025
The state of climate capital
New research by Pictet with the Institute of International Finance highlights the stark gap between actual investment and what’s needed to reach net zero.
Environment · 04 Mar 2025
Tracking the energy transition
Renewable energy presents investors with opportunity and complexity.
Environment · 24 Feb 2025
Iberdrola’s path to sustainable energy
César Pérez Ruiz, Head of Investments & CIO at Pictet Wealth Management, sits down with Iberdrola’s Ignacio Sánchez Galán to discuss how a utility giant is navigating the energy transition.
Environment · 06 Feb 2025
Solving climate change demands more than moonshots
Improvements to existing technologies are just as important in the fight against climate change.
Responsible future
Responsible future · 30 Oct 2026
Circularity as the foundation to Europe’s strategic competitiveness
Europe is at a crossroads. Under a fossil-fuel based model, the EU imports 58% of its energy needs, leaving it exposed to repeated supply and price shocks [1]. The obvious response is to accelerate the transition to renewable energy, which is both cheaper and faster to deploy. It also has a strategic opportunity to significantly reduce its future dependence on critical minerals by investing in circularity today.
Responsible future · 23 Oct 2026
Marc Pictet joins Tsinghua University Advisory Board
Marc Pictet, Senior Managing Partner of Pictet Group, has recently joined the Advisory Board of China’s prestigious Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management as one of the three new additional members, alongside Jensen Huang, Founder and CEO of NVIDIA and Lisa Su, Chair and CEO of AMD.
Responsible future · 25 Aug 2026
Power shift: investing in the electrification megatrend
A global shift toward electrification is gaining momentum. This megatrend is driven by a mix of industrial demand, technological advances and geopolitical risk. In this Q&A, PWM energy equity analyst Malik Zetchi shares his perspectives on where investors can find value in the electrification revolution.
Responsible future · 30 Apr 2026
Group Sustainability Report
The Pictet Group’s third Sustainability Report covers the 2025 calendar year and outlines the progress we made against our sustainability strategy.
Responsible future · 28 Apr 2025
Vaclav Smil — Innovation with grains of salt
Professor Vaclav Smil cautions about the hyperbolic claims being made for new headline-grabbing technologies.
From societal shifts to megatrends analysis
Identifying the big and small changes in society and the economy has been our job for more than 220 years.
Comprehensive view of the forces shaping our future
Our megatrends analysis tracks change, including growing disparities in health and wealth in society; the specialisation and sophistication of the network economy; new technology and science in materials including medicine; the threat of climate change, and how changing economic power affects corporate and social governance. Morever, capitalism itself must invest along more sustainable lines to safeguard against tragedy, injustice and instability for the benefit of us all. Pictet’s megatrends give you insights into the patterns and counter-movements that will shape the future.
Ahead 2026
Delve into cutting-edge insights from leading experts on the trends that will define the future.
Megatrends · 11 May 2026
Ahead 2026 – The Pictet Group explores opportunities ahead
Discover the trends that will help shape the future of investments – our latest Ahead report brings you actionable insights from top investment minds and global thought leaders.
Megatrends · 28 Jan 2025
Megatrending 2025 – Opportunities ahead
Discover the forces shaping our world in our latest Megatrending report. Delve into cutting-edge insights from leading experts on the megatrends that will define the future.
Family business · 10 Nov 2026
Growing up with wealth: dynamics and design
When it comes to preparing for transitions of wealth, families often focus on technical matters and neglect the far less black-and-white emotional and psychological implications. As Jessica McGawley and Honora Ducatillon explain, that’s a challenge – and a common cause of avoidable tensions and turmoil.
