Innovation is essential for organizations of all types to adapt to an economic, social, technological and even geopolitical environment that is evolving at great speed, which makes the task of professionals whose mission is to incorporate the most appropriate technologies at all times into their organizations more complex.
Faced with this situation, the @aslan association is finalizing a broad plan of dissemination activities to bring the most important technological trends in 2026 to the entire Spanish business fabric, structured in six pillars: Data management and resilience, Cybersecurity, Digital workplace, Cloud, Digital infrastructures and Artificial Intelligence. The latter, together with cyber resilience, have also emerged as the two great trends among all the others.
As many will know, @aslan is an association formed by more than 200 leading multinational and national technology companies and has the active participation of the greatest experts in the sector. The association dedicates a great effort to research and dissemination in order to transmit all this experience and knowledge to companies and organizations.
@aslan’s technological dissemination plan for the next twelve months began with the launch of work teams and meetings with speakers from its associated companies to detect and prioritize the most important technological trends. All these trends have been structured into 6 large blocks: Data management and resilience, Cybersecurity, Digital workplace, Cloud, Digital infrastructures and Artificial Intelligence.
Six major technological areas
The Data Management and Resilience section includes trends and technologies such as Data Governance, data resilience and sovereignty, analytics, compliance, federated infrastructures and community regulations or data-based decision making.
Within the Digital Workplace area, technological trends such as hyper automation, digital and hybrid workplaces, user experience, cloud VDI or unified communications as a service are grouped.
The Cybersecurity block is made up of trends such as cyber resilience, cybersecurity as a service, cybersecurity based on AI and ML, identity management, Zero Trust & SASE, threat exposure management and protection services for APIs and GenIA systems.
Another of the fundamental pillars is Cloud, which focuses on multicloud and hybrid cloud strategies, governance and resilience of cloud services, orchestration and the As-a-Service model.
The Digital Infrastructures part includes advances in WiFi 7, 5G and IoT, Edge computing, AIOps, SD-WAN, network infrastructure as a service, supercomputing systems, quantum computing and hybrid AI computing as well as the sustainability and energy efficiency of data centers.
Finally, the technological macrotrend that is spreading at high speed through all other areas and also through business models is Artificial Intelligence. Within it, the areas of agentic AI, Generative AI, how to ensure that company data is ready to be used through AI and decision making supported by Artificial Intelligence will be discussed in special detail.
A great program of outreach activities
The final result of all this preparatory work will take the form of an intense agenda of activities, which will be presented at the General Assembly on January 29 and among which stand out the holding of colloquiums, technological forums and meetings that will take place throughout Spain and the publication of e-books and studies analyzing in detail the implications of technological advances and trends for organizations. During the year 2025, more than 425 conferences have taken place with the participation of more than 14,566 professional attendees. In addition, the Association has reached its historical maximum this year with 210 member companies.
The program of activities focused on innovation will start in 2026 with the ASLAN2026 Congress & Expo, which will take place on March 17, 18 and 19. During these three days, in the morning, more than 8,000 professionals will come into contact with the most recent technologies, solutions and products to respond to the needs of their organizations.
Two big trends: Artificial Intelligence and cyber resilience
The ASLAN2026 Congress will have the motto “AI Agents, Resilience, Digital Assets…? We evolve” and will put in the foreground two trends that have emerged as the most important currently: Artificial Intelligence and cyber resilience.
Firstly, it will show the enormous possibilities of AI applied to the workplace to innovate in companies, improve their productivity and competitiveness.
On the other hand, Congress 2026 will also highlight the essential role of cyber resilience in ensuring the survival of organizations in a very complex cybersecurity environment.
Alberto Pascual, President of the @aslan Association, highlights that: “we had to go one step further. We have been an association of technologists for technologists. Now, decisions on technological investment are in the hands of the Board of Directors in private companies and at the political level in the public sector. That is why we are increasing our dialogue and seeking alliances with the advisory councils of different organizations such as that of the Community of Madrid and we have also joined the Digital Security Commission of the CEOE to support us in them and be the appropriate interlocutor with that Board of Directors that we want to reach.”
The ASLAN2026 Congress will be held under the motto “AI Agents, Resilience, Digital Assets…? We evolve”
For his part, Francisco Verderas, Managing Director of the @aslan Association, highlights that: “We started by identifying a series of trends that mark the axes of our activity. Right now we focus our efforts on artificial intelligence, digital sovereignty and cyber resilience. Leading the development of AI is key to the competitiveness of companies. On the other hand, companies’ cyber resilience strategies are essential to reduce the impact of possible attacks on their business and achieve digital sovereignty in such a geopolitical context. complex like the current one.”
