The KPMG 2025 Futures Report
Seizing opportunities in an era of disruption
Launching this Spring
The KPMG 2025 Futures Report unpacks the key forces shaping global markets, equipping business leaders with the insights and strategies needed to stay ahead. This year’s report explores seven critical Frontiers that will redefine industries and create new competitive dynamics:
- Artificial Superintelligence – The next evolution of AI and its enterprise impact
- Quantum Computing – The opportunities and risks of quantum breakthroughs
- Space Economy – The expanding commercial landscape beyond Earth
- Computing Infrastructure – The race for faster, more efficient compute power
- Digital Assets – The transformation of finance and enterprise value exchange
- Environmental Resilience – Innovations driving sustainable competitive advantage
- Advanced Manufacturing – The digital reinvention of production, reshoring, and the race to rebuild domestic industrial strength
The future is unfolding. Are you ready?
The KPMG 2025 Futures Report explores the forces reshaping global markets and how business leaders can turn disruption into opportunity. Emerging technologies, shifting regulations, and geopolitical shifts are accelerating change—making strategic foresight essential for those who want to lead, not follow.
Key Questions for Future-Ready Leaders:
- How will AI’s next evolution transform decision-making, automation, and competitive advantage?
- When will quantum breakthroughs shift cybersecurity, encryption, and business operations?
- How will advancements in space technology unlock new opportunities for enterprises?
- How will the race for faster, more efficient compute power redefine innovation needs?
- What’s next for finance as digital currencies, tokenization, and decentralized systems gain traction?
- How can sustainability-driven innovation fuel growth and long-term competitive advantage?
- How will the next wave of automation, supply chain reinvention, and domestic production reshape global competitiveness?
The Forces and Frontiers that will define our collective future
The future is a dynamic frontier, where powerful external forces societal shifts, geopolitical tensions, resource demands, climate change, and economic upheaval collide to reshape the technology landscape, including artificial superintelligence, quantum computing, and immersive experiences. These forces influence markets and forge uncharted territories of opportunity, demanding bold visions and the courage to navigate the rugged, ever-shifting terrain ahead. Are you ready for tomorrow? We are here to help you chart the course, uncover hidden opportunities, and thrive in this transformative era.
Featured Insights
- Artificial Superintelligence – The rise of advanced artificial intelligence signals a potential seismic shift, with the potential of reshaping industries, workforce dynamics, and geopolitical power structures. While it remains a future possibility, businesses must closely monitor its trajectory, assess emerging breakthroughs, and prepare for the profound implications it could bring – ranging from automation at an unprecedented scale to complex ethical and security challenges.
- Quantum Computing – Quantum breakthroughs are poised to revolutionize industries by optimizing logistics, accelerating drug discovery, and transforming financial modeling. However, the same power that enables these advances also threatens encryption and cybersecurity. Businesses must develop strategies to harness quantum’s potential while mitigating its risks.
- Space Economy – The commercialization of space is no longer a distant vision. With decreasing launch costs and private-sector innovation accelerating, businesses are exploring new Frontiers in satellite technology, space-based manufacturing, and off-planet infrastructure. Companies can rethink their supply chains, communications strategies, and competitive positioning in this rapidly evolving market.
- Computing Infrastructure – The demand for faster, more efficient computing is fueling innovations in new computing paradigms. As the economy becomes increasingly compute-dependent, organizations must reassess their IT strategies and investment priorities to stay ahead in this computational arms race.
- Digital Assets – The digital asset landscape is rapidly evolving beyond cryptocurrencies, driving innovation in tokenized assets, central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), and decentralized finance (DeFi). These advancements are reshaping financial transactions, liquidity, and asset ownership. Businesses must evaluate how digital assets will impact their financial strategies, regulatory compliance, and competitive positioning in an increasingly digitized economy.
- Environmental Resilience – As climate risks grow and resource constraints tighten, businesses must rethink how they build resilience while maintaining growth. Emerging technologies are unlocking new ways to optimize energy use, reduce waste, and enhance sustainability. Organizations that proactively integrate these innovations will not only meet evolving regulations but also gain a strategic edge in an economy increasingly shaped by environmental constraints.
- Advanced Manufacturing – A new era of manufacturing is unfolding, driven by automation, AI, and advanced materials. Significant investments are fueling the resurgence of domestic industrial strength, with governments and businesses prioritizing onshoring to secure supply chains and enhance economic resilience. As innovation accelerates, organizations must adopt these technologies to remain competitive in a rapidly evolving global landscape.
The future by the numbers
$1.5 billion
The amount of venture capital funding raised by Quantum startups in 2024, nearly doubling the $785 million raised in 2023.
Source: Crunchbase News
160%
The estimated increase in AI-driven data center power demand by 2030.
Source: Goldman Sachs
$4 trillion
The potential value of tokenized financial and real-work assets in private markets by 2030.
Source: CitiBank
2028
The year by which the IDC predicts global data center electricity consumption to more than double, driving a 44.7% CAGR (Compound Annual Growth Rate).
Source: International Data Corporation
$700 billion
The projected economic value generated from Earth Observational (EO) data by 2030.
Source: World Economic Forum
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