Founder, Exponential View; technology analyst, entrepreneur and author
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Azeem Azhar places an organisation's AI choices inside the wider technology economy. His analysis connects emerging capabilities with the institutions, infrastructure and commercial relationships surrounding them. For leadership teams, that widens an agent discussion beyond internal efficiency to questions about dependence, exchange and control. His wildcard contribution is to ask how the organisation's position changes when important parts of its work run through external platforms.
Explore how new capabilities can alter what a company builds, buys and coordinates. This proposed executive lens connects internal adoption with strategic dependence and competitive position. It is particularly useful when technology choices reach beyond the remit of a single operating function.
Examine the infrastructure that agents may need to work and exchange value across organisational boundaries. Identity and verification provide concrete starting points for the discussion. Forecasts should be treated as scenarios to interrogate, with implications tested against the organisation's own commitments.
Consider how leadership teams interpret technological developments whose pace differs from their planning and investment cycles. The aim is to improve the questions behind adaptation decisions, including what to learn now, which dependencies to watch and where flexibility matters.
Widen the conversation beyond individual products to the surrounding economic and institutional conditions. This lens is relevant to boards assessing long-term exposure, as well as executives who need to connect immediate AI decisions with a broader view of change.
Azeem Azhar is the founder of Exponential View, where he analyses developments in technology and their economic and social implications. His background includes entrepreneurship, investment and journalism, with previous work as a correspondent at The Economist and as founder of PeerIndex.
His writing and speaking connect AI with other technologies and with the institutions that adapt to them. He is the author of Exponential and addresses executive audiences on technological change and its strategic implications. His work aims to make rapid developments intelligible without separating them from the organisations and markets in which they operate.
In a February 2026 Exponential View discussion, Azhar and his collaborators examined practical use of agents alongside questions about identity, verification and exchange. That discussion provides a direct connection between his broader economic perspective and the emerging infrastructure of agentic systems. Its predictions remain hypotheses rather than established outcomes.
For a leadership programme, Azhar is a useful counterweight to an exclusively internal transformation agenda. His contribution can help teams examine which capabilities they are building, which dependencies they are accepting and how changes in the surrounding technology economy could alter the value of those decisions.
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