
The Zero100 Podcast Zero100 Predictions 2026: AI Agents, Nuclear Energy, and Vanishing Jobs
Dec 2, 2025
21:39
What did Zero100 get right about 2025 — and what's coming in 2026? Chief Content Officer Matt Davis sits down with VP, Research Advisory Services Lauren Acoba and Principal Research Caroline Chumakov to grade last year's boldest predictions before mapping the forces that will reshape supply chains over the next 12 months. From AI agents moving into planning and sourcing, to clean energy as competitive advantage, to India's manufacturing rise and humanoid robots entering the workforce— this is your annual roadmap of trends worth watching and moves to make now.
- Grading 2025: How Zero100's predictions held up (01:43)
- Can AI move faster without cleaner data? Spoiler: probably not (05:25)
- Nuclear's next mission: Powering the data center boom (06:29)
- How AI agents are reshaping planning, sourcing, and orchestration roles (10:31)
- Could India be manufacturing’s next superstar? (16:34)
- Humanoids find their footing in real-life operations (18:36)
