Dzmitry Korsak

The NATO DIANA Demo Day recently took place in Warsaw as part of Defence24 Days. At the FORT Kraków event, companies developing strategically significant technologies for security and defence were showcased: autonomous systems, communications solutions, sensors, counter-drone technologies, and data integration tools.

Cybersecurity long ago stopped being a topic reserved for banks, military contractors, and companies with “classified” on the door. Attacks are making their way into healthcare, energy, hospitality, libraries, cloud services, and everyday office applications. Against this backdrop, Zero Trust keeps coming up more and more. It’s one of the most widely embraced responses to a reality where an employee might work from the office, home, an airport, or a coffee shop, applications live in the cloud, and part of the infrastructure is handed off to contractors.

Over two decades, the IT sector has evolved from a standalone services market into one of the key drivers of macroeconomic stability. It’s still often described as a volatile and contradictory space — dotcoms, bubbles, AI hype, promises the market doesn’t always have time to put to the test. But something else has been unfolding in parallel. The digital industry is turning into a source of innovation, foreign currency earnings, high-skilled employment, tax revenue, services exports, and the technological modernization of other sectors.

Cast your mind back 15 years. Someone tells you that stepping out the door, you can take along a blood pressure monitor, a glucose meter, a pulse oximeter, and even an ECG device — and that all of these will run nonstop, mostly sitting on your wrist inside a watch. Would you have bought into that kind of science fiction back then? It turned out that not much time at all was needed for it to become reality. Wearable medical devices that we carry with us every day are evolving at a breakneck pace, surprising us year after year. Today, we’re looking back at the most landmark developments of recent years and checking in on where the industry is headed.

Medicine is one of the most promising fields where AI is already delivering remarkable results — in radiology, for instance, or during patient intake. At the same time, medicine is a quantitative science built on protocols and strict, evidence-backed rules. So the temptation to train AI to think like a doctor — and eventually replace one is understandable. But how feasible is that?

Something remarkable has been happening in Azerbaijan in recent years. Government institutions are being digitized at a pace that would have seemed unthinkable just a decade ago. A region that 10–15 years ago was considered a laggard in high technology is not simply catching up — it is increasingly looking like a success story in rolling out digitization across a state system.

A major scandal is brewing in Poland’s cryptocurrency market. Citing sources inside Zondacrypto, portal Money.pl reports that the company’s email and internal corporate communication channels are no longer working, while its president, Przemysław Kral, has stopped responding to employees, even though messaging apps show he was recently active.

Talk of robots is everywhere — the assumption is that they’re destined to be AI made flesh, and the next leap in machine evolution. Yet few people understand where exactly these robots will appear, or how they will specifically help us. Sure, there are plenty of presentations showing humanoid-like robots dancing and pouring champagne into glasses. But that looks more like expensive toys. What should we expect in reality?

Commercial aviation is in a strange position: demand is growing, there are not enough aircraft, yet the industry still has no truly new mass-market airliner. In 2025, global passenger traffic measured in RPK grew by 5.3%, and in February 2026 it increased by another 6.1% year-on-year. At the same time, Airbus ended 2025 with a record backlog of 8,754 commercial aircraft, and the A320 family alone has a backlog of more than 7,000 aircraft. We can see that demand for aircraft is enormous, yet the biggest segment of global aviation seems in no hurry to enter a new era.

The American lunar mission Artemis II launched on April 1 from Kennedy Space Center. It marks the first crewed flight to the Moon since Apollo (1972) and the first crewed mission of the Artemis program. The SLS rocket carried the Orion spacecraft with four astronauts on a 10-day lunar flyby mission before returning to Earth.