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2026 Tech Forecast
2026 Tech Forecast

1,500+ tech insiders, business leaders, and Pluralsight Authors share their predictions on what’s shifting fastest and how to stay ahead.

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Cat Hicks, PhD

Cat Hicks is a social science leader in tech with expertise leading applied research teams to explore complex areas of human behavior, empirical intervention, and evidence science.

Cat is a research affiliate in STEM education research at UC San Diego and an advocate for increasing education access. She holds a Ph.D. in Quantitative Experimental Psychology from UC San Diego, was an inaugural Fellow in the UC San Diego Design Lab, and has led research at organizations such as Google and Khan Academy.