The growth of artificial intelligence is reshaping how people discover, evaluate, and interact with brands online. Organizations today face a new question: it's no longer enough to ask whether they need a website, but to understand how to stay credible, secure, and governable in a world increasingly mediated by AI. The difference is no longer made by traffic or search ranking alone, but by the ability to be authoritative, machine-readable, and trustworthy across the entire digital stack.
How can organizations maintain a credible, controlled digital presence as discovery shifts from search engines to AI-generated answers?
The rise of zero-click behaviour, the decline of social media as the main digital agora, and mounting regulatory pressure (eIDAS 2.0, NIS2, DORA, the AI Act) are redefining the value of a website and an organization's digital assets. This paper examines the shift underway — from digital presence as a storefront to digital presence as a trust surface — and introduces a new paradigm: Trusted Digital Presence as the capacity to be authoritative for AI, trustworthy for users, and secure for regulators.
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A collection of papers exploring the key topics shaping innovation, designed to spark discussion around emerging trends, understand where they are taking us, and offer perspectives on how to shape them rather than simply adapt to them — from the point of view of those who build the digital world and those who experience it.