In 2020, senior tech industry executives predicted that a massive expansion of the Internet of Things (IoT) and growing trends in software instrumentation would put a focus on time series data, with many enterprises recognizing the need for a specific strategy to unlock business potential. InfluxData CEO Evan Kaplan was quoted as saying this, highlighting the importance of time series data in 2020. This trend is also reflected in other news articles, such as ZDNet's coverage of InfluxData becoming the embedded IoT database for PTC and adding Azure support, and Computing's article on cutting fleet car costs with telemetry. Additionally, there are insights into how developers feel during the COVID-19 crisis, but these seem to be tangential to the main AI predictions discussed in the Forbes article.