Vote in BI Today’s Trend-Focused March Madness Bracket

This. Is. March. (At Enterprise Insider.)

The NCAA males’s and girls’s basketball tournaments kick off this week. March Insanity is taken into account top-of-the-line sporting occasions of the yr, however why allow them to have all of the enjoyable?

Right here at BI At this time, we’re doing a bracket of our personal, and we want your assist. Under you may discover an eight-team bracket made up of a number of the largest traits in enterprise, seeded from one (highest) to eight.

(My colleague Joe Ciolli is doing a bracket for First Trade targeted on particular firms. You possibly can try his over right here.)

Voting will keep open till Thursday night time. Subsequent Monday I will share the outcomes, and we’ll have one other spherical of voting. We’ll repeat the method till we’ve a winner!

The final time we did this in 2024 — I skipped final yr; having a child actually threw a wrench in my plans — it got here right down to the US presidential election vs artificial intelligence, with the election barely beating out AI.

A fast word earlier than we dive in: The warfare in Iran clearly has large ramifications throughout the enterprise world. However the battle is fluid, so I did not embody it. In any case, it would not be March Insanity with out a crew feeling it obtained unfairly unnoticed of the event.

SaaSpocalypse (1) vs Autonomous autos (8): It’s been a bloodbath for software program firms, an instance of the ability of AI. In the meantime, self-driving cars have develop into a giant wager for everybody from Tesla to Uber.

Prediction markets (4) vs Tariffs (5): No phrase on if prediction markets will set a market on this bracket, however I promise to not insider trade. Within the meantime, the will-they-won’t-they tariff drama continues, with a new legal twist.

Vibe coding (3) vs Longevity (6): It is not only a vibe. It’s big business these days. And it is not simply Bryan Johnson and Alphaville who wish to dwell without end anymore.

Personal credit score (2) vs Robotics (7): Each private-credit govt will inform you they’re not the problem, however there’s loads of concern in regards to the wider trade. Nonetheless, maybe probably the most underrated evolution happening within the enterprise world is on manufacturing floors.