Information technologies have penetrated all, even the most conservative, industries and spheres of life, and IT competencies are becoming key for many businesses and companies

What areas are the most promising for future IT professionals and what tasks need to be solved within them? 

big data analysis and machine learning, cloud services and Internet portals, information security, computer linguistics, robotics, unmanned navigation systems, telecommunications, virtual and augmented reality technologies, game development, financial technologies, business process management and optimization, automation of modern production