2019 is going to see some real industry disruption. Waves of adoption of the new Accellera Portable Stimulus Standard (PSS), which commenced in 2018, will take hold this year. Apart from the obvious improvements to the UVM and Software Driven Verification (SDV) flows, we will see it used to enhance specific applications with verification challenges. Automotive is a clear winner with the need to verify specific, exact requirements. PSS security applications will become apparent. In fact, many areas where Formal Verification has been shown to be useful will also be a target for PSS, given its declarative, high-coverage characteristics. RISC-V also represents a notable industry disruption, and it is clear from recent events that 2019 will see strong commercial adoption on what has largely been, so far, a more academic exercise. Commercial solutions are required to make this a reality and probably the most important is verification. PSS will have a part to play here as users look for commercial test bench solutions that allow them to easily verify processor with extended instruction sets.