EmTech Future 2026: When AI Meets Everything
MIT Technology Review's EmTech Future 2026 conference explored the convergence of AI with fields like biology, infrastructure, and robotics. The event featured industry leaders discussing the practical impacts and future challenges of emerging technologies.
Why it matters
Understanding the intersection of AI with other scientific and industrial sectors is crucial for predicting future economic and technological shifts.
Plus a special MIT Technology Review Insiders Panel
Only available to MIT Technology Review subscribers.
Yossi Matias, Vice President & Head of Google Research, explores how AI is beginning to reshape biology, infrastructure, manufacturing, and science, and why its greatest impact may come when it intersects with other fields.
Step inside the newsroom with our MIT Technology Review editors for sharp analysis and unpublished insights from the team that researches and reports on emerging tech daily.
These are just two sessions from EmTech Future 2026 .
Across three days, EmTech Future explored some of the most important questions shaping technology right now: how AI is impacting industries, where quantum is heading, what new energy systems could make possible, how robotics are evolving, and what challenges and opportunities arise when these technologies start to converge.
Hear the ideas, insights, and perspectives you missed at EmTech Future 2026.
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