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Connect with industry peers in small roundtable discussions to explore key AI issues, priorities, and strategies. A readout of insights will guide our editorial hosts in tailoring their on-stage interviews.
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Networking and light refreshments for our in-person audience.
AI is moving from experimentation to execution. In this opening chapter, we show what true integration looks like—from the organizations already scaling AI across operations, to the emerging platforms enabling unified intelligence, to the realities leaders must confront as hype meets hard limits.
Moving AI from isolated wins to enterprise-wide impact requires disciplined focus, cross-functional alignment, and a willingness to challenge entrenched processes. Hear how leading organizations break out of pilot purgatory, prioritize high-value bets, and implement intelligence across their global operations.
The next generation of AI will function less like a tool and more like a platform, where models, applications, and human workflows converge. Discover the emerging architectures that transform conversational systems into integrated operating environments capable of powering services, automating tasks, and enabling scalable intelligence across the enterprise.
We are living through a rare moment when economic structures, cultural norms, scientific workflows, and everyday life are changing all at once. In this long-form conversation, we examine the forces that truly matter, the risks we must confront, and the shifts that will define the years ahead.
As expectations surge, so do misconceptions—as do the challenges of AI hallucinations. We examine the gap between AI’s perceived intelligence and its actual reliability, autonomy, and reasoning. Learn where systems mislead us, what risks remain underestimated, and how leaders can plan realistically for the breakthroughs — and bottlenecks — ahead.
Toast the kick-off of EmTech AI, meet and mingle with your peers and industry-leading speakers, and make the unparalleled connections only MIT Technology Review can provide.
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Discover MIT’s storied legacy and its mission: to advance knowledge in science and technology that will best serve the world in the 21st century. Take a campus tour that highlights iconic buildings, pioneering labs, and the milestones that have shaped the Institute's impact on technology and society. Walk through the corridors where innovation happens, and experience firsthand the atmosphere that inspires breakthrough thinking.
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AI agents are moving far beyond chatbots and simple automations. We explore the realities of deploying agentic systems at scale, the architectures required to coordinate them, and the frontier innovations defining the next generation of agentic intelligence.
Agentic AI isn’t theoretical anymore. Hear how one organization scaled from isolated agents to a fully agentic workforce across IT, security, and operations. Learn the playbook: what worked, what didn’t, how value was measured, and the surprising lessons only experience reveals.
Agentic AI is entering a transformational phase, shifting from isolated tools to coordinated systems capable of automating complex enterprise workflows. Gain a rare inside look at the emerging architectures, technical priorities, and strategic shifts defining the future of agent ecosystems.
Agentic AI requires more than smarter models, it depends on the systems that enable continuous reasoning, multimodal understanding, and real-time action. Explore the innovations in compute, memory, and model design powering the next generation of agents, and what they mean for scalable enterprise adoption.
Networking and refreshments for our in-person audience.
AI now shapes the entire path to revenue, from how teams build products to how brands attract customers and sales organizations convert demand. This chapter reveals how leading companies are turning AI into true revenue machines.
AI is transforming the developer workflow, accelerating coding while introducing new challenges in quality, safety, and oversight. This session breaks down the co-development patterns, guardrails, and architectural shifts leaders must adopt to refactor software development for an AI-driven future.
Marketing is shifting as autonomous agents begin handling work once owned by humans. Explore how AI interprets data, adapts messaging, and takes action inside real systems while preserving brand safety and control, turning real-time customer insight directly into measurable conversion.
AI is reshaping how sales pipelines operate, from lead qualification to forecasting to real-time buyer insights. We outline the models, workflows, and data foundations required to modernize sales engines with AI and drive repeatable, measurable revenue outcomes across the entire cycle.
Lunch and networking for our live audience.
AI is reshaping enterprise architecture from the ground up. This chapter offers a nontechnical guide to building the core layers of the modern stack: trusted data, orchestrated workflows, and secure systems that support scalable, responsible AI across the business.
Go behind the curtain with MIT Technology Review’s editorial team as they reveal the trends, tensions, and technological shifts shaping AI’s next chapter. Expect sharp analysis, contrarian takes, and early signals that haven’t yet made the headlines—but will shape your strategy.
Most organizations aren’t limited by models; they’re limited by messy, siloed, unsafe data. Explore how to build a governed data fabric that makes enterprise data accessible, trustworthy, and AI-ready, enabling teams to safely unlock value across the entire AI stack.
As companies adopt AI, the real challenge is connecting tools into coherent workflows. See how orchestration layers provide structure, reliability, and control, enabling multi-step operations that scale safely across teams and business systems.
The shift to AI-driven systems introduces new risks across every layer of the stack. This session examines how to secure data, models, and workflows against issues like data leakage, supply chain vulnerabilities, shadow AI, insecure code, and model drift—while maintaining trust, governance, and control.
Networking and refreshments for our in-person audience.
The chapter examines where creative spark meets systems that scale. Discover how teams turn bold concepts into finished work using AI in visual effects, music, and product design. Leave with ideas you can try tomorrow and patterns that scale.
AI is transforming product design from the first sketch to the final test. See how creative teams combine human vision with AI-generated variants, rapid prototyping, and digital-twin testing to boost speed, increase fidelity, and unlock forms that weren’t possible before.
Creative pipelines built for yesterday can’t meet the demands of AI-driven production. Discover how modern pipelines blend human direction with AI-assisted production to boost speed, raise quality, and scale personalized content while maintaining the authenticity that defines the brand.
Join your peers and our AI Editorial Team for drinks in Kendall Square, the most innovative square mile on the continent.
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Discover MIT’s storied legacy and its mission: to advance knowledge in science and technology that will best serve the world in the 21st century. Take a campus tour that highlights iconic buildings, pioneering labs, and the milestones that have shaped the Institute's impact on technology and society. Walk through the corridors where innovation happens, and experience firsthand the atmosphere that inspires breakthrough thinking.
*Available to in-person attendees only*
Start your day with the editors of MIT Technology Review, who research and report on emerging technologies every day. This is your chance to engage them directly in conversations about the topics shaping business and society.
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AI is redefining every role and relationship. We address the most pressing human questions: how to reskill teams, rethink talent pipelines, and lead in a world where human and machine intelligence are inextricably linked.
AI is reshaping how organizations operate, collaborate, and make decisions. We reveal the emerging leadership models and team designs that redefine roles, develop new skills, and enable people and intelligent systems to work together with clarity, confidence, and purpose.
Consumers are turning to AI agents, not brands, to decide what to trust. Explore how discovery, evaluation, and loyalty shift in an agent-mediated economy and what organizations must build now to ensure that their products remain findable, credible, and chosen.
AI is reshaping frontline work at unprecedented scale. Hear how major employers are redesigning roles; reskilling large, distributed teams; and deploying AI across logistics, operations, and HR—balancing automation with empowerment to build a more capable, confident, and AI-ready workforce.
Networking and refreshments for our in-person audience.
World models aim to give AI systems an internal understanding of how the world works, enabling them to predict, plan, and generalize far beyond the ability of today’s pattern-matching models. Explore how this emerging approach could transform reasoning, autonomy, and the next generation of advanced intelligence.
Robots are moving from controlled demos to real participation inside the home. This session explores what the arrival of general-purpose domestic robots unlocks, from new consumer markets; to evolving safety, alignment, and interaction models; to how these systems may reshape everyday life as their capabilities mature.
As we close EmTech AI, we look toward the frontier. AI research is advancing rapidly across models, reasoning, robotics, and multimodal understanding. Get a rare, insider view of the early experiments, frontier ideas, and emerging capabilities that could define the next wave of AI progress over the coming years.
Lunch and networking for our live audience before they depart.