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The grand opening of EmTech Future, exploring the powerful ideas and converging forces defining this moment in technology. Artificial intelligence, energy systems, quantum technologies, and advanced manufacturing are not just advancing independently, but converging in ways that create entirely new classes of systems and possibility.
What happens when the future is shaped less by individual breakthroughs than by the forces that begin to connect them? This session explores how artificial intelligence, quantum technologies, and new manufacturing are beginning to interact, accelerate one another, and create a future shaped as much by their intersections as by their individual advances.
Step inside the newsroom with MIT Technology Review editors for sharp analysis and unpublished insights from the team that researches and reports on emerging tech daily.
What happens when quantum is no longer just a story about technical possibility, but part of a broader transformation in computation? This session explores how quantum is advancing alongside other frontiers and why its significance may lie not only in what it can do on its own, but in how it begins to interact with the systems around it.
What happens when intelligence stops being a category of technology and starts becoming part of every other system? This session explores how AI is beginning to reshape biology, infrastructure, manufacturing, and science and why its greatest impact may come not in isolation, but at the intersections.
Toast the kick-off of EmTech Future, meet and mingle with your peers and industry-leading speakers, and make the unparalleled connections only MIT Technology Review can provide.
*Available to in-person attendees only*
Machine intelligence is advancing far beyond the current generation of models. At the frontier, new approaches to reasoning, autonomy, and multimodal capability are expanding what intelligence can be and will do.
How should an institution built to educate the next generation think about a future being reshaped by accelerating technological change? In this opening conversation, we explore how MIT is thinking about the world ahead and what it means to prepare leaders, researchers, and students for a moment defined by immense opportunity and profound uncertainty.
What happens as artificial intelligence expands beyond language into reasoning, action, perception, and the physical world? This session explores the most important advances shaping AI today and what they reveal about the technical, business, and societal questions now coming into focus.
What happens when machine intelligence begins to build an internal model of the world, not just respond to prompts about it? This session explores how advances in simulation, reasoning, and context are pushing AI toward a deeper understanding of space, action, and consequence.
What happens when intelligence stops being a breakthrough and starts becoming infrastructure? This session explores the frontier of intelligence, from reasoning and multimodal capability to agents and real-world execution, and how these advances are expanding what AI can be and do.
Networking and refreshments for our live audience.
A rare invitation into the places where frontier research is actually happening across MIT. Through curated excursions and firsthand encounters with researchers, labs, and ideas in motion, attendees will experience work that is still unfolding and explore the breakthroughs and intersections that cannot be encountered anywhere else.
A tour focused on the systems that are bringing intelligence into daily life through robotics, sensing, interaction, and ambient computing. This route would explore how MIT is shaping a future in which machines do not simply process information, but increasingly perceive, respond, assist, and act in the world around us.
A tour through the spaces where biology, chemistry, materials, and intelligence begin to reshape the future of health and life sciences. This experience would show how MIT researchers are moving from scientific insight to new approaches in medicine, diagnostics, therapeutics, and the design of living systems.
An inside look at how MIT is reimagining manufacturing through intelligent production, advanced materials, and new approaches to design and fabrication. This tour would show how “making” is becoming one of the most important frontiers of convergence, where computation, materials science, and industrial systems begin to combine.
A guided journey into the future of computation, from quantum systems to the chips, devices, and architectures that will power the next era of intelligence. This tour would explore how MIT researchers are rethinking computation itself and why quantum, hardware, and advanced computing can no longer be understood as separate stories.
Lunch and networking for our live audience.
Intelligence is not staying inside AI. It is moving outward, into energy systems, biological research, and physical infrastructure, creating new possibilities as it begins operating across domains once treated as separate silos.
What happens when biology becomes not just something we observe, but something intelligence can help decode and design? This session explores how AI is accelerating discovery across the life sciences and opening new possibilities in medicine, therapeutics, and the understanding of living systems.
What happens when security becomes a contest between increasingly intelligent systems? This session explores how AI is reshaping cyber defense, infrastructure protection, authentication, and the broader struggle to secure a world of more autonomous and adaptive technologies.
What happens when making becomes more intelligent, more adaptive, and more connected from design to production? This session explores how advances in machines, materials, and production systems are transforming the process of turning ideas into objects.
Networking and refreshments for our live audience.
Energy is emerging as one of the most important frontiers of convergence, shaped by rising demand, new technologies, and the growing pressures of intelligence, infrastructure, and climate. We examine what happens when energy becomes not just a supporting system, but a defining force in how technology scales and daily life is powered.
What happens when energy is no longer just a supporting system, but one of the defining forces shaping the future? We explore the convergence of energy, climate, computing, and infrastructure and why those intersections matter for leaders preparing for a more resource-intensive and technologically interconnected world.
What happens when the technology driving the future also becomes one of its fastest-growing energy demands? This session explores the rising power demands of intelligent systems, the pressure they place on grids and communities, and the possibility that AI itself may help create the next generation of energy solutions.
What happens when energy becomes clean, abundant, and available at a scale that changes what is possible? This session explores the promise of fusion and how a new source of power could transform infrastructure, industry, computation, climate, and daily life.
Join your peers and the MIT Technology Review team out in Kendall Square, the most innovative square mile on the planet.
*Available to in-person attendees only*
Quantum technologies have long been a science of what might be. We examine the breakthroughs now moving quantum from laboratory experiments toward practical systems, opening new possibilities in computation, security, and entirely new frontiers of capability.
What happens when the story of quantum shifts from what might be to what is starting to work? This session explores the technical advances and emerging systems that are bringing quantum closer to practical use and why that shift matters now.
What happens when quantum becomes part of the broader machinery of discovery? This session explores how quantum computing is moving toward practical use by working alongside AI and classical systems, with potential applications in chemistry, materials, medicine, finance, energy, and other domains where complexity is becoming a defining constraint.
What happens when quantum makes it possible to measure the world with entirely new levels of precision? This session explores how advances in quantum sensing are pushing beyond the limits of existing systems and why that may become one of the most surprising and consequential applications of the field.
Networking and refreshments for our live audience.
What happens when the future stops arriving in headlines and starts showing up in the texture of everyday life? We close EmTech Future by exploring how convergence may reshape the way we live, work, move, build, and experience the world around us.
What happens when robots stop being specialized machines and start becoming part of everyday life? This session explores how advances in AI, sensing, mobility, and manipulation are bringing robots closer to homes, workplaces, and care settings and what it will take for people to trust them.
What happens when AI stops functioning only as an individual tool and begins reshaping how organizations think together? This session explores how work, collaboration, and institutional knowledge may evolve over the next five years and what leaders can do to preserve expertise while building more adaptive organizations.
What happens when the systems around us begin to influence not just what we do, but who we trust and how we connect? This session explores how emerging technologies may reshape intimacy, reassurance, companionship, and the social bonds that give everyday life its meaning.
Lunch and networking for our live audience before they depart.