EmTech Future 2026 Examines AI’s Convergence With Biology, Infrastructure, Manufacturing and Science
MIT Tech Review’s EmTech Future 2026 explored AI’s convergence with quantum, energy and robotics; program on demand.
Yossi Matias, vice president and head of Google Research, explored those intersections in a session on AI and other fields. MIT Technology Review said Matias discussed how AI is beginning to reshape biology, infrastructure, manufacturing and science, and why its largest effects may emerge when it meets other disciplines.
Across the three days, the event explored questions shaping technology at the time, according to MIT Technology Review. Those questions included how AI is affecting industries, where quantum computing is heading, what new energy systems could make possible, how robotics are evolving, and what challenges and opportunities arise when these technologies begin to converge.
The on-demand program includes sessions on quantum, energy and AI. In Quantum in Context, Hartmut Neven, founder and lead at Google Quantum AI, explored 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, MIT Technology Review said.
In Energy Systems for the Future, Evelyn Wang, vice president for energy and climate at MIT, explored how energy, computing, infrastructure and climate technologies are increasingly interconnected, and what those converging systems could mean for the future of industry and society. In Rethinking our relationship with AI, Cory Doctorow, a bestselling author and award-winning writer, explored how AI is changing the way people work and think, according to the publication.
MIT Technology Review also promoted a newsroom session with its MIT Technology Review editors, offering what it described as sharp analysis and unpublished insights from the team that researches and reports on emerging technology daily. It said there was much more to discover beyond the sessions highlighted in the article.
MIT Technology Review said subscribers receive a 20 percent discount, allowing them to access the full EmTech Future 2026 program for $596. The full program is available on demand.