MIT Technology Review puts EmTech Future 2026 on demand
MIT Technology Review has published a page announcing that the full EmTech Future 2026 program is now available on demand. The page is promotional: it describes what the sessions explore rather than reporting what was said in them.
The event ran across three days and, in the publication's words, looked at some of the most important questions shaping technology: 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. The recordings give access to all the conversations and sessions from the event.
Two sessions are featured at the top of the page, and both are marked as available only to MIT Technology Review subscribers. The first is a session with Yossi Matias, Vice President & Head of Google Research, who 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. The second is a special MIT Technology Review Insiders Panel, where the magazine's editors take readers inside the newsroom for what the page calls sharp analysis and unpublished insights from the team that researches and reports on emerging tech daily.
The page then lists three more sessions from the full program. In "Quantum in context", Hartmut Neven, founder and lead at Google Quantum AI, 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. In "Energy Systems for the Future", Evelyn Wang, VP for energy & climate at MIT, explores how energy, computing, infrastructure and climate technologies are increasingly interconnected, and what these converging systems could mean for the future of industry and society. In "Rethinking our relationship with AI", Cory Doctorow, described as a bestselling author and award-winning writer, explores how AI is changing the way we work and think.
On price, the page says that MIT Technology Review subscribers get a 20% discount, meaning they can access the full EmTech Future 2026 program for $596. The rest of the page is a list of unrelated MIT Technology Review AI articles and a newsletter sign-up prompt.
Key facts
- The full EmTech Future 2026 program, held across three days, is now available on demand from MIT Technology Review.
- Featured sessions: Yossi Matias (Vice President & Head of Google Research) and an Insiders Panel with MIT Technology Review editors, both flagged as subscriber-only.
- Further sessions: Hartmut Neven (Google Quantum AI) on quantum, Evelyn Wang (VP for energy & climate at MIT) on energy systems, and Cory Doctorow on how AI is changing the way we work and think.
- Subscribers get a 20% discount, putting access to the full program at $596.
- Themes across the event: AI in industry, quantum, new energy systems, robotics, and the convergence of these technologies.
Why it matters
The event's organising idea is convergence: AI, quantum, energy and robotics treated as fields that increasingly overlap rather than separate topics. The session descriptions follow that line. Matias's talk argues AI's greatest impact may come where it meets other fields, Neven's says quantum's significance may lie in how it interacts with surrounding systems, and Wang's looks at energy, computing, infrastructure and climate technologies as interconnected. For readers, the page is a signal of how MIT Technology Review frames the current technology agenda, not a report of new results.
Who it affects
The recordings are aimed at people who missed the event and want the ideas and perspectives from it. The page ties access to MIT Technology Review subscribers: the Matias session and the Insiders Panel are marked subscriber-only, and the discounted $596 price is offered to subscribers. Topics span industry, energy, quantum computing and the effect of AI on work and thinking, so the material is pitched broadly at technology-watchers rather than one specialist group.
How to use it
The full program is available on demand, so the sessions can be watched after the fact. An MIT Technology Review subscriber gets a 20% discount, which the page says makes the full EmTech Future 2026 program $596. The page lists the speakers and session themes: Matias on AI across biology, infrastructure, manufacturing and science; Neven on quantum in context; Wang on energy systems; Doctorow on rethinking our relationship with AI; and an Insiders Panel with the magazine's editors.
How solid is it
This is a promotional page from the event's own organiser, MIT Technology Review. The speakers and their titles are stated plainly: Matias is Vice President & Head of Google Research, Neven is founder and lead at Google Quantum AI, Wang is VP for energy & climate at MIT, and Doctorow is described as a bestselling author and award-winning writer. The session summaries are the publisher's own descriptions, with phrasing such as "may come" and "may lie", and they are not findings. The page reports no content from the sessions, and it does not say whether Google or MIT announced anything at the event.
Risks and caveats
Nothing here should be read as news from the sessions themselves; the page only describes what each one explores. The page gives no dates or location for the event beyond "across three days", and it names no participants of the Insiders Panel beyond MIT Technology Review editors. The non-subscriber price is not stated, so the $596 figure applies only to subscribers after the 20% discount. The list of AI articles at the bottom of the page is separate MIT Technology Review reporting, not part of the event.