MIT Technology Review has published the full recordings from EmTech Future 2026: When AI Meets Everything, making the sessions available on demand to subscribers. The three-day event covered AI’s growing influence across biology, infrastructure, manufacturing, and science, with sessions on quantum computing, energy systems, and robotics.
Yossi Matias, Vice President and Head of Google Research, explored how AI is reshaping biology, infrastructure, manufacturing, and science, arguing that its greatest impact may come when it intersects with other fields. The conference also featured a special panel, with details on its format and content not provided in the announcement.
Key Sessions From EmTech Future 2026
The conference offered a wide range of sessions, but several stand out as the core of the event’s agenda:
- Quantum in Context — Hartmut Neven, founder and lead at Google Quantum AI, explored how quantum computing is advancing alongside other frontiers. He argued that quantum’s 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.
- Energy Systems for the Future — Evelyn Wang, VP for energy & climate at MIT, examined how energy, computing, infrastructure, and climate technologies are increasingly interconnected. She discussed what these converging systems could mean for the future of industry and society.
- Rethinking Our Relationship With AI — Cory Doctorow, bestselling author and award-winning writer, looked at how AI is changing the way we work and think.
These sessions represent the conference’s central thesis: that AI’s future lies in its intersections with other fields, not in isolated advances within AI itself.
The Cost Of Access
Access to the full program is available exclusively to MIT Technology Review subscribers. Subscribers receive a 20% discount, bringing the cost of the full EmTech Future 2026 program down to $596.
What The Conference Covered
EmTech Future 2026 explored some of the most important questions shaping technology right now, according to the announcement. These include:
- How AI is impacting industries
- Where quantum is heading
- What new energy systems could make possible
- How robotics are evolving
- What challenges and opportunities arise when these technologies start to converge
The conference’s title, When AI Meets Everything, reflects this focus on intersectionality. Rather than treating AI as a standalone tool, the event positioned it as a force that touches every field it encounters.
Comparing The Three Core Sessions
| Session | Speaker | Focus |
|---|---|---|
| Quantum in Context | Hartmut Neven | Quantum computing’s interaction with other frontiers |
| Energy Systems for the Future | Evelyn Wang | Interconnected energy, computing, infrastructure, and climate |
| Rethinking Our Relationship With AI | Cory Doctorow | How AI changes work and thought |
Each session addresses a different technological frontier, but all share the same underlying theme: the idea that the most interesting questions are not about AI in isolation, but about AI’s relationships with other systems.
What Subscribers Get
Subscribers who purchase the full program get access to all conversations and sessions from the event. That includes the key sessions listed above, plus additional content that the announcement does not describe in detail.
The 20% discount applies to the full program, which the announcement describes as containing “all the conversations and sessions from the event.” Subscribers pay $596 for the complete package.
The Bottom Line
EmTech Future 2026: When AI Meets Everything offers a comprehensive look at AI’s role across multiple disciplines. The conference’s focus on intersectionality — the points where AI meets biology, infrastructure, manufacturing, and science — sets it apart from more narrowly focused AI events.
For subscribers, the on-demand recordings provide a valuable resource. The full program, available for $596, includes sessions led by experts from Google Quantum AI, MIT, and Cory Doctorow.
The conference’s emphasis on intersectionality is a useful framing for understanding where AI is headed. Rather than predicting a single future for AI, the event suggests that AI’s future will be defined by its relationships with other systems.
The conference’s title, When AI Meets Everything, captures this approach. It is a conference about AI’s intersections, not its isolated achievements.
“Its greatest impact may come when it intersects with other fields.”
That is the core argument made by Yossi Matias. It is also the organizing principle of the entire conference.
The full program is now available on demand to subscribers. For anyone interested in AI’s current trajectory, the recordings offer a chance to hear directly from the researchers and thinkers shaping the field.
Source material: “EmTech Future 2026: When AI Meets Everything,” MIT Technology Review.
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