MIT Technology Review Announces EmTech MIT 2025: "Navigate with Confidence"

The detailed agenda is now live for MIT Technology Review's flagship event on transformative technology for business leaders, hosted on the MIT campus November 4-6

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., July 16, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- MIT Technology Review announces the return of EmTech MIT, its flagship conference on technology and innovation, to be held November 4-6, 2025, on the MIT campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and online for virtual attendees. This year's theme, "Navigate with Confidence," reflects a clear mission: to empower decision-makers to lead with clarity and strategic insight amid shifting regulations and technological disruption, and to uncover new opportunities, rethink assumptions, and drive innovation.

The conference brings together executives, technologists, investors, and policymakers to explore the breakthrough technologies that are reshaping business and society—and the drivers behind them. Today, MIT Technology Review released the full agenda, featuring the return of exclusive executive roundtable sessions and three days of editorially curated sessions on AI, climate tech, robotics, quantum computing, digital trust, decentralized systems, and the future of work and money.

"In uncertain times, innovation can stall without clarity and direction," said Brian Bryson, director of programming at MIT Technology Review. "This year's program is designed to help leaders move from instinct to insight and allow them to spot opportunities and be inspired to push forward with confidence."

What Sets EmTech MIT Apart
Since 1999, EmTech MIT has focused on transformative technologies and emerging trends—what's next and what matters most. Here's what makes it unlike any other event.

• The MIT Edge
  Learn on the iconic MIT campus—where groundbreaking ideas are born, challenged, and refined. For over 150 years, MIT has shaped the world through science, technology, and innovation.
• Pioneering Minds
  EmTech MIT convenes a powerful cross-industry community of forward-looking executives, decision-makers, and technical experts. You'll engage with an exclusive community of just 400 peers who challenge, inspire, and elevate your thinking.
• Editorial Authority
  Every session is curated by the award-winning editorial team at MIT Technology Review—journalists who research and report daily on the technologies shaping the global innovation economy.

Agenda Highlights
Newly confirmed sessions include:

• The Next Intelligence — a candid conversation about superintelligence, safety, and the path forward for AI
• The Protocol Economy — exploring read-write-own ecosystems and the future of decentralized ownership
• Climate Tech's Next Playbook — revealing new strategies to scale sustainable innovation in a constrained capital environment
• The Robots Are Coming Home — on the rise of humanoid robots in everyday life
• The ABCs of AI: Algorithms, Borders, Control — mapping sovereign AI and the geopolitics of algorithms

Confirmed Speakers to Date

• Rodney Brooks, CTO and Cofounder, Robust.AI; Professor Emeritus, MIT
• David Edelman, Director, Project on Technology, Economy, and National Security, MIT
• Gary Gensler, Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management; Former Chair, US Securities and Exchange Commission
• Fiona Murray, Associate Dean for Innovation, MIT Sloan School of Management
• Ganesha Rasiah, Chief Strategy Officer, HP
• Costa Samaras, Former Principal Assistant Director for Energy, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy; Director, Scott Institute for Energy Innovation, Carnegie Mellon University
• Colette Stallbaumer, Cofounder, Microsoft WorkLab; General Manager, Microsoft 365 Copilot
• Lucia Tian, Head of Advanced Energy, Google

More speakers and sessions will be announced throughout the summer.

Don't miss your chance to be part of MIT Technology Review's flagship tech event. Register now at emtechmit.com—early access pricing ends August 1.

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