EmTech 2019 | MIT Technology Review | 17 September 2019 | MIT Media Lab, 75 Amherst St, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA

EmTech MIT is your opportunity to discover future trends and to understand the technologies that will drive the global economy in the years ahead. A defining challenge of our time remains unsolved in the decades-long effort to develop sustainable, affordable energy sources to power a growing global population. Now, with the effects of climate change growing more visible around the world, to a very real extent our time is up. We will examine the innovative initiatives underway to support communities and regional economies through adaptation to a climate changed. It seems inevitable that breakthroughs in science and technology will come with unintended consequences. Yes, the stakes are rising as new technologies are created and shared nearly immediately at global scale, from artificial intelligences we don’t fully understand to developing the ability to edit the human genome. To benefit from the promises while mitigating the risks of new breakthroughs, technical literacy across a surprising range of fields is your new normal.

2019 Speakers

FEATURED SPEAKERS:

Yoshua Bengio
Founder and Scientific Director, Mila, Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute

Sonia Vallabh
Group Leader, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT

Candace Worley
Vice President and Chief Technical Strategist, McAfee

Greg Wyler
Founder and Executive Chairman, OneWeb

SPEAKERS:

Rediet Abebe
Junior Fellow, Harvard Society of Fellows

Katie Bach
Managing Director, Good Jobs Institute

Anurag Bajpayee
Co-Founder and CEO, Gradiant Corporation

Jainey Bavishi
Director and Deputy Chief Resilience Officer, NYC Mayor's Office of Recovery and Resiliency

Vence Bonham
Senior Advisor to the NHGRI Director on Genomics and Health Disparities, NIH

Elizabeth Bramson-Boudreau
CEO and Publisher, MIT Technology Review

Noam Brown
Research Scientist, Facebook

Jason Buenrostro
Assistant Professor, Harvard University

Silvia Caballero
Senior Staff Scientist, Vedanta Biosciences

Vivian Chu
CTO and Co-Founder, Diligent Robotics

Joseph Coughlin
Director, MIT AgeLab

César De La Fuente
Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania

Dawei Di
Principal Investigator, Zhejiang University and University of Cambridge

Olga Dudchenko
Postdoctoral Associate, Baylor College of Medicine

Kerry A. Emanuel
Professor of Atmospheric Science, MIT

Camille Francois
Chief Innovation Officer, Graphika

Tracy Frey
Director of Strategy, Google Cloud AI

Nicole Gaudelli
Senior Scientist, Beam Therapeutics

Martin Giles
San Francisco Bureau Chief, MIT Technology Review

Grace Gu
Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley

Song Han
Assistant Professor, MIT

Karen Hao
AI Reporter, MIT Technology Review

Steven Hill
Global Head of Innovation, KPMG

Guosong Hong
Assistant Professor, Stanford University

Patrick Hsu
Principal Investigator and Salk Helmsley Fellow, Salk Institute for Biological Studies

Qichao Hu
Founder and CEO, SolidEnergy Systems

Benjamin Hurlbut
Assistant Professor, Arizona State University School of Life Sciences

Cliff Justice
Principal, US Leader, Intelligent Automation, KPMG

Abhinav Kandala
Research Staff Member, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

Mekala Krishnan
Senior Fellow, McKinsey Global Institute

Marc Lajoie
Co-Director, Lyell Immunopharma

Himabindu Lakkaraju
Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University

Hao Li
CEO and Cofounder, Pinscreen

Jinxing Li
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Stanford University

Gideon Lichfield
Editor in Chief, MIT Technology Review

Riana Lynn
CEO, Journey Foods

Joan Mannick
Cofounder, Chief Medical Officer, Board Member, resTORbio

Azalia Mirhoseini
Senior Research Scientist, Google Brain

Daragh Murray
Senior Lecturer, Human Rights Centre and School of Law, University of Essex

Mutale Nkonde
Fellow, Berkman Klein Center of Internet and Society, Harvard University

William Oliver
Principal Investigator, Engineering Quantum Systems Group, MIT

Chirag Parikh
Director, National Geospatial Intelligence Agency

Ida Pavlichenko
Technology Development Fellow, Harvard's Wyss Institute

Raluca Ada Popa
Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley

Mariana Popescu
Postdoctoral Researcher, Block Research Group, ETH Zurich

Ritu Raman
Postdoctoral Fellow, MIT

Antonio Regalado
Senior Editor for Biomedicine, MIT Technology Review

Michael Reilly
Executive Editor, MIT Technology Review

David Rotman
Editor at Large, MIT Technology Review

Isaac Sesi
Co-Founder and Team Lead, Sesi Technologies

Gadi Singer
VP, Artificial Intelligence Products Group and GM, Inference Products Group, Intel

Brandon Sorbom
Co-Founder and Chief Science Officer, Commonwealth Fusion Systems

Kimberly Stachenfeld
Research Scientist, DeepMind

Alex Stamos
Director, Stanford Internet Observatory

James Temple
Senior Editor for Energy, MIT Technology Review

Archana Venkataraman
Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University

Danielle Wood
Director, Space Enabled Research Group, MIT Media Lab

Liang Xu
Deputy Chief Engineer, AI Department, Ping An Technology

Wojciech Zaremba
Co-Founder and Head of Robotics, OpenAI

Yi Zeng
Professor, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences

2019 Partners

PRESENTING PARTNERS:
• Intel
• KPMG

EVENT PARTNER:
• Lemelson-MIT
• MIT
• Dashlane