Málaga hosts MIT 'Technology Review' EmTech Congress

For the first time ever, Boston’s prestigious MIT – Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and publishers of the benchmark Technology Review magazine founded in 1989 – sets foot in Europe. To be exact, in Málaga, the capital of the Costa del Sol, where the EmTech Congress – bringing together 500 of the sharpest international minds in the field of emerging technologies – takes place on 26 & 27 October at the city’s landmark Palacio de Congresos.

Only the 3^rd foreign city, after Canton and Bangalore, to host the 2-day event, an illustrious think tank comprising business leaders, top investors, entrepreneurs, researchers, technologists and scholars will be sharing and discussing their knowledge of intelligent cities, biotechnology, nanotechnology, robotics, the media, internet, video games and more besides…

But why Málaga? Well, although not a lot of people know that, Málaga is in fact fast becoming a cutting-edge European centre of R+D+I, which is the reason why Technology Review Spain has singled out the city to host not only the Congress itself, but also the concurrent launch of the EmTech Spain website, as well as the XI biannual meeting of the influential Club Málaga Valley, to which the presidents of Spain’s 100 most important companies all belong.

Guest speakers include none other than the director of the Smart Cities group at MIT Media Lab, Ryan Chin; Twitter’s director of technology, Othman Laraki; the head of MIT’s video games research group, Philip Tan; and the editor in chief of Technology Review, Jason Pontin.

And that’s not all, because MIT Technology Review – whose former prizewinners include the founder of Google, Sergey Brin in 2002; and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg in 2007 – will be presenting their celebrated TR35 awards to ten young Spanish innovators under the age of 35; while an investment forum will be bringing together 30 investors and 25 groundbreaking projects ranging from treatments for AIDS and ageing, to free software and carbon capture.