Reports & Indexes

WEF unveils Top 10 Emerging Technologies of 2026 at Summer Davos

Tuesday, 23 June 2026 5 min readSource: World Economic ForumArticle 6 of 8

The World Economic Forum (WEF), in collaboration with the publisher Frontiers, released its Top 10 Emerging Technologies of 2026 report on June 23, 2026, at the Forum's 'Summer Davos' — the Annual Meeting of the New Champions (AMNC) — in Dalian, China. The report highlights technologies moving from the lab into real-world use across energy, materials, health and computing, marking a shift from software-first AI to physical systems such as power grids, drug pipelines, food production and robotics. The flagship example is 'everything-to-grid' energy, which lets buildings, electric vehicles and devices store electricity and feed it back to the grid on demand. Other featured areas include advanced materials, personalised drugs and quantum-era cryptography.

Key Facts & Details

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WEF (with Frontiers) released the Top 10 Emerging Technologies of 2026 report on June 23, 2026.
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It was launched at WEF's 'Summer Davos' / Annual Meeting of the New Champions (AMNC) in Dalian, China.
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The report covers tech across energy, materials, health and computing, shifting from software-AI to physical systems.
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The headline technology is 'everything-to-grid' energy (buildings/EVs feeding power back to the grid).
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The World Economic Forum is a Geneva-based body best known for its annual Davos meeting.

Deep Dive

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The 'Summer Davos' / AMNC is the WEF's mid-year meeting, hosted in China (Dalian/Tianjin), distinct from the January Davos meeting in Switzerland.
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The annual Top 10 Emerging Technologies report identifies technologies at the tipping point between scientific progress and real-world impact.
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Several listed technologies are already in early commercial deployment rather than purely experimental.

Exam Focus

Examiners may test the publisher (WEF), the report (Top 10 Emerging Technologies 2026), the venue (Summer Davos/AMNC, Dalian) and the headline tech ('everything-to-grid' energy).

Exam Relevance & Angle

WEF reports are recurring reports-and-indexes GA; the report name, the Summer Davos venue and the WEF's identity are testable, and the tech themes overlap with science-and-technology GA.

Target Exams

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Background & Context

The World Economic Forum (WEF) is an international organisation for public-private cooperation, founded by Klaus Schwab in 1971 and headquartered at Cologny near Geneva, Switzerland. It is best known for its Annual Meeting at Davos in January, and also hosts the Annual Meeting of the New Champions (AMNC) — popularly called 'Summer Davos' — in China each year, focused on innovation, technology and emerging economies. The Top 10 Emerging Technologies report, published annually (in collaboration with the open-science publisher Frontiers), spotlights technologies poised to significantly affect society and the economy. The WEF also produces well-known indices such as the Global Gender Gap Index and the Energy Transition Index.