The EMNLP 2021 conference took place as a hybrid event with over 1500 attendees, featuring research on natural language processing and Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. The conference showcased various topics such as multi-text consumption, question answering, multilingual question answering, and model robustness. Notable papers included "Visually Grounded Reasoning across Languages and Cultures", "SituatedQA: Incorporating Extra-Linguistic Contexts into QA", and "Improving Question Answering Model Robustness with Synthetic Adversarial Data Generation". The conference also featured panel discussions, tutorials, and workshops on topics like table extraction, retrieval, and question answering. The hybrid setup allowed attendees to engage in interactions and watch recordings of talks at any time.