The abstract is: “Holographic field theories with a local gravitational dual have a number of striking properties inferred from the dual description. Much recent work has focused on reproducing these properties purely from a field theory perspective, often invoking conformal invariance. As holographic field theories are always formulated as some sort of (not necessarily conformal) gauge theory, this suggests analyzing special aspects of gauge theories. In this talk, I will discuss how the pattern of higher form symmetry breaking, through the Eguchi-Kawai mechanism in gauge theory, captures many features of an emergent gravitational description.”