1 00:00:01,721 --> 00:00:07,041 Good morning and welcome to AI Engineer New York 2026. 2 00:00:07,761 --> 00:00:16,441 We're thrilled to have you with us as we kick off an event of big ideas, sharp perspectives, and plenty of signal cutting through the noise. 3 00:00:16,741 --> 00:00:24,941 To officially open the event for us this morning, please welcome to the stage AI Engineer's General Manager, Lia McBride. 4 00:00:30,621 --> 00:00:35,201 Hi, good morning everyone, and welcome to New York. 5 00:00:36,261 --> 00:00:38,601 This is our third event in New York. 6 00:00:38,821 --> 00:00:44,961 We had two in 2025 with some of our greatest speakers that we've ever had at AI Engineer. 7 00:00:45,481 --> 00:00:47,001 So we're really excited to be back. 8 00:00:47,221 --> 00:00:50,401 So just a huge welcome from myself and swyx to everyone. 9 00:00:50,621 --> 00:00:52,021 Thanks for attending today. 10 00:00:52,201 --> 00:00:53,501 We hope you're going to have a great few days. 11 00:00:54,121 --> 00:01:00,501 There's very, very few places like New York City, as we know, where big ideals scale very, 12 00:01:01,401 --> 00:01:02,041 very fast. 13 00:01:02,901 --> 00:01:09,181 It is where Frontier AI comes to meet centuries-old global financial institutions 14 00:01:09,181 --> 00:01:12,261 and where multiple different economies thrive together. 15 00:01:12,481 --> 00:01:15,121 So we're excited to have an incredible lineup. 16 00:01:15,121 --> 00:01:19,601 You're going to hear from some of the world's best speakers, just like at all our events. 17 00:01:20,301 --> 00:01:24,141 We have got people, we've got tracks in finance. 18 00:01:24,141 --> 00:01:28,321 We've got engineering, leadership, evals, and LLM. 19 00:01:28,321 --> 00:01:36,241 um we've got Aparna Dhinakaran i'm gonna get that right uh from Arize we've got Max Kanat-Alexander 20 00:01:36,241 --> 00:01:43,041 from capital one and Tariq Shaukat from sonar that's just a few of the incredible speakers 21 00:01:43,041 --> 00:01:48,781 that we've got this week uh i'm going to say a huge thank you to Arize who's our presenting sponsor 22 00:01:48,781 --> 00:01:56,821 you guys can go and meet their team in the expo any point this week so uh lean in to learning here 23 00:01:56,821 --> 00:01:59,201 lean into connecting as well 24 00:01:59,201 --> 00:02:01,201 there's so many people here 25 00:02:01,201 --> 00:02:03,101 that are sharing ideas 26 00:02:03,101 --> 00:02:05,401 they want to talk about 27 00:02:05,401 --> 00:02:06,981 the ideas, they want to challenge ideas 28 00:02:06,981 --> 00:02:08,961 and they want to collaborate as well 29 00:02:08,961 --> 00:02:11,321 so make sure to speak to as many people as 30 00:02:11,321 --> 00:02:13,181 possible, your attendees, speakers 31 00:02:13,181 --> 00:02:14,161 and all the sponsors 32 00:02:14,841 --> 00:02:16,861 and we hope to see you again soon 33 00:02:16,861 --> 00:02:18,981 we do have a great line up 34 00:02:18,981 --> 00:02:20,021 we've got 35 00:02:20,041 --> 00:02:22,901 another event called Summit in San Francisco in November. 36 00:02:23,261 --> 00:02:31,921 And then we have London lined up in February. And then of course, World's Fair. And we've got a couple of other events happening next year as well that are new. 37 00:02:32,081 --> 00:02:37,381 So keep an eye on the schedule. But have a wonderful few days. Thank you so much. Take care. 38 00:02:41,401 --> 00:02:49,221 And now, please welcome to the stage, your MC for the day, managing partner at Tenex, Alex Lieberman. 39 00:02:52,741 --> 00:02:54,461 What's up, everyone? How's it going? 40 00:02:55,701 --> 00:02:56,701 There we go. 41 00:02:57,501 --> 00:03:03,941 Before we hop into the official stuff, I just want to start by introducing myself and asking you a quick question. 42 00:03:04,561 --> 00:03:05,281 Alex Lieberman. 43 00:03:05,521 --> 00:03:08,881 I'm one of the co-founders and co-managing partners at Tenex. 44 00:03:09,121 --> 00:03:13,681 We're an applied AI company working with Fortune 500 businesses to become AI native. 45 00:03:14,181 --> 00:03:17,861 Before that, I co-founded a business called Morning Brew, which makes business news suck 46 00:03:17,861 --> 00:03:18,721 a little bit less. 47 00:03:19,121 --> 00:03:25,681 My question for you is, who in the room, raise your hand, if you are healthily addicted to 48 00:03:25,681 --> 00:03:27,301 X or formerly known as Twitter? 49 00:03:28,381 --> 00:03:30,521 Okay, a lot of people are lying in the room. 50 00:03:31,441 --> 00:03:40,481 I spend a lot of time on X. And one of the reasons that I spend a lot of time on X is because I feel 51 00:03:40,481 --> 00:03:44,681 like I get to live in the future, right? When you're scrolling through X, when you're looking 52 00:03:44,681 --> 00:03:52,021 at the commentary on the platform, you feel like you're seeing what will become consensus in three, 53 00:03:52,721 --> 00:03:58,821 six, or 12 months. And what I love about this conference and why I get so excited to come to 54 00:03:58,821 --> 00:04:06,601 it every single year is because this almost feels like X on steroids. There's this concept that a 55 00:04:06,601 --> 00:04:13,521 friend told me a while back called Edge City. And Edge City is this concept that at any point in 56 00:04:13,521 --> 00:04:19,741 some part of the world, there are a group of people that are living in the future in a specific 57 00:04:19,741 --> 00:04:26,721 function or specialty. And the way I think about this conference is we are all living in Edge City 58 00:04:26,721 --> 00:04:33,641 for what will be consensus in the next six months to two years, if you really think about 59 00:04:33,641 --> 00:04:37,601 the diffusion of this technology. So I'm super excited to be part of this with you all today, 60 00:04:37,601 --> 00:04:43,461 and now let's hop into what's going to happen. First of all, welcome to AI Engineer New York 61 00:04:43,461 --> 00:04:50,261 2026, where AI engineering meets Wall Street. This is the conference for engineers and technical 62 00:04:50,261 --> 00:04:56,681 leaders building production AI across banking, hedge funds, fintech, insurance, and asset 63 00:04:56,681 --> 00:04:57,121 management. 64 00:04:57,481 --> 00:05:02,161 Over the next two days, we will hear from companies and leaders sparking discussion 65 00:05:02,161 --> 00:05:09,901 not only on models, agents, infra, compute, dev tools, and evals, but then how they weave 66 00:05:09,901 --> 00:05:15,301 and shape the financial industry impacting hedge funds, investors, banks, insurance, 67 00:05:15,721 --> 00:05:16,801 fintech, and security. 68 00:05:17,461 --> 00:05:20,641 Of course, as you all can tell, there's a lot going on. 69 00:05:20,841 --> 00:05:25,361 Putting together a gathering like this requires a huge amount of effort, 70 00:05:25,361 --> 00:05:27,601 and it could not be done without our sponsors. 71 00:05:27,761 --> 00:05:31,761 But before our sponsors, let's all just give a huge shout-out to the AIE team. 72 00:05:31,901 --> 00:05:33,641 What they do is incredible. 73 00:05:37,561 --> 00:05:39,981 Now, let's give some flowers to the sponsors. 74 00:05:40,761 --> 00:05:43,621 First up, the presenting sponsor, Arize. 75 00:05:43,721 --> 00:05:44,881 Let's give it up for Arize. 76 00:05:46,781 --> 00:05:47,881 Yeah, Arize. 77 00:05:48,541 --> 00:05:53,701 Next up, the platinum sponsors, Oracle, Sonar, WorkOS, and Exa. 78 00:05:53,881 --> 00:05:54,561 Let's give it up for them. 79 00:05:57,181 --> 00:05:58,741 Then we have our gold sponsors. 80 00:05:58,881 --> 00:06:01,061 If I had enough time, I'd rattle all of them off. 81 00:06:01,381 --> 00:06:03,521 And finally, the silver sponsors. 82 00:06:03,961 --> 00:06:06,461 But wait, there's more, the supporting sponsors. 83 00:06:07,941 --> 00:06:08,461 Awesome. 84 00:06:09,161 --> 00:06:15,661 So we are going to hop into the first keynote of the day. 85 00:06:15,661 --> 00:06:23,581 We have two amazing folks from Bridgewater who are in the weeds of production AI every single day. 86 00:06:23,581 --> 00:06:24,861 So let's give it up for them. 87 00:06:25,221 --> 00:06:25,821 Welcome, guys.