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0:07:41Good morning and welcome to AI Engineer New York 2026.
0:07:47We'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.
0:07:56To officially open the event for us this morning, please welcome to the stage AI Engineer's General Manager, Lia McBride.
0:08:10Hi, good morning everyone, and welcome to New York.
0:08:16This is our third event in New York.
0:08:18We had two in 2025 with some of our greatest speakers that we've ever had at AI Engineer.
0:08:25So we're really excited to be back.
0:08:27So just a huge welcome from myself and swyx to everyone.
0:08:30Thanks for attending today.
0:08:32We hope you're going to have a great few days.
0:08:34There's very, very few places like New York City, as we know, where big ideals scale very,
0:08:41very fast.
0:08:42It is where Frontier AI comes to meet centuries-old global financial institutions
0:08:49and where multiple different economies thrive together.
0:08:52So we're excited to have an incredible lineup.
0:08:55You're going to hear from some of the world's best speakers, just like at all our events.
0:09:00We have got people, we've got tracks in finance.
0:09:04We've got engineering, leadership, evals, and LLM.
0:09:08um we've got Aparna Dhinakaran i'm gonna get that right uh from Arize we've got Max Kanat-Alexander
0:09:16from capital one and Tariq Shaukat from sonar that's just a few of the incredible speakers
0:09:23that we've got this week uh i'm going to say a huge thank you to Arize who's our presenting sponsor
0:09:28you guys can go and meet their team in the expo any point this week so uh lean in to learning here
0:09:36lean into connecting as well
0:09:39there's so many people here
0:09:41that are sharing ideas
0:09:43they want to talk about
0:09:45the ideas, they want to challenge ideas
0:09:46and they want to collaborate as well
0:09:48so make sure to speak to as many people as
0:09:51possible, your attendees, speakers
0:09:53and all the sponsors
0:09:54and we hope to see you again soon
0:09:56we do have a great line up
0:09:58we've got
0:10:00another event called Summit in San Francisco in November.
0:10:03And 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.
0:10:12So keep an eye on the schedule. But have a wonderful few days. Thank you so much. Take care.
0:10:21And now, please welcome to the stage, your MC for the day, managing partner at Tenex, Alex Lieberman.
0:10:32What's up, everyone? How's it going?
0:10:35There we go.
0:10:37Before we hop into the official stuff, I just want to start by introducing myself and asking you a quick question.
0:10:44Alex Lieberman.
0:10:45I'm one of the co-founders and co-managing partners at Tenex.
0:10:49We're an applied AI company working with Fortune 500 businesses to become AI native.
0:10:54Before that, I co-founded a business called Morning Brew, which makes business news suck
0:10:57a little bit less.
0:10:59My question for you is, who in the room, raise your hand, if you are healthily addicted to
0:11:05X or formerly known as Twitter?
0:11:08Okay, a lot of people are lying in the room.
0:11:11I 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
0:11:20like I get to live in the future, right? When you're scrolling through X, when you're looking
0:11:24at the commentary on the platform, you feel like you're seeing what will become consensus in three,
0:11:32six, or 12 months. And what I love about this conference and why I get so excited to come to
0:11:38it every single year is because this almost feels like X on steroids. There's this concept that a
0:11:46friend told me a while back called Edge City. And Edge City is this concept that at any point in
0:11:53some part of the world, there are a group of people that are living in the future in a specific
0:11:59function or specialty. And the way I think about this conference is we are all living in Edge City
0:12:06for what will be consensus in the next six months to two years, if you really think about
0:12:13the diffusion of this technology. So I'm super excited to be part of this with you all today,
0:12:17and now let's hop into what's going to happen. First of all, welcome to AI Engineer New York
0:12:232026, where AI engineering meets Wall Street. This is the conference for engineers and technical
0:12:30leaders building production AI across banking, hedge funds, fintech, insurance, and asset
0:12:36management.
0:12:37Over the next two days, we will hear from companies and leaders sparking discussion
0:12:42not only on models, agents, infra, compute, dev tools, and evals, but then how they weave
0:12:49and shape the financial industry impacting hedge funds, investors, banks, insurance,
0:12:55fintech, and security.
0:12:57Of course, as you all can tell, there's a lot going on.
0:13:00Putting together a gathering like this requires a huge amount of effort,
0:13:05and it could not be done without our sponsors.
0:13:07But before our sponsors, let's all just give a huge shout-out to the AIE team.
0:13:11What they do is incredible.
0:13:17Now, let's give some flowers to the sponsors.
0:13:20First up, the presenting sponsor, Arize.
0:13:23Let's give it up for Arize.
0:13:26Yeah, Arize.
0:13:28Next up, the platinum sponsors, Oracle, Sonar, WorkOS, and Exa.
0:13:33Let's give it up for them.
0:13:37Then we have our gold sponsors.
0:13:38If I had enough time, I'd rattle all of them off.
0:13:41And finally, the silver sponsors.
0:13:43But wait, there's more, the supporting sponsors.
0:13:47Awesome.
0:13:49So we are going to hop into the first keynote of the day.
0:13:55We have two amazing folks from Bridgewater who are in the weeds of production AI every single day.
0:14:03So let's give it up for them.
0:14:05Welcome, guys.
