# Welcome Remarks

Ksenia Se · AI Engineer NYC 2026 · October 14

[Watch recording](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiUC6IUMdvc&t=899s)

[00:14:59](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiUC6IUMdvc&t=899s) Good morning and welcome back. We're excited to spend this final day together building on the conversations already underway and making room for a few more big conversation.

[00:15:11](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiUC6IUMdvc&t=911s) Without further ado, please welcome today's emcee, founder, writer, and analyst at Turing

[00:15:19](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiUC6IUMdvc&t=919s) Post, Ksenia Se.

[00:15:30](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiUC6IUMdvc&t=930s) Good morning, good morning, good morning, everyone.

[00:15:34](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiUC6IUMdvc&t=934s) Welcome to the third and the final day of AI Engineer New York.

[00:15:38](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiUC6IUMdvc&t=938s) Who went to a cool event last night?

[00:15:40](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiUC6IUMdvc&t=940s) What was the coolest?

[00:15:43](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiUC6IUMdvc&t=943s) Okay, I went to karaoke with swyx, and it was amazing.

[00:15:47](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiUC6IUMdvc&t=947s) 100% recommend.

[00:15:49](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiUC6IUMdvc&t=949s) So, yes, I'm Ksenia Se.

[00:15:51](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiUC6IUMdvc&t=951s) I write Turing Post, and I'm your emcee for today.

[00:15:55](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiUC6IUMdvc&t=955s) It's actually my second time emceeing AI engineer in New York,

[00:15:59](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiUC6IUMdvc&t=959s) so that's how much I love it.

[00:16:01](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiUC6IUMdvc&t=961s) And let's go to the program.

[00:16:05](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiUC6IUMdvc&t=965s) Because yesterday, Aparna Dhinakaran from Arize

[00:16:09](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiUC6IUMdvc&t=969s) asked, what does an AI engineer do?

[00:16:12](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiUC6IUMdvc&t=972s) And today we have a session from Ryan Carson

[00:16:15](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiUC6IUMdvc&t=975s) called Your Job is Now Agent Manager.

[00:16:19](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiUC6IUMdvc&t=979s) So apparently your job description just changed overnight,

[00:16:23](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiUC6IUMdvc&t=983s) and I hope that the compensation will keep up.

[00:16:25](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiUC6IUMdvc&t=985s) But fortunately, quite a few of your employers

[00:16:32](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiUC6IUMdvc&t=992s) are also our sponsors.

[00:16:34](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiUC6IUMdvc&t=994s) So they've seen how quickly your responsibility

[00:16:39](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiUC6IUMdvc&t=999s) changing. And let's give

[00:16:41](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiUC6IUMdvc&t=1001s) them a warm round of applause.

[00:16:44](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiUC6IUMdvc&t=1004s) Little encouragement

[00:16:45](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiUC6IUMdvc&t=1005s) goes a long way.

[00:16:47](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiUC6IUMdvc&t=1007s) Our most amazing

[00:16:48](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiUC6IUMdvc&t=1008s) presenting sponsor, Arize, please.

[00:16:53](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiUC6IUMdvc&t=1013s) Thank you, thank you, thank you.

[00:16:56](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiUC6IUMdvc&t=1016s) The great four, our platinum

[00:16:57](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiUC6IUMdvc&t=1017s) sponsors, Oracle, Sonar,

[00:17:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiUC6IUMdvc&t=1020s) WorkOS, and

[00:17:01](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiUC6IUMdvc&t=1021s) AXA, please, big round of

[00:17:03](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiUC6IUMdvc&t=1023s) applause.

[00:17:06](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiUC6IUMdvc&t=1026s) Scattering gold

[00:17:07](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiUC6IUMdvc&t=1027s) of gold sponsors all on this screen.

[00:17:11](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiUC6IUMdvc&t=1031s) Please, let's acknowledge everyone with our eyes

[00:17:14](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiUC6IUMdvc&t=1034s) and give them a big hand.

[00:17:17](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiUC6IUMdvc&t=1037s) And our silver sponsors,

[00:17:20](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiUC6IUMdvc&t=1040s) let's give them as much applause as possible

[00:17:25](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiUC6IUMdvc&t=1045s) because we don't raise enthusiasm by fear.

[00:17:28](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiUC6IUMdvc&t=1048s) So please, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap.

[00:17:30](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiUC6IUMdvc&t=1050s) And finally, to all of us,

[00:17:32](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiUC6IUMdvc&t=1052s) to all our supporting partners,

[00:17:34](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiUC6IUMdvc&t=1054s) thank you for making this possible.

[00:17:35](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiUC6IUMdvc&t=1055s) It would not be possible without anyone.

[00:17:39](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiUC6IUMdvc&t=1059s) Like everyone, you know, it takes a village.

[00:17:42](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiUC6IUMdvc&t=1062s) So thank you, thank you, thank you.

[00:17:45](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiUC6IUMdvc&t=1065s) I'm a little nervous.

[00:17:46](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiUC6IUMdvc&t=1066s) It's early, but thank you for bearing with me.

[00:17:50](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiUC6IUMdvc&t=1070s) If you've noticed, there is an interesting progression

[00:17:54](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiUC6IUMdvc&t=1074s) across all these three days.

[00:17:56](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiUC6IUMdvc&t=1076s) On Mondays, you could join super practical hands-on workshops.

[00:18:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiUC6IUMdvc&t=1080s) And you heard from big guys like Cerebras and OpenAI

[00:18:04](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiUC6IUMdvc&t=1084s) to small but super interesting startups like OpenPros.

[00:18:08](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiUC6IUMdvc&t=1088s) Yesterday, the conversation included how AI translates into operating margin.

[00:18:16](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiUC6IUMdvc&t=1096s) And today, we'll hear about the capabilities companies are building toward.

[00:18:21](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiUC6IUMdvc&t=1101s) The work agents can take on and what managing that might involve.

[00:18:27](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiUC6IUMdvc&t=1107s) Things will be happening here in Shannon Room.

[00:18:31](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiUC6IUMdvc&t=1111s) and it will be finance, compute, and infrastructure sessions.

[00:18:35](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiUC6IUMdvc&t=1115s) In Turing room, my favorite name,

[00:18:38](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiUC6IUMdvc&t=1118s) evaluations, benchmarking, retrieval,

[00:18:40](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiUC6IUMdvc&t=1120s) self-improving agents and skills.

[00:18:42](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiUC6IUMdvc&t=1122s) In Saturn room, you will hear about developer tools,

[00:18:46](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiUC6IUMdvc&t=1126s) enterprise data, software factories,

[00:18:51](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiUC6IUMdvc&t=1131s) agent permissions, and token economics.

[00:18:54](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiUC6IUMdvc&t=1134s) In McCarthy room, finally, will be about model costs,

[00:18:58](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiUC6IUMdvc&t=1138s) coding agent context, human verification,

[00:19:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiUC6IUMdvc&t=1140s) and banking deployment and financial agent evidence.

[00:19:05](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiUC6IUMdvc&t=1145s) And at Turing Post, we spend a lot of time

[00:19:08](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiUC6IUMdvc&t=1148s) following all these directions

[00:19:12](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiUC6IUMdvc&t=1152s) and research in these directions.

[00:19:14](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiUC6IUMdvc&t=1154s) But we also have a series called the Org Age of AI,

[00:19:20](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiUC6IUMdvc&t=1160s) where we look at what happens to a company

[00:19:23](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiUC6IUMdvc&t=1163s) as it begins to work with this technology.

[00:19:26](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiUC6IUMdvc&t=1166s) How does the work change, right?

[00:19:28](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiUC6IUMdvc&t=1168s) What becomes possible that wasn't practical before?

[00:19:32](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiUC6IUMdvc&t=1172s) And while superintelligence feels so powerful,

[00:19:37](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiUC6IUMdvc&t=1177s) why is the ROI still missing?

[00:19:40](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiUC6IUMdvc&t=1180s) And that's part of what makes this gathering so interesting to me.

[00:19:45](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiUC6IUMdvc&t=1185s) You have people developing the technology

[00:19:48](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiUC6IUMdvc&t=1188s) in the same room as people who understand in considerable detail

[00:19:52](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiUC6IUMdvc&t=1192s) the work it needs to do.

[00:19:53](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiUC6IUMdvc&t=1193s) And there's a lot of those two groups can learn from each other.

[00:19:57](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiUC6IUMdvc&t=1197s) That's fascinating to me.

[00:19:59](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiUC6IUMdvc&t=1199s) And our

[00:20:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiUC6IUMdvc&t=1200s) first speakers work at the intersection of those two worlds, at Ramp.

[00:20:06](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiUC6IUMdvc&t=1206s) So please help me welcome Alexander Shevchenko with Chasing Capabilities While Waiting for the Frontier. Thank you.