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0:00:23Good morning and welcome to AI Engineer New York 2026.
0:00:29We'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.
0:00:38To officially open the event for us this morning, please welcome to the stage AI Engineer's General Manager, Lia McBride.
0:00:52Hi, good morning everyone, and welcome to New York.
0:00:57This is our third event in New York.
0:01:00We had two in 2025 with some of our greatest speakers that we've ever had at AI Engineer.
0:01:07So we're really excited to be back.
0:01:08So just a huge welcome from myself and swyx to everyone.
0:01:12Thanks for attending today.
0:01:13We hope you're going to have a great few days.
0:01:15There's very, very few places like New York City, as we know, where big ideals scale very,
0:01:23very fast.
0:01:24It is where Frontier AI comes to meet centuries-old global financial institutions
0:01:30and where multiple different economies thrive together.
0:01:34So we're excited to have an incredible lineup.
0:01:36You're going to hear from some of the world's best speakers, just like at all our events.
0:01:42We have got people, we've got tracks in finance.
0:01:45We've got engineering, leadership, evals, and LLM.
0:01:50um we've got Aparna Dhinakaran i'm gonna get that right uh from Arize we've got Max Kanat-Alexander
0:01:57from capital one and Tariq Shaukat from sonar that's just a few of the incredible speakers
0:02:04that we've got this week uh i'm going to say a huge thank you to Arize who's our presenting sponsor
0:02:10you guys can go and meet their team in the expo any point this week so uh lean in to learning here
0:02:18lean into connecting as well
0:02:20there's so many people here
0:02:22that are sharing ideas
0:02:24they want to talk about
0:02:27the ideas, they want to challenge ideas
0:02:28and they want to collaborate as well
0:02:30so make sure to speak to as many people as
0:02:33possible, your attendees, speakers
0:02:34and all the sponsors
0:02:36and we hope to see you again soon
0:02:38we do have a great line up
0:02:40we've got
0:02:41another event called Summit in San Francisco in November.
0:02:44And 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.
0:02:53So keep an eye on the schedule. But have a wonderful few days. Thank you so much. Take care.
0:03:03And now, please welcome to the stage, your MC for the day, managing partner at Tenex, Alex Lieberman.
0:03:14What's up, everyone? How's it going?
0:03:17There we go.
0:03:19Before we hop into the official stuff, I just want to start by introducing myself and asking you a quick question.
0:03:26Alex Lieberman.
0:03:27I'm one of the co-founders and co-managing partners at Tenex.
0:03:30We're an applied AI company working with Fortune 500 businesses to become AI native.
0:03:35Before that, I co-founded a business called Morning Brew, which makes business news suck
0:03:39a little bit less.
0:03:40My question for you is, who in the room, raise your hand, if you are healthily addicted to
0:03:47X or formerly known as Twitter?
0:03:50Okay, a lot of people are lying in the room.
0:03:53I 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
0:04:02like I get to live in the future, right? When you're scrolling through X, when you're looking
0:04:06at the commentary on the platform, you feel like you're seeing what will become consensus in three,
0:04:14six, or 12 months. And what I love about this conference and why I get so excited to come to
0:04:20it every single year is because this almost feels like X on steroids. There's this concept that a
0:04:28friend told me a while back called Edge City. And Edge City is this concept that at any point in
0:04:35some part of the world, there are a group of people that are living in the future in a specific
0:04:41function or specialty. And the way I think about this conference is we are all living in Edge City
0:04:48for what will be consensus in the next six months to two years, if you really think about
0:04:55the diffusion of this technology. So I'm super excited to be part of this with you all today,
0:04:59and now let's hop into what's going to happen. First of all, welcome to AI Engineer New York
0:05:052026, where AI engineering meets Wall Street. This is the conference for engineers and technical
0:05:11leaders building production AI across banking, hedge funds, fintech, insurance, and asset
0:05:18management.
0:05:19Over the next two days, we will hear from companies and leaders sparking discussion
0:05:23not only on models, agents, infra, compute, dev tools, and evals, but then how they weave
0:05:31and shape the financial industry impacting hedge funds, investors, banks, insurance,
0:05:37fintech, and security.
0:05:39Of course, as you all can tell, there's a lot going on.
0:05:42Putting together a gathering like this requires a huge amount of effort,
0:05:47and it could not be done without our sponsors.
0:05:49But before our sponsors, let's all just give a huge shout-out to the AIE team.
0:05:53What they do is incredible.
0:05:59Now, let's give some flowers to the sponsors.
0:06:02First up, the presenting sponsor, Arize.
0:06:05Let's give it up for Arize.
0:06:08Yeah, Arize.
0:06:10Next up, the platinum sponsors, Oracle, Sonar, WorkOS, and Exa.
0:06:15Let's give it up for them.
0:06:18Then we have our gold sponsors.
0:06:20If I had enough time, I'd rattle all of them off.
0:06:23And finally, the silver sponsors.
0:06:25But wait, there's more, the supporting sponsors.
0:06:29Awesome.
0:06:30So we are going to hop into the first keynote of the day.
0:06:37We have two amazing folks from Bridgewater who are in the weeds of production AI every single day.
0:06:45So let's give it up for them.
0:06:46Welcome, guys.
