Host hand-off: introduces Evan Kormos (Coinbase)
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A 29-second voiceover bridge between the Sonar and Coinbase keynotes: an unnamed host asks where AI agents should take control and where humans should stay in charge, then welcomes Evan Kormos, engineering manager at Coinbase, to the stage.
- An unnamed host/MC voiceover starts at [00:51:28 | 9:32:03 AM], about two seconds after Tarek Shaukat closes the Sonar keynote with “Have a great morning.” ending near [00:51:26].
- The voiceover frames the next keynote with the question “Where should AI agents take control, and when should humans stay in charge?” and ties it to “that balance in policy-driven workflows.”
- It then welcomes Evan Kormos, engineering manager at Coinbase; that sentence runs from about [00:51:36] to [00:51:43], and roughly 13 seconds of applause and walk-on follow with no transcribed speech.
- Kormos’s “Hi, everyone.” at [00:51:57 | 9:32:32 AM] is the boundary line. It opens his keynote “Trusting Agents in Policy-Driven Workflows”, which is recorded separately as session 005.
- This segment is not an agenda item itself. It introduces the 9:36am Featured Keynote slot by Evan Kormos (Coinbase); the stream ran about 200 seconds ahead of the agenda clock.
Key lessons
Section titled “Key lessons”None - this segment is a short voice-over hand-off.
Watch this session
Section titled “Watch this session”Notable quotes
Section titled “Notable quotes”“Where should AI agents take control, and when should humans stay in charge?” [00:51:28 | 9:32:03 AM]
“Here to explore that balance in policy-driven workflows, please welcome Evan Kormos, engineering manager at Coinbase.” [00:51:36 | 9:32:12 AM]
“Hi, everyone.” [00:51:57 | 9:32:32 AM] — first words of the following keynote (session 005), included here because the sentence sits in this transcript slice at the boundary.
Session narrative
Section titled “Session narrative”This segment is a pure stage hand-off, not a talk. The Sonar keynote “The Machine that Changed the World, vAI” ends with Tarek Shaukat’s “Have a great morning.” at about [00:51:26], and the host voiceover begins at [00:51:28] with a rhetorical question about the division of control between AI agents and humans.
The voiceover then names the next speaker and his theme: exploring that balance in policy-driven workflows, delivered by Evan Kormos, engineering manager at Coinbase. That sentence runs from about [00:51:36] to [00:51:43]. Roughly 13 seconds of applause and walk-on follow, with no transcribed speech. The next voiced line, “Hi, everyone.” at [00:51:57], belongs to Kormos’s keynote, which continues in session 005. The segment keeps its end boundary at that line so the announcement and the keynote tile without overlap.
Speaker details
Section titled “Speaker details”Unidentified host/MC - Voiceover announcer, not named on the stream (identified from session). No speaker record exists for this voice. The day’s named MC, Ksenia Se (Turing Post), delivered the morning welcome and the first keynote hand-off, but nothing in this segment ties the voiceover to her, so the attribution stays open.
Evan Kormos - Engineering Manager, Coinbase (introduced speaker; no speaking role inside this segment). He leads teams managing full stack delivery and service management, with a focus on bringing AI agents into policy-governed automation in commercial Web3 products including Token Listings and the Coinbase Developer Platform. His background spans enterprise transformation, retail and commercial banking, digital assets, and AI. Links: LinkedIn, Website. His keynote follows as session 005, “Trusting Agents in Policy-Driven Workflows”.
Full timestamped transcript
Section titled “Full timestamped transcript”[00:51:28 | 9:32:03 AM] Where should AI agents take control, and when should humans stay in charge?[00:51:36 | 9:32:12 AM] Here to explore that balance in policy-driven workflows, please welcome Evan Kormos, engineering manager at Coinbase.[00:51:57 | 9:32:32 AM] Hi, everyone.