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AI Engineer NYC 2026

Closing Remarks

Day 2 · Oct 14 Day 2 digest · More from this day

MC Ksenia Se thanks the speakers, team, crew, sponsors, and attendees, recaps the three days of AI Engineer New York 2026 in one sentence, and hands the stage to Swyx, the event’s curator.

TL;DR

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  • Ksenia Se opens by thanking the speakers and asks the room to stay “one more minute” because “we have someone very special to see” — Swyx.
  • She compresses the three-day program into one arc: “from building agents to changing how financial institutions work and how to simulate the world.”
  • She measures the event by what attendees take home: a “longer list of things to investigate than we arrived with,” which she calls “a reasonable outcome for a conference full of engineers.”
  • She thanks the program team, the crew, sponsors, partners, and the attendees who “came ready to share their work and ask questions,” drawing applause.
  • She closes the segment by welcoming “the guy who has been behind the curation, the one and only Swyx” to the stage; his own closing remarks are the next session record (052).

Key lessons

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  1. Close an event by naming its arc in one sentence. Ksenia Se summarized three days as “from building agents to changing how financial institutions work and how to simulate the world” [08:46:59 | 5:27:34 PM], which ties the agent, finance, and world-simulation tracks into a single story.
  2. Define a concrete success metric for a conference. She proposed that leaving with “a longer list of things to investigate than we arrived with” [08:47:09 | 5:27:45 PM] is the right outcome for “a conference full of engineers” — curiosity, not closure.
  3. Credit the people who are not on stage. Her thanks named four groups in order: “the team who put this program together, and the crew, and our sponsors and partners, and to everyone of you who came ready to share their work and ask questions” [08:47:21 | 5:27:56 PM].
  4. Introduce the next speaker with a specific claim, not a generic bio. Swyx is presented as “the guy who has been behind the curation” [08:47:48 | 5:28:23 PM], which links him directly to the program the audience just experienced.
  5. Ask for a small, specific behavior at the close. She requested only “one more minute” of the audience’s time and teased “someone very special to see” [08:46:52 | 5:27:27 PM and 08:46:55 | 5:27:30 PM] before the hand-off.

Watch this session

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Ksenia Se · 5:27:25 PM ET–5:28:30 PM ET · announcement · Watch on YouTube from 08:46:49

Notable quotes

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  1. “Thank you, Christabel, and thank you to all of our speakers.” [08:46:50 | 5:27:25 PM]
  2. “We’ve covered a remarkable range over these three days, from building agents to changing how financial institutions work and how to simulate the world.” [08:46:59 | 5:27:34 PM]
  3. “I imagine quite a few of us have a longer list of things to investigate than we arrived with.” [08:47:09 | 5:27:45 PM]
  4. “And I want to welcome to the stage the guy who has been behind the curation, the one and only Swyx.” [08:47:48 | 5:28:23 PM]

Session narrative

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This segment is the MC’s half-minute-plus of closing remarks at the end of the third and final day of AI Engineer New York 2026, streamed from the Simons Room on October 14, 2026. The agenda placed “Closing Remarks” (Ksenia Se, Turing Post) in the 5:25-5:30pm ET slot. The session before it was Cristóbal Valenzuela’s Runway keynote “Everything will be Simulated”, which ended at 08:46:10 with applause and a short event voiceover that brought the MC back to the stage. The transcript’s “Christabel” is the automatic transcription’s rendering of Cristóbal.

Ksenia Se opens by thanking the speakers and holding the room: “I would like to ask you to stay for one more minute” because “we have someone very special to see.” She then delivers the recap — three days that ran from building agents, to changing how financial institutions work, to simulating the world — and observes that many attendees will leave with more questions than they arrived with, calling that a reasonable result for an engineering audience. The thanks follow: the program team, the crew, sponsors and partners, and the attendees who shared work and asked questions. The transcription marks the applause as “clap, clap, clap,” and the MC answers it with “Please.” and “Thank you.” at 08:47:37-08:47:38.

She closes the segment with a forward look — she hopes conversations started at the event “turn into things we will hear about at the next AI Engineer” — and hands the stage to Swyx as “the guy who has been behind the curation.” Two boundary lines end the transcript: the off-mic aside “She just did.” at 08:47:54, and Swyx’s first word “Hi.” at the same second. Per the boundary verification, Swyx’s “Hi.” opens the next segment (052, Swyx’s closing remarks, which announce AI Engineer Europe in London in February and the World’s Fair in San Francisco), so his remarks are recorded there.

Speaker details

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Ksenia Se - AI Inferencer, Turing Post. Co-founder of Turing Post, a newsletter and media platform covering machine learning and AI. She shapes the editorial direction, leads the “Inference” interview series, and produces “Attention Span”, a video series explaining major shifts in AI. She has covered machine learning and AI for more than seven years, previously held editor-in-chief roles, contributed to outlets including Stratfor and Towards Data Science, co-founded TheSequence.ai, and is a frequent speaker and moderator at conferences such as AIE, HumanX, and Ai4.

Note on the name: the stream’s voiceover and manifest introduce her as “Kseniya Se from Turing Post”; the agenda and the speaker record use the spelling “Ksenia Se”, which this record follows.

Swyx - Event curator (identified from session). He is named only in the MC’s hand-off line (“the guy who has been behind the curation, the one and only Swyx”) and speaks a single word (“Hi.”) at this segment’s end boundary. His own closing remarks are recorded in session 052.

Full timestamped transcript

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[08:46:50 | 5:27:25 PM] Thank you, Christabel, and thank you to all of our speakers.
[08:46:52 | 5:27:27 PM] And I would like to ask you to stay for one more minute.
[08:46:55 | 5:27:30 PM] We have someone very special to see.
[08:46:59 | 5:27:34 PM] We've covered a remarkable range over these three days, from building agents to changing how financial institutions work and how to simulate the world.
[08:47:09 | 5:27:45 PM] I imagine quite a few of us have a longer list of things to investigate than we arrived with.
[08:47:16 | 5:27:51 PM] That seems like a, you know, reasonable outcome for a conference full of engineers.
[08:47:21 | 5:27:56 PM] Thank you, the team who put this program together, and the crew, and our sponsors and partners, and to everyone of you who came ready to share their work and ask questions and do clap, clap, clap.
[08:47:37 | 5:28:12 PM] Please.
[08:47:38 | 5:28:13 PM] Thank you.
[08:47:39 | 5:28:15 PM] I hope some of the conversations that you started here turn into things we will hear about at the next AI Engineer.
[08:47:48 | 5:28:23 PM] And I want to welcome to the stage the guy who has been behind the curation, the one and only Swyx.
[08:47:54 | 5:28:29 PM] She just did.
[08:47:54 | 5:28:30 PM] Hi.