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Swyx closing remarks: thanks, AI Engineer Europe (London, February), World's Fair San Francisco -- off-agenda

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AI Engineer cofounder Swyx closes the New York 2026 event by thanking the MC and the New York AI community, then announces AI Engineer Code, AI Engineer Europe in London in February, and the 10,000-person World’s Fair in San Francisco next summer.

TL;DR

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  • Swyx takes the stage right after MC Kseniya Se hands off with “the one and only Swyx”, and spends his first minute crediting her instead of himself.
  • He argues that New York’s AI work in financial institutions, research, and infrastructure does not get enough recognition, and thanks the city’s founders by name (“Chris and Pym”).
  • He announces three upcoming events: AI Engineer Code (first vertical summit), AI Engineer Europe returning to London in February for its second year, and the World’s Fair in San Francisco next summer with 10,000 attendees.
  • He jokes that even if AI leaves everyone out of a job, the unemployed can attend more AIE events.
  • His “See you next year.” at 08:50:00 is the final sentence of the entire livestream transcript.

Key lessons

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  1. Give the stage away first: Swyx opens by asking for applause for MC Kseniya Se, notes this is her second time emceeing, and recommends her Turing Post videos and her YouTube channel, which she edits herself.
  2. Frame the event as a community home, not a trade show: “we’re really trying to make a home in New York”, backed by feedback he personally heard from sponsors, attendees, and speakers.
  3. Credit local pioneers by name: he thanks “Chris and Pym and all the other great New York City AI founders” and calls out the “real work and frontier pioneering work” done in the city’s financial institutions, AI research, and AI infrastructure.
  4. Treat coding agents as the proving ground for verifiable AI: wearing the Code shirt, he describes Code as AI Engineer’s “first home, first vertical summit” and coding agents as “the pinnacle of where verifiable AI is going”.
  5. Announce the roadmap in escalating size: AI Engineer Europe returns for a second year in London in February, and the World’s Fair lands in San Francisco next summer with 10,000 people, “bigger than all the other ones combined”.
  6. Use humor to acknowledge the AI-jobs anxiety in the room: “We may all be out of a job, but if you’re out of a job, that means you can come to more AIEs, right?”
  7. Close on the community, not the company: the reward for him and the team is “to provide this community for you”, and his parting ask is for attendees to follow the conversation at home and meet up among themselves.

Watch this session

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Swyx · 5:28:30 PM ET–5:30:36 PM ET · announcement · Watch on YouTube from 08:47:54

Notable quotes

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“That’s the second year in London in February, and obviously the big, big show of all, bigger than all the other ones combined, the World’s Fair, 10,000 people in San Francisco next summer.” [08:49:22 | 5:29:57 PM]

“So we’re basically—you know, Code is our first home, first vertical summit, and coding agents really, I think, are the sort of pinnacle of where verifiable AI is going.” [08:49:04 | 5:29:39 PM]

“We may all be out of a job, but if you’re out of a job, that means you can come to more AIEs, right?” [08:49:35 | 5:30:11 PM]

“This is something that I think people don’t get enough love for in this city, which is how much real work and frontier pioneering work gets done, both in the financial institutions and just in general AI research, AI infrastructure, and all that good stuff.” [08:48:41 | 5:29:16 PM]

Session narrative

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The segment opens at 08:47:54, one second after MC Kseniya Se’s hand-off line “the one and only Swyx” (the stray “She just did.” line at the same stamp is transition filler from the hand-off). Swyx’s first act is to deflect the spotlight: he thanks the audience for staying to the end, thanks Kseniya, asks for applause for her, and recommends her work. He notes she is “very selfless”, is emceeing for the second time, and spends a lot of time editing her YouTube channel for Turing Post, which he says he admires.

He then widens the lens to the whole event. He hopes the three days were good, reports feedback he heard from sponsors, attendees, and speakers, and states the mission plainly: “we’re really trying to make a home in New York”. He expresses gratitude to “Chris and Pym and all the other great New York City AI founders” and makes the segment’s one substantive argument: people in this city do not give enough credit to how much real, frontier-pioneering AI work happens in New York’s financial institutions and in its AI research and infrastructure companies.

The middle of the segment is a compact roadmap announcement, delivered in under a minute. Wearing the Code event shirt, he plugs AI Engineer Code, the company’s first vertical summit, and argues that coding agents are where verifiable AI is heading. He then confirms two bigger items: AI Engineer Europe is launching again, its second year in London in February, and beyond that the World’s Fair in San Francisco next summer, which he bills as “bigger than all the other ones combined” at 10,000 people. He bookmarks the announcements with a joke about the pace of AI: a lot of AI will happen before next summer, “we may all be out of a job”, and the unemployed can simply attend more AIEs.

The close returns to gratitude. He thanks the audience for being there and for supporting the event, hopes they made friends and professional contacts, and asks them to keep the conversation going at home and to meet up among themselves, because providing that community is what rewards him and the team. The final line, “See you next year.” at 08:50:00, is the last sentence of the entire livestream. Note that this segment is off-agenda in the record: the agenda’s 5:25-5:30pm “Closing Remarks” slot lists only Ksenia Se (Turing Post), whose portion is the preceding segment 051; Swyx’s appearance is captured here with no agenda item of its own.

Speaker details

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Swyx - Cofounder and CEO, AI Engineer (Software 3.0 Inc.). Shawn “swyx” Wang is the cofounder and CEO of AI Engineer, the conference company behind the AI Engineer Summit and the AI Engineer World’s Fair, and the writer and podcast host of Latent Space. His 2023 essay “The Rise of the AI Engineer” named the new engineering role and led to the first AI Engineer Summit in October 2023. A developer, writer, and community builder based in San Francisco, he previously worked in developer experience at Netlify, AWS, Temporal, and Airbyte after starting his career in finance, wrote The Coding Career Handbook, and is known for “Learn in Public”. He also works on Cognition and invests in AI and developer-tool startups. In this session he speaks as the event’s owner, announcing “our upcoming events” and thanking “our team”. The speaker record lists no LinkedIn, Twitter, or website links (record sources: swyx.io/about and ai.engineer/about).

Full timestamped transcript

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[08:47:54 | 5:28:29 PM] She just did.
[08:47:54 | 5:28:30 PM] Hi.
[08:47:55 | 5:28:31 PM] Thank you so much for staying to the end, and thank you, Kseniya.
[08:48:01 | 5:28:36 PM] Give it up for Kseniya.
[08:48:01 | 5:28:37 PM] Thank you, guys.
[08:48:02 | 5:28:38 PM] If you haven't seen—so, I know she's very selfless, and she's emceeing for the second time.
[08:48:12 | 5:28:47 PM] But if you haven't seen her videos on Turing Post, highly recommend.
[08:48:16 | 5:28:51 PM] She has a great YouTube channel, and she's spending a lot of time editing that, which I really admire.
[08:48:23 | 5:28:58 PM] Thank you so much.
[08:48:25 | 5:29:00 PM] I hope this has been a great few days for you.
[08:48:28 | 5:29:03 PM] I heard a lot of feedback from sponsors, from attendees, from speakers, and we're really trying to make a home in New York.
[08:48:35 | 5:29:11 PM] This is why I'm so grateful to have Chris and Pym and all the other great New York City AI founders.
[08:48:41 | 5:29:16 PM] This is something that I think people don't get enough love for in this city, which is how much real work and frontier pioneering work gets done, both in the financial institutions and just in general AI research, AI infrastructure, and all that good stuff.
[08:48:57 | 5:29:32 PM] So I won't keep you too long.
[08:48:58 | 5:29:33 PM] I will just talk a little bit about our upcoming events.
[08:49:01 | 5:29:36 PM] I'm wearing the shirt for Code now.
[08:49:04 | 5:29:39 PM] So we're basically—you know, Code is our first home, first vertical summit, and coding agents really, I think, are the sort of pinnacle of where verifiable AI is going.
[08:49:17 | 5:29:52 PM] We're also confirming that we are launching AI Engineer Europe again.
[08:49:22 | 5:29:57 PM] That's the second year in London in February, and obviously the big, big show of all, bigger than all the other ones combined, the World's Fair, 10,000 people in San Francisco next summer.
[08:49:32 | 5:30:07 PM] So there's a lot of AI that's going to be happening between now and then.
[08:49:35 | 5:30:11 PM] We may all be out of a job, but if you're out of a job, that means you can come to more AIEs, right?
[08:49:41 | 5:30:16 PM] So anyway, we'll all have a good time.
[08:49:46 | 5:30:21 PM] Thank you so much for being here.
[08:49:47 | 5:30:23 PM] Thank you for supporting us.
[08:49:48 | 5:30:24 PM] I hope you all made lots of friends and professional contacts.
[08:49:51 | 5:30:27 PM] Follow the conversation back home, right, and meet up among yourselves.
[08:49:55 | 5:30:31 PM] That is what is so rewarding for us and our team to—
[08:49:59 | 5:30:34 PM] to provide this community for you.
[08:49:59 | 5:30:35 PM] So thanks for your support.
[08:50:00 | 5:30:36 PM] See you next year.