MC fill during slide delay: teaser for the upcoming Anthropic keynote

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The MC teases the upcoming Anthropic keynote by name-checking Belinda Neal and Keon Shahab, then fills roughly 20 seconds of dead air while the stage crew fixes the slides.

TL;DR

• The MC (Alex Lieberman, attribution “likely” per boundary verification, matching the voice from the preceding welcome block) announces that “two speakers from Anthropic” are “coming up next” [00:14:12 | 9:02:04 AM].
• He asks the room to applaud Belinda Neal, Managing Director of Financial Services, and Keon Shahab, Applied AI Architect [00:14:18 | 9:02:09 AM].
• The slide deck is not ready, so he bridges the delay with “Just waiting for our slides.” [00:14:29 | 9:02:21 AM] and “There we go.” [00:14:44 | 9:02:36 AM].
• The teaser does not match the immediate run of show: the next voice on stage is Sam Green of Bridgewater, whose opening line lands at the tail of this transcript [00:14:46 | 9:02:38 AM]; this segment’s manifest window sits inside session 003’s window.
• The announced titles match the official agenda exactly, making this the earliest on-stream confirmation of the Anthropic keynote lineup (session 006).

Key lessons

1. Trust the manifest windows over the MC’s teaser when reconstructing the day. The MC says the Anthropic pair is “coming up next,” but the next voice on stream is Sam Green of Bridgewater Associates. This segment’s window (852.5-886.1 s) sits inside session 003’s window (829-1863 s), so the same lines also appear in session 003’s transcript.
2. The earliest on-stream confirmation of the Anthropic keynote lineup and titles is this teaser: Belinda Neal, Managing Director of Financial Services, and Keon Shahab, Applied AI Architect. Both match the official agenda entry for “Anthropic: Accelerating frontier AI in Financial Services” (session 006).
3. The MC’s delay-fill pattern is reusable: name-check the next speakers to draw applause, state the problem plainly (“Just waiting for our slides.”), then confirm recovery in two words (“There we go.”). The 15-second gap between those two lines (00:14:29 to 00:14:44) is the slide delay, and no content is lost while it runs.

Watch this session

Alex Lieberman · 9:02:04 AM ET–9:02:38 AM ET · announcement · Watch on YouTube from 00:14:12

Notable quotes

• “Coming up next, we’re delighted to welcome two speakers from Anthropic.” [00:14:12 | 9:02:04 AM]
• “Please put your hands together for Belinda Neal, Managing Director of Financial Services, and Keon Shahab, Applied AI Architect.” [00:14:18 | 9:02:09 AM]
• “Just waiting for our slides.” [00:14:29 | 9:02:21 AM]

Session narrative

This 34-second segment is stage banter, not a session with content of its own. The MC (Alex Lieberman, attribution “likely” per boundary verification, matching the voice from the preceding welcome block) announces that “two speakers from Anthropic” are “coming up next” and asks the room to applaud Belinda Neal, Managing Director of Financial Services, and Keon Shahab, Applied AI Architect. The slide deck is not ready, so he bridges the technical delay with “Just waiting for our slides” and “There we go” once it loads.

The teaser does not match the immediate run of show. The next voice on stage is Sam Green of Bridgewater Associates, whose opening line (“Good morning, everyone. I’m Sam Green, team lead for Applied AI at Bridgewater Associates…”) lands at [00:14:46 | 9:02:38 AM], at the tail of this transcript. The manifest window for this segment (852.5-886.1 s) sits inside session 003’s window (829-1863 s), so these lines also appear in session 003’s transcript. The Anthropic keynote itself is session 006, on stage from about 9:19 AM ET.

The announced titles match the official agenda exactly: the agenda lists Belinda Neal as “Managing Director, Financial Services” at Anthropic and Keon Shahab as an Anthropic speaker for the keynote “Anthropic: Accelerating frontier AI in Financial Services.” This teaser is the earliest on-stream confirmation of that lineup and their titles.

Speaker details

Alex Lieberman - Co-founder and Managing Partner, Tenex (MC for the day). Serial entrepreneur best known as co-founder of Morning Brew, the business media company he started as a college newsletter and grew to over 2 million daily readers before its roughly $75M sale to Business Insider in 2020. At Tenex, an AI engineering and transformation firm co-founded with Arman Hezarkhani, he helps companies go from AI-absent to AI-native; he also hosts the Founder’s Journal podcast. At AI Engineer NYC 2026 he delivered the welcome, keynote intros, and closing remarks. Links: LinkedIn | Twitter | Website. Attribution for this specific segment is “likely” per boundary verification, based on voice continuity with the adjacent MC blocks.

Sam Green - Team lead for Applied AI, Bridgewater Associates (identified from session). He does not speak in this segment beyond the opening words of the next talk, which the transcript tail captures: “I’m Sam Green, team lead for Applied AI at Bridgewater Associates, and this is my colleague Aaron Linsky.” [00:14:47 | 9:02:39 AM] His full session is record 003, “Vault: Making Unstructured Data Work for Investing.” Note on the timestamp: it is verbatim from the last line of this session’s transcript, and the source cut runs about one second past the manifest t_end of 886.1 s (00:14:46 | 9:02:38 AM), so the quoted line sits one second outside the manifest window. It is kept exactly as transcribed.

Full timestamped transcript

[00:14:12 | 9:02:04 AM] Coming up next, we're delighted to welcome two speakers from Anthropic.
[00:14:18 | 9:02:09 AM] Please put your hands together for Belinda Neal, Managing Director of Financial Services, and Keon Shahab, Applied AI Architect.
[00:14:29 | 9:02:21 AM] Just waiting for our slides.
[00:14:44 | 9:02:36 AM] There we go.
[00:14:46 | 9:02:38 AM] Good morning, everyone.
[00:14:47 | 9:02:39 AM] I'm Sam Green, team lead for Applied AI at Bridgewater Associates, and this is my colleague Aaron Linsky.