Voice-over hand-off: MC returns for closing remarks
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An off-stage announcer hands the stage back to MC Alex Lieberman for the day-one closing remarks, and Lieberman opens with “Okay, let’s close this thing out.”
- An off-stage voice-over welcomes Alex Lieberman back “for a few closing thoughts and remarks,” billing him as “our MC and the managing partner at 10X.”
- Lieberman takes the mic with one line — “Okay, let’s close this thing out.” — which begins the closing block recorded in full in record 051.
- The segment runs 10 seconds (video 08:03:27 to 08:03:37, wall 4:51:19 to 4:51:29 PM ET), directly after the final keynote of the day, “Hermes gives you wings” by Dillon Rolnick of Nous Research (record 049).
- Name note: the announcer’s “10X” is the firm that the official agenda and speaker record list as Tenex; Lieberman himself said “10x” earlier in the day (record 042).
Key lessons
Section titled “Key lessons”None - this segment is a 10-second voice-over hand-off.
Watch this session
Section titled “Watch this session”Notable quotes
Section titled “Notable quotes”- “And now, for a few closing thoughts and remarks, please welcome back to the stage our MC and the managing partner at 10X, Alex Lieberman.” [08:03:28 | 4:51:19 PM]
- “Okay, let’s close this thing out.” [08:03:38 | 4:51:29 PM]
Session narrative
Section titled “Session narrative”This is a 10-second transition, not a talk. The final keynote of day one ended seconds earlier, and an unnamed off-stage announcer read the hand-off line over the room PA, re-introducing the MC who had opened the show that morning. The introduction credits Lieberman as “the managing partner at 10X” and frames what follows as “a few closing thoughts and remarks.”
Lieberman then claims the mic with “Okay, let’s close this thing out.” The segment ends on that line. His actual remarks — applause for the speakers, sponsor thanks, and two housekeeping items — follow in record 051, “Closing remarks.” Note that records 050 and 051 share the same start timestamp by design: the boundary verification split the announcer hand-off and Lieberman’s first line (kept here) from the body of the closing remarks (kept in 051), so the first two transcript lines appear in both records.
No lessons section is given. A 33-word stage hand-off contains no teachable content, and inventing lessons would break the record’s accuracy.
Speaker details
Section titled “Speaker details”Unidentified announcer - Show voice-over, AI Engineer NYC 2026. (identified from session) An off-stage voice that read the hand-off introducing the MC for the closing remarks. No speaker record exists, and the transcript gives no name or role beyond the voice-over itself.
Alex Lieberman - Managing Partner, Tenex; MC for the day. Introduced here as “the managing partner at 10X”; his spoken contribution in this segment is the single line “Okay, let’s close this thing out.” Co-founder of Morning Brew, the business media company he grew from a college newsletter to 2M+ daily readers before its roughly $75M sale to Business Insider in 2020. Now co-founder and Managing Partner of Tenex, an AI engineering and transformation firm that helps companies go from AI-absent to AI-native; also hosts the Founder’s Journal podcast. Links: LinkedIn | Twitter/X | Website
Full timestamped transcript
Section titled “Full timestamped transcript”[08:03:28 | 4:51:19 PM] And now, for a few closing thoughts and remarks, please welcome back to the stage our MC and the managing partner at 10X, Alex Lieberman.[08:03:38 | 4:51:29 PM] Okay, let's close this thing out.