# MC Intro — Corey Quinn — session 2026-11-11T17:00:00.000Z → 2026-11-11T17:10:00.000Z

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## Transcript

Good morning, and welcome to AI Engineer Code Summit twenty twenty six. We're excited to bring together some of the brightest minds in AI engineering for a day of fresh ideas, new perspectives, and conversations shaping the future of how we build software. To officially kick things off and lead us through today's keynotes, please put your hand Together for our MC, Corey Quinn, chief cloud economist at the Duckbill Group. Thank you all for coming. This is the last flagship event of the year for Hi. Engineering. How are folks feeling so far? Woo hoo hoo hoo. Yay. That's exciting. What have we learned? Anything good? Anything exciting? Anything terrible? Ontology. There we go. That's right. Ontology. What does it mean? We're gonna put a pin in that. We're going to come back to it. I am Corey Quinn. If you've never heard of me, you're, a, what we tend to think of as being happy, and, b, if you are curious, you can look at all the various things I do at my site, shit Hosting.ai, which in itself tells you everything you need to know about what I do. So today, we are going to be kicking things off and having some fun talks with people who have interesting useful things to say rather than me flopping my gums up here. We're going to start by bringing up our friends from, Swix. Swix, are you available yet or are you still hiding back there? Terrific. Come on out, please. And Leah as well. Whoop, did I jump the gun? No, please. By all means. Swix, thank you. No story. Thank you. I did a metaphor. He's Oh. Podcast. Thanks. Long time I did a matter for you. Oh. Long time and it's so nice to have him, MC as well. I'm not there. Good warm welcome to Leah, general manager of AIE. Hi, morning. Yeah. We're so happy to open AIE code is kind of our Critical, very focused, smaller format, you know, format on on, Coding Agents. And I think it's been such a huge year in Coding Agents. There's also been a lot of different evolutions in terms of, like, how we think about what the mission of coding is. We used to have, you know, in in specific track titles like coding agents and software factories and all these things. But now I'm talking about, like, system one thinking and and, and raising your ambition and all these, like, very fancy, higher level extractions of of work. So I'm excited to see, for you to see and I'm excited to... Me personally to attend, all these talks that are coming along. And I'm just gonna talk a little bit about 2026, with AIE. So we've had a really big year this year. We had our first event in London. We also graduated up into Moscone for our World's Fair. We also had a bunch... Oh here we go. I don't know if it was behind us. We, we had multiple partner events which if any of you went to, we'd love to hear feedback there because it's Great program program that we're running. We've also grown our team, substantially. So I think there was a slide somewhere. Oh, I don't know. I think they've... Oh, there we go. Beautiful people. I think they're just very excited about clicking through everything. Yep. We, here we are. So, there we go. So, yeah, we've grown our team. We went from four in the team to 20 this year, which was very exciting. So this is everyone. A big shout out to the team. As you can see, the program is growing and, everyone here is responsible for that. Yeah. So... Yeah. And I'll slowly interject, like, why are we growing? It's because we wanna provide a consistent product for the rest of you, that, like, wherever in... Instead of major cities that you're working in, you have an AIU to go to. And we try to spread out, you know, we're doing something like four flagship conferences a year and a lot of partner conference around the world. Yep. And we also... I think I just saw that. Our most popular talk which just came up there. Has almost 2,000,000 views on YouTube. But the point's not coming up. And then we are also just about to announce 2027, with a wider program. We're gonna hopefully announce that in about three weeks' time. We are doing more partner events. We're entering into some different regions. It's very exciting for 2027. A couple other things we've done this year is we've partnered with Major League Hacking, and they are gonna be running a hackathon with us at every event next year. We actually have one this Friday. So if you guys have Sign up and you wanna come, please look on the website. We are also working with Neo4j on a kids event series also. And that is happening this Saturday. So if you have got any kids between the age of kinda six to 14, feel free to come down. Again, you can find that on the website. Or aie.kids. I'm in my domain buying era. So we got aie.kids for kids and aie.sc for the schedule. Yeah. Yes. So... And then we have one final event for the year, which is a Sydney event. Wix will be there. I will not, and that closes out 2026. So, yeah, thank you so much for coming, everyone, and we hope you enjoy the the next couple of days. Alright. Thanks. Enjoy the show. What a great way. To get us started. What we have found here is that events like this don't happen without help from a lot of our partners. It is incredibly important that they are there and support us. We want to thank them for it. Beginning with our presenting sponsor, Google DeepMind. Could we get a round of applause for them, please? There we are. AV challenges. Always find it exciting on that one. Stall. It's great. I also wanna thank our supporting partners as well, about whom we would, again, not be able to be here. Normally, it shows up there. Oh, there. Sorry. Wrong slide. I looked left. It's right. If we get a round of applause for them as well. Thank you all for your support. It's appreciated.

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# AI Engineer Code Summit
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# Code Summit
## AI Engineer

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# COREY QUINN
## CHIEF CLOUD ECONOMIST
**duckbill**

AIE CODE 2026 // SF, CA
November 10-13,

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# Companies and Partners

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# AI Engineer Code Summit
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# AI Engineer Code Summit
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