# Welcome Remarks — Alex Lieberman — session 2026-10-13T12:56:00.000Z → 2026-10-13T13:00:00.000Z

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## Transcript

Work. This is our third event in New York. We had two in 2025, with some of our greatest speakers that we've ever had, AI engineer. So we're really excited to be back. So just a huge welcome from myself and Swix to everyone. Thanks for attending today. We hope you're gonna have a great few days. There's very, very few places like New York City, as we know, where big ideas scale very, very fast. It is where Frontier AI Comes to meet centuries old global financial institutions and where multiple different economies thrive together. So we're excited to have an incredible lineup. You're gonna hear from some of the world's best speakers, just like at all our events. We have got people we've got tracks, in finance. We've got engineering, leadership, e, evals, and LLM. We've got Parnad Dinakaran I'm going to get that right from Araya We've got Max Alexander from Capital One and Tarik Shekat from SONAR. That's just a few of the incredible speakers that we've got this week. I'm gonna say a huge thank you to Arise, who's our presenting sponsor. You you guys can go and meet their team in the expo at any point this week. So, lean in to learning here. Lean into connecting as well. There's so many people here that, are sharing ideas. They want to Talk about the ideas. They wanna challenge ideas, and they wanna collaborate as well. So make sure to speak to as many people as possible, your attendees, speakers, and all the sponsors. And we hope to see you again soon. We do have a great lineup. We... We've got another event called Summit in San Francisco in November, and then we have London lined up in February, and then, of course, World's Fair. And we've got a couple of other events happening next year as well that are new. So, keep an eye on the schedule. But have a wonder For a few days. Thank you so much. Take care. And now, please welcome to the stage your MC for the day, managing partner at ten x, Alex Lieberman. What's up, everyone? How's it going? There we go. Before we hop into the official stuff, I just want to start by introducing myself and asking you a quick question. I'm Alex Lee. One of the cofounders and co managing partners at ten x. We're an applied AI company working with Fortune 500 businesses to become AI native. Before that, I cofounded a business called Morning Brew, which makes business news suck a little bit less. My question for you is, who in the room, raise your hand, if you are healthily addicted to X, or formerly known as Twitter? Okay. A lot of people are lying in the room. I spend a lot of time on X. One of the reasons that I spend a lot of time on X is because I feel like I get to live in the future. Right? When you're when you're scrolling through X, when you're looking at the commentary on the platform, you feel like you're seeing what will become consensus in three, six, or twelve months. And what I love about this conference, and why I get so excited to come to it every single year, is because this almost feels like X on steroids. There's this concept that a friend told me a while back, called Edge City. And Edge City is this concept that at any point in some part of the world, there are a group of people that are living in the future in a specific function or specialty. And the way I think about this conference is we are all living in Edge City for what will be consensus in the next six months to two years, if you really think about the diffusion of this technology.

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