Something to Celebrate

A five-minute closing. The speaker never says his name; a second voice on stage presents two team members. The turns are left unlabelled: the transcript does not mark who is speaking, and the celebration video is not transcribed.

Transcribed locally with Qwen3-ASR 1.7B (timings per ~5 s segment), prompted with the speaker names and affiliations of overlapping sessions. "Swyx" at 00:02:41 and "AI Engineer" were in that prompt; the unprompted Voice Memos transcript has "Swift's" there. Other names are kept as transcribed: AI Engineer is "AIE", and Anthropic among the sponsors is "Doppic". The Voice Memos transcript is kept beside it as transcript.txt.

00:00:00 — Celebrating the two days

Hello. Hi everyone. How's AIE? That was incredible. Always a dream to. Have some of my favorite speakers in the world grace our stage, share a little bit with you in person. The thousand top. Agentic engineers in the world. I just checked the numbers in the live stream. If we add everything together, yesterday today. We're basically close to a hundred thousand people on the live stream. So you have you sort of seen live what a lot of people are tuning in on stage.

Lydia's talk yesterday. A lot of you did not get to see for technical reasons. We launched last night, and you can catch up on it. Three hundred thousand people have. Crazy, absolutely crazy. Does anyone want to shout out their favorite talks of the? The whole two day, two three, and workshops too. What are your favorite workshops? Anyway. Jeff, Jeff, you're very inspiring. Potato? Yes, Lauren. Cheers, cheers about that. What's up? Artcraft, Artcraft.

You gonna who's gonna rewrite software? Like, raise your hand. Who's gonna rewrite and open source everything? Yeah, that tons of you in the crowd. I mean, there's too many to name. I wanted to shout out Jarrett Sumner as well, Bunny Ot, and. A lot of inspiring dev tools work. And just such a huge outpouring of support from the community from. DeepMind, our presenting sponsor, they launched Hydrogen today. Did you guys enjoy that as well?

Yeah, as well as. Yeah. Also, OpenAI and Doppic, Firecrawl, and all the other sponsors down in. The Expo floor, as well as the token billionaire lounge.

00:01:36 — One milestone to celebrate

So there's lots to celebrate, but there's one really particular milestone that I wanted to. To celebrate here that we only ever passed once, we're only celebrating in this room. Let's play the video. Short and sweet. Welcome, the AI engineer 2020 2016. Celebrating one million subscribers.

00:02:19 — The team behind the scenes

So this is the team behind the scenes that's producing our GMB. Natalie, Iliana, Max, Kyle. Vincent, Sydney, Flo, Jesse, and a couple more behind the stage that we can't bring on stage right now because. They have to wrap up the show. Yeah, I don't know if you have a few words, and we want to present some stuff to the team members. Absolutely. So as Swyx is saying, we've grown dramatically in the last year.

Along with our event series, obviously our YouTube, there's a couple of people here who have been absolutely pivotal. To that over the last three years, really since day one. And we really want to recognize both of that today up on stage. So if Flo and Vincent can step forward, please. And you're going to receive your plaques in the hands of AIE. So coincidentally, both of them are the only two team members other than me that have spoken at AIE. You can check out their talks.

Online, you know what channel? Vincent has been with us since day one. He's responsible for the design. The look and feel the brand anything you enjoyed about. The thumbnails. If you've ever clicked on an AI video, it's because of him. The glitch effects on the you enjoy that all those videos that's him running around at like 2 a.m. In the morning changing the videos. On the totems, yeah. Any, any, any of your talk, right? That you did at Worcester.

Cool. Thank you so much for all the help and support. And Flo, my partner in crime on publishing the YouTube channel, marketing. If you see the tweets and the emails and all the analytics behind the scenes, that's all flow as well. As well as setting up our NAS, which means make sure we never lose anything. So. We're providing a lot of speaker services as well. So every photo ever taken is hosted because he's a boarder and a boarder.

To the chagrin of my team.

00:04:17 — What comes next

Yeah. So this is the team we've brought. We've really scaled aggressively. We're trying to build a consistent product. We started with one event a year. Last year, with three events a year. This year is the fourth. Flagship events of the year. Next year we're probably going to stay roughly consistent. Maybe add a small. Fifth, one. But we're also extending a lot of partnerships, right? So. We just had AI in Shanghai last week.

The first AI in China. As well as we're just announcing India as well next year. So there will be a lot more partnerships to go. A lot of you have asked us how to run an AIE in your city. And well, just apply online. You know, there's there's a partnership form. I think that's about it. Thank you so much. We will be around. Celebrating you! I know you guys got to go to the after party. You know where to go.

Look it up, but otherwise, have a great time! Thank you so much. For 148, a fantastic conference. See you next year.