--- title: "Welcome Back - Featured Keynotes" speakers: - name: Ksenia Se affiliation: Turing Post room: "Simons Room (Metropolitan East)" starts_at: "2026-10-14T16:25:00-04:00" ends_at: "2026-10-14T16:30:00-04:00" format: "break" recording: "2026-10-14_1625_Ksenia" duration: "4m 43s" source: "qwen3-asr-1.7b" --- # Welcome Back - Featured Keynotes > Transcribed by qwen3-asr-1.7b with a schedule prompt. Possible prompt artifacts, names heard more often here than in the unprompted Voice Memos transcript (Qwen vs Voice Memos): Ksenia Se (1 vs 0), Turing Post (1 vs 0), Michael Manapat (1 vs 0), Rowspace (1 vs 0), Apollo Global Management (1 vs 0). Check them against the audio before quoting. ### 00:00:07 — Welcome Back & Thanking Conference Sponsors Welcome back, everyone. For those who haven't met me yet, my name is Ksenia Se. I'm writing to Turing Post, and where we explain AI research and what it means for people to implement it in their business. So, how's the conference treating you so far? Oh, that's good. Yeah, you guys. Thank you. I I'm sure the team appreciates that you applause to them. So let's make some more noise, because it's the last leg of our journey, and we have one more block of panels together. Let's appreciate the previous speakers and the new speakers that will come out soon. And before we dive in, let's take a moment to thank the amazing people, the companies who supported AI engineer. We are going to do a lot of more applause today. Thanks to them, we're able to hear so many insightful talks, meet so many incredible people and they might become your friends, your colleagues, your partners. That's what I love about this conference. Always, very meaningful connections. So, this is our presenting sponsor, Arize. Please thank them. They amazing, and they made it possible. Our personal sponsors, Oracle. This is our gold sponsors, a huge — a lot of beautiful, wonderful companies that we're very thankful for, and that we have super sponsor sponsors. Also, also a lot of applause to them. Thank you, thank you, thank you, and then basically all of us and the supporting partners and every company and every speaker who made it possible. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. ### 00:02:12 — A Hiring Agent Project for Conference Attendees Now, a couple of words: how my day went. I spend the day talking to other speakers and participants, and what I've noticed is that one of the strongest incentives to come to this conference is hiring, to the point that even some speakers are hiring and also looking for work. So, I have a little idea for you about how to benefit the most from this amazing conference, and make sure the financial part gets some thoughtful attention too, so I suggest you build an agent that takes the conference program and makes a list of all the speakers and their companies. Then you rank them yourself based on whose work and talk you found the most interesting, and who you would actually like to work with. The next step is to send your agent to those companies' careers pages, right, and find them open positions to match them to your experience, and collect the published compensation ranges. Then look at your ranking again, and if the salary changes your mind and changes your ranking, that's fine. You are updating your beliefs based on the evidence. So, now, while you still here, I encourage you to go and find the people you would really like to work with or meet and talk to them, because you've heard their talks and you know something about their work, and that would be just such a good conversation starter. And please don't make your agents send out your resume automatically. That's basically that carbonell. So, this is the project for you for the rest of the day or the trip home. ### 00:04:08 — Introducing Apollo Global Management & Rowspace Now let's hear how AI is being put to work at Apple. Please help me welcome Michael Manapat, co-founder of Rowspace and Jack McDonald, principal at Apollo Global Management, and CEO of Rating Reach, for AI advances, an inside look at Apollo's approach.