Welcome to AIE CODE - Jed Borovik, Google DeepMind

Jed Borovik.

Hello, good morning.

Welcome to the 2025 AI Engineering Code Summit in New York. How are we doing?

Good.

Woo! Allright, it's early, it's Friday. Thank you all for being here. Raise your hand if you've been to one of these events before, an AI engineering conference before. Allright, pretty good. So for those on, uh, those watching the live stream, about half the hands are up.

Keep your hands up, keep your hands up. Two or more events? Okay. We still have a couple. Three? Four? Allright, one, two hands. Five? Are you sure? There's only been four, Alex.

Not in front.

Okay, okay. We'll talk afterwards. Okay, well, welcome. Whether it's your first time or you've been to many of these, we're all excited you're here. Um, my name is Jed Borovik. Um, I'm Gemini's assistant at Google, and I also work on the Jewels coding agent, uh, I lead the product engineering team.

Um, and I'm your emcee for today. So why are we here? I'm sure many of you are familiar with Richard Hamming's famous "You and Your Research" talk. In that talk, he describes asking his colleagues, "What's the most important problem in your field?"

And thenright after that, he asks, "So why aren't you working on that?" I spend a lot of time hiring, and this idea comes up again and again. If you're working in technology, the most important problem of our day is AI.

And if you're working on applied AI, your most important problem is code. This is a special event to push the whole AI coding industry forward. It's not an event for a single company, but across all companies in this industry.

The AI engineering conference has two brands: a world's fair and a summit. This being a summit event is intentionally smaller than the world's fair. It's intentionally single track. It's designed to bring the best people together in the world about a single important theme.

For this event, that theme is AI coding. Yesterday, many of you also experienced the leadership track. Make some noise so we know you're still alive if you were in that track.

For those of you who were there, shout out some of your favorite talks.

Stanford.

Yeah, Stanford. Yeah, that was a good, that was a great one.

Gene and Steve.

Gene and Steve. That was, that was a spicy one. What else?

Every.

Every. Yeah, Dan from Every.

Jewels.

Ah, good choice, good choice. Okay. Well, yesterday was a great day. It was about how AI is transforming software organizations. Today, we're going to dive into the patterns, systems, and products that make all of that possible. But whether you consider yourself an AI leader, an AI engineer, or something in between, we're glad you're here.

We also wouldn't be here without our amazing sponsors. I would like to thank them, especially our presenting sponsor, DeepMind. Yeah, give it up, give it up.

And what an amazing week for DeepMind. I'm biased, but I hope you all get a chance to use Gemini 3 and Nano Banana Pro, which came out this week. I'd also like to thank Anthropic as our platinum sponsor and the gold sponsors you see on this screen.

Yeah, we'll do one big round at the end. And finally, we want to thank our silver sponsors. Let's put our hands together for all of these sponsors. Yeah, give it up, give it up.

All these sponsors will be downstairs in the expo area. They have booths, and, um, I recommend going down there to chat with folks from all these companies. They'll be open all day after the keynotes. Allright, with that, let's get started.