Emcee Jed Borovik (Google DeepMind) opens Day 2 of the AIE CODE event, introducing the day's programming focused on coding agents and labs. # Video Identity Observations — "Welcome to AIE CODE - Jed Borovik, Google DeepMind" ## Video Nature - This is an **opening/welcome keynote** delivered by an MC at the **2025 AI Engineering Code Summit in New York**, not a standalone tutorial or product demo. - The speaker introduces himself: > "my name is Jed Borvick... I'm Gemini's assistant at Google and I also work on the Jules coding agent. I lead the product engineering team... and I'm your MC for today." - Note: the transcript's rendering ("Gemini's assistant") appears to be a transcription artifact of a likely title such as "assistant to Gemini" or similar; the exact stated role is quoted as-is above. ## Intended Audience (Observable) - **In-person and livestream attendees** of an AI engineering conference: > "for those on uh those watching live stream, about half the hands up." - Audience is framed as experienced practitioners and leaders: > "whether you consider yourself an AI leader, an AI engineer, or something in between, we're glad you're here." - Many are repeat attendees (hands raised for prior events), and a subset attended a prior-day **leadership track** on AI transforming software organizations. ## Claimed Scope of the Event / Channel Context - **Industry-wide, not company-specific**: > "This is a special event to push the whole AI coding industry forward. It's not event for a single company but across all companies in this industry." - **Two event brands** under the AI Engineering Conference umbrella: - A **world's fair** (larger) - A **summit** (this event) — > "intentionally smaller than the world's fair. It's intentionally single track" with a single theme: **AI coding**. - Framing thesis for the theme: > "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." ## Sponsor / Partner Ecosystem Evidence - **Presenting sponsor**: DeepMind (speaker notes his own bias: > "I'm biased"). - **Platinum sponsor**: Anthropic; plus unnamed **gold and silver sponsors** with expo booths. ## Speaker's Affiliation and Product References - Speaker is a **Google employee** working on Gemini-adjacent product engineering and the **Jules coding agent**. - Brief product mentions (promotional, not tutorials): **Gemini 3** and **Nano Banana Pro**, > "which came out this week." ## Claims vs. Demonstrated Patterns - **Creator/explicit claims**: event is industry-wide, cross-company, single-track, themed on AI coding; audience of AI leaders and engineers. - **Demonstrated in the material**: MC format with audience interaction, sponsor acknowledgments, cross-company speaker pool (Stanford, "Jean and Steve," "Dan from Every" referenced from prior day) — consistent with the claimed industry-wide positioning. - **No metadata was supplied**; all observations derive from the transcript and title only. # Position Extraction: "Welcome to AIE CODE - Jed Borovik, Google DeepMind" ## Speaker - **Jed Borovik** — introduces himself as working on Gemini at Google and leading the product engineering team for the Jules coding agent; MC for the event. (Note: the title spells his name "Borovik"; the transcript renders it "Borvick"/"Boravik" inconsistently.) ## Stated Claims and Reasoning ### The purpose of the summit - The event is the **2025 AI Engineering Code Summit** in New York, designed to "push the whole AI coding industry forward" — explicitly "not [an] event for a single company." - The **summit** format is intentionally smaller and single-track, versus the larger **world's fair** brand, to gather "the best people" around a single theme: **AI coding**. ### Hamming framing - Borovik cites Richard Hamming's "You and Your Research" talk and its two questions: *what's the most important problem in your field?* and *"why aren't you working on that?"* - His stated reasoning chain: - If you work in technology, the most important problem today is **AI**. - If you work in applied AI, the most important problem is **code**. - He notes this Hamming idea "comes up again and again" in his hiring work. ### Event structure - **Yesterday**: a leadership track focused on how AI is transforming software organizations (audience members name talks by Stanford and "Jean and Steve," which Borovik calls "spicy," and "Dan from Every"). - **Today**: focus on "the patterns, systems, and products" that enable those transformations. - **Sponsors acknowledged**: DeepMind (presenting), Anthropic (platinum), plus unnamed gold and silver sponsors, with booths in the expo area. ### Product mentions (with stated bias) - Borovik promotes **Gemini 3** and **Nano Banana Pro**, released that week, saying "I'm biased, but I hope you all get a chance to use" them — the bias is his own disclosed qualification. ## Qualifications Preserved - Borovik explicitly flags his **bias** regarding DeepMind products. - Speaker-name spelling varies across title and transcript; no independent resolution available. - No technical claims about the products were made beyond their release timing. # Video Attribution Record: "Welcome to AIE CODE - Jed Borovik, Google DeepMind" ## Speaker Inventory ### Primary Speaker - **Jed Borovik** (also transcribed "Jed Borvick" / "Jed Boravik") - **Role**: MC / event host (self-identified: "I'm your MC for today") - **Affiliation**: Google / Google DeepMind - **Stated position**: Works on Gemini ("Gemini's assistant at Google") and the **Jules coding agent**, where he **leads the product engineering team** - **Function**: Opening welcome remarks for the 2025 AI Engineering Code Summit in New York ### Audience / Unidentified Voices - **Audience members** (unidentified): respond to the MC's prompts, shouting out favorite talks from the prior day's leadership track — e.g., "Stanford," "Jean and Steve," "Every Dan from Every" - **Alex** (audience member, identified by first name only): acknowledged in a brief exchange about event attendance count ("There's only been four, Alex") ## Referenced Sources & Third-Party Claims - **Richard Hamming's "You and Your Research" talk**: cited by the MC as framing for the event's theme; he paraphrases Hamming's question, "What's the most important problem in your field?" followed by "So why aren't you working on that?" - **Prior-day leadership track talks** (audience-nominated, no further attribution): a Stanford talk, a talk by "Jean and Steve," and a talk by "Dan from Every" ## Promotional Segments (Flagged) - **Sponsor acknowledgments** — explicit promotional content delivered by the MC: - **Presenting sponsor**: DeepMind (with applause) - **Platinum sponsor**: Anthropic - **Gold sponsors**: shown on screen (not named in transcript) - **Silver sponsors**: thanked collectively (not named) - Promotion of sponsor expo booths downstairs ("They'll be open all day after the keynotes") - **Product promotion by the MC** (self-declared bias: "I'm biased"): - **Gemini 3** and **Nano Banana Pro**, described as released "this week" ## Provenance & Context Facts - **Event**: 2025 AI Engineering Code Summit, New York; single-track, intentionally smaller than the conference's "world's fair" brand event - **Theme**: AI coding, framed as cross-industry rather than company-specific - **Audience**: hybrid — in-person attendees plus a live-stream audience (MC addresses "those watching live stream") - **Comment availability**: not stated in the transcript or metadata - **Uncertainty note**: speaker's surname appears with three different spellings in the transcript ("Borovik," "Borvick," "Boravik"); title uses **Borovik** Jed \[music\] Boravik. \>\> Hello. Good morning. \[music\] Welcome to the 2025 AI Engineering Code Summit in New York. How are we doing? All right, 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. All right, pretty good. So, for those on uh those watching live stream, about half the hands up, keep your hands up. Keep your hands up. Two or more events. Okay, still have a couple. Three, four. All right, one, two hands. Five. Are you sure? There's only been four, Alex. Okay. Okay. We 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 Borvick. Um, I'm Gemini's assistant at Google and I also work on the Jules coding agent. I lead the product engineering team. Um, and I'm your MC 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 then right 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 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 a leadership track. Make some noise so we know you're still alive if you were in that track. \>\> For those of you who are there, shout out some of your favorite talks. \>\> Stanford. \>\> Yeah, Stanford. Yeah, that was a good That was a great one. \>\> Jean and Steve. \>\> Jean and Steve. That was that was a spicy one. What else? \>\> Every Dan from Every \>\> 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, DeMind. Yeah, give it up. Give it up. \[applause\] 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 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. \[applause\] 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. All right, with that, let's get started. \>\> \[music\]