Modal
Overview
Modal is represented at AI Engineer World's Fair 2026. Its public site describes it this way: Bring your own code, and run CPU, GPU, and data-intensive compute at scale. The serverless platform for AI and data teams.
Background
The official speaker roster connects Modal to Adam Azzam, Charles Frye, Nan Jiang. The public company site was discovered by domain-guess and fetched for homepage metadata.
Conference Relevance
Modal matters to this wiki through 3 official speaker(s) and 3 scheduled session(s), including: What is an Inference Engine, Anyway?; Don’t build agents, build environments; Taking Reinforcement Learning Cross Datacenter.
Conference Sessions
- 2026 06 29 charles frye what is an inference engine anyway - What is an Inference Engine, Anyway? (2026-06-29, 11:05am-12:05pm)
- 2026 06 30 adam azzam don t build agents build environments - Don’t build agents, build environments (2026-06-30, 10:45am-11:05am)
- 2026 07 01 nan jiang taking reinforcement learning cross datacenter - Taking Reinforcement Learning Cross Datacenter (2026-07-01, 3:45pm-4:05pm)
Connections
- adam azzam - Member of Product Staff
- charles frye - Member of Technical Staff
- nan jiang - MTS
Sources
Evidence Graph
This evidence graph summarizes how this organization appears across the conference source graph: scheduled sessions, linked videos, transcripts, and slide-derived evidence.
Linked Sessions
- What is an Inference Engine, Anyway?
- Don’t build agents, build environments
- Taking Reinforcement Learning Cross Datacenter
Media Signals
youtube-DeFF3J8T5Pk— source page linked- Evidence links for
youtube-DeFF3J8T5Pk: youtube DeFF3J8T5Pk, youtube DeFF3J8T5Pk slides, youtube DeFF3J8T5Pk dense slides, youtube DeFF3J8T5Pk reconstructed slides
Notes
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Evidence Boundary
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