---
title: "Modal"
category: "companies"
aliases: ["Modal"]
website: "https://modal.com/"
sourceLabels: ["Official speaker roster", "Official conference schedule", "Public company site", "Automated company profile fetch"]
---
# 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
- [Modal](https://modal.com/)

## 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
- [[2026-06-29-charles-frye-what-is-an-inference-engine-anyway|What is an Inference Engine, Anyway?]]
- [[2026-06-30-adam-azzam-don-t-build-agents-build-environments|Don’t build agents, build environments]]
- [[2026-07-01-nan-jiang-taking-reinforcement-learning-cross-datacenter|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
- Automated company profile fetch status: fetched.

## Evidence Boundary
Official roster and schedule facts are treated as canonical for conference participation. Public company sites, documentation, and professional profiles are supporting context used to explain what the organization does and why it is relevant.