---
title: "poolside"
category: "companies"
aliases: ["poolside"]
website: "https://poolside.ai/"
sourceLabels: ["Official speaker roster", "Official conference schedule", "Public company site", "Automated company profile fetch"]
---
# poolside

## Overview
poolside is represented at AI Engineer World's Fair 2026. Its public site describes it this way: Poolside is a foundation model company bringing intelligence to everywhere work gets done. Our mission is to drive abundance for humanity by creating artificial general intelligence.

## Background
The official speaker roster connects poolside to Marah Abdin, Robert McHardy. The public company site was discovered by domain-guess and fetched for homepage metadata.

## Conference Relevance
poolside matters to this wiki through 2 official speaker(s) and 1 scheduled session(s), including: The Messy Reality of Scale: Synthetic Data and Pre-Training at Poolside.

## Conference Sessions
- [[2026-06-29-robert-mchardy-the-messy-reality-of-scale-synthetic-data-and-pre-training-at-poolside]] - The Messy Reality of Scale: Synthetic Data and Pre-Training at Poolside (2026-06-29, 11:10am-11:30am)

## Connections
- [[marah-abdin]] - Team Lead - Synthetic Data
- [[robert-mchardy]] - Pre-training Lead

## Sources
- [Poolside](https://poolside.ai/)

## 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-robert-mchardy-the-messy-reality-of-scale-synthetic-data-and-pre-training-at-poolside|The Messy Reality of Scale: Synthetic Data and Pre-Training at Poolside]]

### Media Signals
No linked video, transcript, or slide source has been attached yet.

## 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.