ModCon 2026 Agenda

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Registration

7:30am – 9am

Check-in and badge pickup

Light bites and coffee

Early networking

Main Stage

9am – 12pm

Opening keynote: The Unified AI Compute Layer

9am – 10:30am

Modular Cloud: Performance At Scale

10:40am – 11:25am

Panel: Funding the AI Stack

11:30am – 12pm

Dave Munichiello (GV), Quentin Clark (GC), Sam Fort (DFJ), Liz Stein (USIT), Michelle Gonzalez (M12)

Lunch and Modular Demo Stations

12pm - 1:30pm

Main Stage

1:30 - 5pm

Panel: The Multi-Silicon Stack

1:30pm – 2:10pm

Satyam Srivastava (d-Matrix), Rashid Attar (Qualcomm), Kamran Khan (AWS)

Fireside Chat: AI Analyst Perspectives

2:20pm – 3pm

Micah Hill-Smith (Artificial Analysis), Dylan Patel (SemiAnalysis)

Panel: Building Frontier Models

3:10pm – 3:50pm

Paige Bailey (Google DeepMind), Victor Su-Ortiz (MiniMax), Joe Spisak (Reflection AI), Varun Randery (Poolside)

Fireside Chat: Future of the Data Center

4pm – 4:40pm

Jay Jackson (Oracle Cloud), Jeff Tatarchuk (TensorWave)

What Open-Weight Omni-Context Generation Enables for AI Videos

4:50pm – 5:15pm

Morgan Suo (MiniMax)

Conference Theater

1:30 - 5pm

Inside the MAX Inference Stack

1:30 – 2:00pm

Ehsan M. Kermani (Modular) and Bingfeng Xia (Modular)

Robot Demo

2:10 – 2:25pm

Maximilian Alexander (WendyOS)

Beyond GPUs

2:35 – 3:05pm

Abdul Dakkak (Modular) and Mihailo Stojanovic (HTEC)

Mojo 1.0 and the Open Road Ahead

3:15 – 3:45pm

Brad Larson (Modular) and Denis Gurchenkov (Modular)

Inside the Qualcomm NPU Bring-Up

3:55 – 4:25pm

Ruyman Reyes (Modular) and Rashid Attar (Qualcomm)

Performance: What’s the Secret?

4:35 – 5:05pm

Brendan Hansknecht (Modular)

Reception (party time!)

5:30pm – 7pm

Mingle on the top floor of the Hyatt, with great views, light bites, and drinks.

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Registration
7:30 – 9am
- Check-in and badge pickup
- Light bites and coffee
- Early networking
Main Stage
9am – 12pm
- Opening keynote
- Product launches
- Customer stories
- Fireside chat
- Partner announcements
Lunch & Demos
12 – 1:30pm
- Food + cocktail tables
- Live product demos
- Hands-on experiences
- Meet the teams
- Sponsor stations
Main Stage
1 – 5:30pm
- Open Season for Open Models:
  Exploring open source AI models at scale
- Funding the AI Stack:
  Top VCs break down the compute bet and their approach
- Panel discussions
- Deep dives
- Closing keynote
Breakout sessions
1 – 5pm
- Community-led sessions
- Hands-on workshops
- Technical deep dives
Reception (Party time!)
5:30 – 7pm
- Drinks and light bites
- Community networking
- Fun entertainment

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