Modular
Also listed as 1 other name
Modular AI
Circuit mix
Where Modular shows up, by circuit. Each event counts once: 2 if it sponsored, 1 if it only had speakers. Hover a segment for the conference.
- AI engineering & MLOps73%6 events
- Research13%1 event
- Vendor flagships & roadshows7%1 event
- Modern data stack & practitioner7%1 event
The year around now
Conferences where Modular sponsored or had speakers in the past 12 months, and the announced events it is already listed for. One row per conference, January to December; hover a mark for the event and the company's role.
Presence by conference and year
Each cell is one conference in one year. Fill shows the company sponsored, shaded by its best tier that year; a dot means it had speakers there. Hover for details; click to open the event.
- Title
- Platinum
- Gold
- Silver
- Bronze
- Other / unlabeled tier
- Had speakers
| Conference | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PyTorch Conference | ||||||||
| AI Engineer (World's Fair, Summit and regional editions) | ||||||||
| MLSys (Conference on Machine Learning and Systems) | ||||||||
| AI By the Bay | ||||||||
| NVIDIA GTC |
Activity by year
Three measures on one year axis; each panel has its own scale.
Conferences present at
Distinct conferences each year, split by whether the company sponsored or only had speakers there.
- Sponsored
- Speakers only
Distinct speakers
People from this company on a program that year, each counted once.
Sponsorships by tier
Sponsorship rows per year (one per event and listing), stacked by normalized tier.
- Gold
- Silver
- Other / unlabeled
Where they've grown or pulled back
UpSponsored 3 conferences in 2026, up from 1 in 2023.
Counted per conference. 2026 is the latest year whose conferences have mostly happened. Tiers use the best tier each year; swatches show the path, oldest first. A conference counts as pulled out only when a later event published a complete sponsor list, since most events don’t say whether their list is complete.
New 1
First sponsored in 2025 or later.
- MLSys (Conference on Machine Learning and Systems)first sponsored 2026, Gold
Moved down 1
Best tier fell between the first and latest year with a ranked tier.
- PyTorch ConferenceGold 2023 → Silver 2026
Steady 1
Sponsored in most years of its span at the same tier.
- AI Engineer (World's Fair, Summit and regional editions)2 of 3 years 2024–26, mostly Gold
Lookalikes
Companies with the most similar conference footprint: they sponsor and speak at the same conferences. Bars are cosine similarity, from 0 (nothing shared) to 1 (identical).
- Parasail0.90
- Character.ai0.87
- Prime Intellect0.86
- Cloud Native Computing Foundation0.83
- Conviction0.80
- Runway0.78
- Crusoe0.77
- Luma AI0.76
11 Cluster: AI Engineer · QCon circuit →
Often sponsors alongside
Companies that sponsored the same events, by number of shared events (out of 6 this company sponsored).
| Company | Shared events | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Amazon Web Services | 5 | 83% |
| Crusoe | 5 | 83% |
| 5 | 83% | |
| Baseten | 4 | 67% |
| Meta | 4 | 67% |
| NVIDIA | 4 | 67% |
| AMD | 3 | 50% |
| The D. E. Shaw Group | 3 | 50% |
| Databricks | 3 | 50% |
| FriendliAI | 3 | 50% |
| FuriosaAI | 3 | 50% |
| Huawei | 3 | 50% |
| IBM | 3 | 50% |
| Intel | 3 | 50% |
| Jane Street | 3 | 50% |
Neighborhood: companies with nearby conference footprints
Modular (ringed) and the 30 companies closest to it on the company map. Close together means they sponsor and speak at many of the same conferences. Distances are only meaningful locally; the axes have no meaning. Dot size: conferences present at. Color: cluster.
Sponsorships 6
| Event | Date | Place | Tier as listed | Normalized tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PyTorch Conference North America 2026 | Oct 20–21, 2026 | San Jose, United States | Silver | Silver |
| AI Engineer World's Fair 2026 | Jun 29, 2026 – Jul 2, 2026 | San Francisco, United States | Gold | Gold |
| MLSys 2026 | May 18–22, 2026 | Bellevue, United States | Gold | Gold |
| PyTorch Conference 2025 | Oct 22–23, 2025 | San Francisco, United States | Silver | Silver |
| AI Engineer World's Fair 2024 | Jun 25–27, 2024 | San Francisco, United States | Supporters | Other |
| PyTorch Conference 2023 | Oct 16–17, 2023 | Burlingame, United States | Gold | Gold |
Speakers 9
| Speaker | Event | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abdul Dakkak | AI Engineer World's Fair 2026 | speaker | Modular: Taming the AI Hardware Cambrian Explosion | Video |
| Spenser Bauman | PyTorch Conference 2025 | speaker | Mojo + PyTorch: A Simpler, Faster Path To Custom Kernels | — |
| Jack Clayton | PyTorch Conference 2024 | poster | Poster Presentations | — |
| Mikhail Zolotukhin | PyTorch Conference 2024 | panelist | DL Compiler Panel Discussion | — |
| Mikhail Zolotukhin | PyTorch Conference 2024 | speaker | [MOJO] Lifting PT to New Heights with MAX and Mojo | — |
| Nick Kreeger | PyTorch Conference 2024 | poster | Poster Presentations | — |
| Chris Lattner | AI Engineer World's Fair 2024 | keynote | Unlocking Developer Productivity across CPU and GPU with MAX | Video |
| Chris Lattner | GTC 2024 | featured | — | — |
| Chris Lattner | Scale By the Bay 2023 | keynote | Fireside chat with Chris Lattner | Video |