Edge-Native AI: Building Ultra-Fast Agents and MCP Servers with Spin
Thorsten Hans
- When
- Wednesday, July 11:55 PM – 2:15 PM · 20 min
- Where
- Expo Stage 1 NESan Francisco, CA · imported from ai.engineer's public schedule feed
About this session
Centralized AI is slow; Edge-native AI is the revolution. Thorsten Hans demonstrates how to build intelligent agents and Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers that run at the speed of light. Using Spin and WebAssembly, we'll bypass the "cloud tax" of high latency and cold starts. Discover how to ship AI-driven features that live closer to your users, ensuring sub-millisecond responsiveness and enhanced privacy. Stop waiting for the origin it's time to bring the brain to the edge and master the stack that powers the next generation of intelligent, distributed applications.
Speaker
Senior Developer Advocate, Akamai
Thorsten Hans is a Senior Developer Advocate at Akamai focused on emerging cloud technologies, WebAssembly, Spin and edge-native AI. He is also a Docker Captain who shares experiments and practical guidance with developer communities.
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For developers: this programme is open data — JSON, iCal, schedule XML and an MCP endpoint.Show endpointsHide
- JSONEvery published session and speaker, in one request./aie-worldsfair-2026-import/feed.json
- iCalSubscribe in Google, Apple or Outlook Calendar./aie-worldsfair-2026-import/feed.ics
- Schedule XMLfrab / pentabarf — the format conference apps import./aie-worldsfair-2026-import/feed.xml
- MCP + RESTPoint Claude at the programme. OpenAPI 3.1 included./agents
No key, no signup, CORS open. Everything here is generated from the same data the organisers edit.