Technical Talks

Marcel Kornacker

Co-Founder & CTO | Pixeltable

Introducing Pixeltable: Open Source Data Infrastructure for Multimodal AI

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ML OPs & Platforms

Traditional AI infrastructure creates complexity by forcing data teams to juggle multiple specialized systems, fragmenting workflows and increasing operational costs. Marcel Kornacker, founder of Apache Impala and Apache Parquet, introduces Pixeltable, an open-source solution that revolutionizes AI data infrastructure through a declarative, incremental approach. This session reveals how a unified platform can solve common AI data challenges by bringing together data, computation, and models in a single, integrated interface. Attendees will discover how Pixeltable provides automatic versioning, enables incremental updates, and streamlines pipeline management for ML engineers, data scientists, and infrastructure teams seeking to overcome traditional data processing limitations.

Co-Founder & CTO

Marcel Kornacker

Pixeltable

Marcel Kornacker is currently CTO and Co-Founder at Pixeltable and is notably known as the founder of Apache Impala and co-founder of Apache Parquet. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UC Berkeley, where he studied databases under Joe Hellerstein. His career includes founding several startups, including Blink Computing, which provided data lake analytics as a service. He has also served as an Entrepreneur in Residence at both Sutter Hill Ventures and Coatue Management. Kornacker's expertise spans databases, data analytics, and open-source technologies.

Technical Talks

Introducing Pixeltable: Open Source Data Infrastructure for Multimodal AI

ABOUT THE TALK ML OPs & Platforms

ABOUT THE TALK

ML OPs & Platforms