Marcel Kornacker
CTO and co-creator of Apache Parquet and Impala involved with Pixel Table, with expertise in databases and engineering multimodal data systems and workflows for images and video.
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Feb 3, 2026 • 55min
Episode 69: Python is Dead. Long Live Python! With the Creators of pandas & Parquet
Alison Hill, product leader focused on multimodal UX and community learning. Marcel Kornacker, CTO and co-creator of Apache Parquet, expert in multimodal data systems. Wes McKinney, creator of pandas and data tooling veteran. They discuss agent ergonomics and language tradeoffs, adversarial AI code review, making image/video operations native to data platforms, and why taste and schemas matter for multimodal workflows.
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Sep 16, 2025 • 1h
The database for all your AI needs
Marcel Kornacker, the mastermind behind Apache Impala and co-creator of Apache Parquet, shares insights into his innovative project, Pixeltable. This multimodal AI database adeptly blends structured and unstructured data with seamless Python workflows. He discusses the evolution of SQL, the challenges in computer vision data management, and how Pixeltable tackles transformation and transactional guarantees. Listen for fascinating examples like processing video and audio, proving how this tool can revolutionize AI data handling.
