"Pascal and Supercomputing: A plausible marriage today?" by Dr. Javier Cuenca Muñoz
Summary: High Performance Computing (HPC) has emerged as a fundamental pillar for scientific advancement and global economic competitiveness, transforming research methodologies across diverse domains including academic research, aerospace industry, pharmaceuticals, and financial services. This evolution has been driven by the proliferation of multi-core processors, specialized architectures, and accelerators such as Graphics Processing Units (GPUs), which collectively enable unprecedented computational capabilities. The work described in this talk aims to evaluate and extend HPC support in Delphi-Pascal, providing a methodology that facilitate access to these techniques by developers with different levels of experience in this field.
Bio: Javier Cuenca received the Engineering and Doctoral degrees, both in Computer Science, from University of Murcia (UMU), Spain, in 1994 and 2004, respectively. Since June 2013, he has been the Principal Investigator of the Scientific Computing and Parallel Programming Research Group at UMU. In this Group, he has supervised three PhD theses and about thirty bachelor’s and master’s theses.
"Pascal and Databases: A Winning Combination" by Olaf Monien
Summary: Modern Delphi development offers an exceptionally strong ecosystem for building database-driven applications. The talk highlights how the language, its type of system, and its component-based architecture provide a clean and maintainable way to access relational and non-relational data. Real-world examples demonstrate how FireDAC and Delphi’s multi-tier technologies simplify robust, high-performance data access. We also explore how modern compiler features and cross-platform support make Delphi a competitive and efficient choice for today’s data-intensive applications.
Bio: Olaf Monien has been a long-standing Embarcadero MVP and serves as the coordinator for the German-speaking region. With over 25 years of experience in the IT industry, he is a recognized expert in software architecture and database design, holding a Master's degree in Computer Science with a minor in Business Studies. His extensive experience spans industrial, banking, SaaS, and medical/pharmaceutical sectors, providing him with a comprehensive perspective on IT consultancy.
"Modern cryptography with Pascal" by Markus Humm
Summary: This plenary talk will focus on cryptography and why modern cryptography is more than just encrypting and decrypting data. Different aims of cryptographic methods are described along with some relevant algorithms. We will also compare a few of the available libraries for Pascal and shed some light on their properties. Further we'll take a short look at quantum computing and why this is relevant for cryptography.
Bio: Markus Humm is Embarcadero MVP since 2024. He studied commercial information technology degree. After finishing his studies, he worked on developing SAP applications until 2004 when he got a position in ebm papst Group in Research & Develompent electronics. In January 2016 he became involved with the Delphi Encryption Compendium project. In December 2020 he released the version 6.0. Since then, he has been working on further bugfixes and has already added several new algorithms and improvements to DEC.
