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Speakers

Prateek Gaur

Employers on the program

  1. 2026Snowflake1 talk
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Years active2026

The year around now

Talks in the past 12 months and announced talks ahead, one row per conference, January to December. Hover a mark for the talk.

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Appearances by year

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  • Iceberg Summit

Talks

DateEventConferenceRoleTitleLinks
Apr 8, 2026Iceberg Summit 2026Iceberg SummitspeakerThe Decompression Bottleneck: Evolving Parquet with PFOR and ALP
as Snowflake
Apache Parquet holds nearly (every) petabyte of analytical data on earth, but its reliance on legacy block compression is actively starving modern AI hardware.…Show less

Apache Parquet holds nearly (every) petabyte of analytical data on earth, but its reliance on legacy block compression is actively starving modern AI hardware. While NVMe SSDs now stream data at gigabytes per second, CPUs are redlining as they sequentially parse state-heavy encodings and decompress opaque 1MB blocks.

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