Summit schedule

Please note that the schedule for the Delphi Summit is subject to change. Stay tuned for updates.

Day 1 - 5th of June
09:00	Registration
	Mainstage
10:00	Welcome and opening – Marco Geuze
10:15	Keynote - Ian Barker
11:00	Coffee break & network
	Stage Apollo	Stage Atlas	Stage Ares
11:30	Primož Gabrijelčič The Art of Debugging ℹ️ Every programmer spends a lot of time fixing bugs. Whether it’s a small typo or a tricky logic error, knowing how to debug efficiently is an important skill. But debugging isn’t just about fixing mistakes—it’s also about understanding what went wrong and learning how to avoid similar problems in the future. In this session, we’ll start by looking at the best way to approach debugging, helping you think clearly and avoid common mistakes. Then, we’ll explore the built-in debugging tools in RAD Studio and see how they can make the process easier. Finally, I’ll share some useful tips and tricks to help you debug faster, with less frustration, and improve the quality of your code.	Fabrizio Bitti Creating windows services that really work ℹ️ Creating a simple Windows service looks like an easy task, but to make a proper service that can be started, stopped and paused by the service manager requires knowledge not only of Delphi and RTL but also on the Windows system that host and interact with your service.	Christoph Schneider Integration of Gemini AI into Delphi Business Applications ℹ️ This session covers using Gemini AI with Delphi, using the open source library FB4D.
12:30	Lunch, Networking & Gaming
13:30	Cary Jensen Persisting Data in Delphi Applications ℹ️ In the typical database application, a database is accessed and data is read from, and/or written to one or more tables in that database. However, there are some applications that access their data from sources other than a database, such as a file or stream. This presentation takes a look at a number of solutions that require that data be persisted to, and/or restored from, non-database sources. Along the way we will consider the various options that make these solutions an attractive addition to your application-building repertoire.	Vincent Parrett Making Unit Testing work for you ℹ️ Unit Testing is hard/boring/time consuming/expensive/impossible... In this talk we look at how to overcome the objections and getting started with unit testing (for new and old code). We'll look at some good and bad practices and discover how to make best use of frameworks and tooling to make unit testing easier and provide more value.	Filip Lagrou Delphi to the web ℹ️ Elevate your Delphi clients to beautiful web apps with unprecedented simplicity, using the Pas2Web library built on top of TMS WEB Core.
14:30	Ray Konopka Delphi IDE Tips & Tricks ℹ️ It is no surprise that RAD Studio developers spend most of their time working in the IDE. What is surprising is that many RAD Studio developers are not aware of many of the productivity features available. In this session, I highlight many of my favorite IDE tips and tricks including the QuickEdit Designer. Also covered are tips that focus on improving IDE navigation, tips accelerate code editing, others simplify form design, but all of them will enhance your IDE experience.	Antonio Zapater Docker Simplified: Taking Your Delphi Apps Beyond the Desktop ℹ️ This presentation introduces Docker from the ground up, making container concepts clear for everyone, whether you're hearing about them for the first time or looking to apply them to your Delphi projects. We'll start with containerization basics, then move step-by-step to show how Delphi applications can be deployed in these environments.	Conrad Vermeulen Developing scalable web services with runtime components ℹ️ In this practical session we will demonstrate how microservices can be wired together for scalable web architectures.
15:30	Break & Network
16:00	Ian Barker Topic coming soon	Richard Hatherall Lego, AWS and AI ℹ️ This session covers the use of AWS and AI to identity Lego pieces.	Frank Lauter Using UI bound threads ℹ️ To be clear: Threads are not a silver bullet that will automatically speed up your application wherever you use them. On the other hand, there are definitely cases where code must be executed in a background thread. But where should we draw the line? Writing to the UI is a clear boundary — of course — but for this we can use Queue or Synchronize, as most of us already know. However, using Synchronize in every case is almost like not using threads at all, because we still have to wait for the UI thread to do its job. This often results in worse performance, not better. So, what is the right way to use threads in your Delphi forms? In my talk, I’ll show examples of bad, not-so-bad, and good practices for using threads effectively.
17:00	Networking & Gaming
18:00	End of day 1

Day 2 - 6th of June
09:00	Registration
	Mainstage
10:00	Welcome and opening – Marco Geuze
10:15	Panel discussion
11:00	Coffee Break & Network
	Stage Apollo	Stage Atlas	Stage Ares
11:15	Marco Geuze The past, the present and the future of Delphi ℹ️ What will the future of Delphi look like? To answer this question, we will go back in time, watch the history of Pascal and Delphi unfold, and perhaps get a peek of the future too.	Primož Gabrijelčič Writing high performance applications ℹ️ Performance peed matters. No one is happy with programs that take five minutes to start and ten seconds to respond to a button click. We programmers are impatient people, and our users are spoiled... The path to a fast program is not always easy. Unfortunately, there is no trick that will suddenly make code run ten times faster. Instead, we must be mindful while programming and pay attention to a multitude of small details. This presentation will take you from various aspects of writing fast programs. We will go from asking, "What is performance, anyway?" to writing multithreaded code. Along the way, we will talk about the importance of algorithms, ways to speed up existing code, and the proper use of memory management.	Steffen Nyeland Fun with Job Objects, Pipes and Processes ℹ️ Ever needed to capture the output of a console application in your Delphi program? In this session, we’ll explore how to redirect and capture console output using pipes and memory streams.
12:15	Barnsten & Ian Barker Boost Your Delphi Projects with Top Components and a LIVE QuickReport Demo ℹ️ Delphi has a rich ecosystem of third-party components that greatly enhance its development capabilities. In this session, we will explore the advantages and disadvantages of integrating these components into Delphi projects. We will also provide an overview of some of the most widely used and available components, offering insights into how they can streamline and enrich your Delphi development experience.	NexusDB Algorithms and Implementations for NP-Complete and NP-Hard Problems Part II ℹ️ You asked for it! We're back to finish our exploration of NP-Complete and NP-Hard problems, picking up where Part I left off. Join us as we dive deeper into practical algorithms, real-world examples, and the nitty-gritty details of implementing solutions in Delphi. We'll revisit the infamous Eternity II puzzle (did someone from last year actually solve it?!), explore advanced techniques, and empower you to tackle these challenging problems in your own projects. Get ready to level up your problem-solving skills and maybe our advanced problem solver from last year will put in a guest appearance!	Michael Philippenko Interactive Reports & Forms
12:45	Lunch, Network & Gaming
13:45	Stefan Glienke More than a hundred times faster than quicksort ℹ️ This session covers the history of sorting algorithms and lead to a relatively new algorithm, one of the fastest general-purpose sorting algorithms today.	Cary Jensen Understanding Virtual Fields ℹ️ There are two general types of fields exposed by ClientDataSets and FireDAC datasets: Data fields and virtual fields. Data fields are associated with columns in an underlying database, and can be accessed through tables, queries, and sometimes by stored procedures. Virtual fields, by comparison, are not necessarily associated with database columns (although they can be). Examples of virtual fields include aggregate fields, calculated fields, internal calculated fields, and lookup fields. This presentation provides a look at the various types of virtual fields, how to create them, and how to use them.	Bob Swart Securing your Delphi Applications ℹ️ Security is essential in modern Delphi development. This session covers Windows PE Security Flags, authentication and authorization (e.g., DataSnap), REST authentication methods, SQL injection prevention with parameterized queries, and encryption techniques.
14:45	Marco Cantu VCL and Windows App SDK ℹ️ VCL has historically supported targeting the Windows SDK and the COM subsystem. In recent years, it also added integration to the Windows App SDK, WinRT APIs, MSIX packaging, WebView 2 control and more. This session offers an overview of the old and new platform APIs, and includes a small detour on the alternative graphic model offered by Skia on Windows and will delve into a few other little known advanced features of the VCl library.	Ray Konopka Creating Hight DPI VCL Applications ℹ️ For the past few releases, Embarcadero has continued to add features and improve support for creating High DPI applications in Delphi. Features such as the TImageCollection and TVirtualImageList components, support for Microsoft's Per Monitor V2 mode, and new High DPI related RTL functions. In the process, several low level changes were made to the VCL itself to allow components to support high DPI. This session dives into each of these topics and illustrates how to make your apps look their best on High DPI displays.
15:45	Break & Networking
16:15	Leon Kerkstra TSA Group Delft / Dawn Technology Made with Delphi: From Atom Layers to Outer Space ℹ️ Delphi is "silently successful". It works unnoticed. Delphi applications work very stable, often have an incredibly long life cycle, but that power of Delphi is actually also a pitfall. This success is not self-evident! In a time when many IT projects often take longer, both in time and money, Delphi is a robust development environment in which an incredible number of applications have been developed worldwide. It does not get the recognition it deserves. With this session I want to inspire you by giving insight into some of the great projects that TSA has worked on and some techniques we have used. You will discover, the influence of Delphi reaches into the universe! In addition, I will give tips on how you can easily refute critical questions from managers or customers with facts, when they are not familiar with the 30-year history and successes of Delphi. By sharing these stories with each other, we build together on the ever growing community!	Jens Fudge Overcoming Imposter Syndrome - A guide for developers ℹ️ Imposter Syndrome affects many in the software industry, leading to self-doubt and stress. In this session, we’ll explore its causes, how it impacts developers, and practical ways to overcome it. To close, attendees will be guided through a short mental relaxation session to help foster confidence and well-being.	Antonio Zapater WebStencils: Reimagining Web Development in RAD Studio ℹ️ Presenting a comprehensive introduction to web templating technologies: from basic concepts to more advanced implementations. This presentation covers the fundamentals of template engines, digs into RAD Studio's new WebStencils library, and concludes with an introduction to HTMX.
	Mainstage
17:00	Closing session and Summit giveaways!
17:30	Network & Gaming
18:00	End of the Summit