Presentations at DYNA26

DYNA26’s presentations by developers, researchers, and users include insights, tools, and techniques from real-world projects.

P01

The Dyalog Road Map

Presenter: Morten Kromberg, Dyalog Ltd

Morten opens DYNA26 with an overview of the agenda and an updated road map. Read more

P02

An APL App End to End

Presenter: Rich Park, Dyalog Ltd

Dyalog provides a toolset that enables APL developers to work alongside other technologies. Rich walks through an application that combines several of these… Read more

P03

Migration Tools for APL Systems

Presenter: Morten Kromberg, Dyalog Ltd

At DYNA Fall 2025, Alex Holztapple from METSIM International presented the new version of METSIM®, which is based on Dyalog APL. The tools that were developed… Read more

P04

Parsing User Input for Database Normalisation

Presenter: Mark Wolfson, Buyers Intelligence Group (BIG)

Presenter: Kori Smith, Buyers Intelligence Group (BIG)

Mark and Kori share a data processing challenge from the jewellery industry – normalising unstructured product descriptions into clean data that can be… Read more

P05

Consuming REST APIs in APL with OpenAPI

Presenter: Holden Hoover, University of Waterloo

Web APIs are everywhere, but consuming them in APL typically means hand-drafting repetitive boilerplate. OpenAPI is a widely-adopted standard for describing… Read more

P06

APL Primitives in the 21st Century

Presenter: Asher Harvey-Smith, Dyalog Ltd

Over the last twenty years, Dyalog has implemented many useful extensions and generalisations of the APL primitive set. Asher presents some “highlights” of… Read more

P07

Enhancements in Dyalog v20.0: Arrays, Namespaces, Composition, and Inline Tracing

Presenter: Asher Harvey-Smith, Dyalog Ltd

Asher presents some of the enhancements that were in introduced in Dyalog v20.0. Read more

P08

Jarvis and AI

Presenter: Brian Becker, Dyalog Ltd

The exponential growth in the pervasiveness and power of AI led Brian to ask what would happen if he tried to use AI to generate a web front end for, or… Read more

P09

From APL Pipelines to AI Commentary: Scaling Bridge Analysis Across Hundreds of Tables

Presenter: Jay Whipple, Osprey Partners

In contact bridge, every session produces decision data worth analysing, such as bidding sequences, card play, outcomes, and player choices. At club level, AL… Read more

P10

AVG – A Voxel Game

Presenter: Kyle Croarkin, independent

Kyle shares what he learned when building a Minecraft-style voxel game using Dyalog. He explains how APL’s array-oriented primitives and terse notation turned… Read more

P11

The APL Trust – Update

Presenter: Mark Wolfson, The APL Trust

Are you passionate about growing the next generation of APLers? Do you have ideas for innovative projects that showcase the power of APL in science,… Read more

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Register for DYNA26

DYNA26 is a free, in-person event.

Registration is essential to ensure that we can accommodate all attendees comfortably and plan appropriate refreshments. Please note that lunch and refreshments during breaks are included, but the evening meal is not.

If you have any questions please contact us: dyna@dyalog.com

Registration for DYNA26 closes at 6:00 PM EDT (22:00 UTC) on Friday 17 April 2026.