DuckCon #7
Amsterdam
Program
Learn the latest developments about DuckDB, DuckLake and Quack.
Wednesday, 24 June 2026
| Venue opens | ||||
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| 13:30 | Check in at registration and collect your merch bag |
| Sponsor track (in-person) | ||||
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| 14:15 | So you self-hosted DuckDB. Now what? An honest look at the road to production | Mehdi Ouazza (MotherDuck) |
| Main track, session 1 (in-person & streamed) | ||||
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| 15:00 | State of the Duck | Hannes Mühleisen, Mark Raasveldt (DuckLabs) |
Slides | YouTube |
| 15:30 | Effortlessly modernize your legacy: SQLFrame migrates PySpark to DuckDB without code changes | Nicolas Renkamp (Merck KGaA) |
Slides | YouTube |
| 15:45 | Phages and DuckDB: The mighty duo against the giants | Virginie Grosboillot (U. of Ljubljana), Herminio Vazquez-Cano (ETH Zürich) |
Slides | YouTube |
| 16:00 | ggsql: A grammar of graphics for SQL | Teun van den Brand (Posit PBC) |
Slides | YouTube |
| 16:15 | Coffee break |
| Main track, session 2 (in-person & streamed) | ||||
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| 16:35 | How we built a SQL layer over our user listening history for agentic access | Kian Mehrabani (Spotify) |
Slides | YouTube |
| 16:50 | Grep your lakehouse: Search-first retrieval for DuckDB-powered agents | Sylvain Utard (Altertable.ai) |
Slides | YouTube |
| 17:05 | When the sea lion learns to quack: DuckDB as a MariaDB storage engine | Roman Nozdrin (MariaDB Corporation) |
Slides | YouTube |
| Lightning talks | ||||
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| 17:20 | Native app development using DuckDB | Milla Henriksson (Toyota Gazoo Racing World Rally Team) |
Slides | YouTube |
| 17:26 | Making Iceberg walk and talk like Postgres | Marco Slot (Snowflake) |
Slides | YouTube |
| 17:32 | DuckLake on Hetzner: Your own data lakehouse for under €15 a month | Floyd Berndsen (AllOptions) |
Slides | YouTube |
| 17:38 | DuckDB powering cancer genomics research | Thomas Visser (Hartwig Medical Foundation) |
Slides | YouTube |
| 17:44 | DuckDB as an analytical runtime: Building local-first analytics apps with SQLRooms | Ilya Boyandin (Foursquare / GeoVisually GmbH) |
Slides | YouTube |
| 17:50 | A laptop, a duck, and twenty years of wind: Auditing UK energy policy without a cluster | Barry Smart (endjin) |
Slides | YouTube |
| Social event | ||||
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| 18:00 | Drink and snacks |
Speakers
Meet the creators, engineers, and users of DuckDB and DuckLake.
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Herminio Vazquez-Cano
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Virginie Grosboillot
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Teun van den Brand
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Kian Mehrabani
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Sylvain Utard
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Roman Nozdrin
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Milla Henriksson
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Marco Slot
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Floyd Berndsen
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Thomas Visser
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Ilya Boyandin
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Barry Smart
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Hannes Mühleisen
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Mark Raasveldt
Sponsors
We extend our sincere thanks to DuckCon #7’s gold and silver sponsors for powering this community event and supporting the future of open-source analytics.
Any questions?
If you have any questions or any special requirements (e.g., dietary restrictions),
don't hesitate to contact us!