Conferences / DuckCon
DuckCon #7
Jun 24, 2026 · Royal Tropical Institute (KIT), Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Conference
- DuckCon Database
- Dates
- Jun 24, 2026
- Venue
- Royal Tropical Institute (KIT)
- Place
- Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Format
- Hybrid
- Status
- Past
- Attendance
- —No headcount published; Luma General Admission was sold out.
- Website
- duckdb.org
- Recorded
- 2 sponsors · 16 speaker appearances
- Notes
- 13:30-20:00. Main track streamed on YouTube. Registration via Luma (General Admission marked sold out). An earlier draft/preview of the site listed #7 for 2026-04-10 at Pakhuis de Zwijger; the official page gives 24 June at the Royal Tropical Institute.
Ticket prices
| Ticket | Price | Valid until | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| General admission | €0 | — | 'Register for free' on event page; MotherDuck listing also says free with registration | duckdb.org |
Sponsors 2
Gold 1
- MotherDuck · Gold supporter
Silver 1
- Spiral · Silver supporter
Speakers and talks 16
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hannes Mühleisen | DuckDB Labs | Keynote | State of the Duck Community & projects | — |
| Mark Raasveldt | DuckDB Labs | Keynote | State of the Duck Community & projects | — |
| Barry Smart | endjin | Lightning talk | A laptop, a duck, and twenty years of wind: Auditing UK energy policy without a cluster Other | — |
| Floyd Berndsen | AllOptions | Lightning talk | DuckLake on Hetzner: Your own data lakehouse for under €15 a month Warehouse & lakehouse | — |
| Herminio Vazquez-Cano | ETH Zurich | Talk | Phages and DuckDB: The mighty duo against the giants Database internals | — |
| Ilya Boyandin | Foursquare | Lightning talk | DuckDB as an analytical runtime: Building local-first analytics apps with SQLRooms BI & semantic layer | — |
| Kian Mehrabani | Spotify | Talk | How we built a SQL layer over our user listening history for agentic access GenAI & agents | — |
| Marco Slot | Snowflake | Lightning talk | Making Iceberg walk and talk like Postgres Database internals | — |
| Mehdi Ouazza | MotherDuck | Sponsor talk | So you self-hosted DuckDB. Now what? Operational databases | — |
| Milla Henriksson | Toyota | Lightning talk | Native app development using DuckDB Database internals | — |
| Nicolas Renkamp | Merck | Talk | SQLFrame migrates PySpark to DuckDB without code changes Data engineering | — |
| Roman Nozdrin | MariaDB | Talk | When the sea lion learns to quack: DuckDB as a MariaDB storage engine Database internals | — |
| Sylvain Utard | Altertable.ai | Talk | Grep your lakehouse: Search-first retrieval for DuckDB-powered agents GenAI & agents | — |
| Teun van den Brand | Posit | Talk | ggsql: A grammar of graphics for SQL BI & semantic layer | — |
| Thomas Visser | Hartwig Medical Foundation | Lightning talk | DuckDB powering cancer genomics research Data science | — |
| Virginie Grosboillot | University of Ljubljana | Talk | Phages and DuckDB: The mighty duo against the giants Database internals | — |