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Hannes Mühleisen

Employers on the program

  1. 2026DuckLabs2 talks
  2. 2023–2026DuckDB Labs21 talks
  3. 2020–2023CWI2 talks

Bluesky: @hannes.muehleisen.org

Events26
Conferences15
Talks2711 keynotes
Years active2020–2026
Miles between events62,61626 in-person events · 7 countries

Appearances by year

201920202021202220232024202520262027
  • DuckCon
  • PyData
  • CIDR (Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research)
  • Data + AI Summit
  • Data Council
  • posit::conf (formerly rstudio::conf)
  • Coalesce
  • Data Day Texas
  • 7 other conferences

Talks

DateEventConferenceRoleTitleLinks
Sep 22, 2026Rows & Columns Summit 2026Rows & Columns SummitspeakerNobody Knows What OLTP Is: DuckDB Moves to the Middle
as DuckDB
Sep 15, 2026dbt Summit 2026Coalescekeynotedbt Summit 2026 Community Keynote
as DuckLabs

Relive a celebration of the dbt community and what’s next, including how dbt unites under one framework and how we’re continuing to build in the open.

Video
Sep 15, 2026dbt Summit 2026Coalescespeakerdbt without the warehouse (or the bill): DuckDB end to end
as DuckLabs

DuckDB co-founder Hannes Mühleisen runs a full dbt build against 10 gigabytes of Wikipedia data with his laptop's Wi-Fi switched off, live onstage.

Video
Jun 24, 2026DuckCon #7DuckConkeynoteState of the Duck Community & projects
as DuckDB Labs
May 12, 2026AI Council 2026Data CounciltalkSuper-Secret Next Big Thing for DuckDB Community & projects
as DuckDB Labs
Jan 24, 2026Data Day Texas + AI 2026Data Day TexasspeakerThe Joy of SQL - If Properly Implemented
as DuckDB Labs
Much has been said about the imminent demise of the Structured Query Language. Maybe partly due to all its expressive power, SQL is supposedly user-hostile,…Show less

Much has been said about the imminent demise of the Structured Query Language. Maybe partly due to all its expressive power, SQL is supposedly user-hostile, hard to compose, or simply too old.

Oct 27, 2025Helsinki Data Week 2025Helsinki Data WeektalkDuckLake - The SQL-Powered Lakehouse Format
as DuckDB Labs
Sep 24, 2025PyData Amsterdam 2025PyDatakeynoteMinus Three Tier: Data Architecture Turned Upside Down
as DuckDB Labs
Every data architecture diagram out there makes it abundantly clear who's in charge: At the bottom sits the analyst, above that is an API server, and on the…Show less

Every data architecture diagram out there makes it abundantly clear who's in charge: At the bottom sits the analyst, above that is an API server, and on the very top sits the mighty data warehouse.

Apr 22, 2025Data Council 2025Data CounciltalkLiberate Analytical Data Management with DuckDB
as DuckDB Labs
Jan 31, 2025DuckCon #6DuckConkeynoteWelcome and opening remarks Community & projects
as DuckDB Labs
Jan 19, 2025CIDR 2025CIDR (Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research)paperRuntime-Extensible Parsers
as DuckDB Labs
Nov 25, 2024Forward Data Conference 2024Forward Data ConferencekeynoteChanging Large Tables Keynote
as DuckDB
Tout change et rien ne reste pareil. Pourtant, lorsqu’il s’agit de gérer un Dataset, nous considérons souvent le changement comme une réflexion secondaire.…Show less

Tout change et rien ne reste pareil. Pourtant, lorsqu’il s’agit de gérer un Dataset, nous considérons souvent le changement comme une réflexion secondaire. Cependant, le monde évolue rapidement, et le Dataset doit suivre le rythme pour rester utile. Des lignes doivent être ...

Video
Aug 15, 2024DuckCon #5DuckConkeynoteOverview and latest developments Community & projects
as DuckDB Labs
Aug 12, 2024posit::conf(2024)posit::conf (formerly rstudio::conf)keynoteData Wrangling [for Python or R] Like a Boss With DuckDB | Hannes Mühleisen
as DuckDB Labs

Data wrangling is the thorny hedge that higher powers have placed in front of the enjoyable task of actually analyzing or visualizing data.

Video
Jun 10, 2024Data + AI Summit 2024Data + AI SummitfeaturedUntitled
as DuckDB Labs
May 13, 2024ICDE 2024 (40th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering)IEEE ICDE (International Conference on Data Engineering)invited talkHow I Learned to Stop Worrying About Benchmarks
as DuckDB Labs
Apr 22, 2024PyCon DE & PyData Berlin 2024PyDatakeynoteKeynote - Safe Space or Trap? Creating Software like DuckDB in Academic Institutions

DuckDB is an in-process analytical data management system. DuckDB is free and open source and rather popular.

Feb 2, 2024DuckCon #4DuckConkeynoteState of the Duck Community & projects
as DuckDB Labs
Sep 17, 2023posit::conf(2023)posit::conf (formerly rstudio::conf)speakerIn-Process Analytical Data Management with DuckDB

This talks introduces DuckDB, an in-process analytical data management system that is deeply integrated into the R ecosystem.

Video
Sep 14, 2023PyData Amsterdam 2023PyDatatalkIn-Process Analytical Data Management with DuckDB
as DuckDB Labs
DuckDB is a novel analytical data management system. DuckDB supports complex queries, has no external dependencies, and is deeply integrated into the Python…Show less

DuckDB is a novel analytical data management system. DuckDB supports complex queries, has no external dependencies, and is deeply integrated into the Python ecosystem.

Jul 10, 2023SciPy 2023SciPy Conference (Scientific Computing with Python)speakerIn-Process Analytical Data Management with DuckDB
as DuckDB Labs
DuckDB is a novel analytical data management system. DuckDB supports complex queries, has no external dependencies, and is deeply integrated into the Python…Show less

DuckDB is a novel analytical data management system. DuckDB supports complex queries, has no external dependencies, and is deeply integrated into the Python ecosystem.

Jun 29, 2023DuckCon #3DuckContalkIntroductions Other
as DuckDB Labs
Jun 26, 2023Data + AI Summit 2023Data + AI SummitfeaturedUntitled
as DuckDB
Mar 27, 2023QCon London 2023QConspeakerIn-Process Analytical Data Management with DuckDB
as DuckDB Labs
Analytical data management systems have long been monolithic monsters far removed from the action by ancient protocols. Redesigning them to move into the…Show less

Analytical data management systems have long been monolithic monsters far removed from the action by ancient protocols. Redesigning them to move into the application process greatly streamlines data transfer, deployment, and management.

Feb 3, 2023DuckCon #2DuckConkeynoteState of the Duck Community & projects
as DuckDB Labs
Jan 8, 2023CIDR 2023CIDR (Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research)keynoteDeveloping Systems in Academia: The Good, the Bad, and the Not-so-Ugly Duckling
as CWI
SlidesVideo
Feb 1, 2020FOSDEM 2020FOSDEMspeakerDuckDB
as CWI

We present DuckDB, our new, Open Source embedded analytical data management system.

Video

Frequent co-speakers

SpeakerShared eventsShared talksLast together
Mark Raasveldt872026
Hadley Wickham4—2025
Joe Reis3—2026
Marco Slot3—2026
Russell Spitzer3—2026
Christophe Blefari3—2025
Matei Zaharia3—2025
Cheuk Ting Ho3—2024
Arvind Prabhakar2—2026
Benn Stancil2—2026
Bryan Bischof2—2026
Chang She2—2026
Charles Frye2—2026
Ciro Greco2—2026
Elias DeFaria2—2026

Speakers with the same name are merged into one entry, so this page may combine more than one person. Affiliations are shown as each conference listed them.