2026-06-24
DuckCon #7 in Amsterdam
DuckCon #7 took place on Wednesday, June 24, 2026 at the Royal Tropical Institute in Amsterdam.
Talk recordings are available on YouTube.
Program
Times are in Central European Time (UTC+2).
Venue opens
| Time |
Title |
| 13:30 |
Check in at registration and collect your merch bag |
| Time |
Title |
Presenter |
Slides |
| 14:15 |
So you self-hosted DuckDB. Now what? |
Mehdi Ouazza (MotherDuck) |
Slides |
Main track, session 1
| Time |
Title |
Presenter |
Video |
Slides |
| 15:00 |
State of the Duck |
Hannes Mühleisen, Mark Raasveldt (DuckLabs) |
YouTube |
Slides |
| 15:30 |
Effortlessly modernize your legacy: SQLFrame migrates PySpark to DuckDB without code changes |
Nicolas Renkamp (Merck KGaA) |
YouTube |
Slides |
| 15:45 |
Phages and DuckDB: The mighty duo against the giants |
Virginie Grosboillot (U. of Ljubljana), Herminio Vazquez-Cano (ETH Zürich) |
YouTube |
Slides |
| 16:00 |
ggsql: A grammar of graphics for SQL |
Teun van den Brand (Posit PBC) |
YouTube |
Slides |
| 16:15 |
Coffee break |
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Main track, session 2
| Time |
Title |
Presenter |
Video |
Slides |
| 16:35 |
How we built a SQL layer over our user listening history for agentic access |
Kian Mehrabani (Spotify) |
YouTube |
Slides |
| 16:50 |
Grep your lakehouse: Search-first retrieval for DuckDB-powered agents |
Sylvain Utard (Altertable.ai) |
YouTube |
Slides |
| 17:05 |
When the sea lion learns to quack: DuckDB as a MariaDB storage engine |
Roman Nozdrin (MariaDB Corporation) |
YouTube |
Slides |
Lightning talks
| Time |
Title |
Presenter |
Video |
Slides |
| 17:20 |
Native app development using DuckDB |
Milla Henriksson (Toyota Gazoo Racing World Rally Team) |
YouTube |
Slides |
| 17:26 |
Making Iceberg walk and talk like Postgres |
Marco Slot (Snowflake) |
YouTube |
Slides |
| 17:32 |
DuckLake on Hetzner: Your own data lakehouse for under €15 a month |
Floyd Berndsen (AllOptions) |
YouTube |
Slides |
| 17:38 |
DuckDB powering cancer genomics research |
Thomas Visser (Hartwig Medical Foundation) |
YouTube |
Slides |
| 17:44 |
DuckDB as an analytical runtime: Building local-first analytics apps with SQLRooms |
Ilya Boyandin (Foursquare / GeoVisually GmbH) |
YouTube |
Slides |
| 17:50 |
A laptop, a duck, and twenty years of wind: Auditing UK energy policy without a cluster |
Barry Smart (endjin) |
YouTube |
Slides |
Social event
| Time |
Title |
| 18:00 |
Drink and snacks |
Venue
Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam.
