2025-01-31

DuckCon #6 in Amsterdam

Mark Raasveldt, Hannes Mühleisen, Gabor Szarnyas, Kelly de Smit

DuckCon #6 Splashscreen

We are excited to hold DuckCon #6, DuckDB's next user group meeting in Amsterdam, the Netherlands at Pakhuis de Zwijger, located at Piet Heinkade 179. The event will take place on January 31, 2025 (Friday) and it will be streamed online on the DuckDB YouTube channel.

Registration

Attendance is free but registration is required. Please use Eventbrite to register.

Timetable

The times are given in Central European Time (UTC+1).

Time Title Presenter
14:30 Venue opens  
15:00 First session  
15:00 Welcome and opening remarks Hannes Mühleisen
(DuckDB Labs)
15:20 Airport for DuckDB: Letting DuckDB take Apache Arrow Flights Rusty Conover
15:40 Ibis, DuckDB, and GeoParquet: Making geospatial analytics fast, simple, and Pythonic Naty Clementi
16:00 Coffee break  
16:20 Second session  
16:20 Introducing a SQL-based metrics layer powered by DuckDB Mike Driscoll
(Rill Data)
16:40 Stock data analysis with DuckDB Ryan Hamilton
(TimeStored)
17:00 Lightning talks  
  zoekeend: A seach engine for information retrieval experiments based on DuckDB Djoerd Hiemstra
(Radboud University)
  Unlocking graph analytics in DuckDB with SQL/PGQ Daniel ten Wolde
(CWI)
  yato — orchestrate your queries with no pain Christophe Blefari
  How NOT to use DuckDB: How we introduced a CVSS 9.9 vulnerability into Grafana Sam Jewell
(Grafana Labs)
  DuckDB powering real time finance data extraction Adam Cooke
(Cloudslurp)
  Dump the Ducktape: Unblocking data pipelines at scale in healthcare using DuckDB Tony Zeljkovic
(Curative)
17:30 Borrel  
19:30 End of event  

Streaming

The event will be streamed live online on DuckDB's YouTube channel.

Sponsors

We should like to thank DuckCon #6's sponsors for supporting this event.

Accessing the Venue

Public transport. The easiest way to access the venue is taking public transport from Amsterdam Centraal station. Take Tram 26 to Kattenburgerstraat or Bus 46 to Jan Schaeferbrug. All forms of public transport in Amsterdam accept contactless payment debit/credit cards (issued by Visa, Mastercard, and Maestro).

Parking. Bicycle parking is available in front of the building. For those arriving by car, there is a parking garage next to the venue.

Events Nearby

The FOSDEM 2025 conference in Brussels is happening on the weekend after DuckCon #6, so you can conveniently travel there via a direct train.

Previous Editions

Previous editions of DuckCon were held in Brussels (#2), San Francisco (#3), Amsterdam (#4) and Seattle (#5).

Inquiries

Please contact Kelly de Smit at [email protected] if you have any questions.