DuckCon #5 in Seattle

Scheduled for August 15, 2024
at SIFF Cinema Egyptian, Seattle

DuckCon #5 Splashscreen

We are excited to hold the next "DuckCon" DuckDB user group meeting in Seattle, WA, sponsored by MotherDuck. The meeting will take place on August 15, 2024 (Thursday) in the SIFF Cinema Egyptian, located at 805 E Pine St, Seattle, WA, 98122.

As is traditional in DuckCons, we will start with a talk from DuckDB's creators Hannes Mühleisen and Mark Raasveldt about the state of DuckDB. This will be followed by presentations by DuckDB users. In addition, we will have several lightning talks from the DuckDB community.

Timetable

To watch the recordings, see the playlist of talks.

Time Title Presenter Slides
12:30 pm Venue opens    
1:30 pm First session    
1:30 pm Introductions Hannes Mühleisen
(DuckDB Labs)		  
1:40 pm Overview and latest developments Hannes Mühleisen, Mark Raasveldt (DuckDB Labs) pdf
2:10 pm MotherDuck: Taking flight with interactive analytics Frances Perry
(MotherDuck)		 pdf
2:40 pm Outliers are all you need: Reducing the asymmetry of information in capital allocation in health and the built environment Jaan Lı (University of Tartu and One Fact Foundation) pdf
2:55 pm Quack attack: Bringing DuckDB to the dart side Andy Prock
(TigerEye)		 pdf
3:10 pm Break    
3:30 pm Second session    
3:30 pm A duck for your dashboard: Performant data apps in the browser with DuckDB Robert Kosara
(Observable)		 pdf
4:00 pm pg_duckdb, DuckDB-powered Postgres (demo) Joseph Sciarrino, Jonathan Dance
(Hydra)		 pdf
4:15 pm Delighting users with RESTful APIs and DuckDB Miguel Filipe
(Dune Analytics)		 pdf
4:23 pm Aerodynamic data models: Flying fast at scale with DuckDB Brian Holmes
(Rill Data)		 pdf
4:31 pm Double glazing: Two years of windowing improvements Richard Wesley
(DuckDB Labs)		 pdf
4:39 pm dbverse: Composable database libraries for larger-than-memory scientific analytics Edward Ruiz
(Boston University)		 pdf
4:47 pm A quack at building scalable data pipelines with DuckDB Junaid Rahim
(Atlan)		 pdf
4:55 pm Wrapping up    
5:00 pm Drinks and snacks sponsored by MotherDuck    
6:15 pm End of event    

Availability of Talks

The event will not be streamed online and there is no hybrid option for participation. However, the slides and recorded videos of the talks will be published a few weeks after the event, similarly to DuckCon #3 and DuckCon #4.

Registration Process

Attendance is free. While supplies last, you can still get a ticket on Eventbrite. You will need to show this ticket at the entrance to attend.

Parking Information

  • Parking garage is available across the street at 1609 Harvard Ave for $15/day.
  • There is no cloakroom and there are no lockers available.

Previous Editions

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

Inquiries

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

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