DuckDB in Science Meetup (London)
We are excited to announce the DuckDB London meetup, which will take place during the week of the prestigious VLDB 2025 conference. This meetup will specifically focus on DuckDB's role in science. It will include deep dive talks from the developers of DuckDB and uses of DuckDB in science from members of the research community.
Venue
The meetup will take place in London at the One Great George Street conference center located at 1 Great George Street, London SW1P 3AA (Google Maps); Apple Maps, just a few minutes walking distance from VLDB's venue.
Snacks and drinks will be served on the ground floor in the Council Room starting at 18:30.
The presentations will take place on floor -1 in the Godfrey Mitchell Theatre starting at 19:30.
Attendance
🎟️ To attend, please RSVP on meetup.com.
Timetable
| Time | Title | Presenter | Slides |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18:30 | Mingle & snacks | ||
| 19:30 | Gabor Szarnyas (DuckDB Labs) |
Opening remarks | |
| 19:45 | Laurens Kuiper (DuckDB Labs) |
Hands-on: A PhD centered around DuckDB | |
| 20:05 | Richard Wesley (DuckDB Labs) |
Time flies like a duck | |
| 20:30 | Lightning talks | ||
| Torsten Grust (University of Tübingen, Germany) |
Ducks love running in circles | ||
| Abigale Kim (University of Wisconsin–Madison) |
Anarchy in the database: A survey and evaluation of database management system extensibility | ||
| Junchang (Jason) Wang (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications) |
Elevating bitmap indexing in OLAP DBMSs | ||
| Anas Dorbani (Polytechnique Montréal) |
When the duck quacks: Multimodal querying with FlockMTL | ||
| 21:00 | Talks end | ||
| 21:30 | Event ends |
Inquiries
Please contact Kelly de Smit at [email protected] if you have any questions.
