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DuckCon #7 Amsterdam

Program

Discover where DuckDB is headed and how our community uses it at DuckCon #7.

	Warmup
14:15	Sponsor sessions (TBA)

	First session
15:00	State of the Duck	Hannes Mühleisen and Mark Raasveldt (DuckDB Labs)
15:30	Effortlessly modernize your legacy: SQLFrame migrates PySpark to DuckDB without code changes	Nicolas Renkamp (Merck KGaA)
15:45	Phages and DuckDB: The mighty duo against the giants	Herminio Vazquez-Cano (ETH Zürich), Virginie Grosboillot (U. of Ljubljana)
16:00	ggsql: A grammar of graphics for SQL	Teun van den Brand (Posit PBC)
16:15	Coffee break

	Second session
16:35	How we built a SQL layer over our user listening history for agentic access	Kian Mehrabani (Spotify)
16:50	Grep your lakehouse: Search-first retrieval for DuckDB-powered agents	Sylvain Utard (Altertable.ai)
17:05	When the sea lion learns to quack: DuckDB as a MariaDB storage engine	Roman Nozdrin (MariaDB Corporation)

	Lightning talks
17:20	Native app development using DuckDB	Milla Henriksson (Toyota Gazoo Racing World Rally Team)
17:26	Making Iceberg walk and talk like Postgres	Marco Slot (Snowflake)
17:32	DuckLake on Hetzner: Your own data lakehouse for under €15 a month	Floyd Berndsen
17:38	DuckDB powering cancer genomics research	Thomas Visser (Hartwig Medical Foundation)
17:44	DuckDB as an analytical runtime: Building local-first analytics apps with SQLRooms	Ilya Boyandina (Foursquare / GeoVisually GmbH)
17:50	A laptop, a duck, and twenty years of wind: Auditing UK energy policy without a cluster	Barry Smart (endjin)

	Social event
18:00	Drink and snacks

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