Conference Recaps

DuckCon #7

Visual recaps of all 13 talks — transcript summaries + the actual slides, each page fully self-contained.
13talks
103sections
158slides
01

State of the Duck

Hannes Mühleisen, Mark Raasveldt
DuckDBDuckLakeQuackLakehouseClient-Server
7 sections16 slidesYouTube ↗
02

Making Iceberg walk and talk like Postgres

Marco Slot
PostgresApache IcebergDuckDBLakehouseData Pipelines
6 sections9 slidesYouTube ↗
03

DuckDB powering cancer genomics research

Thomas Visser
DuckDB WASMCancer GenomicsMosaicParquetData Federation
8 sections14 slidesYouTube ↗
04

ggsql: A grammar of graphics for SQL

Teun van den Brand
ggsqlGrammar of GraphicsDuckDBSQLData Visualization
10 sections16 slidesYouTube ↗
05

Phages & DuckDB: The mighty duo against the giants

V. Grosboillot, H. Vazquez-Cano
DuckDBBioinformaticsGenomicsPhage TherapyData Engineering
8 sections10 slidesYouTube ↗
06

Grep your lakehouse: Search-first retrieval for DuckDB-powered agents

Sylvain Utard
DuckDBDuckLakeFull-Text SearchSemantic SearchAI Agents
9 sections17 slidesYouTube ↗
07

Building local-first analytics apps with SQLRooms

Ilya Boyandin
DuckDBSQLRoomslocal-firstanalytics appsDuckDB-WASM
8 sections15 slidesYouTube ↗
08

When the sea lion learns to quack: DuckDB as a MariaDB storage engine

Roman Nozdrin
DuckDBMariaDBStorage EngineOLAPQuery Pushdown
10 sections9 slidesYouTube ↗
09

Effortlessly modernize your legacy

Nicolas Renkamp
DuckDBPySparkSQLFrameSQLGlotData Migration
7 sections8 slidesYouTube ↗
10

DuckLake on Hetzner: Your own data lakehouse for under €15 a month

Floyd Berndsen
DuckLakeDuckDBHetznerLakehouseSelf-hosting
6 sections8 slidesYouTube ↗
11

20 years of wind: Auditing UK energy policy without a cluster

Barry Smart
DuckDBEnergy PolicyMedallion ArchitectureParquetTDD
9 sections16 slidesYouTube ↗
12

SQL layer over user listening history for agentic access

Kian Mehrabani
DuckDBAgentic AISpotifyApache ArrowSQL
7 sections9 slidesYouTube ↗
13

Native app development using DuckDB

Milla Henriksson
DuckDBNative appsTauri / RustMicrosoft FabricOAuth / OLAP
8 sections11 slidesYouTube ↗