Speaking & Events

Conference talks, podcast appearances, and workshops on DuckDB, Apache Arrow, data engineering, and building community extensions.

Past Events

DuckDB
Workshop DuckDB Developer Meeting #1 — Amsterdam, Netherlands

DuckDB Extension Development Workshop

Led a hands-on workshop on DuckDB extension development at the first-ever DuckDB Developer Meeting, organized by DuckDB Labs.

Apache Arrow
Talk Apache Arrow Summit 2025 — Paris, France

Building on Flight: Real-World Lessons from the DuckDB Airport Extension

Shared real-world lessons from building the DuckDB Airport extension at the inaugural Apache Arrow Summit, covering Arrow Flight integration patterns and production challenges.

Query.Farm
Meetup DuckDB Amsterdam Meetup #3 — Amsterdam, Netherlands

Query.Farm: Growing DuckDB Community Extensions

Presented on Query.Farm's work growing the DuckDB community extensions ecosystem at the third Amsterdam DuckDB meetup, co-organized by Adyen and DuckDB Labs.

DuckDB
Podcast The Hedgineer Podcast (S2E3)

DuckDB, Apache Arrow, & the Future of Data Engineering

Joined Michael Watson on The Hedgineer Podcast for an in-depth discussion on building next-generation real-time, large-scale data systems with DuckDB and Apache Arrow.

DuckDB
Talk DuckCon #6 — Amsterdam, Netherlands

Airport for DuckDB: Letting DuckDB take Apache Arrow Flights

Presented the Airport extension for DuckDB at the official DuckDB conference, demonstrating how Arrow Flight protocol enables remote data queries, custom SQL functions, and Data-as-a-Service directly from DuckDB.