Hannes Mühleisen

Co-Founder & CEO, DuckDB Labs

Hannes Mühleisen is a creator of the DuckDB database management system and Co-Founder and CEO of DuckDB Labs.

Sessions / 2026 / 1 talk

Super-Secret Next Big Thing for DuckDB
DuckDB has been quietly working on something big. At AI Council 2026, co-creator Hannes Mühleisen finally reveals it. For years, DuckDB has taken a deliberately embedded, in-process approach to analytical data — powerful, but with one persistent limitation: multiple processes can't write to the same database at once. Until now. Hannes takes the stage to unveil Quack — a new remote protocol that gives DuckDB client-server capabilities for the first time. With a single extension, any two DuckDB instances on a network can become client and server over HTTP, with the full DuckDB feature set over the wire.

Liberate Analytical Data Management with DuckDB
DuckDB Analytics Engine: High-Performance Data Processing Without Limits | Discover how DuckDB's revolutionary in-process analytical engine transforms data warehouse capabilities through a lightweight, versatile architecture. The engine features state-of-the-art vectorized query processing, morsel-driven parallelism, and advanced memory management that scales from embedded devices to powerful servers. This talk dives deep into DuckDB's innovative design principles, implementation strategies, and optimization techniques that enable previously impossible use cases on single nodes. Learn from real-world applications and performance benchmarks demonstrating DuckDB's impact on modern data analytics workflows.

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