Skip to main content

Ryan Boyd

Ryan Boyd's photo

Co-Founder & VP, Marketing + DevRel

Ryan started his career as a software engineer, but since has led DevRel teams for 15+ years at Google, Databricks and Neo4j, where he developed and executed numerous marketing and DevRel programs.

28 BLOG POSTS AND VIDEOS

Announcing the Data Outpost Conference

Announcing the Data Outpost Conference

Jul 20, 2026 • Ryan Boyd

Data Outpost is a new conference for data and AI builders, coming to San Francisco November 4-5, 2026. The next evolution of Small Data SF: two days of workshops, talks, and real time with the people building the data layer AI depends on.

"Building an Analytics Chatbot for your SaaS app in 1 day" video thumbnail

1:00:14

Building an Analytics Chatbot for your SaaS app in 1 day

Mar 11, 2026 • Ryan Boyd, Jerel Navarrete, Jacob Matson

Learn how to build a conversational AI chatbot for your SaaS product using the MotherDuck MCP server, with scoped data access and streaming responses.

Webinar

AI, ML and LLMs

Tutorial

MotherDuck Features

"Reliable AI Agents for Business Analytics" video thumbnail

59:39

Reliable AI Agents for Business Analytics

Jan 16, 2026 • Ryan Boyd

MotherDuck cofounder Ryan Boyd demonstrates how to close the LLM accuracy gap for business analytics using MotherDuck's MCP server, semantic modeling, and hyper-tenancy architecture for AI agents.

AI, ML and LLMs

Stop Paying the Complexity Tax

Stop Paying the Complexity Tax

Dec 19, 2025 • Ryan Boyd

My personal reflections from watching Jordan Tigani’s keynote "The Unbearable Bigness of Small Data" at Small Data SF. Most data warehouses are overbuilt for scale you'll never need. Learn how to stop paying the complexity tax.

"LLMs Meet Data Warehouses: Reliable AI Agents for Business Analytics" video thumbnail

LLMs Meet Data Warehouses: Reliable AI Agents for Business Analytics

Nov 19, 2025 • Ryan Boyd

LLMs excel at natural language understanding but struggle with factual accuracy when aggregating business data. Ryan Boyd explores the architectural patterns needed to make LLMs work effectively alongside analytics databases.

AI, ML and LLMs

MotherDuck Features

SQL

Talk

Python

BI & Visualization

"Can DuckDB replace your data stack?" video thumbnail

60:00

Can DuckDB replace your data stack?

Oct 23, 2025 • Ryan Boyd, Ryan Dolley

MotherDuck co-founder Ryan Boyd joins the Super Data Brothers show to talk about all things DuckDB, MotherDuck, AI agents/LLMs, hypertenancy and more.

YouTube

BI & Visualization

AI, ML and LLMs

Interview

MotherDuck Managed DuckLakes Now in Preview: Scale to Petabytes

MotherDuck Managed DuckLakes Now in Preview: Scale to Petabytes

Jul 1, 2025 • Ryan Boyd

Preview support of MotherDuck includes both fully-managed DuckLake support and ability to bring your own bucket. Combined with MotherDuck's storage, you get both high-speed access to recent data and support for massive scale historical data.

DuckDB Tutorial For Beginners

DuckDB Tutorial For Beginners

Oct 31, 2024 • Mehdi Ouazza, Ryan Boyd

Learn DuckDB from scratch: install in 2 minutes, set up VSCode, and build your first SQL analytics project. No database experience required.

"Getting Started with MotherDuck Webinar" video thumbnail

0:41:41

Getting Started with MotherDuck Webinar

Jun 19, 2024 • Ryan Boyd, Nathaniel Thompson

MotherDuck co-founder Ryan Boyd and Produck Expert Nathaniel Thompson provide an overview on MotherDuck, featuring DuckDB analyst ergonomics, Column Explorer, Fixit, Tableau visualization, Python data analysis, Wasm and more.

Webinar

MotherDuck Features

This Month in the DuckDB Ecosystem: June 2024

This Month in the DuckDB Ecosystem: June 2024

Jun 8, 2024 • Ryan Boyd

DuckDB news: v1.0.0 Snow Duck is production-ready. Query 150,000+ Hugging Face datasets directly. Crunchy Bridge adds DuckDB analytics to PostgreSQL. RAG implementations.

This Month in the DuckDB Ecosystem: January 2024

This Month in the DuckDB Ecosystem: January 2024

Jan 30, 2024 • Ryan Boyd

DuckDB news: Query Google Sheets with one line of SQL. Join across PostgreSQL, SQLite, and MySQL databases. ERPL extension connects SAP data. Harlequin terminal IDE launches.

How to analyze SQLite databases in DuckDB

How to analyze SQLite databases in DuckDB

Jan 24, 2023 • Ryan Boyd

DuckDB is often referred to as the SQLite for analytics. This blog post talks about how to query SQLite transactional databases from within the DuckDB analytics database.

Why Use DuckDB for Analytics?

Why Use DuckDB for Analytics?

Nov 11, 2022 • Tino Tereshko, Ryan Boyd

Fast aggregations, excellent SQL support, runs anywhere, provides simplified data access: cloud and local, works with your tools and frameworks.

SUBSCRIBE

Subscribe to MotherDuck Blog