Data Conferences, DuckDB Meetups &amp; MotherDuck Events

46 Minna St, San Francisco, CA USA - 7:30 PM America, Los Angeles

Paaartaaaay with Ducks at Data + AI Summit

Time to let loose and your feathers fly! Following Day 2 of Databricks Data + AI Summit, glide on over to the MotherDuck party, where we'll have treats for your beaks and some data-fueled revelry to ignite your night.

Jun

04

Online - 4:00 PM Coordinated Universal Time

Getting Started with MotherDuck

Looking to get started with MotherDuck and DuckDB? Join us for a live session to learn how MotherDuck makes analytics fun, frictionless, and ducking awesome!

Jun

02

111 Minna St, San Francisco, CA USA - 6:30 PM America, Los Angeles

Paaartaaaay with Ducks at Snowflake Summit

Waddle on over after Day 1 of Snowflake Summit for a MotherDucking après-summit celebration. Come chill, enjoy tasty bites, flocking fun games and a chance to shake your tail feathers! Arrive for the vibes, stay for the flock.

May

28

Online - 5:00 PM Coordinated Universal Time

Cultivating Growth: How Gardyn Scaled its Data Operations

Join Gardyn’s Rob Teeuwen, and MotherDuck’s Jacob Matson for a behind‑the‑scenes look at how a lean stack replaced an overheating MySQL replica and endless pipeline pain.

May

21

Stay in Flow with MotherDuck's Instant SQL

See how MotherDuck's Instant SQL breaks through traditional development barriers by providing real-time results as you type.

May

15

Boston, Massachusetts, USA - 3:00 PM America, New York

ODSC East: Making Big Data Feel Small with DuckDB

Ryan Boyd, co-founder at MotherDuck, will speak at ODSC East. Learn how well an “embedded database” scales! DuckDB is being used in production to process terabytes and petabytes of data.

May

14

Stay in Flow with MotherDuck's Instant SQL

See how MotherDuck's Instant SQL breaks through traditional development barriers by providing real-time results as you type.

May

08

Getting Started with MotherDuck

Looking to get started with MotherDuck and DuckDB? Join us for a live session to learn how MotherDuck makes analytics fun, frictionless, and ducking awesome!

Apr

24

Online - 4:00 PM Coordinated Universal Time

Getting Started with MotherDuck + Sneak Peek of Instant Preview Mode

Looking to get started with MotherDuck and DuckDB? Join us for a live session to learn how MotherDuck makes analytics fun, frictionless, and ducking awesome!

Apr

23

Data Council 2025, Oakland, CA, USA - 3:00 PM America, Los Angeles

[Data Council Session] Instant Preview Mode: Real-Time Feedback to Make SQL Data Exploration Fly

Imagine writing SQL queries that give you instant visual feedback, transforming your data exploration experience. In this talk, join MotheDuck engineer Hamilton Ulmer to learn how Instant Preview Mode breaks traditional development barriers.

Apr

23

Lake Chalet Seafood Bar & Grill - 5:30 PM America, Los Angeles

Data Talks on the Rocks: Real-time Roundtable @ Data Council

Once Data Council Day 2 comes to an end, walk across the street for Data Talks on the Rocks at Lake Chalet featuring a roundtable discussion with MotherDuck Co-founder and CEO Jordan Tigani.

Apr

22

Oaklanda, California, USA - 8:00 AM America, Los Angeles

Data Council 2025

Join MotherDuck at Data Council 2025. We'll have a booth, so stop by and quack with us!

Apr

22

Data Council 2025, Oakland, CA, USA - 11:45 AM America, Los Angeles

[Data Council Workshop] More than a vibe: AI-Driven SQL that actually works

In this hands-on workshop, we will demonstrate how AI can empower you to "vibe code"—using AI to write accurate SQL, enabled only by the magic of MotherDuck & DuckDB.

Apr

16

Artefact Utrecht Office - 8:00 PM CET

Hold on, where's my context...

Much of AI-assisted tooling depends significantly on obtaining the appropriate context for the specific task. But how exactly do these AI tools retrieve and utilize this context? And how can you, as a user, effectively provide and work with this context?

Apr

09

Practical Uses for AI in Your Data Workflows

Four people who use AI in their data work every day talk about what's actually useful. Mehdi on MCP feedback loops for shorter test-deploy cycles. Archie on Cursor configs for data app dev. Nate on using LLMs to clean CRM data with SQL. Evelyn on auto-generating column descriptions for data catalogs. Lightning talks, then a group discussion moderated by Jacob Matson.

Apr

03

Databricks, Bellevue, Washington, USA - 6:00 PM America, Los Angeles

Database is the Heart of the Business: Community Meetup

MotherDuck co-founder Ryan Boyd will keynote this large community meetup outside Seattle.

Apr

02

Online - 4:00 PM Coordinated Universal Time

Getting Started With The DuckDB UI & MotherDuck

Looking to get started with MotherDuck and DuckDB? Join us for a live session to learn how MotherDuck makes analytics fun, frictionless, and ducking awesome!

Mar

27

Online - 5:00 PM Coordinated Universal Time

Build a Real-Time CDC Pipeline with Estuary & MotherDuck

Most CDC setups are a pain to configure. This webinar shows a simpler way: Estuary handles the real-time streaming from your transactional database, MotherDuck handles the analytics on the other end. We'll build a working pipeline live, from Postgres to queryable data in MotherDuck, and talk through the tradeoffs compared to batch approaches.

Mar

26

San Francisco, CA - 5:30 PM America, Los Angeles

bem AI + Data Panel

Tomasz Tunguz (Theory Ventures), Jordan Tigani (MotherDuck), and Karan Goel (Cartesia) sit down for a panel on what's actually working in Data + AI product building, and what isn't. Moderated by Upal Saha (bem). Networking and drinks at 5:30, panel and Q&A from 6 to 7:30.

Mar

11

Online - 3:30 PM Coordinated Universal Time

Panel: Scaling DuckDB to TBs and PBs with Smallpond, MotherDuck, and homegrown solutions

DeepSeek's smallpond hit 110TB on distributed DuckDB and everyone lost their minds. But what are the real options for scaling DuckDB today? Jordan Tigani (MotherDuck), Jake Thomas (Okta), and Mehdi Ouazza (MotherDuck) talk through what actually works: when to throw more RAM at it vs. going distributed, how serverless compares, and what Okta learned running DuckDB on large datasets in production.