Data Conferences, DuckDB Meetups &amp; MotherDuck Events

Online - 5:00 PM Coordinated Universal Time

May282025

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.

May212025

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.

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

May152025

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.

May142025

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.

May082025

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!

Online - 4:00 PM Coordinated Universal Time

Apr242025

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!

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

Apr232025

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.

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

Apr232025

[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.

Apr232025

A Practical Guide to Context Management for Data Agents

Peter Chapman (Virgil Data) and Jacob Matson (MotherDuck) walk through practical strategies for managing context in data agents.

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

Apr222025

Data Council 2025

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

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

Apr222025

[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.

Artefact Utrecht Office - 8:00 PM CET

Apr162025

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?

Apr092025

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.

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

Apr032025

Database is the Heart of the Business: Community Meetup

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

Online - 4:00 PM Coordinated Universal Time

Apr022025

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!

Online - 5:00 PM Coordinated Universal Time

Mar272025

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.

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

Mar262025

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.

Online - 3:30 PM Coordinated Universal Time

Mar112025

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.

Online - 4:00 PM Coordinated Universal Time

Feb262025

Fast & Scalable Analytics Pipelines with MotherDuck & dltHub

dltHub is a Python package for ETL. MotherDuck is a cloud DuckDB warehouse. Together they let you write a pipeline in Python, test it locally against DuckDB, and deploy to MotherDuck without rewriting anything. We'll demo the full loop: pulling data from a few different sources, loading it, and querying the results.