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DuckDB 2.0 is here, and much of the speedup needs no changes to your queries. Alex Monahan walks through what changed under the hood, from async I/O on object storage to recursive CTEs up to 90x faster, and which workloads benefit most.
Online - 5:30 PM Coordinated Universal TimeMotherDuck is a Helsinki Data Week partner (Oct 26-30). Join us and dltHub for an afternoon of open discussion on how AI is reshaping data teams, their tools, and their jobs, and how to stay dressed for the new era rather than exposed like the emperor.
Helsinki Bryggeri Brewhouse, Sofiankatu 2, Helsinki, Finland - 3:00 PM Europe, HelsinkiAlex Monahan and Matt Martin, co-authors of O'Reilly's DuckLake: The Definitive Guide, walk through the book's new Performance Optimization chapter: how to get faster queries by skipping files and row groups and writing Parquet that suits your queries.
Online - 5:00 PM Coordinated Universal TimeHazel started out predicting customer lifetime value, then built an AI coworker that answers any question a consumer brand has about its business. Co-founder and CTO Patrik Devlin joins host Alex Monahan to talk through the data stack underneath it.
Online - 4:30 PM Coordinated Universal TimeA two-day gathering of data professionals featuring workshops, hackathons, and sessions focused on real-world data impact and community building in Detroit. MotherDuck is a Bronze Sponsor.
Detroit, MI - 12:00 AM UTCAsk three people for net revenue retention and you can get three answers. Zoey Weaver interviews Kaitlyn Henry, MotherDuck's Chief of Staff, on how she builds internal data apps with agents, from AI token spend to the weekly business review, and how Guides keep everyone's numbers aligned.
Online - 4:30 PM Coordinated Universal TimeA data conference uniting leaders and practitioners across data engineering, analytics, AI, and governance in the North of England.
Manchester Central, Manchester, UK - 9:00 AM Europe, LondonA curated weekend of presentations, workshops, and salons from Global Data Geeks. Featuring Ryan Boyd and data community leaders. The party masquerading as a data conference.
AT&T Hotel and Conference Center, Austin, TX - 12:00 AM UTCMost teams have text columns full of answers they can't GROUP BY: agent traces, comments, job ads, call notes. Mehdi Ouazza walks through five prompt_jev() use cases, each answering a business question in one SQL query, about 20x faster than an LLM call.
Online - 4:00 PM Coordinated Universal TimeMotherDuck, Modal, and Braintrust host a small crew of AI and data builders for an evening cruise. Dinner, drinks, and a relaxed evening on the Bay. Shipping. Scaling. Now let's get Sailing.
San Francisco Bay, CA - 6:15 PM America, Los AngelesLLMs writing SQL is old news. The real challenge is the infrastructure around them. Jacob Matson builds a working data agent from scratch in 60 minutes: MCP tools, a 30-line agent loop, a solid system prompt, read-only guardrails, and telemetry.
Online - 4:00 PM Coordinated Universal TimeClassifying text at scale usually means an LLM call per row or a specialized model you have to train. prompt_jev() is SQL-native classification: 100,000 rows at 89% accuracy in 40 seconds. Jacob Matson, Dumky de Wilde, and Hamilton Ulmer run it live.
Online - 4:30 PM Coordinated Universal TimeDrop in anytime during this session, and get a hand from a MotherDuck expert with any sticky question, problem, or musing on your mind. Meet other builders on MotherDuck and hear how they're solving similar challenges.
Online - 8:00 PM Coordinated Universal TimeThe UK's largest data, analytics, and AI conference at Olympia London — two days, 400+ sessions, and exhibitors ranging from Snowflake and Databricks to early-stage startups. Speaker roster includes engineers from Google, AWS, TikTok, and Spotify. Come find us at booth P60. The co-located Data Driven LDN conference runs alongside it for senior practitioners focused on AI agents, AI governance, and data products.
🇬🇧 Olympia, London, UK - 9:00 AM Europe, LondonLet loose, London — MotherDuck's back for another good time on Night 1 of Big Data London, with beers, bites, and beats from our favorite DJ, Joe Reis!
London - 7:00 PM Europe, LondonEvening meetup with GlassFlow and MotherDuck on building production-grade AI agents. Live demos, technical talks, food and drinks.
Amsterdam, Netherlands - 6:00 PM Europe, AmsterdamDrop in anytime during this session, and get a hand from a MotherDuck expert with any sticky question, problem, or musing on your mind. Meet other builders on MotherDuck and hear how they're solving similar challenges.
Online - 1:00 PM Coordinated Universal TimeOne install to query data, publish Python pipelines, and host dashboards from the terminal. Mehdi Ouazza hands Claude Code a one-line prompt and builds the whole thing live on a 3.87M row Hacker News dataset, then covers when to pick the CLI vs the MCP.
Online - 4:00 PM Coordinated Universal TimeThe world's largest gathering of dbt users — 2,200+ data leaders, decision makers, and industry executives shaping the future of analytics and AI. MotherDuck is sponsoring again, so hope to catch you in Las Vegas!
Las Vegas - 12:00 AM UTCDrop in anytime during this session, and get a hand from a MotherDuck expert with any sticky question, problem, or musing on your mind. Meet other builders on MotherDuck and hear how they're solving similar challenges.
Online - 8:00 PM Coordinated Universal Time