Data Conferences, DuckDB Meetups &amp; MotherDuck Events

Online - 1:00 PM Coordinated Universal Time

Sep172026

MotherDuck Builder Office Hours - September 17

Drop 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.

Sep162026

MotherDuck CLI: query, pipelines, dashboards for your agents and CI

One 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.

Sep152026

dbt Summit

The 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 UTC

Online - 8:00 PM Coordinated Universal Time

Sep102026

MotherDuck Builder Office Hours - September 10

Online - 4:30 PM Coordinated Universal Time

Sep102026

Data takes Flight: Transforming data with Spark and MotherDuck via Iceberg

Storage and compute have split apart. With Iceberg catalogs widely adopted, you can pick the best engine for each job. Colin Rogers and Jacob Matson build a real multi-engine pipeline: Spark ingests, Iceberg stores, dbt Core and MotherDuck transform.

Online - 1:00 PM Coordinated Universal Time

Sep032026

MotherDuck Builder Office Hours - September 3

Sep032026

Time Travel & Schema Evolution: DuckLake Handles Change

Schemas drift, bad loads slip in, and someone always needs last Tuesday's numbers. Alex Monahan, co-author of DuckLake: The Definitive Guide, joins Hoyt Emerson (Early Signal) to walk through time travel, schema evolution, and the change feed live.

Whiskey Roxx, New York, NY - 5:30 PM America, New York

Aug272026

Data, Drinks, & Dives

At the end of every month we're inviting the NYC data community for a drink at a different dive. No agenda, no pressure to network, just making data fun again. First up: the upstairs lounge at Whiskey Roxx, drinks on MotherDuck until 7:30pm.

San Francisco - 5:30 PM America, Los Angeles

Aug272026

MotherDuck + DuckDB August Meetup

Data talks, duck drops, and good company at our SF August meetup. Featured talks: zero-conversion observability with Arrow, DuckDB, and DazzleDuck (Gagan Taneja) and scientific computing on multi-dimensional arrays with XQL (Alex Merose, Open Athena).

Aug262026

Do AI Agents Need a Semantic Layer?

Half the industry says AI agents are useless without a semantic layer. The other half ships agents that run fine on a pile of markdown files. Jacob Matson and Alex Monahan ran the evals and share what plain-text context vs a Malloy semantic layer showed.

Seattle, WA - 5:30 PM America, Los Angeles

Aug192026

Python talk night at MotherDuck

Join PuPPy (Puget Sound Programming Python) for talks at MotherDuck's Seattle office, including a session on graph neural networks, a lightning talk, networking, and Mexican food and drinks on us.

Online - 3:00 PM Coordinated Universal Time

Aug182026

Beyond Copilots: We're Building a Data Stack Live with AI Agents

You've seen a hundred demos of AI writing SQL. The query was never the hard part. dltHub, MotherDuck, and Lightdash build the whole stack live in under an hour: one schema travels from AI-generated ingestion to dbt models and a governed semantic layer.

Aug132026

Introducing Guides: Warehouse-Native Context for AI Agents

Point an AI agent at a warehouse and it guesses at joins, then returns confident wrong answers. Guides are a context layer inside the warehouse itself, versioned and queryable. On DABStep they raised a small model's accuracy 72 points and cut costs 55%.

Online - 5:00 PM Coordinated Universal Time

Aug122026

Trust the Agents You Build on Your Data

An agent writing SQL on your data can run cleanly and still be wrong. Braintrust and MotherDuck show how to connect an agent to your data, give it the right context, then evaluate it in production and catch regressions before they ship.

The Venetian, Las Vegas, NV - 9:00 AM America, Los Angeles

Aug042026

Ai4 2026

America's largest AI conference. MotherDuck is a sponsor -- catch CEO Jordan Tigani on the Data Engineering panel: 'Building the Modern Data Stack for AI: What's Working and What's Not.'

Aug042026

Let Your Agent Try MotherDuck

A live, agent-led intro to MotherDuck. Watch an AI agent create a free account, work with data, build a pipeline, and produce an interactive visualization, then look under the hood at how it works. No warehouse setup, no dashboard clicking.

Online - 5:00 PM Coordinated Universal Time

Jul312026

MotherDuck Builder Office Hours - July 31

Drop in anytime and get help from a MotherDuck expert with any question or problem — plus meet other builders working on similar challenges.

Online - 4:30 PM Coordinated Universal Time

Jul292026

BI Is Having a Midlife Crisis

BI costs are high, value is low, and execs are asking why it can't all be replaced with a few prompts. So can it? Jacob Matson interviews Ryan Dolley, author and independent BI analyst, on the state of the BI market and AI's impact on reporting.

San Francisco, CA - 6:00 PM America, Los Angeles

Jul222026

MotherDuck + DuckDB July Meetup

Evening of MotherDuck + DuckDB talks featuring Bev Turnbaugh (MotherDuck) on making agents business-aware, and Jim Castillo (Fixlane) on trustworthy NL-to-SQL. Networking & refreshments included.