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# Data Conferences, DuckDB Meetups & MotherDuck Events

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[Apr102026Data After Dark #AZTechWeekA lecture series meets happy hour — grab a drink, enjoy local eats, and join a high-level conversation with the city's brightest minds. Part of #AZTechWeek.Arizona - 7:00 PM America, PhoenixIn Person](/events/data-after-dark-aztechweek-2026/)[Apr092026Zero-Latency Analytics in Your Application with DivesBI tools were never built to be app interfaces. In this livestream, learn how to build a Dive and embed it directly in your app — with help from your favorite agents.Online - 4:00 PM Coordinated Universal TimeOnlineRecording Available](/videos/zero-latency-analytics-dives-embed/)[Apr072026What's New in DuckDB 1.5Alex and Jacob walk through the biggest changes in DuckDB 1.5, demo key features, and take questions live.Online - 5:00 PM Coordinated Universal TimeOnlineRecording Available](/videos/whats-new-duckdb-15/)[Apr022026MCP Dev Summit North AmericaThe premier gathering for builders advancing AI with Model Context Protocol. MotherDuck's Till Döhmen speaks on "Reflections on Context Engineering via MCP Servers."New York, NY - 9:00 AM America, New YorkIn Person](/events/mcp-dev-summit-north-america-2026/)[Apr022026Sneak Peek: DuckLake - The Definitive Guide​Matt Martin and MotherDuck's Alex Monahan - coauthors of the upcoming O'Reilly book DuckLake: The Definitive Guide - sit down for a live conversation about how it works, what it simplifies, and who should care.Online - 4:00 PM Coordinated Universal TimeOnlineRecording Available](/videos/ducklake-definitive-guide-oreilly-book/)[Apr012026Seattle (AI) Startups SummitTwo-day AI startup conference in Seattle. Jordan Tigani (CEO) and Jacob Matson from MotherDuck are both speaking. Jacob's workshop covers building evals on OpenRouter for LLM apps. Covers AI product development, infrastructure, and go-to-market.Sheraton Grand, 1400 6th Ave Seattle, WA 98101 - 9:00 AM America, Los AngelesIn Person](/events/seattle-ai-startups-summit-2026/)[Mar262026MotherDuck + DuckDB MeetupJoin the Inaugural SF meetup for DuckDB & MotherDuck users. Featuring Till Döhmen & Jacob Matson talking about SQL evals & what AI means for infra providers, plus special guests sharing real stories of using DuckDB at scale.San Francisco, CA - 6:00 PM America, Los AngelesIn Person](/events/motherduck-duckdb-meetup-2026/)[Mar262026Beyond Charts: Building Interactive Data Apps with MotherDuck DivesDives look like visualizations, but they're actually full React apps - built entirely through conversation with an AI agent. Alex Monahan shows how to build Dives with drill downs, crossfiltering, slicers, animations, and custom interactivity.Online - 5:00 PM Coordinated Universal TimeOnlineRecording Available](/videos/interactive-data-apps-motherduck-dives/)[Mar172026Agents That Build Tables, Not Just Query ThemA livestream on how the new query_rw tool in the MotherDuck MCP server gives agents write access to your warehouse, so they can save derived tables and intermediate results.Online - 4:30 PM Coordinated Universal TimeOnlineRecording Available](/videos/motherduck-mcp-write-agent-sql/)[Mar112026Building an AI Chatbot for your SaaS app in 1 dayThis webinar walks through building a conversational AI layer for a SaaS product using the MotherDuck MCP server. We'll cover the full loop: connecting an LLM to live user data with read-only scoped access, building a streaming chat backend that handles sequential tool calls, adding custom visualization tools inside the conversation, and isolating customer data with MotherDuck's hypertenancy architecture. You'll leave with a reusable pattern you can drop into your own product.Online - 4:00 PM Coordinated Universal TimeOnlineRecording Available](/videos/building-ai-chatbot-saas-mcp/)[Mar102026PyAI Conference 2026MotherDuck's Till Döhmen speaks on Context Engineering for MCP Servers at this one-day Python AI conference for builders shipping AI to production.Shack15, Ferry Building, San Francisco, CA - 9:00 AM America, Los AngelesIn Person](/events/pyai-conference-2026-2026/)[Mar082026Seattle x SheBuilds on Lovable for International Women's DayBuild & ship a real app with AI using Lovable — no coding needed. Led by Ros Bernstein & Sally Revell. Perks: free Lovable access, $100 Claude API tokens, $250 Stripe credits. Open to all — bring a laptop, your best ideas & curiosity!MotherDuck HQ, Seattle, Washington - 12:00 PM America, Los AngelesIn Person](/events/seattle-x-shebuilds-on-lovable-for-international-womens-day-2026/)[Mar062026DataTuneTwo-day technical conference at Belmont University in Nashville, built by the data community for roughly 500 attendees. Tracks cover AI and data science (LLMs, RAG, model eval), modern data engineering (pipelines, streaming, platform design), analytics storytelling (dashboards, BI, business impact), and careers/leadership. Stop by the MotherDuck expo table and catch Jacob Matson's session on multiplying data engineering throughput with MotherDuck and AI — "Clone, Code, Ship."Nashville, Tennessee - 8:00 AM America, ChicagoIn Person](/events/datatune-2026/)[Mar062026MotherDuck Meet & Mingle in NashvilleThe flock flies through Nashville! Join MotherDuck for an invite-only evening of drinks, bites & conversation at Puttshack during DataTune. Connect with speakers, engineers, and data leaders over cocktails and tech-infused mini golf.Puttshack - Nashville, 138 12th Ave N, Nashville, TN 37203 - 5:30 PM America, ChicagoIn Person](/events/motherduck-meet-mingle-in-nashville-2026/)[Feb262026Zed x MotherDuck x Boundary Meetup: Annoying Stuff AI Gets Wrong (and some stuff it gets right)Three talks on what AI actually gets wrong in practice. Vaibhav Gupta from BAML argues that Python and TypeScript weren't designed for the agent world and shows what he'd do differently. Jacob Matson from MotherDuck makes the case that your agent should write SQL so you don't have to. Mikayla Maki from Zed covers programming with agents from inside the editor. Talks start at 6:30, followed by open networking with speakers and other builders. At Boundary's space in downtown Seattle.Seattle, WA - 6:00 PM America, Los AngelesIn Person](/events/zed-x-motherduck-x-boundary-meetup-annoying-stuff-ai-gets-wrong-and-some-stuff-it-gets-right-2026/)[Feb252026From Ad Hoc Questions to Real-Time AnswersData teams field the same questions over and over — "what were last month's numbers," "break this down by region," "compare Q3 to Q4." We built Dives to fix that. Ask your AI agent a question, get an interactive visualization backed by live data, and save it to your workspace. Same question next week? The answer's already there. Join us to see how it works.Online - 5:00 PM Coordinated Universal TimeOnlineRecording Available](/videos/ai-agent-shareable-visualizations/)[Feb192026SF Apache DataFusion MeetupFive talks on Apache DataFusion and what's happening around it in data infrastructure. Xiangpeng Hao from UW-Madison covers pushdown caching with LiquidCache. Bev Turnbaugh from MotherDuck presents DuckLake and what a next-generation lakehouse looks like. Zac Farrell from Hotdata pairs DataFusion with DuckLake, LakeSail's Shehab Amin demos native Iceberg and Delta Lake support, and Embucket's founders walk through DataFusion infrastructure internals. Hosted at Chroma in SF with food and networking from 5:30.San Francisco, CA - 5:30 AM America, Los AngelesIn Person](/events/sf-apache-datafusion-meetup-2026/)[Feb172026Streams, Queries & Quacks: A Data Meetup with Estuary & MotherDuckWe'll walk through turning Slack conversations into a queryable knowledge base using real-time data pipelines. Jonathan Wihl from Estuary will show how streaming data flows into MotherDuck without batch processing, and Jacob Matson from MotherDuck will cover metadata enrichment techniques that improve text-to-SQL accuracy — going beyond traditional foreign keys to surface hidden relationships in your data. Expect working demos, not slides.New York City, USA - 6:00 PM America, New YorkIn Person](/events/streams-queries-quacks-a-data-meetup-with-estuary-motherduck-2026/)[Jan302026DuckDB Developer Meeting #1The first DuckDB Developer Meeting, held in Amsterdam, brings together engineers building DuckDB extensions and complex applications on top of DuckDB. Talks cover extension development, internal architecture, and real-world use cases from people working directly on or deeply integrated with the DuckDB codebase. Organized by DuckDB Labs with MotherDuck participation.Amsterdam, Netherlands 🌷 - 4:00 PM Europe, AmsterdamIn Person](/events/duckdb-developer-meeting-1-2026/)[Jan302026HalfStackAlex Monahan from MotherDuck presents at HalfStack Phoenix on rendering data visualizations at 200 FPS using open source libraries — slicing through millions of rows in the browser in about 5 milliseconds. HalfStack is a 200-person web and JavaScript conference at the Majestic Theater in Gilbert, AZ, with sessions on accessibility, AI-driven UIs, NFC hardware hacking, and in-browser data processing. No vendor pitches.Phoenix, AZ - 10:00 AM America, PhoenixIn Person](/events/halfstack-2026/)

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