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Learn what MCP (Model Context Protocol) is, how its three building blocks work, and how to set up remote and local MCP servers. Includes a real demo chaining MotherDuck and Notion MCP servers in a single prompt.
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51:02
Oct 21, 2026 • Alex Monahan
Patrik Devlin, co-founder and CTO of Hazel, joins host Alex Monahan to show Hazel in a demo account and walk through the stack behind it: Fivetran and dlt into S3, dbt in MotherDuck, and a separate database for every customer.
Stream
MotherDuck Features
AI, ML and LLMs
Data Pipelines
51:58
Oct 1, 2026 • Jacob Matson
Jacob Matson walks through a working data chat agent he built: MCP tools, an agentic loop, a tuned system prompt, hard-coded read-only guardrails, and telemetry. He demos it live against a real dataset, walks through the actual codebase, then shows the same backend re-platformed into a Slack bot.
Stream
MotherDuck Features
AI, ML and LLMs
Data Pipelines
49:02
Sep 29, 2026 • Hamilton Ulmer, Dumky de Wilde, Jacob Matson
MotherDuck's new prompt_jev() function runs text classification directly from SQL using Jev, a decision-focused model from typesafe.ai. In a live demo, Jacob Matson, Dumky de Wilde, and Hamilton Ulmer showed it filtering, disambiguating, and re-ranking real data without leaving SQL. The number they kept coming back to: 100,000 rows classified at 89% accuracy in 40 seconds, compared to 32 minutes and $37.58 for a comparable LLM call.
Stream
MotherDuck Features
AI, ML and LLMs
Data Pipelines
37:22
Sep 16, 2026 • Mehdi Ouazza
One CLI to query MotherDuck, publish Python pipelines, and host dashboards from the terminal. See when it beats the MCP server, and when it doesn't.
Stream
MotherDuck Features
AI, ML and LLMs
Data Pipelines
47:43
Sep 10, 2026 • Colin Rogers, Jacob Matson
See a live cross-engine pipeline: Spark transcribes audio and writes to Iceberg, then MotherDuck attaches that catalog directly as a queryable database.
Stream
Data Pipelines
dbt
Ecosystem
63:17
Aug 18, 2026 • Jacob Matson
Agentic data engineering in practice: AI agents build dlt ingestion into MotherDuck and a governed Lightdash semantic layer, live in an hour.
Stream
AI, ML and LLMs
Data Pipelines
Ecosystem
41:41
Jul 22, 2026 • Mehdi Ouazza
AI writes data pipelines in seconds, but green isn't correct. Build robust data pipelines with AI: eyes on data, foundations, tests, and contracts.
Webinar
Data Pipelines
AI, ML and LLMs
MotherDuck Features
41:19
Jul 14, 2026 • Jacob Matson, Paul Dudley
Learn when Postgres CDC is worth it, what breaks it (WAL logs, replication slots, schema changes), and see a live Postgres-to-MotherDuck pipeline.
Webinar
Data Pipelines
Ecosystem
AI, ML and LLMs
36:45
Jun 23, 2026 • Jacob Matson
Watch an AI agent build a data pipeline end to end in MotherDuck Flights: ingest, transform, and schedule it, then wire it into a live Dive dashboard.
Webinar
AI, ML and LLMs
Data Pipelines
MotherDuck Features
BI & Visualization
45:32
Jun 17, 2026 • Doo Shim, Garrett O'Brien
See how MotherDuck Flights lets you build and schedule Python data pipelines with an AI agent — from a single prompt to a running ingest pipeline and live dashboard.
Webinar
Data Pipelines
AI, ML and LLMs
MotherDuck Features
Python
42:30
Jun 9, 2026 • Mehdi Ouazza
Postgres slows down on analytics as your app grows. Learn the signs you've hit its ceiling and how to offload analytical queries to MotherDuck.
Webinar
SQL
Data Pipelines
MotherDuck Features
47:05
May 26, 2026 • Jacob Matson
Jacob Matson refactors a real NBA app with AI agent teams, revealing how data engineering patterns like DAGs and wave planning map directly to agent orchestration.
Webinar
AI, ML and LLMs
Data Pipelines
42:00
May 19, 2026 • Jacob Matson, Hugo Lu
Watch an AI agent build a full data pipeline from scratch: ingestion with DLT, orchestration in Orchestra, staging and snapshots in MotherDuck, and a Dive for visual output.
Webinar
AI, ML and LLMs
Data Pipelines
MotherDuck Features
Dec 10, 2025 • Hoyt Emerson
In this video, Hoyt Emerson will show you the fastest way to get DuckLake into production using MotherDuck's beta implementation. If you've been following his DuckLake series, this is the next step you've been waiting for!
YouTube
Data Pipelines
Tutorial
MotherDuck Features
SQL
Ecosystem
Sep 18, 2025 • Ryan Boyd
Explore DuckLake, a new open table format from DuckDB's creators, designed to bring warehouse-grade performance and metadata control to data lakes.
Talk
MotherDuck Features
SQL
Data Pipelines
Ecosystem
Ingestion
24:06
Mar 13, 2025 • Gábor Szárnyas
Whether you're new to DuckDB or looking to optimize your workflows, this session will provide practical insights to help you leverage its full potential.
YouTube
Data Pipelines
dbt
MotherDuck Features
16:37
Nov 22, 2024 • Mehdi Ouazza
Mehdi explores DuckDB as a catalog for Data Lake and Lakehouse pattern. He'll define what we mean by "data catalog", gives clear examples on how they work and dive into a pragmatic use case with DuckDB & MotherDuck.
YouTube
Data Pipelines
Sources
40:09
Oct 14, 2024 • Nick Ursa
In this talk at our MotherDuck NYC meetup [warning: bad sound], Nicholas Ursa talked about the paradigm shift from distributed computing and the Big data era to MotherDuck. He then explains how we build our internal data warehouse.
YouTube
Data Pipelines
Meetup
Talk
0:52:48
Apr 22, 2024 • Alex Monahan, Colton Padden
Develop locally and ship to production confidently with Dagster data pipelines, Evidence dashboards powered by DuckDB and Markdown, and the MotherDuck cloud data warehouse.
YouTube
Data Pipelines
0:37:25
Mar 1, 2024 • Mehdi Ouazza
@mehdio is taking you to part 2 of this end-to-end data engineering project series: transform data using dbt and DuckDB! You will be leveraging all the in-memory capabilities of DuckDB to smooth your development process and deployment to t
YouTube
Data Pipelines
dbt
Tutorial
Ecosystem
0:22:26
Oct 6, 2023 • Niels Claeys
Want to use DuckDB in your data pipelines? Watch this talk from Niels Claeys of Data Minded at the September 2023 MotherDuck/DuckDB meetup in Belgium, Leuven.
YouTube
Data Pipelines
Meetup
Talk
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May 12, 2023 • Mehdi Ouazza, Joe Reis
Mehdi sat down with O’Reilly author Joe Reis to discuss different aspects of data engineering. They touched on the fears surrounding data, the critical role of communication, and more.
YouTube
Interview
Data Pipelines