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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 - 4:00 PM Coordinated Universal Time
Online

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.

Online - 3:00 PM Coordinated Universal Time
Online

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.

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

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.

Online - 4:00 PM Coordinated Universal Time
Online

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.

Online - 4:00 PM Coordinated Universal Time
Online

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
In Person

Big Data London

The 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, London
In Person

Data Weekend ATX 2026

A 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 UTC
In Person

Data in the D Conference 2026

A 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 UTC
In Person

Helsinki Data Week 2026

Finland's biggest data event returns for its third year, Oct 26-30. MotherDuck is a partner. Full-day main event with 2 tracks, 8-10 world-class speakers, plus partner events all week.

Helsinki, Finland - 12:00 AM Europe, Helsinki
In Person

Data Outpost 2026

Editorial AI + data conference for builders at the forefront of AI + data. Two days on memory, agents, trust, interfaces, and data that can act. Small-format, high-context.

Convene 100 Stockton, San Francisco, CA - 8:30 AM America, Los Angeles
In Person

Forward Data Conference 2026

France's premier Data & AI conference bringing together engineers, practitioners, and leaders for talks on AI engineering, AI strategy, data governance, and analytics engineering.

Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris, Paris, France - 8:30 AM Europe, Paris
In Person