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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.

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

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).

San Francisco - 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
Recording Available

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

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
Recording Available

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
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Recording Available

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.

Online - 5:00 PM Coordinated Universal Time
Online
Recording Available

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.'

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

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 - 4:00 PM Coordinated Universal Time
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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 - 5:00 PM Coordinated Universal Time
Online

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.

Online - 4:30 PM Coordinated Universal Time
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Recording Available

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.

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

Writing robust data pipelines with AI

AI writes data pipelines in seconds — but a pipeline that runs green and one that returns the right numbers are very different things. Mehdi Ouazza shares the practical habits that turn a lucky one-shot prompt into a pipeline you can rely on.

Online - 4:00 PM Coordinated Universal Time
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Recording Available

MotherDuck Builder Office Hours - July 21

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

Online - 2:30 PM Coordinated Universal Time
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MotherDuck Builder Office Hours - July 17

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

Online - 5:00 PM Coordinated Universal Time
Online

Streaming Made Easy: Practical Postgres CDC with Streamkap + MotherDuck

Jacob Matson (MotherDuck) and Paul Dudley (Streamkap) talk through the real tradeoffs of Postgres CDC: when you need it, when you don't, and what tends to break. Includes a live Postgres-to-MotherDuck pipeline demo built with Streamkap.

Online - 4:30 PM Coordinated Universal Time
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Recording Available

WeAreDevelopers World Congress

The world's largest gathering of developers. MotherDuck is a sponsor at Booth A_07. Catch CEO Jordan Tigani on the Data & Databases stage: '3 Ways to Rebuild the Data Stack for Agents.'

Messe Berlin, Berlin, Germany - 9:00 AM Europe, Berlin
In Person

The Database Inside Your Lakehouse: A DuckLake Architecture Deep Dive

Alex Monahan goes inside DuckLake's architecture: how the catalog, storage, and compute layers are designed, why separating them is deliberate, and what it means for reads, writes, and query planning. Based on Chapter 3 of DuckLake: The Definitive Guide.

Online - 4:00 PM Coordinated Universal Time
Online
Recording Available

DuckCon #7

The official DuckDB community conference returns to Amsterdam. Join DuckDB's creators and community for talks, lightning sessions, and networking — capped off with drinks and snacks.

Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam - 3:00 PM Europe, Amsterdam
In Person

Amazon AI Working Sessions hosted by Reason Automation

Jacob Matson (MotherDuck) speaks on Building Deterministic Reports with AI. Hear tangible ways to speed up your Amazon business with LLMs + your data. More info: https://www.reasonautomation.com/events/amazon-ai-sessions

Online - 4:00 PM Coordinated Universal Time
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