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# Data Conferences, DuckDB Meetups & MotherDuck Events

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[Sep032026MotherDuck Builder Office Hours - September 3Drop 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.Online - 1:00 PM Coordinated Universal TimeOnline](/events/motherduck-builder-office-hours-september-3-2026/)[Sep032026Time Travel & Schema Evolution: DuckLake Handles ChangeSchemas 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 TimeOnlineRecording Available](/videos/ducklake-time-travel-schema-evolution/)[Aug272026Data, Drinks, & DivesAt 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 YorkIn Person](/events/data-drinks-dives-2026/)[Aug272026MotherDuck + DuckDB August MeetupData 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 AngelesIn Person](/events/motherduck-duckdb-august-meetup-2026/)[Aug262026Do 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 TimeOnlineRecording Available](/videos/ai-agents-semantic-layer/)[Aug192026Python talk night at MotherDuckJoin 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 AngelesIn Person](/events/python-talk-night-at-motherduck-2026/)[Aug182026Beyond Copilots: We're Building a Data Stack Live with AI AgentsYou'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 TimeOnlineRecording Available](/videos/agentic-data-engineering-stack/)[Aug132026Introducing Guides: Warehouse-Native Context for AI AgentsPoint 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 TimeOnlineRecording Available](/videos/guides-context-layer-ai-agents/)[Aug122026Trust the Agents You Build on Your DataAn 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 TimeOnlineRecording Available](/videos/text-to-sql-agent-evals/)[Aug042026Ai4 2026America'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 AngelesIn Person](/events/ai4-2026-2026/)[Aug042026Let Your Agent Try MotherDuckA 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 TimeOnline](/events/let-your-agent-try-motherduck-2026/)[Jul312026MotherDuck Builder Office Hours - July 31Drop 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 TimeOnline](/events/motherduck-builder-office-hours-july-31-2026/)[Jul292026BI Is Having a Midlife CrisisBI 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 TimeOnlineRecording Available](/videos/bi-midlife-crisis-ai/)[Jul222026MotherDuck + DuckDB July MeetupEvening 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 AngelesIn Person](/events/motherduck-duckdb-july-meetup-2026/)[Jul222026Writing robust data pipelines with AIAI 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 TimeOnlineRecording Available](/videos/robust-data-pipelines-ai/)[Jul212026MotherDuck Builder Office Hours - July 21Drop 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 TimeOnline](/events/motherduck-builder-office-hours-july-21-2026/)[Jul172026MotherDuck Builder Office Hours - July 17Drop 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 TimeOnline](/events/motherduck-builder-office-hours-july-17-2026/)[Jul152026Streaming Made Easy: Practical Postgres CDC with Streamkap + MotherDuckJacob 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 TimeOnlineRecording Available](/videos/postgres-cdc-streamkap-motherduck/)[Jul092026WeAreDevelopers World CongressThe 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, BerlinIn Person](/events/wearedevelopers-world-congress-2026/)[Jul092026The Database Inside Your Lakehouse: A DuckLake Architecture Deep DiveAlex 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 TimeOnlineRecording Available](/videos/ducklake-architecture-deep-dive/)

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