Data Conferences, DuckDB Meetups &amp; MotherDuck Events

AT&T Hotel and Conference Center, Austin, TX - 12:00 AM UTC

Oct102026

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.

Oct082026

Jev for Analytics: 5 Use Cases on Real Data

Most teams have text columns full of answers they can't GROUP BY: agent traces, comments, job ads, call notes. Mehdi Ouazza walks through five prompt_jev() use cases, each answering a business question in one SQL query, about 20x faster than an LLM call.

San Francisco Bay, CA - 6:15 PM America, Los Angeles

Oct052026

Ship, Scale, Sail - #SFTechWeek

MotherDuck, Modal, and Braintrust host a small crew of AI and data builders for an evening cruise. Dinner, drinks, and a relaxed evening on the Bay. Shipping. Scaling. Now let's get Sailing.

Oct012026

Virtual Workshop: Build a Data Agent in 60 Minutes

LLMs writing SQL is old news. The real challenge is the infrastructure around them. Jacob Matson builds a working data agent from scratch in 60 minutes: MCP tools, a 30-line agent loop, a solid system prompt, read-only guardrails, and telemetry.

Online - 4:30 PM Coordinated Universal Time

Sep292026

We Classified 100,000 Rows in 40 Seconds: Introducing prompt_jev()

Classifying text at scale usually means an LLM call per row or a specialized model you have to train. prompt_jev() is SQL-native classification: 100,000 rows at 89% accuracy in 40 seconds. Jacob Matson, Dumky de Wilde, and Hamilton Ulmer run it live.

Online - 8:00 PM Coordinated Universal Time

Sep242026

MotherDuck Builder Office Hours - September 24

Drop 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.

🇬🇧 Olympia, London, UK - 9:00 AM Europe, London

Sep232026

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.

London - 7:00 PM Europe, London

Sep232026

Duck In, Duck Out: London Edition

Let loose, London — MotherDuck's back for another good time on Night 1 of Big Data London, with beers, bites, and beats from our favorite DJ, Joe Reis!

Amsterdam, Netherlands - 6:00 PM Europe, Amsterdam

Sep172026

Agents in Prod | Amsterdam

Evening meetup with GlassFlow and MotherDuck on building production-grade AI agents. Live demos, technical talks, food and drinks.

Online - 1:00 PM Coordinated Universal Time

Sep172026

MotherDuck Builder Office Hours - September 17

Sep162026

MotherDuck CLI: query, pipelines, dashboards for your agents and CI

One install to query data, publish Python pipelines, and host dashboards from the terminal. Mehdi Ouazza hands Claude Code a one-line prompt and builds the whole thing live on a 3.87M row Hacker News dataset, then covers when to pick the CLI vs the MCP.

Sep152026

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

Online - 8:00 PM Coordinated Universal Time

Sep102026

MotherDuck Builder Office Hours - September 10

Online - 4:30 PM Coordinated Universal Time

Sep102026

Data takes Flight: Transforming data with Spark and MotherDuck via Iceberg

Storage and compute have split apart. With Iceberg catalogs widely adopted, you can pick the best engine for each job. Colin Rogers and Jacob Matson build a real multi-engine pipeline: Spark ingests, Iceberg stores, dbt Core and MotherDuck transform.

Online - 1:00 PM Coordinated Universal Time

Sep032026

MotherDuck Builder Office Hours - September 3

Sep032026

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.

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

Aug272026

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.

San Francisco - 5:30 PM America, Los Angeles

Aug272026

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).

Aug262026

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.