Videos and Online Events

" Preparing Your Data Warehouse for AI: Let Your Agents Cook" video thumbnail

2026-01-27

Preparing Your Data Warehouse for AI: Let Your Agents Cook

Jacob and Jerel from MotherDuck showcase practical ways to optimize your data warehouse for AI-powered SQL generation. Through rigorous testing with the Bird benchmark, they demonstrate that text-to-SQL accuracy can jump from 30% to 74% by enriching your database with the right metadata.

AI, ML and LLMs

SQL

MotherDuck Features

Stream

Tutorial

"The MCP Sessions - Vol 2: Supply Chain Analytics" video thumbnail

2026-01-21

The MCP Sessions - Vol 2: Supply Chain Analytics

Jacob and Alex from MotherDuck query data using the MotherDuck MCP. Watch as they analyze 180,000 rows of shipment data through conversational AI, uncovering late delivery patterns, profitability insights, and operational trends with no SQL required!

Stream

AI, ML and LLMs

MotherDuck Features

SQL

BI & Visualization

Tutorial

"Reliable AI Agents for Business Analytics" video thumbnail

59:39

2026-01-16

Reliable AI Agents for Business Analytics

MotherDuck cofounder Ryan Boyd demonstrates how to close the LLM accuracy gap for business analytics using MotherDuck's MCP server, semantic modeling, and hyper-tenancy architecture for AI agents.

AI, ML and LLMs

"Data-based: Going Beyond the Dataframe" video thumbnail

2025-11-20

Data-based: Going Beyond the Dataframe

Learn how to turbocharge your Python data work using DuckDB and MotherDuck with Pandas. We walk through performance comparisons, exploratory data analysis on bigger datasets, and an end-to-end ML feature engineering pipeline.

Webinar

Python

AI, ML and LLMs

"LLMs Meet Data Warehouses: Reliable AI Agents for Business Analytics" video thumbnail

2025-11-19

LLMs Meet Data Warehouses: Reliable AI Agents for Business Analytics

LLMs excel at natural language understanding but struggle with factual accuracy when aggregating business data. Ryan Boyd explores the architectural patterns needed to make LLMs work effectively alongside analytics databases.

AI, ML and LLMs

MotherDuck Features

SQL

Talk

Python

BI & Visualization

"Empowering Data Teams: Smarter AI Workflows with Hex & MotherDuck" video thumbnail

2025-11-14

Empowering Data Teams: Smarter AI Workflows with Hex & MotherDuck

AI isn't here to replace data work, it's here to make it better. Watch this webinar to see how Hex and MotherDuck build AI workflows that prioritize context, iteration, and real-world impact.

Webinar

AI, ML and LLMs

"The Unbearable Bigness of Small Data" video thumbnail

2025-11-05

The Unbearable Bigness of Small Data

MotherDuck CEO Jordan Tigani shares why we built our data warehouse for small data first, not big data. Learn about designing for the bottom left quadrant, hypertenancy, and why scale doesn't define importance.

Talk

MotherDuck Features

Ecosystem

SQL

BI & Visualization

AI, ML and LLMs

"Can DuckDB replace your data stack?" video thumbnail

60:00

2025-10-23

Can DuckDB replace your data stack?

MotherDuck co-founder Ryan Boyd joins the Super Data Brothers show to talk about all things DuckDB, MotherDuck, AI agents/LLMs, hypertenancy and more.

YouTube

BI & Visualization

AI, ML and LLMs

Interview

"Building AI Applications That Need Analytics" video thumbnail

2025-09-10

Building AI Applications That Need Analytics

Jordan Tigani explores how AI applications can leverage analytics databases to answer complex questions. LLMs struggle with calculations and private data. Enter "Hyper-Tenancy" for isolated cloud instances.

AI, ML and LLMs

Short

SQL

MotherDuck Features

Talk

"AI Powered BI: Can LLMs REALLY Generate Your Dashboards? ft. Michael Driscoll" video thumbnail

2025-05-20

AI Powered BI: Can LLMs REALLY Generate Your Dashboards? ft. Michael Driscoll

Discover how business intelligence is evolving from drag-and-drop tools to code-based, AI-powered workflows—leveraging LLMs, DuckDB, and local development for faster, more flexible analytics.

YouTube

AI, ML and LLMs

BI & Visualization

"Faster Data Pipelines development with MCP and DuckDB" video thumbnail

2025-05-13

Faster Data Pipelines development with MCP and DuckDB

Discover how the Model Context Protocol (MCP) accelerates data pipeline development with AI tools, DuckDB, and MotherDuck, streamlining schema discovery and code generation for data engineers.

YouTube

AI, ML and LLMs

"More Than a Vibe: AI-Driven SQL That Actually Works" video thumbnail

2025-04-22

More Than a Vibe: AI-Driven SQL That Actually Works

Jacob Matson shares insights from AI-powered spatial data analysis, exploring how to "vibe code" with AI-generated SQL using MotherDuck and DuckDB for real-world decision-making scenarios.

Talk

AI, ML and LLMs

"Practical AI Workflows For Data Professionals" video thumbnail

2025-04-10

Practical AI Workflows For Data Professionals

4 lightning talks on practical AI workflows: -Mehdi: MCP feedback loops for faster data engineering cycles -Archie: Cursor configs for data app dev -Nate: LLMs + SQL for CRM cleaning -Evelyn: Auto-generated data catalog descriptions

Interview

AI, ML and LLMs

Data Quality

Data Pipelines

"A duck in the hand is worth two in the cloud" video thumbnail

33:49

2024-11-08

A duck in the hand is worth two in the cloud

What if I told you that you could complete a JSON parse and extract task on your laptop before a distributed compute cluster even finishes booting up?

YouTube

BI & Visualization

AI, ML and LLMs

SQL

Python

Talk

"Machine learning and AI at MotherDuck" video thumbnail

29:54

2024-10-23

Machine learning and AI at MotherDuck

MotherDuck's Till Döhmen talks at DuckDB Meetup #1 Amsterdam about all the clever ways the AI team is extending SQL to include AI features.

YouTube

AI, ML and LLMs

Meetup

Talk

"Big data is dead, analytics is alive." video thumbnail

50:21

2024-10-09

Big data is dead, analytics is alive.

Till and Adithya from MotherDuck discuss DuckDB’s impact on analytics and AI, showcasing its fast, versatile in-process SQL and AI features like text-to-SQL, vector search, and query correction—powerful analytics even on your laptop.

AI, ML and LLMs

Interview

"Boosting datasets discoverability for AI using DuckDB" video thumbnail

1:07:10

2024-05-31

Boosting datasets discoverability for AI using DuckDB

Data is the foundation of any quality model, and discovering the right datasets is a crucial first step. In this Quack & Code session, Mehdi & Andrea Soria from HuggingFace show how to do just that.

YouTube

AI, ML and LLMs

Quack & Code

"DuckDB and recommenders : a lightning fast synergy ft. Khalil Muhammad" video thumbnail

0:21:59

2024-02-19

DuckDB and recommenders : a lightning fast synergy ft. Khalil Muhammad

Khalil Muhammad at the DuckDB meetup in Dublin on 23 January 2024! He shows what DuckDB offers you to move quickly when building recommendation engines and optimizing data modeling for machine learning. Predict user preferences to profit!

YouTube

AI, ML and LLMs

Meetup

Talk

"The Bad, the Good, and the Ugly: Navigating the New Waves of Machine Learning ft. Adi Polak" video thumbnail

0:25:04

2023-08-24

The Bad, the Good, and the Ugly: Navigating the New Waves of Machine Learning ft. Adi Polak

Mehdi chats with Adi Polak, the author of "Scaling Machine Learning with Spark", right after the DATA+AI summit by Databricks in San Francisco. They had an insightful discussion about ML, the basics of data, how LLMs help, ++.

YouTube

Interview

AI, ML and LLMs