Videos and Online Events

"Watch Me Deploy a DuckLake to Production with MotherDuck!" video thumbnail

2025-12-10

Watch Me Deploy a DuckLake to Production with MotherDuck!

In this video, Hoyt Emerson will show you the fastest way to get DuckLake into production using MotherDuck's beta implementation. If you've been following his DuckLake series, this is the next step you've been waiting for!

YouTube

Data Pipelines

Tutorial

MotherDuck Features

SQL

Ecosystem

" Ducks on a Lake: Scaling Data Lakes to Warehouse Performance" video thumbnail

2025-09-18

Ducks on a Lake: Scaling Data Lakes to Warehouse Performance

Explore DuckLake, a new open table format from DuckDB's creators, designed to bring warehouse-grade performance and metadata control to data lakes.

Talk

MotherDuck Features

SQL

Data Pipelines

Ecosystem

Ingestion

"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

"DuckDB: Run dbt build with sub-second execution times" video thumbnail

24:06

2025-03-13

DuckDB: Run dbt build with sub-second execution times

Whether you're new to DuckDB or looking to optimize your workflows, this session will provide practical insights to help you leverage its full potential.

YouTube

Data Pipelines

dbt

MotherDuck Features

"Can DuckDB revolutionize the data lake experience?" video thumbnail

16:37

2024-11-22

Can DuckDB revolutionize the data lake experience?

Mehdi explores DuckDB as a catalog for Data Lake and Lakehouse pattern. He'll define what we mean by "data catalog", gives clear examples on how they work and dive into a pragmatic use case with DuckDB & MotherDuck.

YouTube

Data Pipelines

Sources

"Duckfooding at MotherDuck" video thumbnail

40:09

2024-10-14

Duckfooding at MotherDuck

In this talk at our MotherDuck NYC meetup [warning: bad sound], Nicholas Ursa talked about the paradigm shift from distributed computing and the Big data era to MotherDuck. He then explains how we build our internal data warehouse.

YouTube

Data Pipelines

Meetup

Talk

"Local Dev, Cloud Prod with Dagster and MotherDuck" video thumbnail

0:52:48

2024-04-22

Local Dev, Cloud Prod with Dagster and MotherDuck

Develop locally and ship to production confidently with Dagster data pipelines, Evidence dashboards powered by DuckDB and Markdown, and the MotherDuck cloud data warehouse.

YouTube

Data Pipelines

"DuckDB & dbt | End-To-End Data Engineering Project (2/3)" video thumbnail

0:37:25

2024-03-01

DuckDB & dbt | End-To-End Data Engineering Project (2/3)

@mehdio is taking you to part 2 of this end-to-end data engineering project series: transform data using dbt and DuckDB! You will be leveraging all the in-memory capabilities of DuckDB to smooth your development process and deployment to t

YouTube

Data Pipelines

dbt

Tutorial

Ecosystem

"Why use DuckDB in your data pipelines ft. Niels Claeys" video thumbnail

0:22:26

2023-10-06

Why use DuckDB in your data pipelines ft. Niels Claeys

Want to use DuckDB in your data pipelines? Watch this talk from Niels Claeys of Data Minded at the September 2023 MotherDuck/DuckDB meetup in Belgium, Leuven.

YouTube

Data Pipelines

Meetup

Talk

"Beyond Data Engineering ft. Joe Reis" video thumbnail

0:29:00

2023-05-12

Beyond Data Engineering ft. Joe Reis

Mehdi sat down with O’Reilly author Joe Reis to discuss different aspects of data engineering. They touched on the fears surrounding data, the critical role of communication, and more.

YouTube

Interview

Data Pipelines