1:00:37
Jul 28, 2026
BI Is Having a Midlife Crisis
Jacob Matson and BI analyst Ryan Dolley on whether AI can replace your BI tool, what it actually solves, and what still needs governance.
Interview
BI & Visualization
AI, ML and LLMs
Videos and Online Events
54:22
Jun 18, 2026
DuckDB's agent moment (Jordan Tigani)
Jordan Tigani helped build BigQuery, then left to bet that most data isn't actually big. Three years later, the agent era is making his case for him. In this conversation on The Analytics Engineering Podcast, he and host Tristan Handy talk about how MotherDuck and DuckDB fit together, why a single-node database makes more sense than you'd think for agents, and what it would actually look like to have a swarm of agents managing your data.
YouTube
AI, ML and LLMs
Interview
28:00
Jun 2, 2026
How MotherDuck Was Born: DuckDB, AI, and the Modern Data Stack | Jordan Tigani & Carly Kiser
MotherDuck CEO Jordan Tigani on how AI is reshaping the modern data stack, why query latency now matters for agents, and the rise of open data formats.
Interview
AI, ML and LLMs
MotherDuck Features
Ecosystem
1:00:01
Mar 12, 2026
Text-to-SQL, Data Modeling for LLMs, MCP, and Dives with Jacob Matson
Jacob Matson covers text-to-SQL accuracy, why data models matter more than LLM choice, the MotherDuck MCP workflow, and Dives on Super Data Brothers.
Interview
AI, ML and LLMs
SQL
MotherDuck Features
Oct 31, 2025
Beyond the Benchmarks: A BigQuery Co-Founder's Guide to Evaluating Data Warehouse Performance
Big Data is dead. Learn to evaluate data warehouse performance via Time-to-Insight and real costs, ignoring misleading petabyte-scale vendor benchmarks.
Stream
Interview
60:00
Oct 23, 2025
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
Jun 17, 2025
What is DuckLake? A Simpler Data Lake & Warehouse with DuckDB
DuckDB's Hannes Mühleisen joins MotherDuck CEO Jordan Tigani for an in-depth discussion about DuckLake, the new lakehouse format that's rethinking how we handle metadata and open table formats.
Interview
Apr 10, 2025
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
Mar 18, 2025
Scaling DuckDB to TBs and PBs with Smallpond, MotherDuck and homegrown solutions
In this panel, Medhi is joined by three fascinating guests, each with unique experience in scaling DuckDB: Jake Thomas from Okta, Jordan Tigani from MotherDuck, and Michael Ritchie from Definite.
Webinar
Interview
59:07
Oct 24, 2024
Big Data is Dead: An Insider's Story on the Rise of Small Data
Stop paying the Big Data Tax. Discover why 95% of workloads need Small Data strategies and how MotherDuck's scale-up architecture delivers faster, cheaper analytics.
YouTube
Interview
50:21
Oct 9, 2024
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
41:35
Sep 19, 2024
What's New in Data: Small Data, Big Impact
John Kutay interviews MotherDuck's Jacob Matson about all things data including MotherDuck, DuckDB and more.
Interview
YouTube
May 1, 2024
Unfinished Business: Re-inventing 'modern' data tools
Watch Jordan Tigani (MotherDuck) and Colin Zima (Omni) for a 🦆 quackingly 🦆 candid discussion about what the last generation of data tools got right and wrong, and why they both think they can build something even better this time.
YouTube
BI & Visualization
Interview
0:07:46
Nov 3, 2023
Why did we raise now ? CEO Backstage Call 📞
Informal behind-the-scenes exploration with Co-Founder and CEO Jordan Tigani about what's happening at MotherDuck.
YouTube
Interview
0:11:01
Sep 8, 2023
DuckDB's Wild Ride in the Open Source World ft. Co-creator Mark Raasveldt
Mehdi interviews Mark Raasveldt, CTO of DuckDB Labs and co-creator of DuckDB just before DuckCon in San Francisco. He aimed to gain some insight into the behind-the-scenes workings of the open-source project. Enjoy the conversation!
YouTube
Interview
0:00:51
Sep 1, 2023
Why don't data producers pay attention to how their data is used downstream? 🤔
Short cut from Mehdi’s interview with O’Reilly “Data Engineering” co-author Joe Reis.
YouTube
Short
Interview
0:25:04
Aug 24, 2023
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
0:29:00
May 12, 2023
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
0:00:57
Mar 9, 2023
Making an impact with a research project: DuckDB
In this short, DuckDB co-creator Hannes talks about applying database research to building database systems and achieve real impact.
YouTube
Interview
Short
0:07:35
Mar 6, 2023
The Surprising Birth Of DuckDB ft. Co-creator Hannes Mühleisen
In this first Quack Chat episode, Mehdi interviews Hannes Mühleisen, co-creator of DuckDB, in Brussels during DuckCon.
YouTube
Interview
Short