Videos and Online Events
2025-10-31
Lies, Damn Lies, and Benchmarks
Why do database benchmarks so often mislead? MotherDuck CEO Jordan Tigani discusses the pitfalls of performance benchmarking, lessons from BigQuery, and why your own workload is the only benchmark that truly matters.
Stream
Interview
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
2025-06-17
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
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
2025-03-18
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
2024-10-24
The Death of Big Data and Why It’s Time To Think Small | Jordan Tigani, CEO, MotherDuck
A founding engineer on Google BigQuery and now at the helm of MotherDuck, Jordan Tigani challenges the decade-long dominance of Big Data and introduces a compelling alternative that could change how companies handle data.
YouTube
Interview
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
41:35
2024-09-19
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
2024-05-01
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
2023-11-03
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
2023-09-08
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
2023-09-01
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
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
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
