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Speakers

Mehdi Ouazza

Employers on the program

  1. 2026Klarna1 talk
  2. 2023–2026MotherDuck6 talks

Bluesky: @mehdio.com

Upcoming appearances

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Event dates shown; only events starting today or later count. 1 upcoming event.

  1. Forward Data Conference 2026 · Paris, France
    • The Next Data Stack Has No UI: Building End-to-End Analytics with Agents and Ducks speaker Program source ↗
    • Speedrunning Analytics in 60 seconds, no cuts speaker Program source ↗

The year around now

Talks in the past 12 months and announced talks ahead, one row per conference, January to December. Hover a mark for the talk.

Held in the past 12 months Next 12 months Today, Nov 10, 2026

Appearances by year

201920202021202220232024202520262027
  • Forward Data Conference
  • PyData
  • Coalesce
  • Data Outpost
  • DuckCon
  • SciPy Conference (Scientific Computing with Python)

Talks

DateEventConferenceRoleTitleLinks
Nov 16, 2026Forward Data Conference 2026Forward Data ConferencespeakerSpeedrunning Analytics in 60 seconds, no cuts
as MotherDuck
Nov 16, 2026Forward Data Conference 2026Forward Data ConferencespeakerThe Next Data Stack Has No UI: Building End-to-End Analytics with Agents and Ducks
as MotherDuck
Nov 4, 2026Data Outpost 2026Data OutpostworkshopThe Next Data Stack Has No UI: Building End-to-End Analytics with Agents and Ducks
as MotherDuck
What if your next data platform is a conversation instead of a pile of dashboards and config screens? I'm not talking about a simple agent that runs SQL queries…Show less

What if your next data platform is a conversation instead of a pile of dashboards and config screens? I'm not talking about a simple agent that runs SQL queries and returns answers.

Jun 24, 2026DuckCon #7DuckConsponsor talkSo you self-hosted DuckDB. Now what?
as MotherDuck
Apr 14, 2026PyCon DE & PyData 2026PyDatatutorialSQL is Dead, Long Live SQL: Engineering reliable analytics agent from scratch
as Klarna
Is it still worth learning SQL in 2026, or can we just "chat" with our data? This hands-on tutorial explores that exact question by pushing Text-to-SQL to its…Show less

Is it still worth learning SQL in 2026, or can we just "chat" with our data? This hands-on tutorial explores that exact question by pushing Text-to-SQL to its absolute limits.

Nov 24, 2025Forward Data Conference 2025Forward Data ConferencespeakerFrom Postgres to a Minimalist Lakehouse: The Next Step with DuckLake
as MotherDuck
Video
Sep 1, 2025PyData Berlin 2025PyDatatutorialMore than DataFrames: Data Pipelines with the Swiss Army Knife DuckDB
Most Python developers reach for Pandas or Polars when working with tabular data—but DuckDB offers a powerful alternative that’s more than just another…Show less

Most Python developers reach for Pandas or Polars when working with tabular data—but DuckDB offers a powerful alternative that’s more than just another DataFrame library.

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Jul 8, 2024SciPy 2024SciPy Conference (Scientific Computing with Python)tutorialAll the SQL a Pythonista needs to know: an introduction to SQL and DataFrames with DuckDB
Structured Query Language (or SQL for short) is a programming language to manage data in a database system and an essential part of any data engineer’s tool…Show less

Structured Query Language (or SQL for short) is a programming language to manage data in a database system and an essential part of any data engineer’s tool kit. In this tutorial, you will learn how to use SQL to create databases, tables, insert data into them and extract, filter, join data or make calculations using queries.

Oct 16, 2023Coalesce 2023 San DiegoCoalescepanelistPanel discussion: Fixing the data eng lifecycle
as MotherDuck

As Joe Reis recently opined, if you want to know what’s next in data engineering, just look at the software engineer.

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Frequent co-speakers

SpeakerShared eventsShared talksLast together
Joe Reis3—2026
Alex Monahan212026
Dumky de Wilde212026
Alexander CS Hendorf2—2026
Alina Dallmann2—2026
Andy Kitchen2—2026
Benn Stancil2—2026
Christophe Blefari2—2026
Dr. Juan Orduz2—2026
Dr. Kristian Rother2—2026
Guillaume Gondé2—2026
Hugo Palmer2—2026
Iryna Kondrashchenko2—2026
Jake Hannan2—2026
Jeremy Chia2—2026

Speakers with the same name are merged into one entry, so this page may combine more than one person. Affiliations are shown as each conference listed them.