Berlin Buzzwords 2026

Till Döhmen

Till Döhmen is AI Lead at MotherDuck, a cloud analytics platform built on DuckDB, where he focuses on building agentic experiences for data analytics, including MotherDuck's MCP server that connects AI agents to data, and agent memory systems that help those agents improve over time. Till is also a final-year PhD candidate at VU Amsterdam, researching AI for data management, with work published at SIGMOD, VLDB, and ICML.


Company/Organisation:

MotherDuck


Session

06-08
12:00
45min
The Agent Era: How AI Agents Are Reshaping Data Platforms
Monica Sarbu, Danica Fine, Philipp Krenn, Till Döhmen

AI agents have quietly become some of the most demanding users of modern data platforms and most weren't built with them in mind. In this panel, leaders from Snowflake, Elastic, MotherDuck, and Xata share what agentic workloads actually look like in production: what broke, what had to be rebuilt, and where the architecture is heading.

Kesselhaus