Roundtable
Onboarding and self-service: what actually works
Adoption patterns that worked, then the room compares scars.
Chen-hui Bergl · Metabase
Metabase’s first in-person conference
Oct 5 — 7, 2026 · Denver, CO
Where data people meet
Bring your hardest questions.Leave with things you can ship on Monday.
Boarding pass
OJ · 2026
From
To
YOU
DEN
Wherever you are
Denver, Colorado
Dates
Sessions
Oct 5–7
18
Venue
Hyatt Regency
Doors open in
58d 13h
Data teams from these companies came to virtual JOIN
Build your three days
Tell us what you do and we'll show you the three sessions worth the flight, and what you'll be able to do when you get home.
You'll go home able to
Get people to actually self-serve, and defend the data team when someone asks whether AI already did it.
Talk
Proving your data team’s worth when execs think AI already did it
Language that survives an AI-hype budget meeting.
Andrew Fleming · Metabase
Talk
Accelerate Metabase with AI
The decision map: Metabot, MCP, CLI, agents: which one for which job.
Sessions
18 sessions · 4 topics
Leave with working solutions and un-googleable knowledge
- EXPLAIN
- A talk. One speaker shows you how something works.
- CREATE
- A hands-on workshop. Bring a laptop, leave having built something.
- GROUP BY
- A facilitated roundtable. Substance to open, then the room compares notes.
Keynote · 1 hour
Where the product goes next, and what changes when the thing asking questions of your data isn't a person
Sameer Al-Sakran · Founder & CEO, Metabase
Working with AI
6 sessions
Metabot, MCP, agents and the CLI: which to reach for, and how to keep them contained.
Building on Metabase
3 sessions
Three workshops. Bring a laptop and leave with something running.
Running Metabase
4 sessions
Permissions, scale, performance, and self-hosting in production.
Adoption and impact
4 sessions
Getting people to use it, and proving it was worth it.
+ more sessions coming soon
The unscheduled part
Between the sessions
Experts Lab
Open from Monday afternoon to Wednesday afternoon, staffed by Metabase experts. No talk, no slides, no ticket queue. Bring the thing that has been bothering you for months, or just come sit down. Also, there will be snacks.
We get to meet everyone
We are keeping the first year small on purpose, which means plenty of opportunities to introduce you to people working through the same problems you are. No badge scanning, no lead forms. Tell us who you want to talk to and we will walk you over.
Speakers
Some of them build Metabase. Some of them run it at their own companies and came to tell you what that is actually like. Because the first year is small on purpose, you can talk to any of them.
Sameer Al-Sakran
Founder & CEO, Metabase
Keynote
Pristino Labs George Bezerra
Founder & CEO, Pristino Labs
Why you can’t trust your AI agents in production
Framework Zach Feldman
Staff Engineer, Framework
Catching problems before customers do
Ignacio Beines Furcada
Success Engineer, Metabase
Build a pipeline and semantic layer, and let AI do the grunt work
James Jin
Analytics Engineer, Metabase
Build a pipeline and semantic layer, and let AI do the grunt work
Matthew Hefferon
Developer Advocate, Metabase
Vibe coding your first custom viz
Abed Habli
Product Advocate, Metabase
Data apps, hands on
Pierina Salinas
Product Advocate Manager, Metabase
Vibe code Metabase into your app
Luis Paolini
Success Engineer, Metabase
Protecting your data against agents
Vishal Thacker
Success Engineer, Metabase
How the biggest companies actually run Metabase
Chen-hui Bergl
Account Executive, Metabase
Onboarding and self-service: what actually works
Andrew Fleming
Product Advocate, Metabase
Proving your data team’s worth when execs think AI already did it
Maz Ameli
Head of Product Design, Metabase
The zen of Metabase: the thinking behind the decisions
Still boarding
More speakers to be announced
Agenda
Day 1
Arrive and orient
Monday, October 5
12:00 PM–8:00 PM Check-in Collect your boarding pass
1:00 PM–5:00 PM Experts Lab Come by with a question, or just come by
6:00 PM–8:00 PM Pre-flight reception Meet the room before the sessions start
Day 2
Solve & build
Tuesday, October 6
8:00 AM Wheels-up breakfast
8:00 AM–4:00 PM Experts Lab Open all day
9:00 AM–4:00 PM Keynote and sessions Two tracks, pick as you go
12:00 PM Lunch
5:00 PM–8:00 PM Flyte Club at FlyteCo Tower Dinner and drinks inside a decommissioned air traffic control tower, with bowling, an arcade, and a tour to the top
Day 3
Look ahead
Wednesday, October 7
8:00 AM Wheels-up breakfast
8:00 AM–4:00 PM Experts Lab Last chance
9:00 AM–1:30 PM Workshops and sessions Hands-on, bring a laptop
1:30 PM–4:00 PM Afternoon breakouts Small rooms, your agenda
4:00 PM Final approach We wrap
One badge.Everything included.
- Every session, workshop and breakoutTwo full days of sessions, plus Monday’s lab and reception
- Experts Lab, all three daysOpen-door time with Metabase experts, snacks included
- All meals and all-day coffeeBreakfast and lunch Tuesday and Wednesday, dinner Monday and Tuesday
- Pre-flight reception and Flyte ClubMonday welcome, then Tuesday night in a converted airport control tower
- Group hotel rate at the venue$165/night, booked by September 20. No commute, no cabs
$795
Through Sep 15, 2026
General admission
Mon evening–Wed afternoon
Need to convince your manager?
Subject: Conference request, Metabase OUTER JOIN, Oct 5–7 Hi [name], I’d like to attend Metabase OUTER JOIN in Denver, October 5–7. It’s the first in-person conference Metabase has run, and the whole product and engineering team is there. Three things I’d bring back: 1. Answers to the specific problems on our roadmap. The Experts Lab runs all three days, so I can sit down with Metabase experts in person. 2. Hands-on workshop time on the areas we’re investing in, working alongside the people who built them. 3. A read on where the platform is going in the next year, so we plan against what’s shipping instead of guessing. Cost: $795 for the badge (all meals included), plus flights and $165/night at the venue hotel. If two colleagues come along it drops to $695 each. The price goes up to $1,395 on September 16 and the discounted room block expires September 20, so I’d like to book before then. Happy to write up what I learn and run an internal session when I’m back. Thanks,
For a team of 3 or more
Through September 15. Email us.
$695 / person
Late registration
Sep 16–Oct 4, 2026
$1,395
On-site registration
Oct 5–7, 2026
$1,995
Land at DEN
From check-in on, it's handled
Travel
Fly in
Land by 3:00 PM Monday, October 5. The Experts Lab opens at 1:00 and the welcome reception starts at 6:00, so get in early and you miss neither.
Fly out
We wrap at 4:00 PM Wednesday, October 7. Book 7:00 PM or later, or Thursday morning. The group rate holds Wednesday night, and the hotel keeps your bags all day.
Join us there!
Venue
Hyatt Regency Aurora–Denver Conference Center
Address 13200 E 14th Pl, Aurora, CO 80011
Discounted price per night $165.00
Nearest airport DEN
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