This list was updated on May 1, 2026 and represents my upcoming live speaking events such as at conferences, user groups/meetups, webinars, and training courses.
Upcoming events
Starburst Office Hours: Building AI-Ready Data Products (Webinar) — May 14, 2026
In this “office hours” webinar, Lester Martin will show you how to promote curated datasets into AI-ready data products on Starburst. We will enhance business-oriented metadata through a combination of human effort and AI generation. In a fast, 20‑minute demo, we’ll cover:
- How Starburst data products feature reliable access, governance, and lineage, which are critical to your AI efforts
- Using AI to document business metadata and how human review & enhancements ensure the needed context will be available in your AI applications
- The tooling available for creating and maintaining Starburst data products
We’ll wrap with an open Q&A. Bring your questions about data products and enhancing the context of them.
Starburst Workshop: Building Data Pipelines with Ibis (Webinar) — March 21, 2026
In this 90‑minute, hands‑on session, Starburst expert Lester Martin will walk you through designing pipelines in Ibis that push compute down to Starburst, orchestrating multi-step transforms, and building patterns you can reuse across analytics and AI workloads. You’ll work through a hands-on lab exercise using the Ibis Dataframe API.
You’ll learn how to:
- Use Ibis to express complex transformations in Python while pushing execution down to Starburst for performance and scale
- Turn exploratory Ibis workflows into repeatable, maintainable pipelines for analytics and AI use cases
- Change the back-end compute engine with configuration instead of code
We’ll leave plenty of time for interactive Q&A, so come with ready to discuss your data engineering efforts using Dataframes.
Starburst Office Hours: AI Data Assistant – AIDA (Webinar) — June 4, 2026
In this “office hours” webinar, Lester Martin will show you how to leverage AIDA as a conversational analytics assistant.
Registration link coming soon
Starburst Workshop: MCP Server (Webinar) — June 18, 2026
n this 90‑minute, hands‑on session, Starburst expert Lester Martin will walk you through leveraging Starburst MCP functionality in building your own agentic workflows.
Registration link coming soon
Starburst Office Hours: Job Scheduler & Data Quality (Webinar) — July 7, 2026
In this “office hours” webinar, Lester Martin will show you how to leverage SQL jobs and data quality features in your data engineering activities.
Registration link coming soon