Some of you have been part of this forum for years. You've helped debug SQL, troubleshoot deployments, report bugs, request features we've gone on to build, and answer questions from newcomers. We've gotten to know many of you through forum threads, support conversations, and the occasional video call. This October, we'd love the chance to finally meet you in person.
OUTER JOIN is our first-ever in-person user conference, happening October 5–7 in Denver, CO and this community is a huge part of why we’re doing it, and we'd love for many of you to be there
We want this event to reflect what makes the Metabase community special, so we’d love your input:
What topics do you want to see covered?
Reply below. (Seriously. We’re reading every suggestion.)
Have you built something interesting with Metabase that others should hear about?
Some of the best sessions will come from users sharing what they’ve learned. Reply here if you’d like to suggest a topic or share your story!
I have some suggestions. I’m new to Metabase though so I hope they’re useful:
Metabase for journalists
How have news organizations used Metabase for data visualizations?
Code contribution hackathon
Prep some existing bugs and small features with a special tag and then take few hours with interested people who want to contribute. This might be a good time to have people help with documentation too.
Metabase at scale
Extending your documentation on the topic, maybe with real world examples, visuals, tricks and gotchas. Maybe even a workshop?
Volunteering
Do you need any volunteers for the conference? I’m brand new to the community, but I live an hour from Denver and would love to help out.
Doh! I saw below in Speakers and there’s already an “Embedding at scale” talk. Sorry about that.
I had a few other ideas for sessions though:
OpenRouter and other AI providers
I know it’s on your roadmap to integrate OpenRouter into Metabase, and that 63 supports AWS Bedrock, etc.. With the surging popularity of less expensive models like Inkling, Kimi and Qwen the conference might be a great time to show what that looks like, especially compared to how Metabase interacts with Claude. What pipelines and queries work with smaller models? Which ones don’t?
Advanced caching
I know Metabase can cache its own results. I haven’t tested that yet but it looks like that caching happens at the application level. What does edge or server caching with Metabase look like? Does it work, and if so does it save application load? This ties in somewhat with the “Metabase for journalism” and the idea above and the “Embedding at scale talk” in that if you’re going to be showing visualizations to tens of thousands of readers, how can you protect the server?
Low hanging fruit
Maybe a repeat of your MCP+CLI workshop with improvements based on feedback, version updates, etc.
I also wanted to mention that we did open up a form on the website for people to submit talk proposals. If you’re interested in presenting a topic you’re welcome to submit it for consideration!
October 5–7, 2026
Denver, CO
Register here