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Airflow Summit 2026

Airflow Summit is the premier conference for the worldwide community of developers and users of Apache Airflow.

31 August – 2 September 2026 · Mon 9am – Wed 5pm GMT+0
Hyatt Regency Austin · Austin, United States
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Airflow Summit 2026 was a Big Data event that took place 31 Aug - 2 Sep 2026 at Hyatt Regency Austin, Austin, United States.

Event recap

Airflow Summit 2026, the community conference for users and contributors of the open-source Apache Airflow workflow orchestration platform, took place from 31 August to 2 September 2026 at the Hyatt Regency in Austin, Texas. After the event the organizers published recordings of the 2026 sessions, a photo album and a highlights write-up. The summit is followed by Airflow Summit Online Reconnect on 4 and 5 November, a free online event with new sessions and selected talks from Austin.

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Speakers19

Stephanie Niu
Senior Product Manager
Sriram Ramarathnam
Software Development Manager
Sandeep Bommisetti
Director of Applied Sciences
Satya Tej
Senior Solutions Architect
Sean Ghaeli
Software Engineer
Shahar Epstein
Senior Software Engineer
Shivam Rastogi
SDE
Shubham Raj
Senior Engineer
Sneha Rao
Solutions Architect
Stephen Lee
Head of Data Engineering & Metadata Management
David Sevier
Staff Consultant
Kenten Danas
M Waqas Shahid
Karthik Seshadri
Minh Nguyen
Dennis Ferruzzi
Suba Palanisamy
Vinod Jayendra
Abdul Majid Mohammed

Agenda

Monday, August 31

11:30 AM – 1:00 PM

Hill Country CD

Enterprise-Grade Airflow Upgrade: Strategies & Deep Dive

Upgrading to Apache Airflow in large, production-grade environments can be complex—especially in enterprise setups with hundreds of DAGs.

M Waqas Shahid

2:30 PM – 4:30 PM

Hill Country CD

Build AI Pipelines with Apache Airflow 3

In this hands-on workshop, you will build an end-to-end AI pipeline using Airflow's LLM task decorators, all in your browser, no setup required.

Kenten Danas

Tuesday, September 1

10:30 AM – 12:30 PM

Hill Country AB

Using agents to create ML pipelines with Dag factory on MWAA serverless

Get hands-on experience building an end-to-end ML pipeline on Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA) Serverless.

Sriram Ramarathnam Karthik Seshadri

10:30 AM – 11:00 AM

Hill Country CD

Stop Fighting Fires: Autonomous Incident Response for Apache Airflow using AI-Powered Agents

Explore how an AI-powered DevOps agent can supercharge Airflow operations, from automated DAG failure diagnosis to proactive prevention of recurring incidents.

Suba Palanisamy Vinod Jayendra Abdul Majid Mohammed

1:30 PM – 3:00 PM

Hill Country AB

Advanced Deadine Alerts: Writing your own custom References and Callbacks

Airflow 3's Deadline Alerts let you set 'need-by' times on DAGs and fire callbacks when deadlines are missed.

Dennis Ferruzzi

1:30 PM – 3:00 PM

Hill Country CD

Orchestrating AI-Ready Data Pipelines Across the Enterprise with Airflow and Control-M

Learn how BMC Software's Control-M integrates with Airflow to orchestrate end-to-end workflows that connect data pipelines with upstream and downstream enterprise systems.

Minh Nguyen

More sessions

How We Taught an Agent Airflow: Building Self-Healing Pipelines with Otto

This session is about what happens when you build an investigation agent in Airflow, showing how Otto encodes failure patterns and grounds investigation in live context.

Stephanie Niu