Introducing Apache Airflow® 3 – The Next Evolution in Orchestration

Apache Airflow® 3 is here, bringing major improvements to data orchestration. In this keynote, core Airflow contributors will walk through key enhancements that boost flexibility, efficiency, and user experience.

Vikram Koka will kick things off with an overview of Airflow 3, followed by deep dives into DAG versioning (Jed Cunningham), enhanced backfilling (Daniel Standish), and a modernized UI (Brent Bovenzi & Pierre Jeambrun).

Next, Ash Berlin-Taylor, Kaxil Naik, and Amogh Desai will introduce the Task Execution Interface and Task SDK, enabling tasks in any environment and language. Jens Scheffler will showcase the Edge Executor, while Tzu-ping Chung and Vincent Beck will demo event-driven scheduling and data assets. Finally, Buğra Öztürk will unveil CLI enhancements for automation and debugging.

This keynote sets the stage for Airflow 3—don’t miss the chance to learn from the experts shaping the future of workflow orchestration!



Amogh Desai

Senior Software Engineer at Astronomer

Ash Berlin-Taylor

Airflow PMC member & Director Airflow Engineering at Astronomer.io

Brent Bovenzi

Staff Frontend Engineer at Astronomer

Brooke Jamieson

Senior Developer Advocate at AWS

Buğra Öztürk

Data Engineer at Mollie

Daniel Standish

Senior Software Engineer at Astronomer & PMC Member at Apache Airflow

Jed Cunningham

Airflow PMC member & Principal Software Engineer at Astronomer.io

Jens Scheffler

Technical Architect Digital Testing Automation

Kaxil Naik

Airflow PMC member & Committer | Senior Director of Engineering at Astromomer.io

Pierre Jeambrun

Airflow PMC member & Committer | Freelance Software Engineer

Tala Karadsheh

Senior Director, Business Insights at GitHub

Tzu-ping Chung

Software Engineer and Architect at Astronomer

Vikram Koka

Chief Strategy Officer at Astronomer & PMC Member of Apache Airflow

Vincent Beck

AWS - Software engineer