Airflow Summit 2025 sessions

Airflow is integral to GitHub’s data and insight generation. This session dives into use cases from GitHub where key business decisions are driven, at the root, with the help of Airflow. The session will also highlight how both GitHub and Airflow celebrate, promote, and nurture OSS innovations in their own ways.

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.

Our development workflows look dramatically different than they did a year ago. Code generation, automated testing, and AI-assisted documentation tools are now part of many developers’ daily work. Yet as these tools reshape how we code, I’ve noticed something worth examining: while our toolbox is changing rapidly, the core of being a good developer hasn’t. Problem-solving, collaborative debugging, and systems thinking remain as crucial as ever.

In this keynote, I’ll share observations about: