These are the confirmed sessions for Airflow Summit 2026.

Title Speaker(s) Recording Slides

850 Engineering Hours Back, Every Month: Context-Aware Agentic Airflow Platform at Wix

Yarden Wolf

A Decade of Spark + Airflow: How Two Communities Built the De Facto Standard for Data Engineering

Lisa Cao & Jarek Potiuk

A SQL Query is Just a DAG: Building an SQL Engine on Apache Airflow

Hussein Awala

Advanced Deadline Alerts: Writing your own custom References and Callbacks

Dennis Ferruzzi

Agentic Pipelines on Airflow: From Thesis to Production

Vikram Koka, Jed Cunningham & Kaxil Naik

Agentic Pipelines on Airflow: From Thesis to Production

Vikram Koka, Jed Cunningham & Kaxil Naik

Agor: A Collaborative Orchestration Layer for AI Agents

Maxime Beauchemin

Airflow 3 as a Dungeon Master: Orchestrating a Text Adventure

Jed Cunningham

Airflow 3.0 Asset Watchers: Cross-Domain Data Mesh Orchestration with AI-Assisted Deployment

Corrine Tan, Haofei Feng & Satya Tej

Airflow Already Knows the Root Cause

Kacper Muda

Airflow as a Harness: The Workflow That Merged Itself

Ryan Hatter

Airflow as a Platform: Operating High-Volume, Enterprise-Scale Orchestration

Pavan Kumar Naikal, Jason Housman & Suchira Karusala

Airflow at the heart of Equifax's Data Processing

Yuvaraj Sankaran

Airflow Autopilot: The Generate-Verify-Refine Loop That Makes Pipeline Authoring Truly AI-Native

Yifan Wang & Sandeep Dhillon

Airflow Callbacks Revamped: Beyond the Dag Processor

Ramit Kataria

Airflow in a Box: Methodology or Madness?

Nicholas Redd

Airflow to the rescue: managing chemical emergencies

Eloi Codina Torras

Anatomy of a Task Instance: From Scheduled to Done

Cedrik Neumann

Apache Airflow, AI Agents and I

Rafal Biegacz, Michal Modras & Piotr Wieczorek

Architecting the Center of Excellence: A Strategic Blueprint for Federated Airflow at Scale

Anshal Raj

Asset Partitions: Matching Workflow to the Right Data

Wei Lee

Asset-Centric Federated Governance with Airflow 3

Akanksha Khushboo

Beyond Containers: Securely Orchestrating AI Agents with Strong Isolation in Airflow

Uriel Munoz & Diego Zimmerman

Breaking the Monolith: Implementing Airflow 3.x Remote Execution for Multi-Team Environments

Kowsy Narayan

Build AI Pipelines with Apache Airflow 3

Kenten Danas

Building a low-cost, scalable Airflow Platform for Small Teams

Aniruddha Sengupta

Building Blocks, not Factories: Abstractions that enable, not obscure

Collin McNulty

Building storage analytics pipelines for cloud cost optimization with Airflow

Bao Nguyen

Community discussions: Agentic Orchestration

Philippe Gagnon

Community discussions: Spark

Meni Shmueli

DAG Versioning in Airflow: Version Proliferation and Open Questions

Ephraim Anierobi

DAGs Move Robots: Closed‑Loop Orchestration for Silicon Validation Labs with Airflow

Dheeraj Turaga, Deva Madhavan & Shubham Raj

Data Engineers Already Solved Agentic AI's Reliability Problem

Constance Martineau

Deadlines for DAGs: What's Shipped and What's Next

Sean Ghaeli

Debugging the Undebuggable: Lessons from Real Airflow Incidents

Pankaj Singh

Declarative Pipelines Meet Declarative Orchestration: Spark Declarative Pipelines + Airflow 3

Lisa Cao & Andreas Neumann

Designing Domain-Oriented dbt Projects and Making Them Work in Airflow

Pankaj Koti

Designing Self-Healing Airflow Platforms: Autonomous DAG Recovery at Scale

Kumuda Sreenivasa & Sandeep Bommisetti

Developer Velocity at Scale: Production-Like Airflow Environments on Kubernetes

Matthew Davis & Matt Koski

Developing an AI-powered personal endurance sports coach

Bas Harenslak

Dynamic graphs - Airflow for agentic workflows

Ash Berlin-Taylor

Enterprise-Grade Airflow Upgrade: Strategies & Deep Dive

M Waqas Shahid

Event-Driven Orchestration Monitoring: Streaming Airflow Metadata to Kafka via CDC

Vipin Kataria

Extending Apache Airflow for Enterprise-Grade Scheduling at eBay

Xiongfeng Song

Fixing The Token Authentication: Revocation, Scoping, and Securing the Execution Boundary

Anish Giri

From Airflow 2 to Airflow 3: Migrating 100+ DAGs Without Downtime or Developer Burden

Goncalo Costa

From Broken DAGs to Self-Healing Pipelines: AI-Driven Orchestration with Airflow

Naga Durga Rao Dindi

From Chaos to Control: Navigating Airflow Sprawl with Centralized Observability

Jon Hiett

From Cron to Assets: Event-Driven Drone Telemetry Ingestion with Airflow

Charles Adetiloye & Bryan Johns

From Data Pipelines to Business Outcomes: Unifying Airflow and Enterprise Workflows

Minh Nguyen & Stoney Gwitira

From Experiments to Production: How We Built a Lightweight ML Platform on Airflow

Marion Azoulai

From Hours to Minutes: Orchestrating Local LLMs for Sensitive Data Pipelines with Apache Airflow

Chhayank Jain

From JAR to DAG: Running Java Tasks Natively with the Airflow Java-SDK

Zhe You Liu

Get Certified: DAG Authoring for Apache Airflow 3

Marc Lamberti

Gleaming the Cube: Exploring the limits of Airflow through the Rubik's Cube

Jonathan Leek

Google Managed Airflow Workshop - Managing DAGs at Scale

Danny De Leo, Jitendra Jaladi, Palak Patel & Rachana Mahapatra

Graphs of AI Coding: Orchestrating Agentic MapReduce with Airflow's New Sandboxes

Yossi Eliaz

Healthcare Interoperability Meets Airflow Extensibility

Wyatt Shapiro

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

Stephanie Niu & Christine Shen

It Works! Now What? Fast Iteration for AI Capabilities in Airflow

Alex Guglielmone

Lightning talks + Lunch

Managed Workflow for Apache Airflow (MWAA): Latest and Greatest!

Aritra Ghosh & Jen Dunham

Migrating Airflow 2 to 3 for Infrastructure Operations at Scale

Ethan Tianyang Lin & Rumeysa Ozaydin

Migrating Airflow at Scale - What the Docs Don't Tell You

Olivier Daneau

Multi-Team Airflow: A Customer-Driven Journey

Niko Oliveira & Vincent Beck

Nobody Got Paged: Agentic Incident Diagnosis in Airflow

Andres Astorga Espriella & David Sevier

One Codebase, Many Distributions: Airflow’s Modular Approach

Jarek Potiuk & Amogh Desai

One Gateway, Six Clusters: Routing, Federation, and Zero-Downtime Upgrades at eBay

Huanjie Guo

Optimising Airflow in Real-World Deployments: Profiling, Performance Drift, and Confident Upgrades

Pankaj Koti & Vara Prasad Regani

Orchestrating 100 ML Models using Airflow

Ryan Stevens

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

Minh Nguyen & Stoney Gwitira

Orchestrating and Testing RAG Pipelines with Airflow

Shrividya Hegde

Orchestrating GenAI & ML Pipelines with Apache Airflow

Sneha Rao, Sushmita Barthakur & Suba Palanisamy

Orchestrating Graph Database Workloads in Apache Airflow with Apache TinkerPop

Ahmad Farhan

Orchestrating Streaming and Batch Data Pipelines with Airflow, Kafka, Spark, and Kubernetes on GCP

Karan Alang

Performance Debugging in Airflow: From Symptoms to Solutions

Rahul Vats

Reliability Patterns from Large-Scale Distributed Systems — and What They Mean for Your DAGs

Tejas Pravinbhai Patel

Resumable Task Execution for Long Running Tasks such as Spark

Amogh Desai

Scaling Airflow for Capacity Forecasting at Amazon Prime Video

Shivam Rastogi & Yashas Prashanth

Scaling to 1,000 DAGs: Idelic/Descartes's Blueprint for Airflow Automation and Reliability

Matthew Stavinga, Ray Carroll & Matt McCormack

Securing Apache Airflow with Keycloak: A Deep Dive into the Keycloak Auth Manager

Vincent Beck & Mathieu Monet

Self-Service DAGs: Event-Driven Design for GitHub Actions and Airflow at Lyft

Ken Obata

Spark + Airflow: How Orchestration Decisions Impact Performance and Cost

Meni Shmueli

Spec-Driven Development for Airflow DAGs

Kyle McCluskey

Stabilizing LinkedIn Continuous Deployment on Airflow

Wensi Hu & Pooja Pal

Stop Being the Dag Bottleneck: How to Scale Airflow Orchestration Beyond Your Engineering Team

Yetunde Dada & Jeremy Beard

Stop Debugging in Production: Shift-Left Airflow for Streaming Pipelines with AI

Sean Anderson

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

Suba Palanisamy, Vinod Jayendra & Abdul Majid Mohammed

Streamlining Data Pipelines Creation at Stripe with Airflow

Jiayu Yi

Streamlining Your Airflow Upgrade: Essential Tools for Migrating from 2.x to 3

Ankit Chaurasia

Talk to your Dags: Airflow AI Assistant (AIP-101 proposal)

Shahar Epstein

Taming AI Workloads in Apache Airflow: Dag Patterns to Avoid Infrastructure Instability

Zhe You Liu

Taming the MLOps Zoo: Orchestrating and Monitoring Models with Airflow

Lindy Bustabad

The Rise of Abstraction in Dag Authoring: From YAML to Minecraft

Volker Janz

The Self-Healing Pipeline: How Error Classification Eliminated 100% of Engineering Oversight

Evgeny Nuger

The State of Airflow: Momentum, Innovation, and What's Next

Vikram Koka

Toward a Polyglot Airflow

Tzu-ping Chung

Triggers at Datadog: What Are Trigger Queues and Why You Should Use Them

Zach Gottesman & Xu Han

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

Sriram Ramarathnam & Karthik Seshadri

UX to manage Dags to Assets to Agents - The evolution of the Airflow UI

Brent Bovenzi & Pierre Jeambrun

When Airflow Meets Yunikorn: Enhancing Airflow on Kubernetes with Yunikorn for Higher Efficiency

Xiaodong Deng

Your first Apache Airflow Contribution

Amogh Desai, Kalyan Reddy, Phani Kumar & Ryan Hatter