Berlin Apache Airflow Meetup at idealo!

Join fellow Airflow enthusiasts and leaders at idealo's offices for an evening of engaging presentations, delicious food and drinks, and awesome swag! The evening will consist of Airflow-specific presentations followed by networking. We can’t wait to see you there!

PRESENTATIONS
Talk 1: Scaling Airflow at idealo: From MWAA to Astronomer and Beyond
Speakers: David Hellwig, VP Data, idealo & Shaleena Ann Thomas, idealo
Over three years, idealo consolidated fragmented Airflow instances, Glue PySpark jobs, and other data lake workloads into a centralized platform, standardizing on PySpark. Migrating KPI-critical pipelines from MWAA to Astronomer in 2025 brought zero infrastructure incidents since May. This talk covers that journey: consolidating infrastructure, enabling self-service via automated deployments, reusable operators, blueprint DAGs, and observability, and how centralized ops and developer autonomy go hand in hand.

Talk 2: Apache Airflow for Production-ready AI
Speaker: Sadok Ben Yahya, Senior Engineer at Astronomer
Running AI workloads in production takes more than a model call. This talk shows how Apache Airflow's Common AI provider brings production-ready AI orchestration into your DAGs: single-turn LLM calls, multi-turn agents with tools, and building blocks for RAG, SQL generation, and file analysis. You'll also see how to productionize it all with durable execution, usage limits, and human-in-the-loop review.

AGENDA

• 18:00–18:30: Check-in / Networking / Snacks
• 18:30–18:50: Talk 1 — Scaling Airflow at idealo (David Hellwig & Shaleena Ann Thomas)
• 18:50–19:20: Talk 2 — Apache Airflow for Production-ready AI (Sadok Ben Yahya, Astronomer)
• 19:20–19:30: Coffee Break
• 19:30–20:00: Talk 3 — TBD
• 20:00–20:30: Closing / Networking