NYC Airflow Meetup at Astronomer HQ!
Details
Join fellow Airflow enthusiasts and leaders at Astronomer HQ for an evening of engaging talks, great food and drinks, and exclusive swag!
We’re especially excited to welcome Apache Airflow PMC Member Vikram Koka who will be visiting from the Bay Area—don’t miss the chance to meet him in person and hear him speak!
PRESENTATIONS
Talk #1: Airflow + AI : Orchestrating the Intelligent Stack
- Speaker: Shrividya Hegde, Airflow Champion & Sr. AI Data Engineer
In this session, we'll explore how Apache Airflow — the battle-tested orchestration platform already running in your data stack — has evolved to become a first-class runtime for AI workloads. We'll dig into the six hardest problems of AI orchestration (reliability, cost control, provider lock-in, human oversight, observability, and integration complexity) and show exactly how Airflow and the new apache-airflow-providers-common-ai package address each one.
You'll leave understanding how Airflow's durable execution model eliminates wasted API spend on retries, how HookToolset turns 350+ existing provider hooks into AI agent tools with zero new authentication setup, how built-in Human-in-the-Loop review gates bring enterprise governance to agentic workflows, and why Airflow's provider-agnostic connection layer lets you switch between OpenAI, Anthropic, Bedrock, and 20+ other models without touching a single DAG.
We'll also compare Airflow's approach to alternatives like LangChain, CrewAI, Prefect, and AWS Step Functions — and make the case that Airflow isn't competing with AI frameworks; it's the production floor they should run on.
Talk #2: Airflow for AI workloads
- Speaker: Vikram Koka, Chief Strategy Officer at Astronomer & Airflow Committer & PMC Member
AGENDA
- 5:30-6 PM: Arrivals, networking, food & drinks
- 6-7PM: Presentations
- 7-8PM: Networking
