Jarek Potiuk
Employers on the program
- 2025Apache Software Foundation1 talk
- 2019–2020Polidea4 talks
- 2023–2024Independent3 talks
The year around now
Talks in the past 12 months and announced talks ahead, one row per conference, January to December. Hover a mark for the talk.
Appearances by year
- Airflow Summit
- Berlin Buzzwords
- Community Over Code (formerly ApacheCon)
- OSA CON (Open Source Analytics Conference)
- PyCon (national Python conferences)
- PyData
Talks
| Date | Event | Conference | Role | Title | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 31, 2026 | Airflow Summit 2026 | Airflow Summit | talk | A Decade of Spark + Airflow: How Two Communities Built the De Facto Standard for Data Engineering No two open source projects have shaped modern data engineering more than Apache Spark and Apache Airflow. But their partnership wasn't designed- it was earned. | |
| Aug 31, 2026 | Airflow Summit 2026 | Airflow Summit | talk | One Codebase, Many Distributions: Airflow’s Modular ApproachA harness humans and agents can both follow Airflow’s evolution toward a client-server architecture faced a fundamental challenge: splitting a monolithic…Show lessA harness humans and agents can both follow Airflow’s evolution toward a client-server architecture faced a fundamental challenge: splitting a monolithic codebase into independent distributions (airflow-core, task-sdk, providers) without triggering dependency hell. | SlidesVideo |
| Jun 7, 2026 | Berlin Buzzwords 2026 | Berlin Buzzwords | talk | Empowering OSS maintainers in the age of AIThis talk addresses how we attempt to manage the changes to Open Source Maintainership resulting from the Agentic AI approach within the Apache Software…Show lessThis talk addresses how we attempt to manage the changes to Open Source Maintainership resulting from the Agentic AI approach within the Apache Software Foundation. | Video |
| Apr 8, 2026 | PyCon Lithuania 2026 | PyCon (national Python conferences) | talk | Death by a Thousand Prompts: Can Our Disclosure Standards Survive AI Slop?AI-generated "slop" is overwhelming vulnerability triage and burning out maintainers. This session focuses on building a unified framework to identify and…Show lessAI-generated "slop" is overwhelming vulnerability triage and burning out maintainers. This session focuses on building a unified framework to identify and "black-hole" synthetic noise at scale. We will discuss practical, cross-platform strategies to automate the rejection of low-signal reports... | |
| Apr 8, 2026 | PyCon Lithuania 2026 | PyCon (national Python conferences) | talk | Modern Python monorepo for Apache AirflowExplore how Apache Airflow modernized its massive monorepo by transitioning from complex custom scripts to official Python packaging standards and tools like…Show lessExplore how Apache Airflow modernized its massive monorepo by transitioning from complex custom scripts to official Python packaging standards and tools like uv. This session breaks down the management of 120+ distributions, the implementation of modular pre-commit hooks, and a novel approach to... | |
| Oct 7, 2025 | Airflow Summit 2025 | Airflow Summit | talk | The Secret to Airflow's Evergreen Build: CI/CD magicHave you ever wondered why Apache Airflow builds are asymptotically() green? That thrive for “perennial green build” is not magic, it’s the result of…Show lessHave you ever wondered why Apache Airflow builds are asymptotically() green? That thrive for “perennial green build” is not magic, it’s the result of continuous, often unseen engineering effort within our CI/CD pipelines & dev environments. | SlidesVideo |
| Sep 11, 2025 | Community Over Code North America 2025 | Community Over Code (formerly ApacheCon) | speaker | Airflow 3, and the boring, production AI plumbing, that nobody talks aboutAirflow 3 is out. Spring last year the Airflow community came to the conclusion that in order to respond to the growing needs of our users, we have to again…Show lessAirflow 3 is out. Spring last year the Airflow community came to the conclusion that in order to respond to the growing needs of our users, we have to again reinvent ourselves in the modern AI world. | |
| Sep 11, 2025 | Community Over Code North America 2025 | Community Over Code (formerly ApacheCon) | speaker | Data Engineering Birds of a Feather Bring your own subjects to talk about Data Engineering | |
| Sep 11, 2025 | Community Over Code North America 2025 | Community Over Code (formerly ApacheCon) | speaker | Data Engineering Summary of the 1st day Summary of the day after first day of the Data Engineering track. | |
| Jun 15, 2025 | Berlin Buzzwords 2025 | Berlin Buzzwords | talk | Airflow 3 - the new beginning as Apache Software Foundation If you were living under the rock and have not heard that Airlfow 3 is out, and solves most of the pain points that you had with Airflow 2, this talk is for…Show lessIf you were living under the rock and have not heard that Airlfow 3 is out, and solves most of the pain points that you had with Airflow 2, this talk is for you. | Video |
| Nov 19, 2024 | OSA CON 2024 | OSA CON (Open Source Analytics Conference) | speaker | Airflow 3 is coming! as Independent This session is about the new major release of Airflow that we plan to release early in 2025. | SlidesVideo |
| Oct 7, 2024 | Community Over Code North America 2024 | Community Over Code (formerly ApacheCon) | speaker | Security United: experimental approach to improve Airflow ecosystem securityAirflow’s power comes from its vast ecosystem, but securing this intricate web requires a united front. This talk unveils a groundbreaking collaborative effort…Show lessAirflow’s power comes from its vast ecosystem, but securing this intricate web requires a united front. This talk unveils a groundbreaking collaborative effort between the Python Software Foundation (PSF), the Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the Airflow Project Management Committee (PMC), and Alpha-Omega Fund - aimed at securing not only Airflow, but the whole ecosystem. | Slides |
| Sep 10, 2024 | Airflow Summit 2024 | Airflow Summit | keynote | Security United: collaborative effort on securing Airflow ecosystem with Alpha-Omega, PSF & ASFAirflow's power comes from its vast ecosystem, but securing this intricate web requires a united front. This talk unveils a groundbreaking collaborative effort…Show lessAirflow's power comes from its vast ecosystem, but securing this intricate web requires a united front. This talk unveils a groundbreaking collaborative effort between the Python Software Foundation (PSF), the Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the Airflow Project Management Committee (PMC), and Alpha-Omega Fund - aimed at securing not only Airflow, but the whole ecosystem. | SlidesVideo |
| Sep 10, 2024 | Airflow Summit 2024 | Airflow Summit | talk | The Silent Symphony: Keeping Airflow's CI/CD and Dev Tools in Tune Apache Airflow relies on a silent symphony behind the scenes: its CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery) and development tooling. | SlidesVideo |
| Jun 9, 2024 | Berlin Buzzwords 2024 | Berlin Buzzwords | talk | `New` Workflow Orchestrator in town: "Apache Airflow 2.x" as Independent What's the role of Orchestrators in the Modern Data Stack?. | SlidesVideo |
| Jun 3, 2024 | Community Over Code EU 2024 | Community Over Code (formerly ApacheCon) | speaker | The Silent Symphony: Keeping Airflow's CI/CD and Dev Tools in TuneApache Airflow relies on a silent symphony behind the scenes: its CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery) and development tooling. This presentation…Show lessApache Airflow relies on a silent symphony behind the scenes: its CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery) and development tooling. This presentation explores the critical role these tools play in keeping Airflow efficient and innovative. | Video |
| Dec 12, 2023 | OSA CON 2023 | OSA CON (Open Source Analytics Conference) | speaker | `New` Workflow Orchestrator in town: Apache Airflow 2.x as Independent Quite often you hear about the “new” orchestrator that aims to solve your orchestration needs. You can also often hear how it compares to Airlfow. However those…Show lessQuite often you hear about the “new” orchestrator that aims to solve your orchestration needs. You can also often hear how it compares to Airlfow. However those comparisions often overlook the fact that since Airflow 2.0 has been introduced, it continues to evolve and piece-by-piece modernize itself. | SlidesVideo |
| Sep 19, 2023 | Airflow Summit 2023 | Airflow Summit | workshop | Contributing to Apache AirflowBy attending this workshop, you will learn how you can become a contributor to the Apache Airflow project. You will learn how to setup a development…Show lessBy attending this workshop, you will learn how you can become a contributor to the Apache Airflow project. You will learn how to setup a development environment, how to pick your first issue, how to communicate effectively within the community and how to make your first PR - experienced committers of Apache Airflow project will give you step-by-step instructions and will guide you in the process. | |
| Sep 19, 2023 | Airflow Summit 2023 | Airflow Summit | talk | Mastering Dependencies: The Airflow way Apache Airflow has over 650 Python dependencies. In case you did not know already, dependencies in Python are difficult subject. | SlidesVideo |
| Sep 19, 2023 | Airflow Summit 2023 | Airflow Summit | talk | Multi-tenancy State of the UnionThis sesion is about the current state of implementation for multi-tenancy feature of Airflow. This is a long-term feature that involves multiple changes,…Show lessThis sesion is about the current state of implementation for multi-tenancy feature of Airflow. This is a long-term feature that involves multiple changes, separate AIPs to implement, with the long-term vision of having single Airflow instance supporting multiple, independed teams using it - either from the same company or as part of Airflow-As-A-Service implementation. | SlidesVideo |
| Sep 19, 2023 | Airflow Summit 2023 | Airflow Summit | panel | The Faces of Airflow: A peek into the past and future Airflow is almost 10 years old! Since starting out at AirBnB, the project has taken all sorts of twists and turns before getting to where it is now. | Video |
| Sep 19, 2023 | Airflow Summit 2023 | Airflow Summit | panel | The Future of Airflow: What Users WantThere are so many ways to run Airflow and as such, lots of folks responsible for running Airflow for downstream users. While many orgs go with a managed…Show lessThere are so many ways to run Airflow and as such, lots of folks responsible for running Airflow for downstream users. While many orgs go with a managed service(Astronomer, AWS MWAA, Google Cloud Composer), many also prefer running an Airflow platform themselves. | Video |
| May 23, 2022 | Airflow Summit 2022 | Airflow Summit | talk | Hey maintainer (and user), exercise your empathy!This talk is a walk through throug a number of ways maintainers of open-source projects (for example Airflow) can improve the communication with their users by…Show lessThis talk is a walk through throug a number of ways maintainers of open-source projects (for example Airflow) can improve the communication with their users by exercising empathy. | SlidesVideo |
| May 23, 2022 | Airflow Summit 2022 | Airflow Summit | talk | Multitenancy is coming This session is about the state and future plans of the multi-tenancy feature of Airflow. Airflow has traditionally been single-tenant product. | SlidesVideo |
| May 23, 2022 | Airflow Summit 2022 | Airflow Summit | workshop | Workshop: Contributing to Apache Airflow This workshop is sold out By attending this workshop, you will learn how you can become a contributor to the Apache Airflow project. | |
| Jul 8, 2021 | Airflow Summit 2021 | Airflow Summit | talk | Airflow loves Kubernetes In this talk Jarek and Kaxil will talk about official, community support for running Airflow in the Kubernetes environment. | SlidesVideo |
| Jul 8, 2021 | Airflow Summit 2021 | Airflow Summit | panel | Discussion panel: Keep your Airflow secure You might have heard some recent news about ransomware attacks for many companies. Quite recently the U. | SlidesVideo |
| Jul 8, 2021 | Airflow Summit 2021 | Airflow Summit | workshop | Workshop: Contributing to Apache AirflowParticipation in this workshop requires previous registration and has limited capacity. Get your ticket at https://ti.to/airflowsummit/2021-contributor By…Show lessParticipation in this workshop requires previous registration and has limited capacity. Get your ticket at https://ti.to/airflowsummit/2021-contributor By attending this workshop, you will learn how you can become a contributor to the Apache Airflow project. | |
| Jul 6, 2020 | Airflow Summit 2020 | Airflow Summit | talk | Ask me anything with Airflow members as Polidea Ask me Anything with a group of Airflow committers & PMC members. | Video |
| Jul 6, 2020 | Airflow Summit 2020 | Airflow Summit | keynote | Keynote: Future of Airflow as Polidea A team of core committers explain what is coming to Airflow 2.0. | SlidesVideo |
| Jul 6, 2020 | Airflow Summit 2020 | Airflow Summit | talk | Production Docker image for Apache Airflow as Polidea This talk will guide you trough internals of the official Production Docker Image of Airflow. It will show you the foreseen use cases for it and how to use it…Show lessThis talk will guide you trough internals of the official Production Docker Image of Airflow. It will show you the foreseen use cases for it and how to use it in conjunction with the Official Helm Chart to make your own deployments. | SlidesVideo |
| Dec 12, 2019 | PyData Warsaw 2019 | PyData | talk | What's coming in Apache Airflow 2.0 as Polidea Apache Airflow is one of the most popular Data processing orchestration engines. After a long line of 1.10.x releases in December we wil be quickly approaching…Show lessApache Airflow is one of the most popular Data processing orchestration engines. After a long line of 1.10.x releases in December we wil be quickly approaching 2.0 release. |
Frequent co-speakers
| Speaker | Shared events | Shared talks | Last together |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maxime Beauchemin | 9 | — | 2026 |
| Kaxil Naik | 7 | 4 | 2026 |
| Ash Berlin-Taylor | 7 | 3 | 2026 |
| Rafal Biegacz | 7 | 1 | 2026 |
| John Jackson | 5 | 1 | 2025 |
| Brent Bovenzi | 5 | — | 2026 |
| Danica Fine | 5 | — | 2026 |
| Ephraim Anierobi | 5 | — | 2026 |
| Jed Cunningham | 5 | — | 2026 |
| Kenten Danas | 5 | — | 2026 |
| Philippe Gagnon | 5 | — | 2026 |
| Ryan Hatter | 5 | — | 2026 |
| Vikram Koka | 5 | — | 2026 |
| Marc Lamberti | 4 | 1 | 2026 |
| Vincent Beck | 4 | 1 | 2026 |
Speakers with the same name are merged into one entry, so this page may combine more than one person. Affiliations are shown as each conference listed them.