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Jarek Potiuk

Employers on the program

  1. 2025Apache Software Foundation1 talk
  2. 2019–2020Polidea4 talks
  3. 2023–2024Independent3 talks

Bluesky: @jarek.potiuk.com

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.

Held in the past 12 months Next 12 months Today, Nov 9, 2026

Appearances by year

201920202021202220232024202520262027
  • Airflow Summit
  • Berlin Buzzwords
  • Community Over Code (formerly ApacheCon)
  • OSA CON (Open Source Analytics Conference)
  • PyCon (national Python conferences)
  • PyData

Talks

DateEventConferenceRoleTitleLinks
Aug 31, 2026Airflow Summit 2026Airflow SummittalkA 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, 2026Airflow Summit 2026Airflow SummittalkOne Codebase, Many Distributions: Airflow’s Modular Approach
A harness humans and agents can both follow Airflow’s evolution toward a client-server architecture faced a fundamental challenge: splitting a monolithic…Show less

A 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.

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Jun 7, 2026Berlin Buzzwords 2026Berlin BuzzwordstalkEmpowering OSS maintainers in the age of AI
This talk addresses how we attempt to manage the changes to Open Source Maintainership resulting from the Agentic AI approach within the Apache Software…Show less

This talk addresses how we attempt to manage the changes to Open Source Maintainership resulting from the Agentic AI approach within the Apache Software Foundation.

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Apr 8, 2026PyCon Lithuania 2026PyCon (national Python conferences)talkDeath 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 less

AI-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, 2026PyCon Lithuania 2026PyCon (national Python conferences)talkModern Python monorepo for Apache Airflow
Explore how Apache Airflow modernized its massive monorepo by transitioning from complex custom scripts to official Python packaging standards and tools like…Show less

Explore 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, 2025Airflow Summit 2025Airflow SummittalkThe Secret to Airflow's Evergreen Build: CI/CD magic
Have 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 less

Have 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.

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Sep 11, 2025Community Over Code North America 2025Community Over Code (formerly ApacheCon)speakerAirflow 3, and the boring, production AI plumbing, that nobody talks about
Airflow 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 less

Airflow 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, 2025Community Over Code North America 2025Community Over Code (formerly ApacheCon)speakerData Engineering Birds of a Feather

Bring your own subjects to talk about Data Engineering

Sep 11, 2025Community Over Code North America 2025Community Over Code (formerly ApacheCon)speakerData Engineering Summary of the 1st day

Summary of the day after first day of the Data Engineering track.

Jun 15, 2025Berlin Buzzwords 2025Berlin BuzzwordstalkAirflow 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 less

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 you.

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Nov 19, 2024OSA CON 2024OSA CON (Open Source Analytics Conference)speakerAirflow 3 is coming!
as Independent

This session is about the new major release of Airflow that we plan to release early in 2025.

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Oct 7, 2024Community Over Code North America 2024Community Over Code (formerly ApacheCon)speakerSecurity United: experimental approach to improve Airflow ecosystem security
Airflow’s power comes from its vast ecosystem, but securing this intricate web requires a united front. This talk unveils a groundbreaking collaborative effort…Show less

Airflow’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.

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Sep 10, 2024Airflow Summit 2024Airflow SummitkeynoteSecurity United: collaborative effort on securing Airflow ecosystem with Alpha-Omega, PSF & ASF
Airflow's power comes from its vast ecosystem, but securing this intricate web requires a united front. This talk unveils a groundbreaking collaborative effort…Show less

Airflow'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.

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Sep 10, 2024Airflow Summit 2024Airflow SummittalkThe 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.

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Jun 9, 2024Berlin Buzzwords 2024Berlin Buzzwordstalk`New` Workflow Orchestrator in town: "Apache Airflow 2.x"
as Independent

What's the role of Orchestrators in the Modern Data Stack?.

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Jun 3, 2024Community Over Code EU 2024Community Over Code (formerly ApacheCon)speakerThe 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. This presentation…Show less

Apache 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.

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Dec 12, 2023OSA CON 2023OSA 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 less

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 comparisions often overlook the fact that since Airflow 2.0 has been introduced, it continues to evolve and piece-by-piece modernize itself.

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Sep 19, 2023Airflow Summit 2023Airflow SummitworkshopContributing to Apache Airflow
By 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 less

By 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, 2023Airflow Summit 2023Airflow SummittalkMastering Dependencies: The Airflow way

Apache Airflow has over 650 Python dependencies. In case you did not know already, dependencies in Python are difficult subject.

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Sep 19, 2023Airflow Summit 2023Airflow SummittalkMulti-tenancy State of the Union
This 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 less

This 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.

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Sep 19, 2023Airflow Summit 2023Airflow SummitpanelThe 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.

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Sep 19, 2023Airflow Summit 2023Airflow SummitpanelThe Future of Airflow: What Users Want
There 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 less

There 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.

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May 23, 2022Airflow Summit 2022Airflow SummittalkHey 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 less

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 exercising empathy.

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May 23, 2022Airflow Summit 2022Airflow SummittalkMultitenancy 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.

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May 23, 2022Airflow Summit 2022Airflow SummitworkshopWorkshop: 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, 2021Airflow Summit 2021Airflow SummittalkAirflow loves Kubernetes

In this talk Jarek and Kaxil will talk about official, community support for running Airflow in the Kubernetes environment.

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Jul 8, 2021Airflow Summit 2021Airflow SummitpanelDiscussion panel: Keep your Airflow secure

You might have heard some recent news about ransomware attacks for many companies. Quite recently the U.

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Jul 8, 2021Airflow Summit 2021Airflow SummitworkshopWorkshop: Contributing to Apache Airflow
Participation in this workshop requires previous registration and has limited capacity. Get your ticket at https://ti.to/airflowsummit/2021-contributor By…Show less

Participation 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, 2020Airflow Summit 2020Airflow SummittalkAsk me anything with Airflow members
as Polidea

Ask me Anything with a group of Airflow committers & PMC members.

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Jul 6, 2020Airflow Summit 2020Airflow SummitkeynoteKeynote: Future of Airflow
as Polidea

A team of core committers explain what is coming to Airflow 2.0.

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Jul 6, 2020Airflow Summit 2020Airflow SummittalkProduction 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 less

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 in conjunction with the Official Helm Chart to make your own deployments.

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Dec 12, 2019PyData Warsaw 2019PyDatatalkWhat'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 less

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 2.0 release.

Frequent co-speakers

SpeakerShared eventsShared talksLast together
Maxime Beauchemin9—2026
Kaxil Naik742026
Ash Berlin-Taylor732026
Rafal Biegacz712026
John Jackson512025
Brent Bovenzi5—2026
Danica Fine5—2026
Ephraim Anierobi5—2026
Jed Cunningham5—2026
Kenten Danas5—2026
Philippe Gagnon5—2026
Ryan Hatter5—2026
Vikram Koka5—2026
Marc Lamberti412026
Vincent Beck412026

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.