Kaxil Naik
Employers on the program
- 2020–2026Astronomer16 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
- Budapest Data+AI Forum
- PyCon (national Python conferences)
Talks
| Date | Event | Conference | Role | Title | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 31, 2026 | Airflow Summit 2026 | Airflow Summit | talk | Agentic Pipelines on Airflow: From Thesis to Production as Astronomer.io The industry treats agents and pipelines as opposing paradigms. We think that framing is wrong. | Video |
| Aug 31, 2026 | Airflow Summit 2026 | Airflow Summit | talk | Agentic Pipelines on Airflow: From Thesis to Production as Astronomer.io The industry treats agents and pipelines as opposing paradigms. We think that framing is wrong. | Video |
| Oct 7, 2025 | Airflow Summit 2025 | Airflow Summit | talk | Airflow as an AI Agent's toolkit: Going beyond MCPs and unlocking Airflow's 1000+ Integrations as Astronomer What if your Airflow tasks could understand natural language AND adapt to schema changes automatically, while maintaining the deterministic, observable…Show lessWhat if your Airflow tasks could understand natural language AND adapt to schema changes automatically, while maintaining the deterministic, observable workflows we rely on? | SlidesVideo |
| Oct 7, 2025 | Airflow Summit 2025 | Airflow Summit | keynote | Introducing Apache Airflow® 3 – The Next Evolution in Orchestration as Astronomer Apache Airflow® 3 is here, bringing major improvements to data orchestration. In this keynote, core Airflow contributors will walk through key enhancements that…Show lessApache Airflow® 3 is here, bringing major improvements to data orchestration. In this keynote, core Airflow contributors will walk through key enhancements that boost flexibility, efficiency, and user experience. | SlidesVideo |
| Sep 10, 2024 | Airflow Summit 2024 | Airflow Summit | keynote | Airflow 3 - Roadmap Discussion as Astronomer.io Join us in this panel with key members of the community behind the development of Apache Airflow where we will discuss the tentative scope for the next…Show lessJoin us in this panel with key members of the community behind the development of Apache Airflow where we will discuss the tentative scope for the next generation, i.e. | SlidesVideo |
| Sep 10, 2024 | Airflow Summit 2024 | Airflow Summit | talk | Gen AI using Airflow 3: A vision for Airflow RAGs as Astronomer.io Gen AI has taken the computing world by storm. As Enterprises and Startups have started to experiment with LLM applications, it has become clear that providing…Show lessGen AI has taken the computing world by storm. As Enterprises and Startups have started to experiment with LLM applications, it has become clear that providing the right context to these LLM applications is critical. | SlidesVideo |
| Jun 10, 2024 | Budapest Data+ML Forum 2024 | Budapest Data+AI Forum | speaker | Orchestrating the Future: Navigating Today's Data Workflow Challenges with Airflow and Beyond as Astronomer.io | |
| Sep 19, 2023 | Airflow Summit 2023 | Airflow Summit | keynote | Building and deploying LLM applications with Apache Airflow as Astronomer Behind the growing interest in Generate AI and LLM-based enterprise applications lies an expanded set of requirements for data integrations and ML…Show lessBehind the growing interest in Generate AI and LLM-based enterprise applications lies an expanded set of requirements for data integrations and ML orchestration. | SlidesVideo |
| Sep 19, 2023 | Airflow Summit 2023 | Airflow Summit | talk | Introducing airflowctl: A CLI to streamline getting started with Airflow as Astronomer New users starting with Airflow frequently encounter several challenges, ranging from the complexities of Containers and virtual environments to the Python…Show lessNew users starting with Airflow frequently encounter several challenges, ranging from the complexities of Containers and virtual environments to the Python dependency hell. | Slides |
| Sep 19, 2023 | Airflow Summit 2023 | Airflow Summit | panel | The Faces of Airflow: A peek into the past and future as Astronomer 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 16, 2022 | PyCon UK 2022 | PyCon (national Python conferences) | workshop | Getting started with Apache AirflowLearning Apache Airflow may seem daunting for those adventuring in the data world. This workshop aims to save engineers and scientists time. By the end of this…Show lessLearning Apache Airflow may seem daunting for those adventuring in the data world. This workshop aims to save engineers and scientists time. By the end of this session, attendees will have written two workflows which solve practical problems, running them locally and deploying them in a... | |
| May 23, 2022 | Airflow Summit 2022 | Airflow Summit | talk | What's new in Airflow 2.3? as Astronomer.io This session will talk about the awesome new features the community has built that would be part of Airflow 2.3. Highlights: Dynamic Task Mapping DB. | SlidesVideo |
| Jul 8, 2021 | Airflow Summit 2021 | Airflow Summit | talk | Airflow loves Kubernetes as Astronomer.io 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 | talk | Contributing to Apache Airflow | Journey to becoming Airflow's leading contributor as Astronomer.io From not knowing Python (let alone Airflow), and from submitting the first PR that fixes typo to becoming Airflow Committer, PMC Member, Release Manager, and #1…Show lessFrom not knowing Python (let alone Airflow), and from submitting the first PR that fixes typo to becoming Airflow Committer, PMC Member, Release Manager, and #1 Committer this year, this talk walks through Kaxil's journey in the Airflow World. | SlidesVideo |
| Jul 8, 2021 | Airflow Summit 2021 | Airflow Summit | talk | Upgrading to Apache Airflow 2 as Astronomer.io Airflow 2.0 was a big milestone for the Airflow community. However, companies and enterprises are still facing difficulties in upgrading to 2.0. | SlidesVideo |
| Jul 6, 2020 | Airflow Summit 2020 | Airflow Summit | talk | Ask me anything with Airflow members as Astronomer 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 Astronomer A team of core committers explain what is coming to Airflow 2.0. | SlidesVideo |
Frequent co-speakers
| Speaker | Shared events | Shared talks | Last together |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ash Berlin-Taylor | 7 | 4 | 2026 |
| Jarek Potiuk | 7 | 4 | 2026 |
| Maxime Beauchemin | 7 | — | 2026 |
| Rafal Biegacz | 7 | — | 2026 |
| Jed Cunningham | 5 | 3 | 2026 |
| Vikram Koka | 5 | 3 | 2026 |
| Brent Bovenzi | 5 | 1 | 2026 |
| Ephraim Anierobi | 5 | — | 2026 |
| Kenten Danas | 5 | — | 2026 |
| Philippe Gagnon | 5 | — | 2026 |
| Ryan Hatter | 5 | — | 2026 |
| John Jackson | 5 | — | 2025 |
| Marc Lamberti | 4 | 1 | 2026 |
| Michał Modras | 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.