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Speakers

Kaxil Naik

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  1. 2020–2026Astronomer16 talks

Bluesky: @kaxil.bsky.social

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.

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

Appearances by year

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  • Airflow Summit
  • Budapest Data+AI Forum
  • PyCon (national Python conferences)

Talks

DateEventConferenceRoleTitleLinks
Aug 31, 2026Airflow Summit 2026Airflow SummittalkAgentic 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.

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Aug 31, 2026Airflow Summit 2026Airflow SummittalkAgentic 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, 2025Airflow Summit 2025Airflow SummittalkAirflow 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 less

What if your Airflow tasks could understand natural language AND adapt to schema changes automatically, while maintaining the deterministic, observable workflows we rely on?

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Oct 7, 2025Airflow Summit 2025Airflow SummitkeynoteIntroducing 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 less

Apache 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.

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Sep 10, 2024Airflow Summit 2024Airflow SummitkeynoteAirflow 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 less

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 generation, i.e.

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Sep 10, 2024Airflow Summit 2024Airflow SummittalkGen 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 less

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 the right context to these LLM applications is critical.

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Jun 10, 2024Budapest Data+ML Forum 2024Budapest Data+AI ForumspeakerOrchestrating the Future: Navigating Today's Data Workflow Challenges with Airflow and Beyond
as Astronomer.io
Sep 19, 2023Airflow Summit 2023Airflow SummitkeynoteBuilding 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 less

Behind the growing interest in Generate AI and LLM-based enterprise applications lies an expanded set of requirements for data integrations and ML orchestration.

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Sep 19, 2023Airflow Summit 2023Airflow SummittalkIntroducing 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 less

New users starting with Airflow frequently encounter several challenges, ranging from the complexities of Containers and virtual environments to the Python dependency hell.

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Sep 19, 2023Airflow Summit 2023Airflow SummitpanelThe 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.

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Sep 16, 2022PyCon UK 2022PyCon (national Python conferences)workshopGetting started with Apache Airflow
Learning 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 less

Learning 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, 2022Airflow Summit 2022Airflow SummittalkWhat'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.

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Jul 8, 2021Airflow Summit 2021Airflow SummittalkAirflow loves Kubernetes
as Astronomer.io

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 SummittalkContributing 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 less

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 Committer this year, this talk walks through Kaxil's journey in the Airflow World.

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Jul 8, 2021Airflow Summit 2021Airflow SummittalkUpgrading 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.

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Jul 6, 2020Airflow Summit 2020Airflow SummittalkAsk me anything with Airflow members
as Astronomer

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 Astronomer

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

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Frequent co-speakers

SpeakerShared eventsShared talksLast together
Ash Berlin-Taylor742026
Jarek Potiuk742026
Maxime Beauchemin7—2026
Rafal Biegacz7—2026
Jed Cunningham532026
Vikram Koka532026
Brent Bovenzi512026
Ephraim Anierobi5—2026
Kenten Danas5—2026
Philippe Gagnon5—2026
Ryan Hatter5—2026
John Jackson5—2025
Marc Lamberti412026
Michał Modras412026
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.