Maxime Beauchemin

10+ years ago, I used to spend much of my time writing ETL, debugging DAGs, and building dashboards. These days, I spend more of it directing agents, often doing work I wouldn’t have attempted a few years ago.

Agor is an open-source platform for orchestrating AI agents: built for teams, not just individuals. It provides a shared, real-time workspace where humans and agents collaborate on a spatial canvas.

As AI transforms how we build, scale, and interact with software, one thing is becoming clear: open source isn’t just keeping up—it’s leading. In this keynote, Max Beauchemin, creator of Apache Superset and Apache Airflow, unpacks why open source is uniquely positioned to dominate in the age of AI.

Data teams have a bad habit: reinventing the wheel. Despite the explosion of open-source tooling, best practices, and managed services, teams still find themselves building bespoke data platforms from scratch—often hitting the same roadblocks as those before them.

Open Source Business Intelligence (BI) is here, and here to win! In this talk, we'll take a look at Apache Superset , the Apache Software Foundation (ASF)'s #1 project by GitHub stars, and learn about the features and flexibility that make it the leading tool for data visualization in the open-source data stack.

In the past 18 months, artificial intelligence has not just entered our workspaces – it has taken over. As we stand at the crossroads of innovation and automation, it's time for a candid reflection on how AI has reshaped our professional lives, and to talk about where it's been a game changer, where it's falling short, and what's about to shift dramatically in the short term.

Change management in data teams can be challenging to say the least. Not only you have to evolve your data pipelines, data structures, and datasets themselves across environments, you also have to keep data exploration and visualizations tools in sync.

In this panel, leaders from the open source data community will talk about the disaggregated analytics stack with Apache Superset, Apache Hudi, Apache Pinot & Presto, the problems that each of these important projects solve and how they are better together.

Superset is the leading open source data exploration and visualization platform. In this talk, we'll be presenting Superset with a focus on advanced topics that are most relevant to Data Engineers.

Astronomer is focused on improving Airflow’s user experience through the entire lifecycle — from authoring + testing DAGs, to building containers and deploying the DAGs, to running and monitoring both the DAGs and the infrastructure that they are operating within — with an eye towards increased security and governance as well.