What if your Airflow tasks could understand natural language AND adapt to schema changes automatically, while maintaining the deterministic, observable workflows we rely on? This talk introduces practical patterns for AI-native orchestration that preserve Airflow’s strengths while adding intelligence where it matters most. Through a real-world example, we’ll demonstrate AI-powered tasks that detect schema drift across multi-cloud systems and perform context-aware data quality checks that go beyond simple validation—understanding business rules, detecting anomalies, and generating validation queries from prompts like “check data quality across regions.” All within static DAG structures you can test and debug normally. We’ll show how AI becomes a first-class citizen by combining Airflow’s features, assets for schema context, Human-in-the-Loop for approvals, and AssetWatchers for automated triggers, with engines such as Apache DataFusion for high-performance query execution and support for cross-cloud data processing with unified access to multiple storage formats. These patterns apply directly to schema validation and similar cases where natural language can simplify complex operations. This isn’t about bolting AI onto Airflow. It’s about evolving how we build workflows, from brittle rules to intelligent adaptation, while keeping everything testable, auditable, and production-ready.
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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. Vikram Koka will kick things off with an overview of Airflow 3, followed by deep dives into DAG versioning (Jed Cunningham), enhanced backfilling (Daniel Standish), and a modernized UI (Brent Bovenzi & Pierre Jeambrun). Next, Ash Berlin-Taylor, Kaxil Naik, and Amogh Desai will introduce the Task Execution Interface and Task SDK, enabling tasks in any environment and language. Jens Scheffler will showcase the Edge Executor, while Constance Martineau, Tzu-ping Chung and Vincent Beck will demo event-driven scheduling and data assets. Finally, Buğra Öztürk will unveil CLI enhancements for automation and debugging. This keynote sets the stage for Airflow 3—don’t miss the chance to learn from the experts shaping the future of workflow orchestration!