The Airflow Summit Committee is excited to invite the Apache Airflow community and the overall data engineering community to submit to the call for papers for Airflow Summit 2026, taking place in Austin, Texas on August 31st to September 2nd, 2026.

For this edition we are organizing content around three new program tracks. These tracks are designed to better support the growing and diverse Airflow user community and to help every data team operate Airflow more effectively, no matter where they are in their journey.

These are the three focused tracks for 2026:

1. Builder Track: If your talk focuses on building, operating, or scaling Airflow, whether you're writing DAGs, managing deployments, tuning performance, or keeping pipelines reliable at scale, submit it to the Builder Track. This track is ideal for sessions that share hands-on techniques, architectural patterns, lessons learned in production, or deep dives into orchestration and platform engineering.
   
   
2. Data & AI Application Track: If your talk explores how Airflow powers data products, analytics workflows, ML pipelines, or downstream ML and AI outcomes, submit it to the Data & AI Application Track. Sessions in this track should demonstrate how teams integrate Airflow with modern data and ML ecosystems, including experimentation, quality, metrics, model training, or analytics operations.
   
   
3. Data Strategy Track: If your talk covers the organizational or strategic side of Airflow, such as team structure, governance, observability, adoption planning, cross-functional alignment, or long-term platform strategy, submit it to the Data Strategy Track. This track is best for leaders sharing frameworks, decisions, and lessons that help organizations scale Airflow effectively and sustainably.
   

Each track is built to give attendees practical guidance, proven patterns, and real-world insights they can take back to their teams.

And with that, we’re officially opening the Call for Proposals for Airflow Summit 2026. Whether you’re sharing an internal success story, a hard learned lesson, a demo, or a brand new idea, we want to hear from you.

Submit your session and help shape next year’s Summit!

Key info: 

• Event date: August 31st - September 2nd, 2026.
• Location: Austin, Texas (Hyatt Regency)
• CFP deadline: March 13, 2026.
• Submission results communicated by April 13.

Additional considerations

• Travel & accommodation expenses: Speakers must travel to Austin to make their presentation. By default, Airflow Summit does not cover travel or accommodation expenses for speakers. In exceptional cases, we may be able to provide travel or accommodation support, especially for active project contributors who are not currently in full-time employment.
  
  
• Free passes for speakers: Each session only gets 1 free pass for a speaker. If a session has multiple speakers, one speaker would get the free pass and the rest would have to purchase a ticket at a discounted price (equivalent to super early bird price).

Code of Conduct

Apache Airflow Summit is dedicated to providing a harassment-free experience for everyone. We do not tolerate harassment of participants in any form. Participants violating these rules may be sanctioned or expelled, at the discretion of the event organizers.

Harassment includes offensive verbal comments, deliberate intimidation, stalking, following, unwanted photography or recording, sustained disruption of talks or other events, inappropriate physical contact, and unwelcome sexual attention. Participants asked to stop any harassing behavior are expected to comply immediately.

Sexual language and imagery will not be tolerated in any talk or activity related to the event. Exhibitors should also refrain from using sexualized images, activities, or other material. 

If a participant engages in harassing behavior, the organizers may take any action they deem appropriate, including warning the offender or expulsion from the event. 

If you are being harassed, notice that someone else is being harassed, or have any other concerns, please contact airflow-summit-organizers@googlegroups.com

Help/guidance for this CFP

If you have any questions regarding the CFP or would like guidance or support from the content team while you are working on your submission, feel free to send a message at the #airflowsummit-speakers channel in the Apache Airflow slack.

For sessions with multiple speakers, only one speaker is provided a free pass. The rest must purchase their pass (at a discounted price).