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 Online Reconnect 2026, taking place online on November 4th to November 5th, 2026.

Since this is an online extension of the Airflow Summit, the same 3 tracks that were introduced for this year's edition will apply. 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. 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: November 4th - November 5th, 2026.

Location: Online

CFP deadline: September 19th, 2026.

Submission results communicated by October 2nd.

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

Check out our suggested CFP guidelines here! 

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.

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