First Wellington Apache Airflow® Meetup!

Meet up with fellow Airflow users at Victoria University for an evening of awesome talks and networking!

This is the perfect opportunity to get to know like-minded Airflow users, partners, and company experts, and learn how data engineers are utilizing Airflow within their organizations.

AGENDA

5:00-5:30pm: Arrivals & networking
5:30 - 5:45pm: Opening (safety instructions, etc)
5:45 PM - 6:15 pm
Title: Why I don’t think about Airflow
Speaker: Kieran Hume, Portfolio Architect -Data, AI, & Automation at Chorus NZ Limited
In this session you will learn that while we’ve had Airflow in our environment for half a decade. Everything else has changed, why hasn’t Airflow?
6:15 PM - 6:45pm
Title: Orchestrating Document Intelligence: An airflow-powered pipeline from raw files to validated knowledge
Speaker: Yan Dai, AI & Data Architect at Deloitte
This talk walks through how we use Airflow to orchestrate a multi-stage document AI pipeline from ingestion, embedding, topic discovery to quality validation. We'll cover our DockerOperator-per-step pattern, why we chose Airflow over a managed orchestration service, and what we learned about designing pipelines where the output needs to be trusted, not just correct.
6:45 PM - 7:00pm: Wrap-up
7:00–8:30pm: Networking