Astro Day at Evelyn Partners

Hosted by

Chris Matthews
Head of Data Platforms & Engineering, Evelyn

Vivien Saulais
Senior Sales Engineer, Astronomer

About the Event

As Evelyn Partners continues to modernize and scale its analytics and data capabilities, orchestration and platform standardization are becoming increasingly important to support reliable, secure, and scalable data operations across teams.

This Astro Day is designed specifically for Evelyn Partners’ engineering and analytics teams to explore how Apache Airflow and Astronomer can help streamline workflow orchestration, improve observability, and enable more efficient collaboration across data and platform teams.

The session will combine foundational Airflow education with practical discussions around enterprise orchestration, governance, reusable workflows, and platform operations at scale. Attendees will also gain visibility into how Astronomer helps teams build, run, and observe Airflow deployments more effectively in enterprise environments.

The event is intended to bridge strategy and execution - connecting the operational goals of modern data platforms with practical implementation patterns that improve developer productivity and platform reliability.

Evelyn Partners is one of the UK’s leading wealth management and financial services organizations, with a growing focus on modern analytics, reporting, and AI capabilities across the business.

Agenda

9:00 – 09:15 BST: Welcome & Scene-Setting

• Introductions, event objectives, and orchestration priorities across modern data teams.

09:15 – 10:00 BST: Airflow 101

• Introduction to Apache Airflow fundamentals:
  • DAGs and orchestration concepts
  • Scheduling and dependency management
  • Airflow architecture overview
  • Common enterprise orchestration use cases

10:00 – 10:50 BST: Astronomer Platform: Build, Run, Observe

• Simplifying Airflow operations with Astronomer
• Developer workflows and deployment management
• Observability, monitoring, and reliability
• Scaling Airflow securely across teams

10:50 – 11:00 BST Break & Networking

11:00 – 11:30 BST: Orchestration at Scale: Reuse, Governance & Cross-Team Workflows

• Standardisation and governance patterns
• Reusable orchestration frameworks
• Astronomer IDE & Otto
• Improving reliability and operational efficiency

11:30 – 11:45 BST: Closing Remarks & Next Steps

• Key takeaways
• Future enablement opportunities
• Discussion and Q&A

Astronomer Team

• Iain Hayes – Enterprise Account Executive
• Vivien Saulais – Senior Sales Engineer