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About the Event

As Glencore continues to scale its data and analytics capabilities, reliable orchestration plays a key role in improving operational efficiency, strengthening DataOps practices, and accelerating the delivery of critical insights across the business.

Apache Airflow is central to enabling this. This hands-on Astro Day is designed specifically for Glencore’s data engineering teams to deepen their Airflow expertise, share best practices, and demonstrate how modern orchestration with Astronomer can reduce pipeline friction, improve observability, and make workflows more predictable and easier to maintain as data operations continue to grow.

The session is an opportunity to bring together engineers and data leaders to explore practical approaches to building resilient, scalable pipelines using Airflow and Astro.

Join us for a collaborative, hands-on session that connects strategic data ambitions with practical implementation — helping teams translate orchestration strategy into real-world workflows.

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Check-In

Please complete the short check-in form upon arrival (QR code will be provided at the start of the session).

Attendees will also be entered into a prize draw for Astronomer swag and additional giveaways.

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Agenda

09:15 - 09:45
Welcome & Objectives

• Introduction to Astro Day goals
• Overview of Apache Airflow and orchestration fundamentals
• Introduction to Airflow 3 and Astronomer
• Overview of the Unified Orchestration approach

09:45 - 10:45
Airflow 3 New Features

• Overview of the latest capabilities introduced in Airflow 3
• Improvements in performance and scalability
• Enhancements to observability and platform reliability
• Key updates relevant for modern data platform teams

10:45 - 11:15
Astronomer Platform

• Managed Airflow deployment and environment management
• Platform scaling and operational efficiency
• Dashboards, monitoring, and alerting capabilities
• Security and enterprise platform features
• Live demo of operational and platform capabilities

11:15 - 11:30
Break / Networking

• Informal networking
• Opportunity for questions and discussion

11:30 - 12:00
Unified Orchestration

• Cross-team workflow orchestration
• DAG governance and policy enforcement
• Managing orchestration across multiple teams and platforms
• Demo of orchestrated workflows and orchestration best practices

12:00 - 12:30
Comparative Insights & Use Cases

• Airflow v2 vs Airflow v3 comparison
• Astronomer vs open-source Airflow deployment models
• Recommended architecture patterns
• Lessons learned and real-world enterprise use cases

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Astronomer Team Onsite

Simon Boepple – Enterprise Account Executive
Andrei Avramescu – Senior Sales Engineer
Vivien Saulais – Senior Director of Product Management
Lucy Williams-Jones – Director, Enterprise EMEA