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About the Event

As JLR continues to scale its data capabilities, orchestration plays a critical role in driving operational efficiency, improving DataOps reliability, and accelerating the delivery of business-critical insights.

Apache Airflow is central to this vision. This hands-on Astro Day is designed specifically for JLR’s data engineering teams to strengthen Airflow expertise, showcase best practices, and demonstrate how modern orchestration with Astronomer can reduce pipeline friction, improve observability, and make workflows more predictable and maintainable as JLR continues to scale.

This engagement began through collaboration with one of JLR’s supply chain teams, but the opportunity and impact extend across the broader engineering organization.

Join us to connect leadership vision with practical, hands-on skill building — aligning the “why” behind orchestration strategy with the “how” of implementing it effectively.

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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

13:00 - 13:10 GMT
Welcome & Introduction (10 minutes) - Iain Hayes

13:10 - 13:25 GMT
What’s new in Airflow 3.1 and Airflow 3.2 (15 minutes) - Andrei Avramescu

• What’s new in Airflow 3.1 & 3.2
• Improvements in scalability, reliability, and observability

13:25 - 13:55 GMT
Unified Enterprise Orchestration (30 minutes)

• Scaling orchestration across teams
• Standardization and governance
• Making Airflow enterprise-ready

13:55 - 14:15 GMT
Technical Deep Dive (20 minutes) - Peter Brejza

• Deployments and architecture
• Astro IDE (Build)
• Managed Airflow vs OSS and Composer
• Addressing scheduler performance and scaling considerations

14:15 - 14:45 GMT
DBT + Cosmos Blueprint Session (30 minutes) - Yetunde Dada

• Integrating DBT and Airflow
• Blueprint-driven pipeline development
• Improving CI/CD, testing, and developer efficiency

14:45 GMT
Wrap Up & Next Steps - Iain Hayes

• Scaling adoption across teams
• Developer efficiency gains

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Astronomer Team Onsite

Iain Hayes – Enterprise Account Executive
Peter Brejza – Senior Sales Engineer
Yetu Dada – Senior Director of Product Management
Lucy Williams-Jones – Director, Enterprise EMEA