Beyond the Hype: Practical AI Workflows with Airflow

Join fellow airflow enthusiasts and leaders at Ramp's Offices for an evening of engaging presentations, delicious food and drinks, and awesome swag!

PRESENTATIONS

Agents are overrated: the case for orchestrated LLM workflows with the Airflow AI SDK

• Speaker: Julian LaNeve, Chief Technology Officer, Astronomer
• We've seen countless teams chase the mirage of autonomous agent swarms, only to get lost in complexity without delivering value. The truth? Most organizations don't need agents talking to agents – they need reliable LLM workflows that solve real business problems today. That's why we've open-sourced our AI SDK for Apache Airflow, distilling battle-tested patterns that have helped companies achieve transformative results without the science fiction complexity. In this talk, we'll walk through the SDK and a couple examples demonstrating how easy it is to work with.

How Ramp Runs on Airflow: Scalable Orchestration for Modern Finance

• Speaker: Ryan Delgado, Director of Engineering, Ramp
• Ramp processes vast amounts of financial data daily, powering real-time transaction monitoring, expense automation, and financial insights. Behind the scenes, Apache Airflow is the backbone of Ramp’s data orchestration, enabling seamless workflow automation, robust pipeline management, and efficient ML model deployment. In this talk, we’ll explore how Ramp leverages Airflow to streamline data processing, ensure compliance, and drive intelligent automation at scale. We’ll also share lessons learned, best practices, and the key Airflow features that have helped Ramp scale its infrastructure to meet the demands of modern fintech.

AGENDA

• 6-6:30PM: Arrivals, eat, drink, and network
• 6:30-7:30PM: Presentations
• 7:30-8PM: Networking