Taro Saito gave a presentation on workflow tools and techniques. He discussed common workflow features like dependency management, scheduling, and error handling. Popular open-source workflow tools mentioned included Airflow, Luigi, Oozie, and Azkaban. Saito also covered dataflow engines that can translate processing programs into cluster computing programs using Spark, Flink, and other tools. He emphasized designing workflows and tasks to be fault tolerant through techniques like idempotent execution and handling transient errors.