diff --git a/sdks/python/apache_beam/examples/ml-orchestration/kfp/components/preprocessing/Dockerfile b/sdks/python/apache_beam/examples/ml-orchestration/kfp/components/preprocessing/Dockerfile
index f46feded1da4..4f08006ed912 100644
--- a/sdks/python/apache_beam/examples/ml-orchestration/kfp/components/preprocessing/Dockerfile
+++ b/sdks/python/apache_beam/examples/ml-orchestration/kfp/components/preprocessing/Dockerfile
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 # limitations under the License.
 
 # [START component_dockerfile]
-FROM python:3.9-slim
+FROM python:3.13.0rc2-slim
 
 # (Optional) install extra dependencies