Elastic Netherlands User Group

Join us for a meetup on October 7th in our Elastic office in Amsterdam! Doors open at 17.45 and the presentations begin at 18.00. Food, refreshments, and networking to follow. We wrap up around 20.00.

We are rating our talks as follows:
🟢 = Beginner content
🟡 = Intermediate content
🔵 = Expert content

Address: Elastic's office, Keizersgracht 281, 1016 ED Amsterdam

Agenda:
17.45: Doors open
18.00: Building and deploying AI infused apps with Elasticsearch using Podman and OpenShift AI
18.45: Embeddings - LLMs - vector / semantic search - GenAI - RAG - agents - MCP
19.30: Networking, food with drinks
20.00: Wrap up

Talks:
Building and deploying AI infused apps with Elasticsearch using Podman and OpenShift AI
The talk explores how to build and deploy a Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) application using OpenShift AI and Podman AI Lab. He will introduce the Podman AI Lab extension, demonstrating how it enables local model testing before deploying into production environments. The session covers vector search fundamentals, demonstrating how Elasticsearch handles vector embeddings for efficient information retrieval. He will also discuss RAG use cases, showcasing how this approach enhances chatbot responses by combining LLMs with real-time data. Finally, he will walk through a live demo of deploying a chatbot on OpenShift AI, integrating Elasticsearch for vector search using LangChain. Attendees will gain a practical understanding of vector-based applications and how to bring them to production environments.

Speaker: Syed M Shaaf, Principal Architect @Red Hat

Embeddings - LLMs - vector / semantic search - GenAI - RAG - agents - MCP
With all the technologies floating around the tech space these days it almost sounds like a buzzwords bingo.
This talk will go over all these concepts to explain the differences and purpose of all these technologies. We’ll cover everything from explaining embeddings and different vector search strategies, to the difference between RAG and agents, what the role of MCP is, and how it all ties together.

Speaker: Iulia Feroli, Senior Developer Advocate, Elastic