Building an AI Agent with AWS & Elasticsearch

### Featured Talk

Aashana Shanu - Sr. Software Engineer at Elastic
This talk explores how Amazon Web Services and Elasticsearch can be combined to build real-time, intelligent systems.
Using Elastic Agent for continuous data ingestion and AWS Lambda as an MCP (Model Context Protocol) tool, the architecture enables AI agents to interact directly with live data and decision logic. Paired with AWS’s event-driven stack, this creates a system where actions are triggered, evaluated, and executed in near real time.
The innovation is in turning search into a decision engine and serverless functions into AI-integrated tools, enabling adaptive, context-aware workflows instead of static automation.

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## Agenda

5:00 PM — Doors open, networking
5:30 PM — Welcome & introductions
6:00 PM — Talk 1
7:00 PM — Networking & wrap-up

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## About the Speakers

Aashana Shanu (Sr. Software Engineer): Software engineer focused on cloud-native systems and AI-driven applications, with experience building real-time, event-driven architectures.

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## Date & Time

Wednesday, June 3
5:00 PM – 7:00 PM CDT

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