Elastic Dallas User Group

📅 Date: Tuesday, March 17th from 5:30-7:30 PM CT
📍 Location: Improving Dallas - 5445 Legacy Dr #100, Plano, TX 75024 (Google Maps)

🎤 Want to present at our next meetup? Email us at meetups@elastic.co
Are you interested in presenting your Elastic use case? We welcome 5-10 minute lightning talks, 45-minute deep dives, and everything in between. If you're interested, please send us an email at meetups@elastic.co.

📝Agenda:

• 5:30 pm: Doors open; say hi and eat some food.
• 6:00 pm: Building AI-Powered Supply Chain Agents with Elasticsearch - Mohan Kumar Reddy Akkireddy (Software Engineer II, Gen AI at Blue Yonder)
• 6:45 pm: Networking & refreshments
• 7:30 pm: Event ends

💭 Talk Details:
Building AI-Powered Supply Chain Agents with Elasticsearch - Mohan Kumar Reddy Akkireddy (Software Engineer II, Gen AI at Blue Yonder)

In this talk, I'll share how we are combining Elasticsearch with large language models (LLMs) to create intelligent agents that help supply chain professionals query and analyze inventory, shipments, and purchase orders using natural language.

Key topics covered:

• Natural Language to Elasticsearch: How we translate user questions like "Which items have stockout exceptions in Texas?" into optimized ES queries
• Zero-Downtime Reindexing: Implementing blue-green index deployments with aliases for seamless data updates
• Time Series in Elasticsearch: Storing inventory measures as nested documents to track stock levels and exceptions over time
• Lessons Learned: Challenges we faced and best practices for building AI-powered search applications
• Whether you're exploring AI/LLM integration with Elasticsearch or building real-time analytics for enterprise data, this talk will provide practical insights and patterns you can apply to your own projects.

📅 Date: Tuesday, April 21st from 5:30-7:30 PM CT
📍 Location: Improving Dallas - 5445 Legacy Dr #100, Plano, TX 75024 (Google Maps)

🎤 Want to present at our next meetup? Email us at meetups@elastic.co
Are you interested in presenting your Elastic use case? We welcome 5-10 minute lightning talks, 45-minute deep dives, and everything in between. If you're interested, please send us an email at meetups@elastic.co.

📝Agenda:

• 5:30 pm: Doors open; say hi and eat some food.
• 6:00 pm: Elastic on Private GCP: Getting Started - Godfrey Menezes (Solutions Architect at EPAM Systems)
• 6:30 pm: Launching Elastic with Docker and Exploring Real World Security Use Cases - Kenneth Ellington (Security Threat Hunter)
• 6:45 pm: Networking & refreshments
• 7:30 pm: Event ends

💭 Talk Details:
“Elastic on Private GCP: Getting Started,” is a beginner-friendly walkthrough designed for anyone who’s new to Elastic or wants a simple, practical path to getting up and running in their own Google Cloud environment. We’ll focus on the fundamentals—what you need to stand up a basic Elastic deployment on private GCP, the core concepts to know as you start, and the common “gotchas” to avoid—so you leave with a clear starting point and the confidence to keep building.

Launching Elastic with Docker and Exploring Real World Security Use Cases - Kenneth Ellington
In this session, we'll break down how to spin up an Elastic environment using Docker no prior experience required. We'll keep it hands-on and straightforward, showing you how to get everything running and then walk through how Elastic handles real security use cases like log analysis and threat detection. If you've been curious about Elastic but didn't know where to start, this is your starting point.