How Machine Learning Is Improving The Search Experience x LA DevOps

The Elastic Los Angeles User Group is partnering with LA DevOps for a joint meetup on Thursday, March 20th.

In the first presentation Craig Angulo AI Search Specialist at Elastic will discuss how machine learning is improving the search experience, including how technologies have leveraged machine learning to improve the end user's results.

In the second presentation, Brian Ragazzi hot of his presentation "Technical Learnings of Building Distributed and Decentralized AI" at the Kwaai Personal AI Summit at SCALE22x. He will be talking about his work on the Kwaai Net at the Kwaai Personal AI project. Details TBD.

⚡️ Interested in giving a talk? ⚡️
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.

📅 Date & Time:
Thursday, March 20th from 6:00-9:00pm

📍Location:
O'Briens Irish Pub 2226 Wilshire Blvd · Santa Monica, CA
The meetup will take place on the covered patio

🚗 Parking:
There are meters on Wilshire and the side streets that expire at 6.

📝 Agenda:

• 6:00 - 6:30 Attendees arrive. Networking/Mingle
• 6:30 - 6:45 LA DevOps Welcome,Attendee Introductions
• 6:45 - 7:30 Craig Angulo - How Machine Learning Is Improving The Search Experience
• 7:30 - 8:00 Brian Ragazzi - Kwaai Net
• 8:00 - 9:00 Networking/Mingle

💭Presentation Details:

🎤 Title: How Machine Learning Is Improving The Search Experience
Presented by: Craig Angulo
Talk Abstract:
In his presentation Craig takes walk through the search experience and how technologies have leveraged machine learning to improve the end user's results. Covering keyword search, vector search, personalization, and relevance tuning, we will see how a search has changed and the next steps it will be taking.

About Craig:
Craig Angulo is an AI Search Specialist at Elastic focused on improving search precision and relevance with ML. Leveraging his background in mathematics he has built machine learning solutions for AWS, Databricks, Amazon Alexa, and more.

🎤 Title: Kwaai Net
Presented by: Brian Ragazzi
Description:
Details TBD. It may be similar to his Kwaai Summit talk at SCALE22x.
https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/22x/presentations/technical-learnings-building-distributed-and-decentralized-ai

About Brian:
As Distributed Systems Lead at Kwaai, Brian focuses on building decentralized AI training and inference systems with an emphasis on privacy, security, and performance. Previously, he has held key roles at companies and systems integrators architecting cloud-native solutions, automation frameworks, and AI-driven platforms, including a provably accurate medical technology infrastructure. A passionate advocate for open-source technology, Brian co-founded the San Fernando Valley Linux User Group (SFVLUG), fostering a community of engineers, developers, and technology leaders.

See you at DevOpsDayLA at SCALE March 7 in Pasadena
SCaLE 22x – the 22nd Annual Southern California Linux Expo – will take place on March 6-9, 2025 at the Pasadena Convention Center in Pasadena, CA, and DevOpsDayLA will be held on the Friday.
Sponsorship slots are still available for DevOpsDayLA at SCALE check out our prospectus if interested.