AWS & Elastic joint meetup

Join AWS and Elastic for an exciting meetup at Elastic NYC – July 17th @ 5:30 PM

We're hosting a casual evening of technical talks at the Elastic NYC office, and we'd love for you to join us. This meetup is geared toward developers, engineers, and anyone interested in learning how to build intelligent, domain-specific applications.

Agenda:

• 5:30 pm: Doors open; say hi and eat some food
• 6:00 pm: Scaling Agentic AI with Claude, MCP, and Vectors (Jeff Vestal, Principal, Customer Enterprise Specialist at Elastic and Srinivas Pendyala, Sr Cloud Solutions Architect at AWS)
• 6:45 pm: Q&A and networking
• 7:15 pm: event wrap up

Abstract

Scaling Agentic AI with Claude, MCP, and Vectors
We'll focus on a financial services Agentic AI case study that empowers analysts with a conversational AI assistant built using
Anthropic Claude 3.5 Sonnet on Amazon Bedrock.
Elasticsearch vector database
Elasticsearch MCP(Model Context Protocol) Server

This assistant transforms complex workflows—like assessing the impact of market news on thousands of customer portfolios—into an intuitive, natural language dialogue. We'll demonstrate how to build and deploy AI Agents that help:

• Rapidly identify patterns in complex financial data.
• Build meaningful correlations, such as linking news sentiment to portfolio performance.
• Engage with your data in real-time, using natural language.

We'll also highlight how MCP servers can integrate additional services, such as weather data and email notifications, demonstrating the power of search and generative AI.

Meet our speakers:

• Jeff Vestal has a rich background spanning over a decade in financial trading firms and extensive experience with Elasticsearch. He offers a unique blend of operational acumen, engineering skill, and machine learning expertise. As a Principal GenAl Specialist, he excels at crafting innovative solutions, leveraging Elasticsearch's advanced search capabilities, machine learning features, and generative Al integrations, adeptly guiding users to transform complex data challenges into actionable insights.

• Srinivas Pendyala brings over 20 years of experience in enterprise technology solutions. At Amazon Web Services (AWS), he focuses on building joint solution in data and generative Al. Before joining AWS, Srinivas spent three years at Redis and seven years at Cloudera. At these companies, he managed programs in data engineering, machine learning, and analytics. His expertise spans big data, mobility, and cloud computing solutions for Fortune 500 companies.

Come for the talks, stay for the conversation – and maybe a snack or two. Whether you're building with Elasticsearch or just exploring the space, this is a great chance to connect with other devs and tech folks in the community.

Where: Elastic NYC Office
1250 Broadway, Floor 16, Training Room
New York, NY 10001

When: Thursday, July 17th | Doors open at 5:30 PM

Spots are limited, so be sure to RSVP soon. We can’t wait to see you there!