Elastic Agent Builder / Modern Voice Coding

For the October LA DevOps Meetup our own Rich Horace returns to discuss the Elasticsearch Agent Builder which provides relevant context for building smarter, data-driven AI agents.

In the second talk Trilliuim Smith will present "Wake Wakey Returns: What Voice Coding Looks Like in 2026" and demo the latest advancements voice driven code delvelopment.

See the Presentation Details section below for more info.

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Event Details:
6:00 - 6:30 Attendees arrive. Networking/Mingle
6:30 - 6:45 LA DevOps Welcome,Attendee Introductions
6:45 - 7:15 Rich Horace - Elastic Agent Builder
7:15 - 8:00 Trillium Smith - Wake Wakey Returns: What Voice Coding Looks Like in 2026
8:00 - 9:00 Networking/Mingle

Presentation Details:
Title: Elastic Agent Builder
Description:
Join us to explore how Elasticsearch Agent Builder provides relevant context for building smarter, data-driven AI agents. We'll cover how search, retrieval, and observability help agents access the right information, make better decisions, and deliver reliable results. We'll share practical insights and, if the demo gods are playing nice, a live demo!

About Rich:
Rich Horace is the Principal Consultant at SecretSauceOps. Passionate about DevOps since its early days, he recognized its potential to help teams work smarter and drive business success. A conference speaker and active member of the Los Angeles tech community, Rich serves as co-organizer of LA DevOps Meetup and DevOpsDays LA. Throughout his career, he's built and led data-driven DevOps teams at SaaS companies including Nativo, Fox, and MySpace, while also gaining valuable corporate IT experience at Nestlé and EMC.

Title: Wake Wakey Returns: What Voice Coding Looks Like in 2026
Description:
Writing software by voice has become far easier with tools like Wispr Flow. This talk explores what voice-based software development looks like now: bringing speech-to-text from desktop and mobile into coding agents, using voice to steer agentic engineering workflows, and exploring how voice-to-voice agents and local inference are changing what hands-free software development can look like.

About Trillium:
Trillium is a software developer and voice accessibility enthusiast who spends a lot of time figuring out how to stay productive without being tied to a development workstation. For the past five years, he has been using and refining voice accessibility tools, exploring new ways to interact with software, turning those workflows into tools and practices that other developers can easily adopt.

About O'Brien's Pub on Wilshire:
The covered patio at Obrien's Pub has been a great place to host LA DevOps meetups for our post covid revival. The food and drink are great and the staff are very friendly. O'brien's is also the LA home of Manchester United Football Club Supporters.
You may want to bring a jacket for the cooler months.
Regarding parking, there are meters on Wilshire and the side streets that expire at 6.

Present at an Upcoming LA DevOps Meetup:
If you would like to present at an upcoming LA DevOps meetup please send a message in meetup to the organizers with a proposed title and a sentence or two about the talk.

Present at DevOpsDayLA at SCALE24x April 2nd 2027
Scale24x runs from April 1 - 4 at the Pasadena Conventrion Center, and DevOpsDayLA is on the Friday.

The SCALE Call For Presentations is open unitl Oct. 31.

Subscribe to the LA DevOps Meetup Calendar at lu.ma
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