Deep Research, Agent Memory & Optimizations - The OpenSearch Meetup Amsterdam

Zeta Alpha invites the Gen AI and Search community in Amsterdam to join our next meetup!

We'll kick off at 18:00 with Pizza, Refreshments, Talks, and Networking (this is an in-person only event).

This edition dives into timely, high-impact topics shaping today's AI landscape, featuring speakers from AWS, Eliatra, and Zeta Alpha. Don't miss out!

What our group is about:
We are a community in the Amsterdam area with keen interest in Generative AI, Search Engineering, and Open-Source Technology. Whether you are building production systems or simply curious about the latest and greatest in AI and Search technologies -- such as Agents, MCP, RAG, Fine-Tuning, Vector Search -- this is the space for you!
We welcome all skill levels. Come learn and connect with other cracked engineers.

Time and location:
📅 August 27th, 2025 from 18:00 to 20:30.
📍AWS Office, Mr.Treublaan 7, 4th floor, 1097 DP, Amsterdam.

Schedule:
18:00 -- Arrival. Grab some 🍕 and 🥤.
18:30 -- Community and Contribution - Kris Freedain (AWS).
18:55 -- Keeping the conversation going: Building Persistent LLM Chat Memory with OpenSearch - Lucas Jeanniot (Eliatra)
19:20 -- Moving away from vibes: Automatically optimizing agents for deep research - Arthur Câmara (Zeta Alpha).
19:45 -- Networking with drinks.
20:30 -- Closing.

Talks:

Community and Contribution
OpenSearch Community - learn about the project, the community, and different ways you can contribute and help it grow.

Speaker: Kris Freedain, Community Manager for the OpenSearch Project & OpenSearch Software Foundation technical steering committee.
Kris has decades of experience in tech, but finds connecting people to be the most fulfilling part of being a community professional. Kris is also a Fediverse admin for the Fosstodon instance and serves as a Fosstodon Foundation Board Member.

Keeping the conversation going: Building Persistent LLM Chat Memory with OpenSearch
TBD

Speaker: Lucas Jeanniot, Machine Learning Engineer at Eliatra.

Moving away from vibes: Automatically optimizing agents for deep research
In this talk, we will discuss how to optimize complex, multi-agent systems without relying only on vibes or the good old “LGTM” metric. Instead, we will show how to allow an agent to explore multiple options and re-write it’s prompts by self-reflecting in its own successes and failures, improving its own prompts to specialize in the specific types of queries and corpus it will encounter in production.

Speaker: Arthur Câmara, Research Engineer at Zeta Alpha.