Name: The Great Austin AI Agent Roundup: Elastic + Apify Hack Night
Start: 2026-07-31T22:00:00.000Z
Location: Elastic Office

Join us to learn something new and meet others who are passionate about search, observability, and security.

**Agenda:**

* 5:30 pm: Doors open; say hi and eat some food
* 6:00 pm: **“12 Levels of Search — Easy to Complex”**, by Jon Avezbaki, Developer Advocate at Elastic
* 6:30 pm: Q&A with Jon
* 6:40 pm: **"One Does Not Simply Query a Stream"**, by Viktor Gamov, Principal Developer Advocate at Confluent
* 7:10 pm: Q&A with Viktor
* 7:20 - 7:30 pm: Networking and event wrap-up

**Abstracts:**

**“ 12 Levels of Search — Easy to Complex ”**
You can’t learn calculus without arithmetic. Search is no different. In this talk, we’ll go over a full, high-level overview of search engineering. We’ll start with the basics, and then make our way through more intermediate and advanced topics, like RAG and agentic memory. This is not a talk that will dive into any one area of search in great detail. Rather, it aims to provide a birds-eye prespective of the field so that we can begin to understand what topics and best practices we may be lacking in our understanding. These potentially unexplored avenues can significantly benefit our search and AI systems by expanding our technological toolkit.

**Bio:**
Jon worked for 8 years as a software engineer in the finance and traffic engineering industries before pivoting to developer advocacy at Elastic. He now empowers developers through education, outreach, and community engagement.

**"One Does Not Simply Query a Stream"**
Streaming data with Apache Kafka® has become the backbone of modern applications. While streams are ideal for continuous data flow, they lack built-in querying capabilities. Unlike databases with indexed lookups, Kafka’s append-only logs are designed for high-throughput processing—not for on-demand queries. This necessitates additional infrastructure to query streaming data effectively. Traditional approaches replicate stream data into external stores: relational databases like PostgreSQL for operational queries, object storage like S3 accessed via Flink, Spark, or Trino for analytics, and Elasticsearch for full-text search and log analytics. Each serves a purpose—but they also introduce silos, schema mismatches, freshness issues, and complex ETL pipelines that increase system fragility. In this session, we’ll explore solutions that aim to unify operational, analytical, and search workloads across real-time data. We'll demonstrate stream processing with Kafka Streams, Apache Flink®, and SQL engines; real-time analytics with Apache Pinot®; search capabilities with Elasticsearch; and modern lakehouse approaches using Apache Iceberg® with Tableflow to represent Kafka topics as queryable tables. While there's no one-size-fits-all solution, understanding the tools and trade-offs will help you design more robust and flexible architectures.

**Bio:**
Viktor Gamov is a Principal Developer Advocate at Confluent, founded by the original creators of Apache Kafka®. With a rich background in implementing and advocating for distributed systems and cloud-native architectures, Viktor excels in open-source technologies. He is passionate about assisting architects, developers, and operators in crafting systems that are not only low in latency and scalable but also highly available.
As a Java Champion and an esteemed speaker, Viktor is known for his insightful presentations at top industry events like JavaOne, Devoxx, Kafka Summit, and QCon. His expertise spans distributed systems, real-time data streaming, JVM, and DevOps.
Viktor has co-authored "Enterprise Web Development" from O'Reilly and "Apache Kafka® in Action" from Manning.
Follow Viktor on X - @gamussa to stay updated with Viktor's latest thoughts on technology, his gym and food adventures, and insights into open-source and developer advocacy.

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

**When**: June 25th \| Doors open at 5:30 PM

If you’re a long-time Elastic user or just starting your journey, this is the perfect opportunity to share ideas, meet new people, and get inspired. See you there!

Elastic New York City User Group

Elastic Meetup Team

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Patrick Liu

Chieh Chi Chen

Judah Smith

Kate

Walter

Mike Pham

Asadbek Karimov

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DJ Patel

Iverson Mejia

Dip Datta

Ramy OThman

Prathmesh Patil

Ashton Coghlan

Mark Turner

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Search, Streams, and System Design Tradeoffs

Elastic NYC office

We’re excited to bring the community together for an evening of learning and connection. This time, we'll have a community member from PagerDuty sharing a use case and, as usual, an Elastic employee sharing their expertise as well.

Come support your fellow developers, learn something new, and meet others who are passionate about search, observability, and security.

**Date and Time:**
Monday, June 29th, from 5:30-7:30 pm EDT

**Location:**
Elastic Arlington Office - 4100 Fairfax Drive, Ste 500, Arlington, VA 22203

**Agenda:**

* 5:30 pm: Doors open; say hi, grab a seat, and eat some food.
* 6:00 pm: **Beyond the Alert: Scaling Incident Response with Elastic, PagerDuty, and MCP**, by Nick Worthington, Senior Solutions Consultant at PagerDuty
* 6:30 pm: Q&A with Nick
* 6:40 pm: **Observability AI Agents - Behind the Scenes,** by Josh Phifer, Principal Solutions Architect at Elastic
* 7:10 pm: Q&A with Josh
* 7:20-7:30 pm: Networking & refreshments

**Talk Abstracts:**
**Beyond the Alert: Scaling Incident Response with Elastic, PagerDuty, and MCP**

In this session, we will dive into the next generation of the Elastic and PagerDuty integration. Discover how to leverage Model Context Protocol (MCP) and advanced automation workflows to ingest telemetry, contextualize alerts, and trigger automated remediations. Learn how to reduce MTTR and eliminate alert fatigue, turning your incident management framework into a scalable operation.
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​**Observability AI Agents - Behind the Scenes**
​In the age of AI, nearly every observability platform offers some form of intelligent assistance — from automated root cause analysis and incident triage to query generation and dashboard creation. Yet for most users, these AI agents remain black boxes: powerful, but opaque.
​What principles guide their design? How do they reason over telemetry data? And what if you need to customize, extend, or build agents tailored to your organization’s workflows? In this talk, we’ll peel back the curtain on observability AI agents. We’ll explore the reasoning strategies, and orchestration tools that power them. Finally, we’ll dive into how Elastic’s AgentBuilder and Workflow ecosystem enable teams to move beyond out-of-the-box automation - empowering you to shape and build the agent experience your operations demand.

**Parking:**

* The building’s parking garage is operated by Colonial Parking and is located off N. Randolph Street
* Book a spot on[ SpotHero](https://spothero.com/search?kind=address&latitude=38.8818514&longitude=-77.1095268&search_string=4100+Fairfax+Dr+%23500%2C+Arlington%2C+VA+22203%2C+USA)
* A Metro Station is located across the street

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Maryam

Luis Ochoa

Luda Peters

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Rity Upadhyaya

Haider Ali

Archit Gupta

Pawan Kumar

Building Intelligent Operations: MCP, AI Agents, and Incident Automation

4100 Fairfax Dr ste 500

Join the **Elastic Dallas User Group** on Tuesday, July 21st for an exciting meetup.

We’ll feature a presentation from Venu Madhav Pentala followed by networking, refreshments, and pizza with the Dallas tech and Elastic community.

📅 **Date:** Tuesday, July 21st from 5:30-7:30 PM CT
📍 **Location:** Improving Dallas - 5445 Legacy Dr #100, Plano, TX 75024 ([Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/5445+Legacy+Dr+%23100,+Plano,+TX+75024/@33.0780951,-96.810568,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m6!3m5!1s0x864c3ccc060ecc59:0x90110ed74c027889!8m2!3d33.0780906!4d-96.8079931!16s%2Fg%2F11qpmxsnn6?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDMxMi4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D))

🎤 **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: **PipelineGuard: Building a Tool-Driven Triage Agent 100% Inside Elastic Agent Builder** \- Venu Madhav Pentala $AI Data Engineer$
* 6:45 pm: Networking & refreshments
* 7:30 pm: Event ends

💭 **Talk Details:**
**PipelineGuard: Building a Tool-Driven Triage Agent 100% Inside Elastic Agent Builder** \- Venu Madhav Pentala $AI Data Engineer$
*When cloud data pipelines fail\, engineers often spend hours analyzing logs\, searching for runbooks\, and documenting incidents\. PipelineGuard is an AI triage agent built entirely within Elastic Agent Builder that automates this process\. Using time\-series\-aware ES\|QL on real\-time logs\, it detects high\-severity errors\, retrieves remediation steps via vector search over engineering runbooks $RAG$\, and generates a professional triage report including root cause analysis and step\-by\-step instructions\.*
*In this 30-minute session, I will walk through the architecture, demonstrate how the agent is composed natively in Agent Builder without external orchestration code, and present a live demo of a pg-sync failure scenario. I will also share design tradeoffs and lessons learned from building this for the Elasticsearch Agent Builder Hackathon 2026.*
***Audience Takeaways:***

1. *A practical pattern for combining ES\|QL log triage with semantic_text RAG within Agent Builder\.*
2. *Strategies for structuring tools and prompts to ensure reliable, action-ready triage reports.*
3. *Insights into the capabilities and limitations of tool-driven agents in observability workflows.*

***Format:*** *25-minute walkthrough and live demo, followed by 5 minutes of Q&A.*
\*\*\*Demo Preview: \*\*\**[https://www.loom.com/share/d20ec2f46ff5479e8d5fa9e1e2cc1765](https://www.loom.com/share/d20ec2f46ff5479e8d5fa9e1e2cc1765)*

Elastic Dallas User Group

Mohan Kumar

Jake Nelson

Osaid Khan

Sumit

viquar younus mohammed

Sushil Dravekar

Jerry Haihua Liu

varun

Building a Tool-Driven Triage Agent 100% Inside Elastic Agent Builder

5445 Legacy Dr #100

Join the **Elastic Chicago User Group** and **HyperFlex** on **Wednesday, July 22nd** for a special Chicago Tech Week meetup focused on AI, search, and modern data architectures.

We’ll hear from speakers across the Elastic and HyperFlex communities, followed by food, refreshments, and networking with fellow developers, engineers, and technology leaders in the Chicago area.

Whether you're building AI-powered applications, exploring vector search, or scaling modern data platforms, this meetup is a great opportunity to connect with the local tech community during Chicago Tech Week.

More details, speakers, and agenda coming soon!

📅 **Date and Time:**
Wednesday, July 22nd from 5:30-7:30 pm

📍**Location:**
Location: AF-Chicago: 54 W Chicago Ave Chicago IL 60654

**🔑 Arrival Instructions:**

* The event entrance is located at 54 W Chicago Ave Chicago IL 60654 and presentations will take place in the auditorium.

**🚗 Parking:**

* Parking (with validation at AF–Chicago reception desk): InterPark at 100 W Chestnut St: $12. If you park at InterPark, you will be given a validation ticket to reduce the rate at payment. or Book a spot on SpotHero
* Public Transportation: The venue is approximate 4 min walk from Chicago Redline.

📝**Agenda:**

* 5:30 PM – Doors open, grab a seat, and enjoy some pizza!
* 6:00 PM – Talk # 1 - **Vishal Rathod (CTO & Co-founder of Hyperflex) and Yash Patidar (Head of Delivery at Hyperflex) - Talk details coming soon!**
* 6:30 – **AI Agents Are Goldfish. Let's Fix That** - **Jeff Vestal (AI Architect at Elastic)**
* 7:00 pm: Networking and refreshments

💭 **Talk Abstracts:**
**AI Agents Are Goldfish. Let's Fix That** - **Jeff Vestal (AI Architect at Elastic)**
*AI agents forget everything between sessions — unless you give them a memory layer. I'll show you how I wired Elasticsearch as long-term memory for my own AI agent: the architecture, why ES over a dedicated vector DB, how retrieval actually works, and what broke along the way. Live demo included.*

Elastic Chicago User Group

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Sahil Khalsa

Andrei Didenko

Enrique Galindo

Olga Shiryaeva

Xinyu 

Matthew Keelan

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Vishal Rathod

Joseph

Umar Javed

Michael Ho

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Michael Cizmar

AI, Search & Scale: Elastic x HyperFlex @ Chicago Tech Week

Alliance Française de Chicago

Round up your partners, put on your boots, and get ready for the first Austin Elastic HackNight with Apify!

Come along with your laptop and get ready to win a prize 🤠🏆

👉 Limited spots available so make sure you got yours by arriving on time. The event attendance will run on a first comes, first served basis.

This time, we’re doing something a little different, a hands on hack night where you’ll get stuck into a world of AI-powered workflows, web scraping and automation, and building context-rich AI agents.

**Location:** Elasticsearch, Inc, 823 N Congress Ave 8th Floor, Austin, TX 78701

**Note**: You can use [SpotHero](https://spothero.com/search?kind=address&latitude=30.2703623&longitude=-97.7414581&search_string=823+Congress+Ave.%2C+Austin%2C+TX+78701%2C+USA&view=dl) for finding parking, or there is parking on the side of roads downtown, adhering to City of Austin policy and payment rules.

This isn’t your typical meetup, you’ll be building and exploring in real-time:

* Ingesting live data using automated scrapers through Apify
* Connecting it to Elasticsearch
* Building and interacting with AI-powered agents using Elastic MCP + Claude

Whether you’re deep into agents or just getting started, there’s something here for everyone.

**You will need**

* Your laptop!

**Setup**
The full setup instructions for the hack night will be available prior to the event and shared with attendees.

**Tools to be used:**

* Elasticsearch w/Kibana, Serverless
* Elastic Workflows
* Elastic Agent Builder
* Apify: Free account with monthly platform credits, no credit card required

📅**Agenda**

* 5:30pm – 6:00pm — Eat and grab a drink, get on wifi, scan the QR code for the repo, and sign up for your Elastic Serverless trial + Apify account.
* 6:00pm – 6:20pm — Challenge and tools demo
* 6:20pm – 8:30pm — Hacking time! Organizers will be walking around if you need any help.
* 8:30pm – 9:00pm — 5-minute lightning demos, prizes, and judging!

*Hosted by Sophia Solomon and Michael Diagler, with Olivia Petrie organizing.*

⚠️ Limited spots so RSVP now!

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