09:00 • Keynote: Opening Remarks - Bianca Lewis, Executive Director, OpenSearch Software Foundation, The Linux Foundation
09:05 • Keynote: OpenSearch in the Agentic Era - Carl Meadows, Director of Product for Amazon OpenSearch Services and the OpenSearch Project, Amazon Web Services
09:30 • Keynote: The Next Generation of Enterprise Search: Intent‑Aware, Hybrid, and Open - Dom Couldwell, Product Manager for OpenSearch, IBM
10:00 • All-Attendee Photo 📸
10:20 • Beyond Benchmarks: Real-World AI Search Performance in OpenSearch (Lucene Vs Faiss Vs JVector) - Fernando Rejon Barrera, Zeta Alpha
11:10 • From Embeddings To Index: A Practitioner's Guide To Domain-Adapted Neural Search - Samuel Herman, Oracle
12:00 • Building an Inclusive, Diverse Community From the Ground Up - Kassian Wren, NetApp Instaclustr
13:30 • Enabling Secure, Fine-Grained Resource Sharing for Team Collaboration in OpenSearch - Darshit Chanpura & Craig Perkins, Amazon
14:20 • Vendor-Agnostic Analytics: Querying Open Columnar Formats With OpenSearch - Bharathwaj G & Arpit Bandejiya, Amazon Web Services
14:50 • Integrating Docling With OpenSearch for Advanced RAG and Agentic Applications - Cesar Berrospi Ramis, IBM Research
15:50 • Accelerating Aggregations with Lucene-Aware Execution in OpenSearch - Ankit Jain, Amazon Web Services
16:40 • Getting Started With OpenSearch Development - Andrew Ross & Saurabh Singh, AWS
10:20 • Building RAG With OpenSearch ML Plugins: From PDFs To Voice-Enabled Search - Kushagra Sharma, Genesys
11:10 • Ingesting Observability Data: OpenTelemetry Collector or Data Prepper? - Karsten Schnitter, SAP SE
12:00 • Late Interaction Retrieval in Practice: Implications for OpenSearch-Based Search Systems - Francisco Losada de la Rosa, AWS
13:30 • Apache Lucene Vector Search Update - Michael Sokolov, Amazon
14:20 • Distributed OpenSearch Monitoring at Scale With Apache NiFi and MiNiFi Agents - Vincenzo Lombardo, Seacom
14:50 • Agentic Relevance Tuning With OpenSearch: Faster, Easier, and Higher Quality Search at Scale - Bobby Mohammed, Amazon Web Services & Daniel Wrigley, OpenSource Connections
15:50 • Vectors Vs. Hallucinations: OpenSearch's GenAI Survival Kit - Neel Shah, StackGen & Laysa Uchoa, Independent
16:40 • Operating OpenSearch at Scale With Kubernetes Operators: Lessons Learned and Community Insights - Christian Dinse, SAP SE & Prudhvi Godithi, AWS OpenSearch
09:55 • Using Native CPU Vectorized Instructions for 60% Speedup on Lucene's KNN Vector Search - Shubham Chaudhary, Amazon
10:45 • CANCELLED: The "Open" SOC: Architecting a Free Security Lab for 10,000 Students - Nikita Verma, Independent & Harshita Varma, juspay
11:15 • The Forbidden Index: How We Turned OpenSearch Into a Privacy-Preserving Superhero - Unnati Mishra, Independent & Akshat Khanna, Angel One
12:05 • The Lucene Scalpel: Tuning Low-Level Segments for Multi-Lingual Concurrency - Divyanshu Mishra, Independent
13:35 • Writable Warm: Breaking the Read-Only Barrier in OpenSearch Tiering - Sandeep Kumawat, Harshita Kaushik & Shubh Sahu, AWS Opensearch
14:25 • Building a Modern Search Engine: The Road Ahead - Eric Pugh, OpenSource Connections
15:30 • Teaching OpenSearch To Read YAML: Finding Broken Infrastructure Before It Breaks - Unnati Mishra, Independent
16:00 • Fluent Bit & OpenSearch: The Power Couple of Open Source Observability - Patrick Stephens, Fluent Bit Maintainer
09:00 • Keynote: Bianca Lewis, Executive Director, OpenSearch Software Foundation, The Linux Foundation
09:15 • Sponsored Keynote: AI-Driven Deployment and Monitoring Across Federated Cloud-Edge Sites - Giampaolo Conti, AI Engineer & Benedetto Ginestra, Software Engineer, Adeptic Reply
09:55 • Partner Roundtable
11:15 • Upcoming Changes for the OpenSearch Index Authorization Mechanisms - Nils Bandener, Eliatra
12:05 • Road To Maintainership: Shaping OpenSearch's Future - Varun Bansal, AWS
13:35 • Fine-tuning Neural Sparse Model for Domain Specific Data From an Existing OpenSearch Index - Aswath Srinivasan & Cedric Pelvet, Amazon Web Services
14:25 • Scaling Welfare With Open Source: How NAV Migrated To Managed OpenSearch - Dmitry Kan, Aiven & Hans Kristian Flaatten, Norwegian Government
15:30 • From Logs To Signals: Rethinking System Monitoring With OpenSearch - Shruti Chaturvedi, Independent
16:00 • Caching for Speed: Practical Performance Optimization in OpenSearch & Lucene - Sagar Upadhyaya & Ankit Jain, Amazon Web Services
16:50 • Keynote: Closing Remarks - Kris Freedain, Senior Community Manager & Patti Juric, Senior Marketing Content Manager, OpenSearch Project
