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OpenSearch Ambassador Kris Freedain brings us inside OpenSearchCon Japan, the community gathering that closed out 2025 in Tokyo. Kris sits down with guests from Eliatra, AWS, and Autodesk to talk new contributor onboarding, AI agents, MCP, and OpenSearch. AWS’s Takayuki Enumoto also interviews Sansan SRE Kazuhiro Fujiwara about Sansan’s migration to OpenSearch, and Kris wraps up with first-time OpenSearchCon attendee Nicholas Adams of TI Tokyo.
If you missed Tokyo, this is the next best thing.
In this episode, Nate Boot, Developer Advocate and OpenSearch Ambassador, recaps a packed end to 2025, covering OpenSearch’s presence at KubeCon, Knowledge Management World, and AWS re:Invent.
Nate takes us through the highlights of OpenSearch 3.4 and sits down with Ryan Peirce from Chronosphere, Alex Degitz from Elastiflow, and CNCF Ambassador Dotan Horovits.
Hosted by Nate Boot, developer advocate and OpenSearch Foundation Ambassador, in our first Search Party episode, you’ll get the recap of OpenSearchCon North America 2025 and hear from a number of recently announced OpenSearch Ambassadors on what it means to them to represent the OpenSearch Project.
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