Washington DC User Group – August 13 2026
Agenda:
- 6-6:30 pm: Networking and food/drinks
- 6:30-7:15 pm: Announcements and presentation
- 7:15 pm-7:30 pm: Q&A and close-out
Putting Search Front and Center in the OpenSearch Project: Recapping a Year of Progress
Since OpenSearchCon US 2025, OpenSearch has transformed from a traditional retrieval system into agent-native infrastructure for the generative AI era. This FAST PACED talk walks through what’s new across versions 3.3–3.8 and what it means for builders LIKE YOU.
We’ll explore how Agentic Search replaces complex query DSL with natural language, how Agentic Memory enables coherent multi-turn conversations, and how protocols like AG-UI and OpenSearch Agent Server and Agentskills simplify agent integration. On performance, we’ll cover the gains to search quality and search performance.
We’ll also tour the features democratizing search: OpenSearch Launchpad’s AI-guided app scaffolding, the Relevance Workbench’s “LLM as judge,” the newly launched Relevance Agent for automated tuning, and Agent Health’s OTel-native trace observability for debugging AI reasoning chains.
Plus we’ll talk about how Migration Companion drastically simplifies the process of moving search workloads from other search engines to OpenSearch with native tooling.
We will briefly touch on what 2027 will hold.
