Elastic Phoenix User Group: Building a GenAI Finance Assistant with Confluent and Elastic

Join Elastic Phoenix User Group and Phoenix / Scottsdale Apache Kafka meetup for joint meetup on Wednesday, May 6th. We’ll have exciting presentations from Joseph Morais (Confluent) and Tyler Strong (Elastic), followed by networking, light bites, and refreshments. 📅 Date & Time: Wednesday, May 6th, from 5:30 - 7:30 PM 📍Location: CO+HOOTS – 221 E Indianola Ave, Phoenix, AZ 85012 (Classroom) 🎤 Featured Speakers: Joseph Morais (Confluent) Tyler Strong (Elastic) 🚗 Parking: CO+HOOTS is located at 221 E. Indianola Ave. Phoenix 85012 (3rd St & Indianola). Feel free to park right under the building and walk the few steps to the middle set of stairs. 🔑 Check-in: A CO+HOOTS community assistant will be at the front desk to direct you. 📝 Agenda: 5:30 PM – Doors open & attendee check-in 5:50 PM – Developing a GenAI Assistant for Financial Services using Confluent Cloud, Elasticsearch Vector Database, and Amazon Bedrock - Joseph Morais (Confluent) 6:30 PM –Talk # 2- Tyler Strong (Elastic) 7:00 - 7:30 PM – Networking & refreshments 💭 Talk Abstracts: Developing a GenAI Assistant for Financial Services using Confluent Cloud, Elasticsearch Vector Database, and Amazon Bedrock – Joseph Morais (Confluent) Join us to learn how to build a GenAI-powered assistant for financial services using Confluent and Elasticsearch vector database to boost employee productivity and customer satisfaction. In this session, you will learn about: Developing Kafka-driven RAG pipelines using Apache Flink® offering and the Elasticsearch Sink Connector Elasticsearch Open Inference API