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