G'Day all,

It's 2017 and lots has been happening in the Elastic space over the last few months since we've met. Time to get back together for a chat, food and drink and hear some awesome talks about the Elastic Stack.

We have Dr David Kemp from REA speaking on "Using Elasticsearch Completion Suggesters for Address Autosuggest". How REA have implemented a street address autosuggest system using Elasticsearch’s Completion Suggester feature.

David is a search specialist at REA Group, but also has a very hands-on role in the day to day coding of some of REA's core search systems. He has more than twenty years of experience as a software developer, and has become enthusiastic about search while working on search systems in recent years.

We also have members of the local Elastic team presenting a recap of Elastic{ON} 2017. Elastic{ON} is the main Elastic conference held in San Fransisco. The conference had a number of exciting announcements and we'd love to share some of those in more detail with you.

Finally, we have a new additional sponsor in Zendesk. We are meeting at their conference space for this meetup and thank them for allowing us the opportunity to grow the meetup in the local community.

Looking forward to seeing everyone again!

Cheers, 

Christian and the Elastic Team