Doors open at 5 pm and the presentation begins at 5:30 pm. Food, refreshments, and networking to follow.

Elastic SF Office: 88 Kearny St San Francisco, CA 94108 - 19th Floor - All Hands Room

RSVP Instructions: 

Please register no later than Monday, August 8th, 2022. We need to provide a list of the attendees' names to building security 72 hours before the event. Visitors will need to check-in at the lobby with an ID for access to the 19th floor. 

Talk Abstract: Robert Statsinger - Principal Solution Architect @ Elastic

Similarity between elements in a dataset has traditionally been measured based on appearance - simple measures such as word counts and other lexical similarities have been the state of the practice. Vector Search goes beyond appearances and lets you define similarity based on meanings and deeper representations of content. Image recognition and comparisons, audio comparisons and recommendations, and relevance ranking based on Natural Language Processing (NLP) are just a few of the applications that Vector Search enables. The Elastic Platform equips you with the tools you need to create novel applications based on this approach.

Highlights

Define indexes to hold vectorized data using Elastic’s dense_vector field type

Use vector similarity measures such as l2_norm, dot_product, and cosine

Perform efficient searches of the data using a Hierarchical Navigable Small World (HNSW) search algorithm

Agenda

• Introduction and opening remarks
• Working with Vectorized Data
• Similarity for Vectors
• Search algorithms: KNN and ANN
• Demo
• Q&A

Directions & Parking: 

This Elastic office does not offer parking. Below are a few recommendations for close public parking garages. Please keep in mind that parking is not allowed to be expensed and must be paid for on your own.

The White House Garage: 223 Sutter St, San Francisco, CA 94108

Post Montgomery Center Garage: 173 Sutter St, San Francisco, CA 94101

Paramount Garage: 177 Jessie St, San Francisco, CA 94105

Bart & Muni Information:

The nearest BART station is Montgomery St. Station

The nearest Muni Station is Market & New Montgomery

If you are interested in organizing future meetups, hosting an event, and/or speaking, please reach out to olivia@elastic.co.