Jon Handler
Employers on the program
- 2019–2026Amazon Web Services20 talks
The year around now
Talks in the past 12 months and announced talks ahead, one row per conference, January to December. Hover a mark for the talk.
Appearances by year
- AWS re:Invent
- Haystack
Talks
| Date | Event | Conference | Role | Title | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 30, 2026 | AWS re:Invent 2026 | AWS re:Invent | breakout | Observe, investigate, act: smarter ops with Amazon OpenSearch Service as AWS AI agents are becoming your best investigators, triaging alerts, correlating telemetry, and performing root-cause analysis across metrics, logs, and traces in…Show lessAI agents are becoming your best investigators, triaging alerts, correlating telemetry, and performing root-cause analysis across metrics, logs, and traces in seconds. | |
| May 6, 2026 | Haystack US 2026 | Haystack | speaker | Do we still need search engines? as Amazon Web Services Well, there’s certainly a lot of hype that would say that. How much is true? | Video |
| Dec 1, 2025 | AWS re:Invent 2025 | AWS re:Invent | breakout | Build Advanced Search with Vector, Hybrid, and AI Techniques as AWS Amazon OpenSearch Service is at the heart of how Artificial Intelligence is transforming the way we store, search, and use data. | Video |
| Dec 2, 2024 | AWS re:Invent 2024 | AWS re:Invent | lightning talk | How AI and ML are changing information retrieval (sponsored by OpenSearch) as AWS When we work with information systems, we capture information in text and find information with text queries. Advances in AI have made it possible to move from…Show lessWhen we work with information systems, we capture information in text and find information with text queries. Advances in AI have made it possible to move from word-to-word matching to something like meaning-to-meaning matching. | Video |
| Dec 2, 2024 | AWS re:Invent 2024 | AWS re:Invent | breakout | Revolutionize your search applications for generative AI as AWS Join this session to discover how vector search can revolutionize your business's search capabilities compared to traditional keyword search. Vector search…Show lessJoin this session to discover how vector search can revolutionize your business's search capabilities compared to traditional keyword search. Vector search plays a critical role in enhancing generative AI applications and solutions by enabling more accurate and context-aware search results. | Video |
| Dec 2, 2024 | AWS re:Invent 2024 | AWS re:Invent | breakout | Simplify gen AI by optimizing RAG deployments on AWS with Intel & OPEA (sponsored by Intel) as AWS Gen AI faces adoption hurdles due to technical complexity, costs, and AI talent shortages. The Open Platform for Enterprise AI (OPEA), launched by the Linux…Show lessGen AI faces adoption hurdles due to technical complexity, costs, and AI talent shortages. The Open Platform for Enterprise AI (OPEA), launched by the Linux Foundation AI & Data, addresses these issues by simplifying gen AI integration. | Video |
| Nov 27, 2023 | AWS re:Invent 2023 | AWS re:Invent | breakout | Advanced integration patterns with Amazon DynamoDBMaking the most of your data often means using multiple AWS services, such as Amazon OpenSearch Service for full-text, geospatial, or vector search. Amazon…Show lessMaking the most of your data often means using multiple AWS services, such as Amazon OpenSearch Service for full-text, geospatial, or vector search. Amazon DynamoDB offers many different ways to build integrations, including export functionality and DynamoDB Streams. | |
| Nov 27, 2023 | AWS re:Invent 2023 | AWS re:Invent | breakout | Improve your search with vector capabilities in OpenSearch ServiceSearch engines give their users a path from their goals to the information that meets those goals. When the items retrieved match the user’s intent, they are…Show lessSearch engines give their users a path from their goals to the information that meets those goals. When the items retrieved match the user’s intent, they are considered relevant. | Video |
| Nov 28, 2022 | AWS re:Invent 2022 | AWS re:Invent | breakout | Dow Jones and 3M: Observability with Amazon OpenSearch Service as AWS Observability helps you understand what is happening in a system, often by instrumenting collections of metrics, logs, and traces. As applications grow,…Show lessObservability helps you understand what is happening in a system, often by instrumenting collections of metrics, logs, and traces. As applications grow, observability becomes more complex. | SlidesVideo |
| Nov 28, 2022 | AWS re:Invent 2022 | AWS re:Invent | workshop | Get started with OpenSearch as AWS OpenSearch is a community-driven, Apache 2.0-licensed open-source search and analytics suite that makes it easy to ingest, search, visualize, and analyze data.…Show lessOpenSearch is a community-driven, Apache 2.0-licensed open-source search and analytics suite that makes it easy to ingest, search, visualize, and analyze data. In this workshop, deploy an OpenSearch cluster and a simple container application for searching that data. | Slides |
| Nov 28, 2022 | AWS re:Invent 2022 | AWS re:Invent | chalk talk | Optimizing Amazon OpenSearch Service domains for scale and cost as AWS Whether you’re searching your product catalog or storing your logs for infrastructure monitoring, application performance monitoring, or observability, Amazon…Show lessWhether you’re searching your product catalog or storing your logs for infrastructure monitoring, application performance monitoring, or observability, Amazon OpenSearch Service is an ideal tool. Its distributed search engine scales to support high-volume ingest and query rates. | Slides |
| Nov 29, 2021 | AWS re:Invent 2021 | AWS re:Invent | workshop | Dive into Amazon OpenSearch Service as AWS OpenSearch is an Apache 2.0-licensed tool that provides you with rich, relevant search results for your data. Paired with OpenSearch Dashboards, you can analyze…Show lessOpenSearch is an Apache 2.0-licensed tool that provides you with rich, relevant search results for your data. Paired with OpenSearch Dashboards, you can analyze and visualize your log data. | Slides |
| Nov 29, 2021 | AWS re:Invent 2021 | AWS re:Invent | chalk talk | Sizing Amazon OpenSearch Service domains [REPEAT] as AWS Whether you’re searching your product catalog or storing your logs for infrastructure monitoring, application performance monitoring, or observability, Amazon…Show lessWhether you’re searching your product catalog or storing your logs for infrastructure monitoring, application performance monitoring, or observability, Amazon OpenSearch Service is the ideal tool. Its distributed search engine scales to support high-volume ingest and query rates. | Slides |
| Nov 29, 2021 | AWS re:Invent 2021 | AWS re:Invent | chalk talk | Upgrade to OpenSearch [REPEAT] as AWS There are multiple ways to migrate from Elasticsearch to OpenSearch. In this chalk talk, explore different migration approaches (for example, rolling upgrades…Show lessThere are multiple ways to migrate from Elasticsearch to OpenSearch. In this chalk talk, explore different migration approaches (for example, rolling upgrades and cluster restart upgrades), when to use them, and other considerations when migrating to OpenSearch. | Slides |
| Nov 29, 2021 | AWS re:Invent 2021 | AWS re:Invent | workshop | When life hands you data, grab OpenSearch as AWS Whether you have structured or unstructured data, keywords or blocks of full text, OpenSearch is a useful tool that delivers relevant search results, insights…Show lessWhether you have structured or unstructured data, keywords or blocks of full text, OpenSearch is a useful tool that delivers relevant search results, insights from your logs, performance for your application, and observability for your platform. In this workshop, learn how to deploy an OpenSearch cluster on Kubernetes that backs a search-based application. | Slides |
| Nov 30, 2020 | AWS re:Invent 2020 | AWS re:Invent | breakout | Optimize Amazon Elasticsearch Service costs with UltraWarm as AWS Amazon Elasticsearch Service provides a near real-time solution for ingesting, analyzing, visualizing, and alerting on all of your log data. This solution can…Show lessAmazon Elasticsearch Service provides a near real-time solution for ingesting, analyzing, visualizing, and alerting on all of your log data. This solution can make you want to keep all of your log data, but your costs can start to grow as more data is stored. | SlidesVideo |
| Nov 30, 2020 | AWS re:Invent 2020 | AWS re:Invent | breakout | What’s new in Amazon Elasticsearch Service as AWS Amazon Elasticsearch Service is a fully managed service that makes it easy for you to deploy, secure, and run Elasticsearch cost-effectively at scale. This…Show lessAmazon Elasticsearch Service is a fully managed service that makes it easy for you to deploy, secure, and run Elasticsearch cost-effectively at scale. This session offers a deep dive into the service, customer use cases, best practices, and newly launched features, and it provides insight into what’s next for Amazon Elasticsearch Service. | SlidesVideo |
| Dec 2, 2019 | AWS re:Invent 2019 | AWS re:Invent | breakout | [REPEAT 1] Amazon ES ingest at Pearson—managing high throughput and scale as Amazon Web Services In adopting a cloud-first strategy, Pearson had to secure and monitor its infrastructure, but with many applications deployed against many services, it needed…Show lessIn adopting a cloud-first strategy, Pearson had to secure and monitor its infrastructure, but with many applications deployed against many services, it needed reliable, fast ingest of logs into a real-time analytics engine. Pearson chose Amazon Elasticsearch Service for monitoring and Amazon Kinesis for ingest. | SlidesVideo |
| Dec 2, 2019 | AWS re:Invent 2019 | AWS re:Invent | chalk talk | [REPEAT 1] Amazon ES sizing and capacity planning as Amazon Web Services How many instances? How many shards? | Slides |
| Dec 2, 2019 | AWS re:Invent 2019 | AWS re:Invent | workshop | [REPEAT 1] Deploy and monitor a serverless application as AWS When building serverless applications, you need to know the design tradeoffs for improving performance in addition to how well your application is performing.…Show lessWhen building serverless applications, you need to know the design tradeoffs for improving performance in addition to how well your application is performing. What are the bottlenecks, time sinks, and bugs? | Slides |
| Dec 2, 2019 | AWS re:Invent 2019 | AWS re:Invent | breakout | [REPEAT] Amazon ES ingest at Pearson—managing high throughput and scale as Amazon Web Services In adopting a cloud-first strategy, Pearson had to secure and monitor its infrastructure, but with many applications deployed against many services, it needed…Show lessIn adopting a cloud-first strategy, Pearson had to secure and monitor its infrastructure, but with many applications deployed against many services, it needed reliable, fast ingest of logs into a real-time analytics engine. Pearson chose Amazon Elasticsearch Service for monitoring and Amazon Kinesis for ingest. | SlidesVideo |
| Dec 2, 2019 | AWS re:Invent 2019 | AWS re:Invent | workshop | Know your data with machine learning in Open Distro for Elasticsearch as Amazon Web Services As your application log data grows exponentially, searching and analyzing data in an automated way is essential to gathering a deep understanding of the system.…Show lessAs your application log data grows exponentially, searching and analyzing data in an automated way is essential to gathering a deep understanding of the system. Applying machine learning (ML) enables you to understand behavior patterns and identify solutions that remove bottlenecks getting in the way of processing data at scale. | Slides |
Frequent co-speakers
| Speaker | Shared events | Shared talks | Last together |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ali Saidi | 8 | — | 2026 |
| David Yanacek | 8 | — | 2026 |
| Dirk Fröhner | 8 | — | 2026 |
| Eric Johnson | 8 | — | 2026 |
| Imaya Kumar Jagannathan | 8 | — | 2026 |
| Jonathan Allen | 8 | — | 2026 |
| Julian Wood | 8 | — | 2026 |
| Kevin Fallis | 8 | — | 2026 |
| Leo Zhadanovsky | 8 | — | 2026 |
| Mike Stefaniak | 8 | — | 2026 |
| Muthu Pitchaimani | 8 | — | 2026 |
| Neel Sendas | 8 | — | 2026 |
| Pasquale DeMaio | 8 | — | 2026 |
| Steve Blackwell | 8 | — | 2026 |
| Swami Sivasubramanian | 8 | — | 2026 |
Speakers with the same name are merged into one entry, so this page may combine more than one person. Affiliations are shown as each conference listed them.