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Jon Handler

Employers on the program

  1. 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.

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Held in the past 12 months Next 12 months Today, Nov 9, 2026

Appearances by year

201920202021202220232024202520262027
  • AWS re:Invent
  • Haystack

Talks

DateEventConferenceRoleTitleLinks
Nov 30, 2026AWS re:Invent 2026AWS re:InventbreakoutObserve, 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 less

AI agents are becoming your best investigators, triaging alerts, correlating telemetry, and performing root-cause analysis across metrics, logs, and traces in seconds.

May 6, 2026Haystack US 2026HaystackspeakerDo 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, 2025AWS re:Invent 2025AWS re:InventbreakoutBuild 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, 2024AWS re:Invent 2024AWS re:Inventlightning talkHow 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 less

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 word-to-word matching to something like meaning-to-meaning matching.

Video
Dec 2, 2024AWS re:Invent 2024AWS re:InventbreakoutRevolutionize 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 less

Join 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, 2024AWS re:Invent 2024AWS re:InventbreakoutSimplify 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 less

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 Foundation AI & Data, addresses these issues by simplifying gen AI integration.

Video
Nov 27, 2023AWS re:Invent 2023AWS re:InventbreakoutAdvanced integration patterns with Amazon DynamoDB
Making 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 less

Making 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, 2023AWS re:Invent 2023AWS re:InventbreakoutImprove your search with vector capabilities in OpenSearch Service
Search 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 less

Search 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, 2022AWS re:Invent 2022AWS re:InventbreakoutDow 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 less

Observability 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, 2022AWS re:Invent 2022AWS re:InventworkshopGet 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 less

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. In this workshop, deploy an OpenSearch cluster and a simple container application for searching that data.

Slides
Nov 28, 2022AWS re:Invent 2022AWS re:Inventchalk talkOptimizing 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 less

Whether 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, 2021AWS re:Invent 2021AWS re:InventworkshopDive 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 less

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 and visualize your log data.

Slides
Nov 29, 2021AWS re:Invent 2021AWS re:Inventchalk talkSizing 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 less

Whether 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, 2021AWS re:Invent 2021AWS re:Inventchalk talkUpgrade 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 less

There 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, 2021AWS re:Invent 2021AWS re:InventworkshopWhen 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 less

Whether 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, 2020AWS re:Invent 2020AWS re:InventbreakoutOptimize 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 less

Amazon 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, 2020AWS re:Invent 2020AWS re:InventbreakoutWhat’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 less

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 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, 2019AWS re:Invent 2019AWS re:Inventbreakout[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 less

In 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, 2019AWS re:Invent 2019AWS re:Inventchalk talk[REPEAT 1] Amazon ES sizing and capacity planning
as Amazon Web Services

How many instances? How many shards?

Slides
Dec 2, 2019AWS re:Invent 2019AWS re:Inventworkshop[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 less

When 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, 2019AWS re:Invent 2019AWS re:Inventbreakout[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 less

In 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, 2019AWS re:Invent 2019AWS re:InventworkshopKnow 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 less

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. 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

SpeakerShared eventsShared talksLast together
Ali Saidi8—2026
David Yanacek8—2026
Dirk Fröhner8—2026
Eric Johnson8—2026
Imaya Kumar Jagannathan8—2026
Jonathan Allen8—2026
Julian Wood8—2026
Kevin Fallis8—2026
Leo Zhadanovsky8—2026
Mike Stefaniak8—2026
Muthu Pitchaimani8—2026
Neel Sendas8—2026
Pasquale DeMaio8—2026
Steve Blackwell8—2026
Swami Sivasubramanian8—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.