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Speakers

Kathleen DeRusso

Employers on the program

  1. 2024–2026Elastic2 talks
Events2
Conferences1
Talks2
Years active2024–2026

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

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Talks

DateEventConferenceRoleTitleLinks
May 6, 2026Haystack US 2026HaystackspeakerEvolution of Relevance Engineering to Context Engineering
as Elastic
As RAG and agentic search mature, retrieval extends from being primarily a relevance concern to something that also drives latency, cost, and system reliability…Show less

As RAG and agentic search mature, retrieval extends from being primarily a relevance concern to something that also drives latency, cost, and system reliability at scale. We’re very good at traditional search relevance.

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Apr 23, 2024Haystack US 2024HaystackspeakerRetro Relevance: Lessons Learned Balancing Keyword and Semantic Search
as Elastic
“Semantic search has revolutionized how we approach information retrieval, offering a nuanced understanding of human language that surpasses traditional…Show less

“Semantic search has revolutionized how we approach information retrieval, offering a nuanced understanding of human language that surpasses traditional keyword-based search methodologies for natural language queries. However, this technology is not without its limitations.

SlidesVideo

Frequent co-speakers

SpeakerShared eventsShared talksLast together
Doug Turnbull2—2026
René Kriegler2—2026
Trey Grainger2—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.