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Keynote: Opening Remarks

Talkat OpenSearchCon Europe 2026 · on Thursday, 2026-04-16· at 09:00· Bohemia 2· [open-source]
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OpenSearch is five years old and adoption data shows more than half of companies have adopted or are POCing vector databases, with vendors rapidly adding support so vectors ubiquitous across platforms. The hard problems are organizational: data scattered across Slack, CRM, laptops, governance and security, not raw infrastructure. Expect search to blend lexical and semantic approaches, serve as a memory layer for agents, and shift focus from search results to delivering actionable insights.

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  1. 0:00OpenSearchCon EU welcome
  2. 1:06Sponsors and community
  3. 2:08Conference highlights
  4. 3:14Keynote speaker Jim Curtis
  5. 4:19Search and AI market
  6. 5:45Vector databases challenges
  7. 7:54Vector DB adoption barriers
  8. 9:18AI adoption bottlenecks
  9. 10:41Database/search trends 2026
  10. 12:03Future of search
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