Jon Handler

Jon Handler

Amazon Web Services

Jon Handler is a Senior Principal Solutions Architect on the OpenSearch Service team at Amazon Web Services, based in Palo Alto, CA. Jon works closely with OpenSearch and Amazon OpenSearch Service, providing help and guidance to a broad range of customers who have search and log analytics workloads for OpenSearch. Prior to joining AWS, Jon’s career as a software developer included four years of coding a large-scale, eCommerce search engine. Jon holds a Bachelor of the Arts from the University of Pennsylvania, and a Master of Science and a Ph. D. in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence from Northwestern University.

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Do we still need search engines?

Talk
7. May 2026, 13:15 - 14:00
Main Stage
Search has a new User Interface! All search will be Agentic/RAG and delivered through a chat interface! The days of the monolithic search engine are over!