Free Lesson
Agentic Search: Are LLMs Replacing Decades of IR Wisdom?
60 min
Oct 16, 2025 2:00 PM
Virtual (Zoom)
In this video
What you'll learn
How Agents are disrupting IR (Information Retrieval)
Do decades of search best practices still apply? Yes (but not all of them)! Learn what's being disrupted and what stays.
See how Agentic Search is implemented
Agentic workflows invert the control flow of search by providing tools to LLMs. See how this paradigm works end-to-end.
Optimizing search for agents (and agents for search)
Agents have different needs than humans, but the end goals are often the same. Learn how to optimize for each.
Why this topic matters
AI Agents are LLM-backed modules that can use tools (MCP, OpenSearch, etc.) and reason about your data and search results. They choose the strategy and sequencing of the tools, whose results can lead to accurate, informative answers to user questions. Are agents better than humans at finding these answers? Better put: when will agents surpass humans at finding the information we need?
You'll learn from
Jon Handler
Building OpenSearch at AWS; Author of "The Definitive Guide to OpenSearch"
Trey Grainger
Founder @ Searchkernel, Author, "AI-Powered Search"
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