How To Build Your First Agentic Search Application

Doug helps Search teams deliver.

He led machine-learning-driven search at Reddit and Shopify, served as CTO of OpenSource Connections, and co-authored Relevant Search and AI Powered Search.

Doug coaches search experts at Apple, Meta, OpenAI, AirBNB and more, and has trained and advised teams at the Wikimedia Foundation, Wayfair, and AWS. He also created Quepid, SearchArray, and the Elasticsearch Learning to Rank plugin.

Hugo Bowne-Anderson is an independent data and AI consultant with extensive experience in the tech industry. He is the host of the industry Vanishing Gradients, where he explores cutting-edge developments in data science and artificial intelligence. As a data scientist, educator, evangelist, content marketer, and strategist, Hugo has worked with leading companies in the field. His past roles include Head of Developer Relations at Outerbounds, a company committed to building infrastructure for machine learning applications, and positions at Coiled and DataCamp, where he focused on scaling data science and online education respectively. Hugo's teaching experience spans from institutions like Yale University and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory to conferences such as SciPy, PyCon, and ODSC. He h