May 7, 2025
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5:30 – 7:30 PM CDT

AF-Chicago, 54 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60654
Overview
Join Hyperflex and the Elastic Chicago User Group for a hands-on meetup tailored for Elasticsearch engineers, security analysts, and AI enthusiasts. This event focuses on real-world applications of Elastic Stack in cybersecurity, automation, and AI-driven defense.
Why Attend?
- Deep dive into Elastic Security’s AI-powered automation
- Advanced attack detection with Elasticsearch and SIEM
- Hands-on insights into Elastic Stack’s machine learning features
- Live demos of real-world threat hunting and mitigation
- Technical networking with engineers, Elastic users & experts
Featured Speakers
Improving Elastic’s Attack Discovery
- Enhancing Elastic’s LLM-based threat detection with quantitative prompt engineering
- Evaluating query-based attack patterns in Elasticsearch security workflows
- Live demo: How AI-driven behavioral analysis enhances threat intelligence
How Elastic Stack Helped Protect Millions
- How Elasticsearch, Kibana, SIEM, and ML models detected SIGRed in real-time
- Using anomaly detection & security analytics to uncover zero-day exploits
- Live demo: Automating threat response with Elastic Security’s machine learning models
How Elasticsearch helped control pandemic and tracking diseases cases
- State government’s Health department uses Elasticsearch to analyze all the patient case studies in the state to design better prevention policies and budget allocation.
Agenda
- 5:30 PM – Doors open | Meet fellow engineers, grab food & drinks
- 6:00 PM – Detecting and Mitigating SIGRed: How Elastic Stack Helped Protect Millions - Akash Kumar, CTO (Security) at Hyperflex / ELK Expert at Consultadd
- 6:30 PM – How Elasticsearch helped control pandemic and tracking diseases cases - Vishal Rathod (CTO Search at Hyperflex) and Bhavesh Sharma (CTO Observability at Hyperflex)
- 7:00 PM – Lightning Talk: Improving Elastic’s Attack Discovery with AI & LLMs - Gus Carlock, Solutions Architect at Elastic
- 7:30 PM – Event wrap-up & networking
