From Root Cause to AI Agents: Elastic & Gigamon in Action

Join the Elastic Chicago User Group and Gigamon on Wednesday, September 23rd for a meetup. We'll have presentations from followed by food, refreshments, and networking. Thank you to Improving for hosting our meetup. Improving is a modern digital services consulting firm focused on solving business problems with innovative technical solutions. RSVP Instructions: Please provide your email when you register for this event. Please bring an ID to the event for check-in. 📅 Date and Time: Wednesday, September 23rd from 5:30-8:00 pm 📍Location: Improving - 222 S Riverside Plaza 15th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606 🔑 Arrival Instructions: Please bring an ID for check-in Upon arrival at 222 Riverside, check in at the Improving table Take the elevator to the 15th floor - the meetup will be in the common area through the doors. 🚗 Parking: SpotHero is a great option to resvere parking in advance Improving recommends the following parking garages: 229 S. Desplaines St (which is also the 625 W. Adams building), 500 West Monroe, and the outdoor lot at 718 W Monroe. 📝Agenda: 5:30 PM – Doors open, grab a seat, and enjoy some pizza! 6:00 PM – Welcome & Introduction by Improving 6:05 pm – Hiding in Allowed Traffic: Network-Derived Evidence for Modern Threat Detection - Yorrick Barnay (Gigamon) 6:45 – Build Smarter AI Agents with Elastic: Skills, Workflows & Agent Builder - Shanker Nagappa (Principal Customer Architect at Elastic) 7:15 pm: Networking and refreshments 8:00 pm: Event ends 💭 Talk Abstracts: Hiding in Allowed Traffic: Network-Derived Evidence for Modern Threat Detection - Yorrick Barnay (Gigamon) Modern applications fail across complex service chains, but observability data alone may not reveal where latency begins. In this technical session, Gigamon and Elastic show how network-derived intelligence and application metadata can enrich Elastic Observability. Learn to map client-to-app dependencies, separate network, application, HTTP, and DNS latency, and isolate degraded service edges across hybrid cloud and Kubernetes. Leave with a practical framework for faster, evidence-based root-cause analysis and clearer ownership across network, platform, SRE, and application teams. Build Smarter AI Agents with Elastic: Skills, Workflows & Agent Builder - Shanker Nagappa (Principal Customer Architect at Elastic) Details coming soon!