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](https://www.improving.com/locations/chicago/) 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](https://spothero.com/search?kind=address&latitude=41.87850760000001&longitude=-87.63932179999999&search_string=222+South+Riverside+Plaza+15th+floor%2C+Chicago%2C+IL+60606%2C+USA&ends=2025-11-05T20%3A00&starts=2025-11-05T17%3A00&view=dl) 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 – Finding the Bottleneck: Root-Cause Analysis with Elastic and Gigamon - 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:
Finding the Bottleneck: Root-Cause Analysis with Elastic and Gigamon - 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!*
