How AI lets you talk to your company's data and get answers instantly

Mar 5, 2026

In this conversation recorded at Elastic’s New York office, three product leaders discuss how AI agents are transforming enterprise software.

The discussion features Steve Kearns (general manager, Search solutions at Elastic), Mike Nichols (general manager, Security solutions at Elastic), and Baha Azarmi (general manager, Observability at Elastic). They explain how Elastic Agent Builder allows teams to interact with their data using natural language instead of complex queries.

00:00 Introduction from Elastic’s New York office

00:22 How AI is changing the search business

00:40 Launch of Elastic Agent Builder

01:00 Security teams dealing with too many alerts and data

01:25 Using chat to interact with data

01:55 How AI agents explore and analyze data

02:35 Combining AI models with company data

03:00 Elastic hackathon using AI agents

03:35 Handling messy and unstructured data

04:00 Automating investigation and remediation in security

04:40 Observability example using telecom data

05:10 Creative business insights from observability data

05:45 Automating workflows with AI

06:25 Will chat become the main software interface?

06:50 Security talent shortage and AI assistance

07:20 Chat as a layer that simplifies complex systems

07:45 AI agents assisting observability investigations

08:20 Generating dashboards and insights with AI

08:50 Why good data infrastructure matters for AI

09:05 The future of chat interfaces and AI workflows

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