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Elastic for State, Local and Education

Hands-On with GenAI: Building a Citizen Search Assistant with Public Data


Event Date: April 23, 2025
Hosted By: Elastic & Carahsoft

To provide your constituents with instant access to reliable and accurate information, you need a solution that can navigate vast amounts of public data.

What if agencies could easily request public information through an AI assistant?

At Elastic, we're building solutions that seamlessly achieve this.

Attendees joined Elastic on April 23rd for a hands-on workshop where they:

  • Learned from Elastic specialists who have built AI search solutions in production
  • Applied AI to public sector services like FOIA requests and city service searches
  • Walked away with a working AI-powered citizen search assistant

Our workshop was built to help agencies discover the fundamentals of semantic search, vector embeddings, inference endpoints and LLM integration. From there, they are able to apply these concepts to fine-tune AI responses, optimize search results and integrate everything into a functional web chat application.

Resources


Blog

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The blog highlights how educational institutions are leveraging Google's AI tools, such as Gemini and NotebookLM, to enhance learning and administrative efficiency. From real-time study assistance at San Diego State University to grant writing support in Albuquerque Public Schools, these tools a...

Discover how Google for Education transformed learning in 2024! Explore inspiring stories, innovative tools, and AI-powered solutions that empowered educators and students worldwide. See the impact firsthand in this Year in Review blog post.

Podcast

In Episode 200 of The Public Sector Show by TechTables, leaders from UC Santa Barbara (UCSB), Arizona State University (ASU), and Google delve into transformative AI initiatives in higher education. Josh Bright of UCSB discusses five strategic AI pilots guiding institutional leadership, while ASU&rs...

Presentation

This presentation outlines how educators and students can leverage the Gemini app for streamlined communication. It also illustrates its integration across Google Workspace for Education tools.

Report

The 15th edition of the yearly Mandiant M-Trends report provides insight on the evolving cyber threat landscape and responses to mitigate these real-world cyber incidents. This report includes data drawn directly from frontline incident response investigation and threat intelligence findings from ar...

This report offers a deep dive into securing operational technology (OT) environments within critical infrastructure sectors. It outlines practical defense strategies tailored to OT systems—from proactive threat detection to coordinated incident response—and emphasizes the importance of ...