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The OpenSearch Software Foundation has appointed Bianca Lewis as its new Executive Director, tasking her with guiding the foundation's strategy, growing its community engagement, and maintaining vendor-neutral development. She takes on the post as the foundation marks its first year under the Linux Foundation banner.

Lewis arrives with more than two decades of experience in technology, entrepreneurship, and business strategy, having held leadership roles at firms such as Opster and Logz. io. She serves on the advisory boards of several international tech firms and is on the board of LGBTWork, playing an advocacy role for diversity and inclusion within the tech sector.

Her appointment is seen by stakeholders as a move to accelerate the foundation's evolution. Carl Meadows, the Governing Board Chair and Director of Product Management at Amazon Web Services, emphasised that Lewis“brings deep experience building businesses around search technologies and a strong belief in community-led development.” He added that under her leadership, the foundation will seek to“democratise search and analytics solutions and enable innovation across industries.”

Among her key responsibilities will be to scale operations, ensure sustainable growth, foster collaboration among stakeholders, and strengthen support structures for both members and community contributors. She is charged with implementing scalable processes to maintain operational excellence amid accelerated growth.

The foundation has expanded its technical governance infrastructure: it now has a Technical Steering Committee with 15 members from companies including Aryn, Slack and IBM. It has also set up specialised groups such as an observability technical advisory group and a Build Interest Group to drive forward observability, hybrid search, vector databases, and other core technologies.

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Technology enhancements under the foundation's umbrella have included upgrades geared towards supporting AI adoption, improvements in performance, and growing contributions from major players like ByteDance, SAP and Uber.

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