Everyone talks about document search, but what about results?
Conference Context
- Date/time: 2026-07-01 · 1:55pm-2:15pm
- Track/room: track TBD · Expo Stage 4 SE
- Speaker(s): George He
- Session type/status: session · confirmed
- Track: track TBD
- Room: Expo Stage 4 SE
- Session type: session
- Status: confirmed
Session Description
Search is usually treated as the end of the document pipeline: parse, chunk, retrieve, and hand them to the model. But long-running agents need something more durable than one-off retrieval. They need reusable work: structured outputs, citations, extracted entities, prior decisions, and file-system-like context they can return to across tasks. At scale, context management is where most agent systems fall apart. Without the right harness, agents lose track of what they've retrieved, bloat their context windows, and stall. In this talk, we'll look at why the document pipeline needs a stateful layer beyond the index — one that turns one-off retrieval into reusable, agent-ready context. We'll see how LlamaIndex thinks about transforming messy documents to make this possible, and why the future of document intelligence belongs to results that compound over time, not just better search.
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Everyone talks about document search, but what about results? ## Conference Context - Date/time: 2026-07-01 · 1:55pm-2:15pm - Track/room: track TBD · Expo Stage 4 SE - Speaker(s): George He - Session type/status: session · confirmed - Track: track TBD - Room: Expo Stage 4 SE - Session type: session - Status: confirmed ## Session Description Search is usually treated as the end of the document pipeline: parse, chunk, retrieve, and hand them to the model. But long-running agents need something more durable than one-off retrieval. They need reusable work: structured outputs, citations, extracted entities, prior decisions, and file-system-like context they can return to across tasks.
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- George He — Head of Platform Engineering at LlamaIndex.
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