India, June 23 -- There are many shifts playing out in search and observability today. Enterprises are weighing monitoring against observability, community-led development against enterprise readiness, and lexical search against semantic search.

At the centre of this discussion is Bianca Lewis, Executive Director, OpenSearch Software Foundation.

Since September 2025, Lewis has led the OpenSearch Software Foundation at the Linux Foundation, where she focuses on fostering a vendor-neutral environment for the OpenSearch open-source project. Her work spans community growth, enterprise readiness, vendor neutrality, and the role of search infrastructure in artificial intelligence (AI).

In this conversation with Dataquest, Lewis explains why ...