Schedule changes
Version 0.18 June 17, 2024
We released a new schedule version!
Version 0.17 June 7, 2024
We released a new schedule version!
Version 0.16 May 30, 2024
We released a new schedule version!
We have a new session: “Elevating AI Applications with OpenSearch's Flow Framework and RAG Tool” by Owais Kazi, Mingshi Liu.
Version 0.15 May 27, 2024
We released a new schedule version!
We had to move some sessions, so if you were planning on seeing them, check their new dates or locations:
- “A journey in geospatial timeseries” by Nils Larsgård (Palais Atelier → Kesselhaus)
 - “Closing session” (June 11, 2024, 5:30 p.m. → June 11, 2024, 5:15 p.m.)
 - “Recognizing the driving forces of impactful OS projects” by Maryblessing Okolie (June 11, 2024, 4:50 p.m. → June 11, 2024, noon)
 - “Open Web Search - a platform for a free European Web Index” by Michael Dinzinger (June 11, 2024, noon, Kesselhaus → June 11, 2024, 4:50 p.m., Palais Atelier)
 
Version 0.14 May 21, 2024
We released a new schedule version!
We have a new session: “Better search relevance using Learning to Rank at mobile.de” by Manish Saraswat.
Version 0.13 May 15, 2024
We released a new schedule version!
We have a new session: “Comparing vector implementations in generic databases” by Tudor Golubenco.
Version 0.12 May 7, 2024
We released a new schedule version!
Version 0.11 May 7, 2024
We released a new schedule version!
We have new sessions!
Version 0.10 April 29, 2024
We released a new schedule version!
We have a new session: “Get-Together”.
We sadly had to cancel a session: “From Basics to Breakthroughs: A Hands-On Journey Through NLP” by Hila Weisman Zohar
We had to move some sessions, so if you were planning on seeing them, check their new dates or locations:
- “Cracking the Code: Deciphering Evaluation Essentials for RAG” by Atita Arora (Frannz Salon → Maschinenhaus)
 - “Streaming DataFrames: A New Way to Process Streaming Data” by Tomáš Neubauer (June 11, 2024, 4:50 p.m. → June 11, 2024, 9:30 a.m.)
 - “Harnessing Spare Cores to Breeze Through Cloud Compute” by Gergely Daroczi (Maschinenhaus → Frannz Salon)
 - “Streaming doesn’t have to be hard” by Chloe He (June 11, 2024, 4 p.m. → June 11, 2024, 10 a.m.)
 - “End-to-End Encryption for Streaming Data Pipelines” by Hans-Peter Grahsl (Kesselhaus → Palais Atelier)
 
Version 0.9 April 15, 2024
We released a new schedule version!
Version 0.8 April 15, 2024
We released a new schedule version!
We have new sessions!
- “Applications of Tries in Apache Cassandra” by Branimir Lambov
 - “`New` Workflow Orchestrator in town: "Apache Airflow 2.x"” by Jarek Potiuk
 - “Blazing-Fast Serverless MapReduce Indexer for Apache Solr” by Daniele Antuzi
 - “Deep Learning plays Handball” by Pere Urbon Bayes
 - “Monitoring your home, with DevOps observability tools” by Nick Burch
 - “Practical introduction to OpenTelemetry tracing” by Nicolas Fränkel
 - “Barcamp” by Nick Burch
 - “End-to-End Encryption for Streaming Data Pipelines” by Hans-Peter Grahsl
 - “Jina Embeddings V2: From Raw Data to Bilingual Hybrid Search” by Isabelle Mohr, Bo Wang
 - “Remote work is here to stay - and what's next?” by Radovan Bacovic
 - “From Text to Context: How We Introduced Hybrid Search” by Ansgar Gruene, Dharin Shah, Alexander Butenko
 - “Search in the Cloud: separation of compute and storage” by Ilan Ginzburg
 - “Back to the Future! Time Travel with Bitemporal Databases” by Tim Zöller
 - “Open-Source Generative AI: A Product Manager’s Blueprint” by Saahil Ognawala
 - “Lessons learned writing 10+ Kubernetes Operators” by Lars Francke, Jannik Heyl
 - “Learning to Apply Generative AI at Enterprise Level” by Sebastian Arnold
 - “Improve LLM-based Applications with Fallback Mechanisms” by Bilge Yücel
 - “Advanced Retrieval-Augmented Generation Techniques” by Zain Hasan
 - “Sequential Testing Simplified with Basemath” by Alexander Weiss, Konrad Richter
 - “Cracking the Code: Deciphering Evaluation Essentials for RAG” by Atita Arora
 - “Opening Session”
 - “Streaming DataFrames: A New Way to Process Streaming Data” by Tomáš Neubauer
 - “Large language models are not a paradigm shift” by William Benton
 - “Harnessing Spare Cores to Breeze Through Cloud Compute” by Gergely Daroczi
 - “Closing session”
 - “Recognizing the driving forces of impactful OS projects” by Maryblessing Okolie
 - “Open Web Search - a platform for a free European Web Index” by Michael Dinzinger
 - “Hybrid Search with Apache Solr Reciprocal Rank Fusion” by Alessandro Benedetti
 - “Let's Do Data Lineage in Kafka, Flink and Druid!” by Hellmar Becker
 - “From Natural Language to Structured Solr Queries using LLMs” by Anna Ruggero, Ilaria Petreti
 - “Can Apache Pinot replace your OLTP database?” by Chinmay Soman
 - “Standing on the Shoulders of Giants” by Bryan Burkholder, Varun Thacker
 - “Rediscover your keyword search: Expand, Enrich and Rewrite” by Praveen Mohan Prasad, Hajer Bouafif
 - “Heap sizing and GC tuning for Solr and friends” by Radu Gheorghe, Rafał Kuć
 - “Fixin the Hard Bits of Event Processing with Restate & Kafka” by Stephan Ewen
 - “Improving Search @scale with efficient query experimentation” by Andreas Wagner
 - “Moving from Offline to Online Machine Learning with River” by Tun Shwe
 - “The Power of the Bonus Card: Road to Personalised Search” by Luuk Kaandorp, Vincent Peijnenburg
 - “Kafka on the Fly: A Serverless Approach to Data Streaming” by Desmond Obisi
 - “End-to-end pipeline agility” by Lars Albertsson
 - “Brick-by-Brick: Exploring the Elements of Apache Kafka®” by Danica Fine
 - “Build your 8-bit computer from scratch” by Olivier HUBER
 - “Enhancing RAG with Neo4j Knowledge Graph” by Djordje Benn-Maksimovic
 - “cuVS and Lucene: GPU-based Vector Search” by Corey J. Nolet, Vivek Narang
 - “Hardcoding airpods (and other stories from NLP in insurance)” by Murhaf Fares, Emanuele Lapponi
 - “A Practical Approach To Semantic Search” by Kentaro Takiguchi
 - “Synergy of Signals: Traffic Logs Meet LLM Labels” by Stefana Serban
 - “From Basics to Breakthroughs: A Hands-On Journey Through NLP” by Hila Weisman Zohar
 - “Evolving Yelp's Streaming at Scale” by Ashish Khatkar
 - “Apache Lucene: From Text Indexing to Artificial Intelligence” by Lucian Precup
 - “Under the hood of vector search with JVector” by Joel Knighton
 - “The “C” in CI/CD is not for “Closed”” by Josh Reed
 - “How we isolate streaming ingest from search using RocksDB” by Igor Canadi
 - “A journey in geospatial timeseries” by Nils Larsgård
 - “Flink's SQL Engine: Let's open the engine room!” by Timo Walther
 - “Accelerating TopK Queries” by Juliane Waack
 - “S3 as the state store for stream processing systems” by Yingjun Wu
 - “Can ChatGPT build a Data Platform faster than a developer?” by Chloé Caron
 - “Streaming doesn’t have to be hard” by Chloe He
 - “The Unsung Hero of Vector Database -- Metric Learning” by Sonam Pankaj
 - “Learning to Rank for Reddit Search - A Project Retro” by Doug Turnbull, Charles Njoroge
 - “Advancements in Evaluating Large Language Model Applications” by Petr Polezhaev
 - “Robust AI Search Ranking for Radical C2C Marketplace Growth” by Chingis Oinar, Teo Narboneta Zosa
 
We have moved a session around: “The Paradox of Open: Can Digital Commons Offer a Way Forward?” by Zuzanna Warso (June 10, 2024, 9:30 a.m. → June 10, 2024, 9:35 a.m.)
Version 0.7 April 10, 2024
We released a new schedule version!
We have a new session: “The Paradox of Open: Can Digital Commons Offer a Way Forward?” by Zuzanna Warso.
Version 0.6 April 10, 2024
We released a new schedule version!
Version 0.5 April 9, 2024
We released a new schedule version!
Version 0.4 April 4, 2024
We released a new schedule version!
We sadly had to cancel a session: “A journey in geospatial timeseries” by Nils Larsgård
Version 0.3 April 4, 2024
We released a new schedule version!
We have a new session: “A journey in geospatial timeseries” by Nils Larsgård.
Version 0.2 April 4, 2024
We released a new schedule version!
Version 0.1 April 4, 2024
We released our first schedule!