We are delighted to announce the eighteenth London Information Retrieval Meetup, a free evening event aimed at Information Retrieval enthusiasts and professionals who are curious to explore and discuss the latest trends in the field.
This time the Meetup is ON TRAVEL, with a live event in Milan (Italy) being streamed online on Zoom!
In presence
HUAWEI ITALIA
Via Lorenteggio, 240, 20147 (Tower A, second floor)
Milan, ITALY
Date: 23rd October 2023
Open Doors 5:30 PM GMT+1 (6:30 PM Italian Time)
Event starts at 6:00 PM GMT+1 (7:00 PM Italian Time)
online
Location: Zoom [You will receive the link after the registration]
Date: 23rd October 2023 | 6:15 PM GMT+1 (7:15 Italian Time)
The event will be structured around 3 technical talks, each followed by a Q&A session. The event will end with a networking session.
PROGRAM
> Open doors from 5:30 GMT+1 (in-presence) – Italian time: 6:30 PM
> 6:15 GMT+1 open doors for virtual attendees – Italian time: 7:15 PM
- Welcome & Latest News – Alessandro Benedetti Founder, Sease
- Huawei Intro – Luca Frigerio, Online Marketing Manager @ Huawei
Huawei Cloud – Francesco Stranieri, Developer Advocate @ Huawei Cloud
> 6:30 GMT+1 First talk – Open Source Large Language Models in Search | Alessandro Benedetti – Founder @ Sease
> 7:00 GMT+1 Second talk – GenerativeAI with Apache Solr and LangStream.ai | Enrico Olivelli – Senior Software Engineer @ DataStax
> 7:30 GMT+1 Third talk – A Deep Dive into Personalized Information Retrieval | Pranav Kasela – PhD Student @ Università Milano-Bicocca
> 8:00 GMT+1 Huawei presents ModelArts – Simple tooling for your AI | Francesco Stranieri – Developer Advocate @ Huawei Cloud
> 8:15 GMT+1 Networking session + buffet
FIRST TALK
Open Source Large Language Models in Search
Large Language Models (LLMs) are becoming ubiquitous: everyone is talking about them, everyone wants to use them and everyone claims is getting benefits out of them…
But… is it that simple?
This talk aims to demystify the Open Source landscape of large language models, exploring what it means to use them to improve your search engine ecosystem and what are the most common pitfalls.
Join us as we explore this new exciting Open Source landscape and learn how you can leverage it to improve your search experience!
The Speaker
Alessandro Benedetti
FOUNDER @ SEASE
APACHE LUCENE/SOLR COMMITTER
APACHE SOLR PMC MEMBER
Senior Search Software Engineer, his focus is on R&D in Information Retrieval, Information Extraction, Natural Language Processing, and Machine Learning.
He firmly believes in Open Source as a way to build a bridge between Academia and Industry and facilitate the progress of applied research.
VIDEO
SECOND TALK
GenerativeAI with Apache Solr and LangStream.ai
The Speaker
Enrico Olivelli
Senior Software Engineer @ DATASTAX
Enrico Olivelli is an Open Source enthusiast. He is involved in many projects in the Apache Software Foundation and in CNCF. He has been working on distributed systems, in particular databases and messaging systems.He works at DataStax in the Luna Streaming team, in particular on Apache Pulsar and LangStream.ai.
VIDEO
THIRD TALK
A Deep Dive into Personalized Information Retrieval
The Speaker
Pranav Kasela
PhD Student @ Università Milano-Bicocca
His research interest revolves around the application of Neural Models in information retrieval systems, recommender systems, and various NLP tasks. Currently, he is pursuing his PhD under the supervision of Gabriella Pasi (University of Milano-Bicocca) and Raffaele Perego (ISTI-CNR, Pisa). The PhD focuses on Personalization in Information Retrieval.
VIDEO
Presentation
Huawei presents ModelArts - Simple tooling for your AI
Huawei Cloud finally approached Europe coming with ModelArts among many other cloud services! ModelArts is a one-stop AI development platform geared toward developers and data scientists of all skill levels. It enables you to rapidly develop, build, train, and deploy models anywhere, and manage full-lifecycle AI workflows supporting mainstream open-source AI development frameworks such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, and MindSpore.
The Speaker
Francesco Stranieri
Developer Advocate @ Huawei Cloud
With several years as Developer Advocate for Huawei Mobile Services, He’s now on Huawei Cloud (EU) services, supporting developers, communities and events. As ML enthusiast, coming with a bright past on ML Kit from Huawei Mobile Services, He’s now focusing on ModelArts from Huawei Cloud, regularly playing with Jupyter Notebooks.
