// the importance of sharing ideas

Conferences attended

In Sease we are strong believer in the importance of technical conferences in the Information Retrieval field.
They are the perfect place to expand your skills and learn industry specific knowledge that can help search experts grow.
As speakers at most of the biggest conferences around the world, we deeply care about sharing our researches and ideas in various topics: from search quality evaluation to artificial intelligence in search and machine learning integrations.

Here you can find all the conferences we attended during the years, with info about our talks and speakers (with slides and video).

// our meetup

London Information Retrieval Meetup

We proudly run the London Information Retrieval Meetup, a free evening aimed to Information Retrieval passionates and professionals who are curious to explore and discuss the latest trends in the field.

CONFERENCES (see below for more details)

Fosdem
ApacheCon
Open Source Summit
ECIR
ECIR
Haystack
Lucene User Group
Chorus
conferences attended

2023

// ECIR 2023

Location:  Dublin, Ireland
Date: 2-6th April 2023
Speaker: Alessandro BenedettiAnna Ruggero 
Talk: Stat-weight: Improving the Estimator of Interleaved Methods Outcomes with Statistical Hypothesis Testing

// ElasticON

Location:  Online 
Date: 7-9th March 2023
Speaker: Anna Ruggero + Ilaria Petreti
Talk: How To Implement Your Online Search Quality Evaluation With Kibana

conferences attended

2022

// Lucene/Solr Meetup - Tokyo

Location:  Tokyo – Japan 
Date: 9th December 2022
Speaker: Alessandro Benedetti 
Talk: Online Testing Learning to Rank with Apache Solr Interleaving

// Open Source Summit Japan

Location:  Yokohama – Japan 
Date: 5-6 December 2022
Speaker: Alessandro Benedetti 
Talk: Neural Search Improvements with Apache Solr 9.1: Approximate Nearest Neighbor and Pre-Filtering

// BCS Search Solutions

Location:  BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT
25 Copthall Avenue, London
Date: 22-23 November 2022
Speaker: Alessandro Benedetti 
Talk: Approaching Neural Search with Apache Solr and Open-source Technologies – Tutorial

// ApacheCon North America

Location: Canal Street, New Orleans
Date: 3rd-6th October 2022
Speaker: Alessandro Benedetti 
Talk: Neural Search Comes to Apache Solr: Approximate Nearest Neighbor, BERT and More!

// Melbourne Search and Recommendation

Location: online
Date: 29th June 2022
Speaker: Alessandro Benedetti 
Talk: Dense Retrieval with Apache Solr Neural Search

// BERLIN BUZZWORDS

Location: Kulturbrauerei, Berlin
Date: 12th-14th June 2022
Speakers: Alessandro Benedetti + Daniele Antuzi + Ilaria Petreti
Talk 1: Neural Search Comes to Apache Solr: Approximate Nearest Neighbor, BERT and More (Buzzwords)!
Talk 2:
Word2Vec Model to Generate Synonyms on the Fly in Apache Lucene

// ECIR

Location: Stavanger
Date: 10th – 14thApril 2022
Speakers: Alessandro Benedetti + Elia Porciani + Anna Ruggero
Poster 1: Dense Retrieval with Apache Solr Neural Search
Poster 2:
Evaluating Ranking Models in Production: a View on Offline and Online Experiences

// Haystack LIVE!

Location: online
Date: 24th March 2022
Speakers: Alessandro Benedetti 
Talk: Online Testing Learning to Rank with Solr Interleaving

conferences attended

2021

// Chorus workshops

Location: Plain Schwarz (online)
Date: 26th January 2021
Speakers: Alessandro Benedetti + Andrea Gazzarini
Talk: Rated Ranking Evaluator – Hands-on Relevance Testing

conferences attended

2020

// HAYSTACK LIVE!

Location: online
Date: 21th May 2020
Speakers: Alessandro Benedetti 
Talk: How to Build your Training Set for a Learning to Rank Project

conferences attended

2019

// Apache Lucene/Solr meetup

Location: London (UK)
Date: 16th May 2019
Speaker: Alessandro Benedetti 
Talk: How the Lucene More Like This Works

// HAYSTACK

Location: Charlottesville (USA)
Date: 24th April 2019
Speakers: Alessandro Benedetti  + Andrea Gazzarini
Talk: Rated Ranking Evaluator: an Open-source Approach for Search Quality Evaluation

// ECIR

Location: Cologne (Germany)
Date: 14-18 April 2019
Speaker: Alessandro Benedetti 
Talk: Search Quality Evaluation to Help Reproducibility: an Open-source Approach

// FOSDEM

Location: Bruxelles (Belgium)
Date: 2-3 February 2019
Speakers: Alessandro Benedetti  + Andrea Gazzarini
Talk: Rated Ranking Evaluator: an Open-source Approach for Search Quality Evaluation

conferences attended

2018

// HAYSTACK

Location: Haystack (UK)
Date: 2nd October 2018
Speakers: Alessandro Benedetti  + Andrea Gazzarini
Talk: Search Quality Evaluation: Tools and Techniques

// ECIR

Location: Grenoble (France)
Date: 26-29 March 2019
Speaker: Alessandro Benedetti 
Talk: From Academic Papers to Production: A Learning To Rank Story

// Apache Lucene/Solr meetup

Location: London (UK)
Date: //
Speaker: Andrea Gazzarini
Talk: Search Quality Evaluation: a Developer Perspective

conferences attended

2017

// Open Source summit

Location: Tokyo (Japan)
Date: 31th May – 2nd June 2017
Speaker: Alessandro Benedetti 
Talk: Advanced Document Similarity with Apache Lucene

// Apache Lucene/Solr Meetup

Location: London (UK)
Date: //
Speaker: Alessandro Benedetti 
Talk: Apache Lucene/Solr Document Classification

conferences attended

2016

// Apachecon

Location: Seville (Spain)
Date: 16-18 November 2016
Speaker: Alessandro Benedetti 
Talk: Lucene And Solr Document Classification