Search Solutions Tutorials

AGENDA

The good news is that you will receive three high quality tutorial on the timely and important topics in professional search between 9am and 6.30pm on 25th Nov 2025.

The topics are:

*Alessandro Benedetti, Sease Ltd. - Search Quality Evaluation in the era of LLMs and vector search

*Cédric ULMER, CEO @ France Labs - what does it really mean to add genAI to Open Source Enterprise Search?

*Radu Gheorghe, Vespa.ai - Lexical, Dense and Sparse Vector Search with Vespa.ai

9:00-10:30 Session 1

10:30-10:45 Coffee break

10:45-11:45 Session 2

11:45-12:45 Session 3

12:45-13:45 Lunch

13:45-15:15 Session 4

15:15-15:30

Coffee break

15:30-18:00 Session 5&6

SYNOPSIS

Hands-on tutorials exploring the latest advances in vector search, Large Language Models, and Generative AI, equipping delegates with practical tools and insights to design, evaluate, and enhance next-generation search systems.

Registration fees (including VAT at 20%) for Search Solutions are as follows:

* BCS / ISKO member rate: £92

* Non-member rate: £110

* Students: £80

REFUNDS/CANCELLATIONS:

A refund, excluding fees, will be issued if a cancellation request is received within 7days of the booking date or by noon on 19 November2025 ; otherwise, name substitutions will be allowed after this date.

Our events are for adults aged 16 years and over.

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THIS EVENT IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY:

Information Retrieval specialist group

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