Search Solutions 2022 will take place at the BCS London office at 25 Copthall Avenue London, EC2R 7BP, which is a 10 minute walk from either Liverpool Street or Moorgate Underground stations.
Session 1: The Search Experience: Focus on the users
- 10:00 – 10:15 Introduction
- 10:15 – 10:45 Natasha den Dekker (LexisNexis) “How to conduct empathetic user research to test the search experience of users?”
- 10:45 – 11:15 Amy Walduck (State Library of Queensland) “The Topography of Searching: Visualising search data“
11:15 – 11:45 Break
Session 2: Beyond keyword search: Semantic/conversational/audio search
- 11:45 – 12:15 Brammert Ottens (Spotify) “Finding the Right Audio Content for You”
- 12:15 – 12:45 Mohamed Yahya (Bloomberg) “Taking Question Answering from Research Prototype to Product”
- 12:45 – 13:15 Filip Radlinski (Google) “Challenges with Really Understanding Natural Language in Conversational Recommendation”
13:15 – 14:15 Lunch
Session 3: Search with an impact: Searching health-related information
- 14:15 – 14:45 Farhad Shokraneh (Institute of Health Informatics, University College London) “The Futures of Systematic Searching”
- 14:45 – 15:15 Gavin Moore & Andrew Doyle (University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire NHS Trust) “A Programmable Search – A Solution to Finding Guidelines and Patient Information?”
15:15 – 15:30 Break
Session 4: A world beyond web search: enterprise search
- 15:30 – 16:00 Julien Massiera & Cedric Ulmer (France Labs) “Combining Spacy with Datafari Community Edition to enable semantic Enterprise Search”
- 16:00 – 16:30 Phil Lewis (Pureinsights) “Practical Applications of Knowledge Graphs and AI in Search”
- 16:30 – 17:00 Lightning Talks (feel free to step up and present YOUR five-minute talk)
17:00 – 17:30 Our traditional ‘fishbowl’ session
17:30 – 17:45 BCS Search Industry Awards
17:45 Drinks reception/ BCS-IRSG AGM starts at 18:00
Registration
BCS Members: £92.00
Non-Members: £110.00
Students: £80.00