Welcome to Berlin Buzzwords

Luuk Kaandorp, Vincent Peijnenburg - The Power of the Bonus Card: Road to Personalised Search

Stefan Sprenger - Taming the cost of Kafka workloads in the cloud

Ilan Ginzburg – Search in the Cloud: separation of compute and storage

Djordje Benn-Maksimovic – Enhancing RAG with Neo4j Knowledge Graph

Nils Larsgård – A journey in geospatial timeseries

Daniele Antuzi – Blazing-Fast Serverless MapReduce Indexer for Apache Solr

Teo Narboneta Zosa, Chingis Oinar – Robust AI Search Ranking for Radical C2C Marketplace Growth

Saahil Ognawala – Open-Source Generative AI: A Product Manager’s Blueprint

Atita Arora – Cracking the Code: Deciphering Evaluation Essentials for RAG

Lucian Precup – Apache Lucene: From Text Indexing to Artificial Intelligence

Mingshi Liu, Owais Kazi – Elevating AI Applications with OpenSearch's Flow Framework and RAG Tool

Maryblessing Okolie – Recognizing the driving forces of impactful OS projects

Bryan Burkholder, Varun Thacker – Standing on the Shoulders of Giants

Bo Wang, Isabelle Mohr – Jina Embeddings V2: From Raw Data to Bilingual Hybrid Search

Chloe He – Streaming doesn’t have to be hard

Pere Urbon Bayes – Deep Learning plays Handball

Lars Francke, Jannik Heyl – Lessons learned writing 10+ Kubernetes Operators

Joel Knighton – Under the hood of vector search with JVector

Sebastian Arnold - Learning to Apply Generative AI at Enterprise Level

Zain Hasan – Advanced Retrieval-Augmented Generation Techniques

Murhaf Fares, Emanuele Lapponi – Hardcoding airpods (and other stories from NLP in insurance)

Branimir Lambov – Applications of Tries in Apache Cassandra

Gergely Daroczi – Harnessing Spare Cores to Breeze Through Cloud Compute

Sonam Pankaj – The Unsung Hero of Vector Database: Metric Learning

Ansgar Gruene, Dharin Shah, Alexander Butenko – Text to Context: How We Introduced Hybrid Search

Tudor Golubenco – Comparing vector implementations in generic databases

Josh Reed – The “C” in CI/CD is not for “Closed”

Kentaro Takiguchi – A Practical Approach To Semantic Search

Desmond Obisi – Kafka on the Fly: A Serverless Approach to Data Streaming

Michael Dinzinger – Open Web Search: A platform for a free European Web Index

Tomáš Neubauer - Streaming DataFrames: A New Way to Process Streaming Data

Alexander Weiss, Konrad Richter – Sequential Testing Simplified with Basemath

Petr Polezhaev – Advancements in Evaluating Large Language Model Applications

Chinmay Soman – Can Apache Pinot replace your OLTP database?

Praveen Mohan Prasad, Hajer Bouafif – Rediscover your keyword search: Expand, Enrich and Rewrite

Olivier Huber - Build your 8-bit computer from scratch

Radovan Bacovic – Remote work is here to stay: and what's next?

Bilge Yücel - Improve LLM-based Applications with Fallback Mechanisms

William Benton – Large language models are not a paradigm shift

Igor Canadi – How we isolate streaming ingest from search using RocksDB

Hellmar Becker – Let's Do Data Lineage in Kafka, Flink and Druid!

Nick Burch – Monitoring your home, with DevOps observability tools

Chloé Caron - Can ChatGPT build a Data Platform faster than a developer?

Tim Zöller – Back to the Future! Time Travel with Bitemporal Databases

Manish Saraswat – Better search relevance using Learning to Rank at mobile.de

Yingjun Wu - S3 as the state store for stream processing systems

Corey J. Nolet, Vivek Narang – cuVS and Lucene: GPU-based Vector Search

Ohad Levi - Shattering the Limits of Search with Domain Specific Computing

Nicolas Fränkel – Practical introduction to OpenTelemetry tracing

Ilaria Petreti, Anna Ruggero - From Natural Language to Structured Solr Queries using LLMs

Ashish Khatkar – Evolving Yelp's Streaming at Scale

Jarek Potiuk – `New` Workflow Orchestrator in town: "Apache Airflow 2.x"

Stefana Serban – Synergy of Signals: Traffic Logs Meet LLM Labels

Doug Turnbull, Charles Njoroge – Learning to Rank for Reddit Search: A Project Retro

Stephan Ewen – Fixin the Hard Bits of Event Processing with Restate & Kafka

Zuzanna Warso - The Paradox of Open: Can Digital Commons Offer a Way Forward?

Timo Walther – Flink's SQL Engine: Let's open the engine room!

Tun Shwe – Moving from Offline to Online Machine Learning with River

Lars Albertsson – End-to-end pipeline agility