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9:00am EDT

Pre-Conference Training - Day 1 TBA Pre-Conference Training: Advanced Solr Development TBA Pre-Conference Training: Foundations of Lucidworks Fusion TBA Pre-Conference Training: Lucidworks Fusion AI TBA Pre-Conference Training: Lucidworks Fusion for Advanced Search Application Developers TBA Pre-Conference Training: Solr Foundations TBA

9:00am EDT

Pre-Conference Training - Day 2 TBA Pre-Conference Training: Advanced Solr Development TBA Pre-Conference Training: Lucidworks Fusion AI TBA Pre-Conference Training: Lucidworks Fusion App Studio TBA Pre-Conference Training: Lucidworks Fusion for Advanced Search Application Developers TBA

5:00pm EDT

Welcome Reception Level 4 Foyer

8:00am EDT

Breakfast & Registration

9:00am EDT

Welcome and Opening Remarks Salle de bal

10:00am EDT

Keynote: Deep Learning for AI Salle de balDr. Yoshua Bengio

10:45am EDT

AM Break

11:15am EDT

Strategic Value from Enterprise Search and Insights Salon 1Viren Patel Learning to Rank: From Theory to Production Drummond EastDiego Ceccarelli • Malvina Josephidou Content Analytics Studio – The Visualization, Machine Learning and Application Workflow Tool which Kicks Kibana’s Butt – For Solr! Jarry & JoyceAndrés Aguilar Umaña Solr on Kubernetes Drummond WestApoorv Bhawsar Image-Based E-Commerce Product Discovery: A Deep Learning Case Study Salon 6&7Peter Gazaryan • Denis Kamotsky

11:40am EDT

Overcoming Obstacles: Implementing Search in an Era of Strong Cybersecurity and Federal Data Center Consolidation Salon 1Phyllis Kolmus

12:05pm EDT

The SAS Search Journey: Using AI to Move from Google to Lucidworks Salon 1Alex Flynn Cybersecurity with Apache Metron and Apache Solr Drummond EastWard Bekker • Scott Cote Identifying Parts of an E-commerce Query on Target.com Using Search Logs Salon 4&5Vijayender Reddy Karnaty • Vidhya Sundaram Cross Data Center Replication Options - A Practical Guide to CDCR Drummond WestPatrick Hoeffel Query Hundreds of Fields at Scale Jarry & JoyceYannis Hector • David Smiley Making Reddit Search Relevant and Scalable Salon 6&7Jerry Bao • Anupama Joshi

12:45pm EDT

Lunch

2:15pm EDT

How eCommerce Leaders are Gaining Competitive Advantage with Machine Learning: The Key Use Cases You Need to Know Salon 1Kevin Vondemkamp Practical End-to-End Learning to Rank Using Fusion Salon 4&5Andy Liu The Intersection of Robotics, Search and AI with Solr, MyRobotLab, and Deep Learning Drummond EastKevin Watters ROI: Return On Information – Mapping the Evolutionary Path of Economic Value Jarry & JoyceFrederic Bourget JSON in Solr: From Top to Bottom Drummond WestAlexandre Rafalovitch Using Opinion Mining and Sentiment Analysis to Discover Hidden Product Features for E-Commerce Search Salon 6&7John Castillo • Suyash Sonawane

2:40pm EDT

Measuring ROI on Enterprise Search Salon 1John Lenker

3:05pm EDT

Transforming our Enterprise Search Experience Salon 1Ryan Gale The Neural Search Frontier Salon 4&5Doug Turnbull Activating your Data, with a Faster Path to Results Jarry & JoyceAaron Murphy Applied Mathematical Modeling with Apache Solr Drummond EastJoel Bernstein Security in Apache Solr Drummond WestAnshum Gupta Ticket Search By Voice and NLP at Stubhub Salon 6&7William Yu • Charles Zhang

3:30pm EDT

Using Search to Elevate Customer Experience at Moody's Analytics Salon 1Muthu Periaswamy

3:45pm EDT

PM Break

4:15pm EDT

Why We Picked Lucidworks and How They Improved Our Customer Experiences Salon 1Aneil Singh Automatically Build Solr Synonyms List Using Machine Learning Salon 4&5Chao Han Journey of Search: What Every Enterprise Must Have for Search Success Jarry & JoyceChris Cook • Ryan Donnelly • Jose Pagan • Daisy Urfer Embracing Diversity: Searching over Multiple Languages Drummond EastSuneel Marthi • Jeff Zemerick Query-time Nonparametric Regression with Temporally Bounded Models Drummond WestPatrick Heck • David Smiley Shape of the Cloud: Search Infrastructure as Code Salon 6&7Vasily Volkov • Akasha Yi

5:05pm EDT

Building Self-Aware Machines Jarry & JoyceKord Campbell How to Build a Semantic Search System Salon 4&5Trey Grainger Inside the Black Box: How Does a Neural Network Understand Names? Salon 1Philip Blair Building Analytics Applications with Streaming Expressions in Apache Solr Drummond WestAmrit Sarkar Fundamental Linguistics for Search Applications – Why Are Linguistics Important? Drummond EastBastian Mathes • Christian Vogt Verizon's Journey to AI-Powered Search with Fusion. Goodbye Legacy Search! Salon 6&7Malik Sayed

5:55pm EDT

AI In Practice: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Panel Discussion) Salle de balKavita Ganesan • Grant Ingersoll • Anupama Joshi • Daniel Tunkelang • Josh Wills

7:30pm EDT

Conference Party at 1909 Taverne Moderne

8:00am EDT

Breakfast

9:10am EDT

Fireside Chat with Beena Ammanath: Injecting Moral Code Into AI Salle de balBeena Ammanath

10:10am EDT

AM Break

10:30am EDT

Vectors in Search – Towards More Semantic Matching Drummond East, Level 3Simon Hughes Intro to Lucidworks Fusion Jarry & JoyceKord Campbell • Esther Quansah Lucene/Solr 8: The Next Major Release Drummond WestSteve Rowe Speeding Up Lucene with GPUs Salon 4&5, Level 2Ishan Chattopadhyaya How Does the USA Today Network Provide Its Readers With Meaningful Content? Salon 6&7Devansh Dhutia

11:20am EDT

Enabling Opinion Driven Decision Making Salon 4&5Kavita Ganesan Lessons from the Field: Common Mistakes Made Deploying a Search App with Fusion Salon 1Josh Goldstein • Michael Hunn Challenges of Simple Documents: When Basic isn't so Basic Drummond EastCassandra Targett SolrJ: Power and Pitfalls Drummond WestJason Gerlowski Empowering Customers to Self Solve - A Findability Journey Salon 6&7Manikandan Sivanesan • Rutvij Vyas Solr Under the Hood at S&P Global Jarry & JoyceSumit Vadhera

12:00pm EDT

Lunch

1:15pm EDT

Deep Learning for Unified Personalized Search and Recommendations Salon 4&5Jake Mannix Building a Fast and Powerful Search App with Lucidworks Site Search Salon 1Joshua Ellinger • Andrew Thanalertvisuti How SolrCloud Solved Recovery Issues Drummond EastDat Cao Manh State of the JSON Facet API Drummond WestYonik Seeley 100 Billion Documents And Counting: Rebuilding Message Search at Slack Jarry & JoyceJohn Gallagher • Josh Wills Scaling Box-Search: Gearing up for Petabyte Scale Salon 6&7Shubhro Roy • Anthony Urbanowicz

2:05pm EDT

Entity Extraction for Product Searches Salon 4&5Radu Gheorghe • Rafał Kuć Generating Faster ML Predictions in Fusion Salon 1Kiran Chitturi SQL Analytics for Search Engineers Drummond WestTim Potter Cluster Dynamics in Solr Autoscaling Drummond EastAndrzej Białecki Apply Learning to Rank in The Home Depot Type Ahead Service Jarry & JoyceRongkai Zhao Realtime Solr Analytics and Triage for Video Delivery Workflow Salon 6&7Julia Li

2:55pm EDT

Enriching Solr with Deep Learning for a Question Answering System Salon 4&5Savva Kolbachev • Sanket Shahane Fusion on Kubernetes Salon 1Alan • Joseph Streeky Autoscaling Suggestions: Simplifying Operations Drummond EastVarun Thacker How To Be a Solr Contributor Drummond WestChris Hostetter Migration Station - DevOps for Fusion with Version Control and Continuous Integration Jarry & JoyceTodd Lack Who Moved My State? A Blob Storage Solr Story Salon 6&7Ilan Ginzburg

3:35pm EDT

PM Break

3:50pm EDT

Closing Session: The Future of Search & AI Salle de balTrey Grainger