How to get the best from a search conference
Search conference veteran Charlie Hull lists the different kinds of search conference and how you can get the most from them
OpenSearchCon 2022
On September 21, 2022, I had the privilege of attending and speaking at Amazon Web Services’ inaugural OpenSearchCon in Seattle, WA. It was a one day event focused entirely…
Haystack US 2022 – juggling relevance in a hybrid search world
A few weeks ago we ran our flagship US conference Haystack, the first real in-person event since April 2019 (I’m sure I don’t need to tell you why!). It’s…
Why we set up a MICES in the US – and why we think that you should attend
MICES the e-commerce search event returns in June 2022 to Berlin – and there’s a new MICES in the US in April
Haystack 2021 – The Search Relevance Event returns
Haystack, the search relevance conference is back on September 29th 2021 with in-person and online options – come and join us!
Welcome René Kriegler to our growing European search team
René Kriegler joins OSC to head up our e-commerce search practice and our new European office
The Annual Search Shootout – Testing strategy on 2019’s topics
This post is part of a series I’ve been writing about participating in TREC 2020’s News Track. This post is a visual report of the retrieval performance we observed…
The Annual Search Shootout – how we’re competing at TREC to build better news recommendation
What exactly is TREC? If you’re involved in search, you have likely heard about TREC. TREC is short for the Text REtrieval Conference. This annual conference has been running…
Haystack 2020 retrospective – going virtual
Two weeks ago we ran our first ever virtual relevance conference – Haystack 2020, as part of a combined week of events including Berlin Buzzwords and MICES, the e-commerce…
Recap of AWS re:Invent 2015 in Las Vegas
Recap of AWS re:Invent 2015 in Las Vegas Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) re:Invent conference is one of the biggest cloud conferences in the world. With over 18,000 people in…
Recap of Lucene Revolution 2015 in Austin
Every one of us at OSC looks forward to Lucene Revolution. It’s one of the few conferences we attend where everyone understands search at a deep level. That means…
Talking Search and Discovery to Exploit Data at Enterprise Data World 2014
As a search guy, I think of data as something to exploit in order to solve some business objective, with a focus on moving data along the axis of…