Conferences / Berlin Buzzwords
Berlin Buzzwords 2024
Jun 9–11, 2024 · Palais Kulturbrauerei, Berlin, Germany
- Conference
- Berlin Buzzwords Database
- Dates
- Jun 9, 2024 – Jun 11, 2024
- Venue
- Palais Kulturbrauerei
- Place
- Berlin, Germany
- Format
- Hybrid
- Status
- Past
- Attendance
- —No attendance figure found.
- Website
- 2024.berlinbuzzwords.de
- Recorded
- 16 sponsors · 81 speaker appearances
- Notes
- 15th edition. June 9 barcamp, June 10-11 conference; hybrid with online-only tickets. Keynote by Zuzanna Warso (Open Future). Speakers: full list from the pretalx schedule; affiliations from the pretalx Company/Organisation field, else from bios. Group tickets and Conference & Dinner ticket (1,450 EUR) not listed.
Ticket prices
| Ticket | Price | Valid until | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Early Bird Ticket | €690 | Feb 25, 2024 | 2024.berlinbuzzwords.de | |
| Standard Ticket | €860 | Jun 4, 2024 | 2024.berlinbuzzwords.de | |
| Online Only Ticket | €52 | — | Livestreams and online event only | 2024.berlinbuzzwords.de |
| Reduced Ticket (students, pupils, trainees, social welfare, retirees, people with disabilities) | €160 | — | 2024.berlinbuzzwords.de | |
| Trust us Ticket | €550 | — | Only available until December 31, 2023 | 2024.berlinbuzzwords.de |
| Last Minute Ticket | €1,100 | — | Available from June 5, 2024 | 2024.berlinbuzzwords.de |
Sponsors 16
Platinum 1
- OpenSearch · Platinum Partner
Gold 3
- Hyperspace · Gold Partners
- Kleinanzeigen · Gold Partners
- mobile.de · Gold Partners
Silver 4
Community 1
- Apple · Community Partner
Media 2
- Community Over Code · Event & Media Partners
- IT-Schulungen.com · Event & Media Partners
Other 5
- AI-Powered Search · Contributor Partner
- Bloomberg · Recording Partner
- OpenSource Connections · Contributor Partner
- Qdrant · Lunch Partner
- Search Guard · Get-Together Partner
Speakers and talks 81
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zuzanna Warso | Open Future | Keynote | The Paradox of Open: Can Digital Commons Offer a Way Forward? | Video |
| Alessandro Benedetti | Sease | Talk | Hybrid Search with Apache Solr Reciprocal Rank Fusion | Video |
| Alexander Butenko | GetYourGuide | Talk | From Text to Context: How We Introduced Hybrid Search | Video |
| Alexander Weiss | GetYourGuide | Talk | Sequential Testing Simplified with Basemath | SlidesVideo |
| Andreas Wagner | searchHub.io | Talk | Improving Search @scale with efficient query experimentation | SlidesVideo |
| Anna Ruggero | Sease | Talk | From Natural Language to Structured Solr Queries using LLMs | SlidesVideo |
| Ansgar Gruene | GetYourGuide | Talk | From Text to Context: How We Introduced Hybrid Search | Video |
| Ashish Khatkar | Yelp | Talk | Evolving Yelp's Streaming at Scale | Video |
| Atita Arora | — | Talk | Cracking the Code: Deciphering Evaluation Essentials for RAG | Video |
| Bilge Yücel | deepset | Talk | Improve LLM-based Applications with Fallback Mechanisms | SlidesVideo |
| Bo Wang | Jina AI | Talk | Jina Embeddings V2: From Raw Data to Bilingual Hybrid Search | Video |
| Branimir Lambov | DataStax | Talk | Applications of Tries in Apache Cassandra | Video |
| Bryan Burkholder | Slack | Talk | Standing on the Shoulders of Giants | Video |
| Charles Njoroge | Talk | Learning to Rank for Reddit Search - A Project Retro | Video | |
| Chingis Oinar | Mercari | Talk | Robust AI Search Ranking for Radical C2C Marketplace Growth | SlidesVideo |
| Chinmay Soman | StarTree | Talk | Can Apache Pinot replace your OLTP database? | Video |
| Chloé Caron | Theodo | Talk | Can ChatGPT build a Data Platform faster than a developer? | Video |
| Chloe He | Voltron Data | Talk | Streaming doesn’t have to be hard | SlidesVideo |
| Corey J. Nolet | NVIDIA | Talk | cuVS and Lucene: GPU-based Vector Search | Video |
| Danica Fine | Confluent | Talk | Brick-by-Brick: Exploring the Elements of Apache Kafka® | Video |
| Daniele Antuzi | Sease | Talk | Blazing-Fast Serverless MapReduce Indexer for Apache Solr | SlidesVideo |
| Desmond Obisi | — | Talk | Kafka on the Fly: A Serverless Approach to Data Streaming | SlidesVideo |
| Dharin Shah | GetYourGuide | Talk | From Text to Context: How We Introduced Hybrid Search | Video |
| Djordje Benn-Maksimovic | Eviden | Talk | Enhancing RAG with Neo4j Knowledge Graph | Video |
| Doug Turnbull | Talk | Learning to Rank for Reddit Search - A Project Retro | Video | |
| Emanuele Lapponi | — | Talk | Hardcoding airpods (and other stories from NLP in insurance) | Video |
| Gergely Daroczi | Spare Cores | Talk | Harnessing Spare Cores to Breeze Through Cloud Compute | SlidesVideo |
| Hajer Bouafif | — | Talk | Rediscover your keyword search: Expand, Enrich and Rewrite | SlidesVideo |
| Hans-Peter Grahsl | Red Hat | Talk | End-to-End Encryption for Streaming Data Pipelines | Video |
| Hellmar Becker | Imply | Talk | Let's Do Data Lineage in Kafka, Flink and Druid! | Video |
| Igor Canadi | Rockset | Talk | How we isolate streaming ingest from search using RocksDB | SlidesVideo |
| Ilan Ginzburg | Salesforce | Talk | Search in the Cloud: separation of compute and storage | SlidesVideo |
| Ilaria Petreti | Sease | Talk | From Natural Language to Structured Solr Queries using LLMs | SlidesVideo |
| Isabelle Mohr | Jina AI | Talk | Jina Embeddings V2: From Raw Data to Bilingual Hybrid Search | Video |
| Jannik Heyl | — | Talk | Lessons learned writing 10+ Kubernetes Operators | SlidesVideo |
| Jarek Potiuk | Independent | Talk | `New` Workflow Orchestrator in town: "Apache Airflow 2.x" | SlidesVideo |
| Joel Knighton | DataStax | Talk | Under the hood of vector search with JVector | SlidesVideo |
| Josh Reed | Aiven | Talk | The “C” in CI/CD is not for “Closed” | Video |
| Juliane Waack | Snowflake | Talk | Accelerating TopK Queries | SlidesVideo |
| Kentaro Takiguchi | Mercari | Talk | A Practical Approach To Semantic Search | Video |
| Konrad Richter | GetYourGuide | Talk | Sequential Testing Simplified with Basemath | SlidesVideo |
| Lars Albertsson | Scling | Talk | End-to-end pipeline agility | SlidesVideo |
| Lars Francke | Stackable | Talk | Lessons learned writing 10+ Kubernetes Operators | SlidesVideo |
| Lucian Precup | Adelean | Talk | Apache Lucene: From Text Indexing to Artificial Intelligence | Video |
| Luuk Kaandorp | Albert Heijn | Talk | The Power of the Bonus Card: Road to Personalised Search | Video |
| Manish Saraswat | mobile.de | Talk | Better search relevance using Learning to Rank at mobile.de | Video |
| Maryblessing Okolie | CHAOSS Project | Talk | Recognizing the driving forces of impactful OS projects | SlidesVideo |
| Michael Dinzinger | Universität Passau | Talk | Open Web Search - a platform for a free European Web Index | SlidesVideo |
| Mingshi Liu | OpenSearch | Talk | Elevating AI Applications with OpenSearch's Flow Framework and RAG Tool | SlidesVideo |
| Murhaf Fares | FREMTIND INSURANCE | Talk | Hardcoding airpods (and other stories from NLP in insurance) | Video |
| Nick Burch | — | Workshop | Barcamp | — |
| Nick Burch | — | Talk | Monitoring your home, with DevOps observability tools | SlidesVideo |
| Nicolas Fränkel | API7 | Talk | Practical introduction to OpenTelemetry tracing | Video |
| Nils Larsgård | Kodemaker | Talk | A journey in geospatial timeseries | Video |
| Ohad Levi | Hyperspace | Talk | Shattering the Limits of Search with Domain Specific Computing | Video |
| Olivier HUBER | Aiven | Talk | Build your 8-bit computer from scratch | Video |
| Owais Kazi | OpenSearch | Talk | Elevating AI Applications with OpenSearch's Flow Framework and RAG Tool | SlidesVideo |
| Pere Urbon Bayes | Confluent | Talk | Deep Learning plays Handball | SlidesVideo |
| Petr Polezhaev | SIXT SE | Talk | Advancements in Evaluating Large Language Model Applications | Video |
| Praveen Mohan Prasad | Amazon Web Services | Talk | Rediscover your keyword search: Expand, Enrich and Rewrite | SlidesVideo |
| Radovan Bacovic | GitLab | Talk | Remote work is here to stay - and what's next? | SlidesVideo |
| Radu Gheorghe | Sematext | Talk | Heap sizing and GC tuning for Solr and friends | SlidesVideo |
| Rafał Kuć | Archipelo | Talk | Heap sizing and GC tuning for Solr and friends | SlidesVideo |
| Saahil Ognawala | Jina AI | Talk | Open-Source Generative AI: A Product Manager’s Blueprint | SlidesVideo |
| Sebastian Arnold | Bayer | Talk | Learning to Apply Generative AI at Enterprise Level | Video |
| Sonam Pankaj | Independent | Talk | The Unsung Hero of Vector Database -- Metric Learning | SlidesVideo |
| Stefan Sprenger | Confluent | Talk | Taming the cost of Kafka workloads in the cloud | Video |
| Stefana Serban | eMag | Talk | Synergy of Signals: Traffic Logs Meet LLM Labels | Video |
| Stephan Ewen | Restate | Talk | Fixin the Hard Bits of Event Processing with Restate & Kafka | SlidesVideo |
| Teo Narboneta Zosa | Mercari | Talk | Robust AI Search Ranking for Radical C2C Marketplace Growth | SlidesVideo |
| Tim Zöller | lambdaschmiede GmbH | Talk | Back to the Future! Time Travel with Bitemporal Databases | SlidesVideo |
| Timo Walther | Confluent | Talk | Flink's SQL Engine: Let's open the engine room! | Video |
| Tomáš Neubauer | Quix | Talk | Streaming DataFrames: A New Way to Process Streaming Data | Video |
| Tudor Golubenco | Xata | Talk | Comparing vector implementations in generic databases | Video |
| Tun Shwe | Quix and Grafana | Talk | Moving from Offline to Online Machine Learning with River | SlidesVideo |
| Varun Thacker | Slack | Talk | Standing on the Shoulders of Giants | Video |
| Vincent Peijnenburg | Albert Heijn | Talk | The Power of the Bonus Card: Road to Personalised Search | Video |
| Vivek Narang | SearchScale | Talk | cuVS and Lucene: GPU-based Vector Search | Video |
| William Benton | NVIDIA | Talk | Large language models are not a paradigm shift | SlidesVideo |
| Yingjun Wu | RisingWave Labs | Talk | S3 as the state store for stream processing systems | Video |
| Zain Hasan | Weaviate | Talk | Advanced Retrieval-Augmented Generation Techniques | Video |