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Berlin Buzzwords 2025

Jun 15–17, 2025 · Palais Kulturbrauerei, Berlin, Germany

Conference
Berlin Buzzwords Database
Dates
Jun 15, 2025 – Jun 17, 2025
Venue
Palais Kulturbrauerei
Place
Berlin, Germany
Format
Hybrid
Status
Past
Attendance
—
No attendee count found; wrap-up says 'Over 80 speakers in 60 sessions'.
Website
2025.berlinbuzzwords.de
Recorded
12 sponsors · 83 speaker appearances
Notes
16th edition. June 15 barcamp, June 16-17 conference; hybrid with online-only tickets. Keynote by Aline Blankertz. Co-funded by the EU ERDF, visitBerlin and the Berlin Senate economics department. 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

TicketPriceValid untilNotesSource
Early Bird Ticket€690Feb 23, 20252025.berlinbuzzwords.de
Standard Ticket€860Jun 10, 20252025.berlinbuzzwords.de
Online Only Ticket€52—Livestreams and online event only2025.berlinbuzzwords.de
Reduced Ticket (students, pupils, trainees, social welfare, retirees, people with disabilities)€160—2025.berlinbuzzwords.de
Trust us Ticket€550—Only available until December 31, 20242025.berlinbuzzwords.de
Last Minute Ticket€1,100—Available from June 112025.berlinbuzzwords.de

Sponsors 12

Platinum 2

Gold 2

Silver 2

Community 1

  • Apple · Community Partner

Other 5

Speakers and talks 83

SpeakerCompanyRoleTalkLinks
Aline BlankertzRebalance NowKeynoteUnpacking Digital Sovereignty: How to avoid fueling the nationalist riseSlidesVideo
Abhishek SinghAppleTalkCross Domain Enterprise Search - Content Diversity at ScaleVideo
Adrien Grand—TalkShipping Lucene 10.0, 25 years in the makingSlidesVideo
Alessandro BenedettiSeaseTalkEnd-to-End Semantic Search with Apache Solr 9.8 LLM ModuleSlidesVideo
Alessio VertematiOneOffTechTalkContexts & Machines: How Document Parsing Shapes RAG resultsSlidesVideo
Andrea PontiOneOffTechTalkContexts & Machines: How Document Parsing Shapes RAG resultsSlidesVideo
Andrew MusselmanApache Software FoundationTalkQumat: Apache Mahout Quantum ComputeVideo
Anna RuggeroSeaseTalkAI-Powered Search Results Navigation with LLMs & JSON SchemaSlidesVideo
Athanasios PapaoikonomouElasticTalkExploring reranking depth in modern search pipelinesSlidesVideo
Atri SharmaAppleTalkCross Domain Enterprise Search - Content Diversity at ScaleVideo
Ben GutkovichSuperlinkedTalkMixture of Encoders: A Vector-Native Approach to SearchSlidesVideo
Bilge YüceldeepsetTalkGo Beyond Basic RAG with Agentic BehaviorSlidesVideo
Carly RichmondElasticTalkObservability for All!SlidesVideo
Celeste HorganAivenTalkFlavors of PostgreSQL® and you: how to choose a PostgresVideo
Charlie HullThe Search JugglerTalkBreaking Search For Fun and ProfitSlidesVideo
Danica FineSnowflakeTalkQuiet on Set: Building an On-Air Sign with Open Source TechVideo
Dennis BergerOTTOTalkWhat you see is what you mean; intent based ecommerce searchSlidesVideo
Dhrubo SahaAmazon Web ServicesTalkAdvancing Multi-Modal Search Capabilities in Search PipelineVideo
Dotan HorovitsAmazon Web ServicesTalkWhat’s New in the OpenSearch Project and EcosystemVideo
Edward LambeBank for International SettlementsTalkAI-Powered Search Results Navigation with LLMs & JSON SchemaSlidesVideo
Eric PughOpenSource ConnectionsTalkStreamlining Search Quality: Search Relevance WorkbenchVideo
Evgeniya SukhodolskayaQdrantTalkminiCOIL: Sparse Neural Retrieval Done RightSlidesVideo
Fatima TajYelpTalkHow I Sidestepped ‘Being Glue’SlidesVideo
Filip MakraduliSuperlinkedTalkMixture of Encoders: A Vector-Native Approach to SearchSlidesVideo
Frank MunzDatabricksTalkAnalysing Public Kafka Data from NASA SatellitesVideo
Fred O'LoughlinClimate Policy RadarTalkBuilding a knowledge graph for climate policyVideo
Giovanna MontiAdeleanTalkHarnessing AI to strengthen trustworthy informationSlidesVideo
Gülçin Yıldırım JelinekXataTalkAnatomy of Table-Level Locks in PostgreSQLSlidesVideo
Guy ShtubScyllaDBTalkPerformance & Fault Tolerance: Building a Modern DatabaseVideo
Harrison PimClimate Policy RadarTalkBuilding a knowledge graph for climate policyVideo
Ilaria PetretiSeaseTalkAI-Powered Search Results Navigation with LLMs & JSON SchemaSlidesVideo
Isaac ChungZendeskTalkReproducibility in Embedding BenchmarksSlidesVideo
Isabelle MohrJina AITalkVisual Literacy: Complex Document Retrieval with VLMsVideo
Ivan DolgovJetBrainsTalkHow to train a fast LLM for coding tasksVideo
Jan MeskensSievaxTalkData Quality Management: The Good, The Bad, and The MessySlidesVideo
Jarek PotiukApache Software FoundationTalkAirflow 3 - the new beginningVideo
Javier RamirezQuestDBTalkAccelerating QuestDB: Lessons from a 6x Performance BoostVideo
Jennifer Gaubatz—TalkWhy Chatbots Still Fail: The Hidden Pitfalls of RAGVideo
Jessie de GrootWeaviateTalkFrom Culture to Open Source: Build Value-driven CommunitiesVideo
Justin McleanApache Software FoundationTalkA decade of lessons in Open Source licensingVideo
Kevin LiangBloombergTalkPerformance Tuning Apache Solr for Dense VectorsVideo
Lars AlbertssonSclingTalkAll the DataOps, all the paradigmsSlidesVideo
Lester MartinStarburstTalkApache Iceberg ingestion with Apache NiFiSlidesVideo
Lewin von Saldern—TalkWhy Chatbots Still Fail: The Hidden Pitfalls of RAGVideo
Luca CavannaElasticTalkShipping Lucene 10.0, 25 years in the makingSlidesVideo
Lucian PrecupAdeleanTalkHarnessing AI to strengthen trustworthy informationSlidesVideo
Manish GillClickHouseTalkWhen StatefulSets are not enoughVideo
Marco PetrisOTTOTalkWhat you see is what you mean; intent based ecommerce searchSlidesVideo
Marion NehringWeaviateTalkFrom Culture to Open Source: Build Value-driven CommunitiesVideo
Michal GancarskiGROPYUS Technologies GmbHWorkshopMore Than Just The Tip Of The IcebergSlidesVideo
Miloš Sutanovac—TalkGoing Local-First: A PrimerSlidesVideo
Muhammet OrazovVervericaTalkFlinkCDC: Streamlining your data analytics pipelinesSlidesVideo
Nick BurchSaibleTalkSelf-hosting AI LLMs - a beginners guideSlidesVideo
Nick BurchSaibleTalkBarcamp—
Nikolay SivkoCorootTalkDelay accounting: an underrated feature of the Linux kernelVideo
Nomin-Erdene OyunBloombergTalkZero to Scale: Telemetry pipeline with Apache CassandraVideo
Olena KutsenkoConfluentTalkMastering real-time anomaly detection with open source toolsVideo
Peter ZaitsevPerconaTalkBest Practices for Running Databases on KubernetesSlidesVideo
Pietro MeleAdeleanTalkHybrid search on hybrid models, at scaleSlidesVideo
Piotr KobziakowskiVespa.aiTalkVespa.ai’s Personalized Search: Advanced Ranking & Tensor frameworkSlidesVideo
Radu GheorgheVespa.aiTalkWhich GPU for Local LLMs?SlidesVideo
Radu PopAdeleanTalkHybrid search on hybrid models, at scaleSlidesVideo
Rafał KućAuthologicTalkWhich GPU for Local LLMs?SlidesVideo
Raphael FrankeGerman Environment AgencyTalkgamma_flow: Denoise, classify and disentangle spectral data!SlidesVideo
Roman Grebennikov—TalkHow [not] to evaluate your RAGVideo
Roman KolesnevStreambasedTalkMelting Icebergs: Direct access to Kafka Data via IcebergVideo
Saba SturuaJina AITalkVisual Literacy: Complex Document Retrieval with VLMsVideo
Saurabh SinghOpenSearchTalkFrom Search to Insight: Leveraging OpenSearch for Scalable, AI-Driven Search ExperiencesVideo
Sebastian LenartowiczAurea ImagingTalkPrecision farming powered by K3s and TensorRTVideo
Shikhar SrivastavaBloombergTalkZero to Scale: Telemetry pipeline with Apache CassandraVideo
Sonam PankajArticul8TalkText Search on Images with Quantized ColPaliSlidesVideo
Stavros MacrakisOpenSearchTalkStreamlining Search Quality: Search Relevance WorkbenchVideo
Steffen HoellingerAiryTalkFlink Jobs as Agents – Stream Processing for Agentic AISlidesVideo
Tom ScottStreambasedTalkMelting Icebergs: Direct access to Kafka Data via IcebergVideo
Trevor GrantAI AllianceTalkQumat: Apache Mahout Quantum ComputeVideo
Uwe SchindlerSD DataSolutions GmbHTalkState of native access in Apache LuceneVideo
Ved PrakashGitLabTalkSiphon : Modern Data Stack with SF-CH & IcebergVideo
Viola RädleKI-Lab (Umweltbundesamt)Talkgamma_flow: Denoise, classify and disentangle spectral data!SlidesVideo
Volker CarlguthOTTOTalkWhat you see is what you mean; intent based ecommerce searchSlidesVideo
Wieneke Keller—TalkPrecision farming powered by K3s and TensorRTVideo
William BentonNVIDIATalk"Do What I Mean": The History of AI and Program SynthesisVideo
Yingjun WuRisingWave LabsTalkThe Dark Secrets of Stream ProcessingVideo
Yupeng FuUberTalkEvolution of Uber's Search PlatformVideo

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