- Conference
- Haystack Database
- Dates
- Sep 23, 2025 – Sep 24, 2025
- Venue
- TUECHTIG
- Place
- Berlin, Germany
- Format
- Hybrid
- Status
- Past
- Attendance
- —
- Website
- archive.haystackconf.com
- Recorded
- 2 sponsors · 20 speaker appearances
- Notes
- Single track at TUECHTIG, Berlin, with Zoom streaming. Only side-event hosts (Search Meetup, BarCamp) are named as sponsors. Speakers: full list from the archived schedule and talk pages.
Ticket prices
| Ticket | Price | Valid until | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Online conference via Zoom | €50 | — | web.archive.org | |
| In-person conference (early bird) | €249 | — | web.archive.org | |
| In-person conference | €299 | — | web.archive.org | |
| Training "LLMs as Judges" | €419 | — | web.archive.org |
Sponsors 2
Other 2
- AMBOSS SE · BarCamp host/sponsor
- GetYourGuide · Search Meetup host/sponsor
Speakers and talks 20
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| David Louis Hollembaek | Veeva Systems | Keynote | Keynote | SlidesVideo |
| Angeley Mullins | Aetheris Ventures | Panelist | Women of Search Present: AI Agents: From Hype to Reality | Video |
| Atita Arora | Voyager Search | Panelist | Women of Search Present: AI Agents: From Hype to Reality | Video |
| Aurélien Foucret | Elastic | Speaker | Commoditizing Inference: Why Your Query Language Should Speak AI | Video |
| Daniel Wrigley | OpenSource Connections | Speaker | From LLM-as-a-Judge to Human-in-the-Loop: Rethinking Evaluation in RAG and Search | SlidesVideo |
| Daniel Wrigley | OpenSource Connections | Speaker | Agentic search tuning: faster and better | SlidesVideo |
| Fernando Rejon Barrera | Zeta Alpha | Speaker | From LLM-as-a-Judge to Human-in-the-Loop: Rethinking Evaluation in RAG and Search | SlidesVideo |
| Filip Makraduli | Superlinked | Speaker | From BM25 to Mixture-of-Encoders: Evaluations for Next-Gen Search and Retrieval Systems | Video |
| François Gaillard | Adeo Services | Speaker | Hybrid Image Search at Scale: Lessons in Accuracy, Latency, and Cost | SlidesVideo |
| Guilherme de Freitas Guitte | Adeo Services | Speaker | Hybrid Image Search at Scale: Lessons in Accuracy, Latency, and Cost | SlidesVideo |
| Jens Kürsten | OTTO | Speaker | Future-Proofing E-commerce Search Architecture for Conversational Commerce and Beyond | SlidesVideo |
| Lucas Jeanniot | Eliatra | Speaker | Smart Recall: Enhancing Local LLM Conversations with Embedding-Aware Context Retrieval | SlidesVideo |
| Lucian Precup | Adelean | Speaker | Harnessing AI to strengthen trustworthy information | SlidesVideo |
| Marek Galovic | TopK | Speaker | Billion-scale hybrid retrieval in a single query | SlidesVideo |
| Matthias Krüger | OpenSource Connections | Speaker | Improving Relevance in RAG - Lessons learned from the LiveRAG challenge | SlidesVideo |
| Mohit Sidana | Wolters Kluwer | Speaker | Hybrid search Lessons learned | SlidesVideo |
| Olena Gorbatiuk | Independent | Panelist | Women of Search Present: AI Agents: From Hype to Reality | Video |
| Philippe Bouzaglou | Vectra | Speaker | Beyond Keywords: Measuring Multimodal Search Quality | SlidesVideo |
| Stavros Macrakis | OpenSearch | Speaker | Agentic search tuning: faster and better | SlidesVideo |
| Tom Burgmans | Wolters Kluwer | Speaker | Hybrid search Lessons learned | SlidesVideo |