Conferences / Haystack
Haystack US 2025
Apr 23–24, 2025 · Violet Crown Charlottesville, Charlottesville, VA, United States
- Conference
- Haystack Database
- Dates
- Apr 23, 2025 – Apr 24, 2025
- Venue
- Violet Crown Charlottesville
- Place
- Charlottesville, VA, United States
- Format
- Hybrid
- Status
- Past
- Attendance
- —
- Website
- archive.haystackconf.com
- Recorded
- 0 sponsors · 24 speaker appearances
- Notes
- Two tracks at the Violet Crown cinema, streamed via Zoom; training day and 'We are Search PMs' BarCamp on 22 Apr. Ticket prices and sponsors not shown (Eventbee). Speakers: full list from the archived schedule and talk pages (welcome/closing omitted).
Ticket prices
No ticket prices recorded
Sponsors 0
No sponsors recorded
Speakers and talks 24
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rick Hamilton | Focused Ultrasound Foundation | Keynote | Innovation in the Age of Artificial Intelligence | SlidesVideo |
| Amine Gani | Adelean | Speaker | Behind the hype: managing billion-scale embeddings in Elasticsearch and OpenSearch | SlidesVideo |
| Aruna Govindaraju | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | Supercharging Search in OpenSearch: Harnessing User Behavior insights for Continuous Improvement | SlidesVideo |
| Audrey Lorberfeld | Sourcegraph | Panelist | Women of Search Presents: How Great Product Managers Build for Impact | SlidesVideo |
| Daniel Wrigley | OpenSource Connections | Speaker | From Static to Dynamic: Data-Driven Query Understanding to Supercharge Hybrid Search | SlidesVideo |
| Doug Rosenoff | LexisNexis | Speaker | Enhancing Generative AI Evaluation with Synthetic Raters | SlidesVideo |
| Doug Turnbull | Daydream | Speaker | Beyond LLM-as-judge towards LLM relevance engineering | SlidesVideo |
| Doug Turnbull | Daydream | Panelist | AMA with the Authors of AI-Powered Search | Video |
| Gurion Marks | Moody's | Speaker | Judge Moody's: Automating Semantic Search Relevance Evaluation with LLM Judges | SlidesVideo |
| Jason Taylor | Zoro | Speaker | From Traditional Keyword Search to AI-Powered Search: Our Journey | SlidesVideo |
| John Berryman | Arcturus Labs | Speaker | Lexical Love: Rediscovering the Power of Lexical Search in RAG | SlidesVideo |
| Jon Vivers | Zoro | Speaker | From Traditional Keyword Search to AI-Powered Search: Our Journey | SlidesVideo |
| Kaiyi Liu | Mercari | Speaker | AI and LLM strategies and application at Mercari Search | SlidesVideo |
| Kristian Aune | Vespa.ai | Speaker | Building Relevance Formulas with LLMs | SlidesVideo |
| Meet Parekh | Zoro | Speaker | From Traditional Keyword Search to AI-Powered Search: Our Journey | SlidesVideo |
| Mehul Shah | Aryn Inc | Speaker | Beyond RAG — going from search to analytics on unstructured data with Aryn | SlidesVideo |
| Nathan Day | Eezy | Speaker | Maximizing Multimodal: Exploring the search frontier of text-image models to improve visual find-ability for creatives | SlidesVideo |
| Roudy Khoury | Adelean | Speaker | Behind the hype: managing billion-scale embeddings in Elasticsearch and OpenSearch | SlidesVideo |
| Samdisha Kapoor | Wayfair | Panelist | Women of Search Presents: How Great Product Managers Build for Impact | SlidesVideo |
| Stefan Webb | Zilliz | Speaker | Automatic FAQ: Building a Multi-Agent Systems to Extract Insight from User Discussions | SlidesVideo |
| Thierry Damiba | Qdrant | Speaker | MiniCoil: A Hybrid Sparse Retrieval Model for Scalable and Context-Aware Semantic Search | SlidesVideo |
| Trey Grainger | Searchkernel | Panelist | AMA with the Authors of AI-Powered Search | Video |
| Uri Goren | Argmax | Speaker | Persona Based Evaluation of Search Systems | SlidesVideo |
| Valentin v. Seggern | AMBOSS SE | Speaker | Evaluating Search Features: Lessons from Launching Knowledge Panels & Vector Search in Medical Search | SlidesVideo |