- Conference
- Haystack Database
- Dates
- May 6, 2026 – May 7, 2026
- Venue
- —
- Place
- Charlottesville, VA, United States
- Format
- Hybrid
- Status
- Past
- Attendance
- —
- Website
- archive.haystackconf.com
- Recorded
- 2 sponsors · 16 speaker appearances
- Notes
- Single track; 'LLMs as Judges' workshop on 5 May. Venue not named on the archived page. Speakers: full list from the archived schedule and talk pages.
Ticket prices
| Ticket | Price | Valid until | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Online ticket | $60 | — | web.archive.org | |
| Workshop "LLMs as Judges" | $500 | — | web.archive.org | |
| In-person conference | $550 | — | web.archive.org | |
| Combo ticket (conference + workshop) | $990 | — | web.archive.org |
Sponsors 2
Speakers and talks 16
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agustín Bernardo | Superhuman | Speaker | LLMs as Rerankers: A Case Study on Hybrid Email Search | Video |
| Ángel Maldonado | Empathy.co | Speaker | AI Governance: Crafting Your Own AI Experiences | Video |
| Cem Aksoy | Yelp | Speaker | Managing Search Teams: Field Stories & Practical Takeaways | Video |
| Daniel Wrigley | OpenSource Connections | Speaker | Agentic Tuning: Search Relevance on Autopilot | Video |
| David Tippett | GitHub | Speaker | From 0 - Production with BBQ at GitHub | Video |
| Doug Turnbull | SoftwareDoug LLC | Speaker | AutoReSEARCH – Ranking coded by agents | Video |
| Jon Handler | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | Do we still need search engines? | Video |
| Kathleen DeRusso | Elastic | Speaker | Evolution of Relevance Engineering to Context Engineering | Video |
| Kevin M. Butler | KMW LLC | Speaker | Adaptive Relevance with Agentic Search | Video |
| Maëlly Dubois | Adelean | Speaker | Why your B2B search engine doesn’t understand your users | Video |
| René Kriegler | OpenSource Connections | Speaker | Do we still need search engines? | Video |
| Tianxiao Wei | MongoDB | Speaker | When BM25 Scores Disagree: A Corpus-Independent Alternative | Video |
| Tim Allison | Elastic | Speaker | Apache Tika 4.x: Engineered for RAG and Agentic Search | Video |
| Trey Grainger | Searchkernel | Speaker | Learning to Understand: A Missing Stage of Modern Retrieval | Video |
| Trey Grainger | Searchkernel | Speaker | Do we still need search engines? | Video |
| William Barber | turbopuffer | Speaker | LLMs as Rerankers: A Case Study on Hybrid Email Search | Video |