Minneapolis Area Lucene/Solr Meetup

Join us for refreshments, and socializing followed by presentations on What's New in Lucene/Solr from Grant Ingersoll and presentations from Entegen and BestBuy on how they are using Solr to help their businesses. The event is hosted by Entagen and LucidWorks at 514 Studios, convienently located in the heart of the warehouse district, near the new Target Field, The Northstar Commuter Rail, and the Hiawatha Light Rail Line.

Presentations:

Next Generation Search and Analytics with Lucene and Solr 4Grant Ingersoll, Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of LucidWorks

Whether it's enabling core search or powering a next generation product recommendation engine or building agile business intelligence tools, Apache Lucene and Solr are highly capable, open source search technologies that make it easy for organizations to drastically enhance data access. With the release of version 4.4 of Lucene and Solr, it is easier than ever to add and scale search capabilities to your data driven application. In this talk, Lucene and Solr committer Grant Ingersoll will walk you through the latest and greatest capabilities in Lucene and Solr related to relevance, distributed search, and faceting as well as show you how to leverage these capabilities to build fast, efficient, scalable, next generation data driven applications.

Searching and Visualizing Entity Relationships, Powered by SolrMike Hugo, Senior Software Engineer, Entagen

Learn about how TripleMap.com utilizes the power of Solr to provide lightning fast search results and innovative visualizations to end users.

Product Search @ BBYVenkat Ambati, Sr. Manager Application Development, Digital Commerce, Best Buy

Sponsor information:

Entagen provides innovative software and custom development for biomedical, healthcare & Big Data environments with a focus on the development of tools for the new class of knowledge workers and data scientists whose task it is to derive knowledge and insight from the massive amounts of data ("Big Data") currently available across many sectors.

LucidWorks, the trusted name in Search, Discovery and Analytics, transforms the way people access information to enable data-driven decisions. Leveraging technology built on Apache Lucene/Solr open source search, LucidWorks delivers unmatched stability, scalability, and time-to-delivery for search applications.