Haystack on Tour - a free search event in Barcelona with Wallapop & OSC

** NOTE THE EVENT RUNS FROM 11.00 AM CET not 05.00 AM - the times shown to the right are in US Eastern Time as that's the default for this Meetup group and we can't change it for this event! **

Just after the Shoptalk Europe conference, join OpenSource Connections, founders of the Haystack search relevance conference, and our friends at Wallapop (the leading platform in conscious and human consumption) for a day of search enlightenment - learn how to build great data-driven search applications, find out how to build amazing search experiences and look forward to the future of search powered by AI, vectors and machine learning. This will be an in-person event.

Search experts René Kriegler & Charlie Hull from OpenSource Connections draw on their multiple decades of experience working with some of the world’s most innovative companies to teach you how you create and tune powerful and accurate search engines. We’ll consider the core challenges of search, how to measure search quality and what tools and techniques are available. Further talks will include:

• Rafael Dominguez & Xavier Sanchez of Wallapop with "Accelerating your search: A guide to performance optimization"
• Ramon Navarro Bosch of Nuclia with "AI Search and generative answers with OSS NucliaDB"
• Arnault Gombert, NLP Expert, with "Bias identification and mitigation in Explanation in AI"

This will be a free event, hosted by and sponsored by Wallapop and OpenSource Connections GmbH. The event is aimed at search product owners, search relevance engineers, data scientists & machine learning engineers working on search applications for e-commerce and other domains, as well as e-commerce owners and managers. The day will feature talks, networking and discussion and will conclude with a BarCamp where we will split into groups to talk about subjects chosen during the day by attendees. Overall, this event is a chance to meet others facing similar challenges, share solutions and techniques and to learn from experts in the field.

Doors open at 10.30 am CET, talks will start at 11:00 and the BarCamp will run from 16.00-17.30 with a social event to follow. Lunch will be provided.

Here is a detailed agenda (times in CET):

- 10:30 - Doors open
- 11:00 - Introduction (Charlie Hull & David Muños Salas)
- 11:15 - Talk - Towards systematic search quality improvement - René Kriegler
- 12:00 - Break / Generate Topics for Barcamp
- 12:15 - Talk - AI Search and generative answers with OSS NucliaDB - Ramon Navarro Bosch
- 13:00 - Lunch
- 14:00 - Talk - Accelerating your search: A guide to performance optimization Rafael Dominguez & Xavier Sanchez
- 14:45: - Break
- 15:00 - Talk - Bias identification and mitigation in Explanation in AI - Arnault Gombert
- 15:45 - Barcamp Topics
- 16:00 - Barcamp, chance to discuss your problems with other experienced people
- 18:00 - Social Gathering

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Please note the event will be recorded and photographs will be taken.
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To get to Avenida Meridiana, 89 in Barcelona with public transport, you have several options:

Metro: L1 (Red line) and get off at the stop Glorias or Clot. Both are about 5-10 minutes walking distance.
Train: Rodalies Renfe Barcelona - Clot Arago (lines R1, R2, R2N, R4 & R7)
Tram: Glorias (T4, T5 & T6)
Bus: Number 7, H12, H14 and V25