Haystack on Tour - a free search event in Austin, Texas with OSC and Bonsai

** NOTE THE EVENT STARTS AT 13.00 PM Austin time, not 14.00 PM - times above are US Eastern not CDT **

Join OpenSource Connections, founders of the Haystack search relevance conference, and Bonsai, providers of fully managed Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, & SolrCloud solutions for mission-critical search engines, for a day of search enlightenment - learn how to build great data-driven search applications, find out how to build powerful voice search experiences and look forward to the future of search powered by vectors and machine learning.

Here's a short video from a previous Haystack On Tour event to show you what fun it can be!

Search expert Scott Stults from OpenSource Connections draws on his 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.

Other speakers will include Simon Hughes, previously of Home Depot and now at Vectara , speaking about "AI in search in 2023" and Ellen Voorhees, Scientist Emeritus at National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) talking about "Can Search Results be Fair?". More speakers from the world of search & AI to be announced soon!

This will be a free event, hosted by and sponsored by Bonsai and OpenSource Connections. 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 12:30 and the BarCamp will run from 16.15-17.30. The event will conclude at 19.00 with food and drinks provided from 17.30.

Please note the event will be recorded and photographs will be taken.