London Information Retrieval Meetup February 2023 (HYBRID)

We are so happy to announce the sixteenth London Information Retrieval Meetup, a free evening meetup aimed at those who are passionate about Information Retrieval and professionals who are curious to explore and discuss the latest trends in the field.

This time the meetup will be a hybrid event, both in-presence and online!

>>>> IN-PRESENCE MEETUP

Location: Bloomberg @ 3 Queen Victoria St, London EC4N 4TQ [Google Maps]

Date: 21st February 2023 | 6:00-8:00 PM (GMT)

In order to participate in the event, registration is required. Please follow this link to fill out the necessary form: Link
Keep in mind that you won't be able to access the offices if your name is not registered. Thank you!

>>>> ONLINE MEETUP

Location: Zoom [You will receive the link after the registration]

Date: 21st February 2021 | 6:30-8:00 PM (GMT)

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The event will be structured with 2 technical talks, each talk will be followed by a Q&A and, in the end, we are going to have a networking session.

> Open doors from 6:00 pm

> Talks ( Starting 6:30 pm)

Welcome & Latest News
Alessandro Benedetti
Founder, Sease

Welcome & short Introduction to Bloomberg
Mohamed Yahya
Bloomberg AI Team Lead

Talk 1

How Does ChatGPT Work? An Information Retrieval Perspective
Alessandro Benedetti
Apache Solr PMC member and Committer
Director @ Sease

Talk 2

No mean feat: Upgrade a customized Solr to upstream Solr
Shikhar Srivastava
Senior Software Engineer @ Bloomberg

> Networking session (starting at 7:30)

DON'T FORGET TO ADD THE EVENT TO YOUR GOOGLE CALENDAR

For more info, including speaker bios, abstracts and timings please check our website https://sease.io/