Activate Search and AI Conference in Washington, DC

ACTIVATE, the Search and AI Conference hosted by Lucidworks, September 9-12, 2019 at the Washington Hilton in Washington DC

Learn from Solr committers and experts in 30+ conference sessions

• Solr Migration at Scale, Dennis Chaney, LexisNexis
• Building a Health QA Chatbot with Solr, Dan Ray, Healthwise Incorporated
• Running Solr within Kubernetes at Scale, Houston Putman, Bloomberg
• SolrCloud in Public Cloud: Scaling Compute Independently from Storage, Yonik Seeley, Salesforce
• A Self-Healing SolrCloud Built Using Cloud Design Patterns, James Strassburg and Jack Schlederer, Direct Supply
• Reduce Update Latency and Build a Robust Pipeline Architecture for ingesting at Scale, Suyash Sonawane, Wayfair
• Dynamic Plugin Loading & Safe-mode in Solr, Noble Paul, FullStory
• Overcoming the Challenges of Query Autocomplete, Stephen Hanek and Rongkai Zhao, The Home Depot

Conference Highlights

• ExxonMobil: From Zero to Sixty (Million) - Ryan Ngo and Jesse Yoburn will share how ExxonMobil transformed the search experience for their geoscientists and engineers (including improved SharePoint search)

• Foot Locker: Speed at Scale - Pavan Baruri will speak about how search experience enhancement at Foot Locker plays a key part of their digital transformation

• Lenovo: Building a Search Practice - Marc Desormeau will share insights on establishing a foundation for search and how to build a business case for search projects

• Nordstrom Rack | Hautelook: Building Search & Personalization -Pankaj Andhale will share how Hautelook rallied the troops around a single vision and discovered new opportunities along the way

• Veritas: Using Search to Drive Self-help Success - Joe Kugler will explain how Veritas justified investment in Fusion by delivering a better experience for both customer self-service and support engineers

• lululemon's Search for Better Search: Migrating from Endeca to Fusion Jeremy Woska and Surendra Nepali will talk about moving to Fusion to enhance automation, relevancy and business efficiencies

Government Session Highlights, Wednesday

Configuring Recommendations for Personalized Search at Sandia National Labs - Clay Pryor and Ryan Cooper will share how they configured personalized search for enterprise search users in days with Lucidworks Fusion

Improving the Search User Experience: Migrating from GSA to Fusion at the EPA - Judy Dew will talk about replacing Google Search Appliance (GSA) with tools in Lucidworks Fusion and an improved user experience

Promising Search Applications for AI in Government
Learn how executives, commanders, analysts and researchers can use Solr and Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered search to:

• take your search experience from good to great
• enhance operational efficiency
• see the entire structured and unstructured content picture
• predict mission effectiveness
• assure battlefield readiness
• evaluation vendor proposals efficiently

AI in Practice: Separating Fact from Fiction (main stage panel)
Grant Ingersoll assembles some of the best minds in AI and puts them on the spot. This real-world look at AI goes beyond the hype to answer honest and thoughtful questions about data science, machine learning, and NLP in practice across industries.

ACTIVATE Week At-A-Glance

Pre-Conference Monday, Sept. 9
Training Courses ($1599.00 additional for training)

Pre-Conference Tuesday, Sept. 10
Training Courses ($)
Evening Welcome Reception, 6-8 pm

Conference Day 1 Wednesday, Sept. 11
Breakfast, 8-9 am
Opening Keynote, 9-10:30 am
Conf Sessions, 10:45 am-4:50 pm
Expo, 8 am-5 pm
Closing Keynote, 5-6 pm
Conf Party, 6-9 pm

Conference Day 2 Thursday, Sept. 12
Breakfast, 8-9 am
Opening Keynote, 9-10:30 am
Conf Sessions, 10:45 am-4:00 pm
Expo, 8 am-5 pm
Women in Search and AI Lunch, 12:15-1:30 pm
Closing Keynote, 4-4:35 pm