London Search & AI - Test Search on Any Website & Index State Management

Hi everyone, we're pleased to announce this Meetup is now a general Search & AI Event! We've got some fantastic speakers on April 3rd - and we'll be asking for your support for future events, if you can help us find a venue or give a talk let us know on the day.

Agenda

6:30pm - Start (Drinks and snacks will be provided)

6:45pm - Welcome to the Meetup from our kind hosts EPAM

7:00pm - Test Search on Any Website - Charlie Hull, The Search Juggler

I'll show you how to use the open source Quepid search relevance workbench to measure the search result quality for any website - using a combination of web scraping, janky Javascript parsing and a little luck. With this working, I'll demo how you can manually rate results from test queries - or even get AI to do it for you - and derive metrics for quite how good (or bad) search is performing.

Charlie Hull is an expert search consultant with over 25 years experience helping companies build & tune amazing search applications. He was a Managing Consultant and part of the leadership team at OpenSource Connections, organised & hosted the Haystack conference for five years and is a well known blogger, author and speaker on search topics.

7:30pm - Break & Networking

7:45pm - Index State Management (ISM), an introduction - Nate Boot, OpenSearch Developer Advocate

We’ll learn about what the ISM plugin for OpenSearch can do, when it’s appropriate to use it, and some basic usages that will hopefully provide the spark you need to take good care of your data at scale.

Nate Boot: I’m a tech enthusiast overall, sometimes referred to as a “digital cheerleader”. My journey in technology began with my 1200 baud modem in the mid 80’s, where most of my formative years were spent in BBS teleconferences. I have since worked in a long line of devops roles, only three years ago transitioning to a Developer Advocate position where I could put programming ability together with public speaking. I recently celebrated my 8th year at Amazon. I love retro PC gaming, in particular the point and click adventures of the 80’s and 90’s. I love learning new things and sharing with anyone who will listen.

8:15pm - Q&A & Networking - ask those burning questions about search & AI!

9:00pm - Close.

Note: we're hoping to record and stream the talks for those who can't attend in person - more details to be provided soon. Please let us know when you reply if you are planning to attend in person.