October Search & AI with Depop and more

Roll into autumn with another Search & AI Meetup! We're hosted this time by Depop. The event will start at 6.30pm and finish by 9pm, with food and drinks available. This will be an in-person event (but we will try to record the talks and share the videos later).

Our first talk will come from our hosts Depop: "Putting taste at the heart of Depop's search; Personalising at scale" given by Hamza Wahid (Search engineer) and Adam Stapleton (Senior Staff Product Manager):
"Search at Depop isn’t just about matching words — it’s about understanding taste. In this talk, we’ll share how we reframed broad searches as a recommendation problem, using embeddings trained on user–item interactions to deliver highly personalised results. We’ll cover how Depop’s marketplace data powers these embeddings, how we integrated them into our search ranking pipeline, and the engineering challenges of deploying such a system at scale."

Second talk to be confirmed.

We'll also make time for Q&A on all things search and AI and some general networking. As the nights draw in come to our cosy Search Meetup, organised by The Search Juggler, OpenSearch and Eliatra.

Please provide your full name and email address when registering for the event as we will need a list of attendees for security.