• Next Events •
Thursday, 26 March 2026, BASED - Stay Tuned!
Details to be announced soon!
• Past Events •
Thursday, 4 December 2025, BASED @IntraFind
- "Maybe Dense Vector Search isn't as good as everybody thinks" (Christoph Goller, IntraFind)
- "Lessons Learned from Building an App for Navigating Bureaucracy" (Phan Van Nguyen Duc, Saclora UG)
- "LLMs as inexpensive raters: Setting up offline search evaluation infrastructure on a budget" (Mikayla Webster, HSE Home Shopping Europe GmbH)
Thursday, 9 Oktober 2025, BASED @Center for Software Engineering Excellence
- "Old problems, new contexts: finding the right context by fast-forwarding 20 years of search" (David Louis Hollembaek, Veeva Systems)
- "Retrieval for every occasion: combining knowledge graphs and vector search" (Hande Kafkas, cognee)
- "Search results diversification" (Peter Straßer, Elastic)
View the slides of the third BASED event on Github.
Thursday, 12 June 2025, BASED @Tacto
- "The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Vector Databases" (Clelia Astra Bertelli)
- "Can Images Improve RAG? Insights from Multimodal Experiments in Industry" (Monica Riedler)
View the slides of the second BASED event on Github.
Thursday, 20 March 2025, BASED @AutoScout24
- "Dynamic Hybrid Search Optimization: A Practical Framework for Query Understanding" (Daniel Wrigley)
- "PDF Retrieval at Scale with Vision Language Models" (Evgeniya Sukhodolskaya)
View the slides of the first BASED event on Github.
Become a Sponsor!
We can only run these meetups because of generous companies and organizations that let us use their venue or sponsor drinks and snacks and we are truly grateful to all we had so far.
Do you want to support BASED and have a venue or make networking easier and more fun by sponsoring drinks and snacks?
