• Next Events •
Thursday, 23 July 2026, BASED Space @TNG Technology
No talks this edition :) BASED #6 is an open space for sharing knowledge: the topics come from you, and instead of a single stage, we'll have several rooms for parallel group discussions.
Any question, pain point, field story, or a strong opinion about information retrieval (search) works! And if you'd rather listen, that's alrighty!
• Past Events •
Thursday, 26 March 2026, BASED @TNG Technology
- "Image-Based Product Recommender Using Vector and Attribute Search" (Florian Janoschek, TNG Technology Consulting)
- "Reinventing Relevance Feedback: Scalable, Cheap, Universal" (Evgeniya Sukhodolskaya, Qdrant)
- "Agentic Relevance Tuning: Faster, Easier, and Higher Quality Search at Scale" (Daniel Wrigley, OpenSource Connections)
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.
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