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October 18, 2011


       19:30

 EuroCon Welcome & Networking Reception
Diamante Room

October 19, 2011


Download session presentation slides here, along with select videos and summaries


 

 Welcome
Frank Calderon, Lucid Imagination

8:30

 KEYNOTE: Search + Big Data: It's (still) All About the User
Grant Ingersoll, Lucid Imagination

 

 KEYNOTE: Architecting the Future of Big Data & Search
Eric Baldeschwieler, Hortonworks

10:20

 NETWORKING BREAK

10:50

 Portable Lucene Index Format & Applications
Andrzej Bialecki, Lucid Imagination		 Adapting Ajax-Solr to Compare Document sets
Joan Codina, Barcelona Media – Centre d’Innovació		 Configuring Mahout Clustering Jobs
Frank Scholten, JTeam

11:35

 BREAK

11:45

 Solr 4 Highlights
Mark Miller, Lucid Imagination		 Improving Solr's Update Chain
Jan Høydahl, Cominvent AS		 Archive-It: Scaling Beyond a Billion Archival Webpages
Aaron Binns, Internet Archive

12:30

 LUNCH 
Sponsored by Ixxus

13:30

 Search Analytics: Business Value & BigData NoSQL Backend
Otis Gospodnetic, Sematext International		 Just the Job: Employing Solr for Recruitment Search
Charlie Hull, Flax		 Multilingual Search and Text Analytics with Solr
Steve Kearns, Basis Technology

14:15

 BREAK

14:25

 Relevance at Cengage: English & Non-English Content
Ivan Provalov, Cengage Learning		 Scaling Search at Trovit with Solr & Hadoop
Marc Sturlese, Trovit		 Lessons Learned: Refactoring a Solr-Based API App 
Torsten Koester,
smatch.com/ Shopping24

15:10

 NETWORKING BREAK 
Sponsored by Basis Technology


15:40

 Solr + Greenplum = MPP Solr
George Chitouras, EMC		 Natural Language Search in Solr
Tommaso Teofili, Sourcesense		 Securing Documents in Solr with Manifold CF
Karl Wright, Nokia, Inc

16:25

 BREAK
16:35 Improved Search with Lucene 4
Robert Muir, Lucid Imagination		 Enterprise Search: FAST ESP to Lucene Solr
Michael McIntosh, TNR Global, LLC		 More Powerful Solr Search with Semaphore
Jeremy Bentley, Smartlogic

17:20

 BREAK 
Sponsored by Smartlogic
18:00 LIGHTNING TALKS
19:15 STUMP THE CHUMP
21:30 EuroCon Beach Party
Shoko Restaurant & Club


October 20, 2011


10:00

 TECHNICAL KEYNOTE: Realtime Search at Twitter
Michael Busch, Twitter

10:50

 NETWORKING BREAK 
Sponsored by Findwise

11:20

 Lucene Today, Tomorrow & Beyond
Simon Willnauer, JTeam / Apache Lucene		  Designing Mobile Search
Tyler Tate, TwigKit		 Solr on Windows: Does it Work? Does it Scale?
Teun Duynstee, Funda

12:05

 BREAK

12:15

 The Many Facets of Apache Solr
Yonik Seeley, Lucid Imagination		 Search, REST & Play! Video Discovery
James Alexander, Open University		 Text Analytics in Enterprise Search
Daniel Ling, Findwise

13:00

 LUNCH

14:05

 Heavy Committing: Flexible Indexing in Lucene 4
Uwe Schindler, SD DataSolutions GmbH		 Understanding & Visualising Solr 'explain' Information
Rafal Kuc, Solr.pl		 Solr at Virgin Money Giving
Robin Bramley, Ixxus

14:50

BREAK

15:00

 Randomized Continuous Testing: Solr & Lucene Use Case
Dawid Weiss, Carrot Search s.c		 Using Solr Cloud, For Real!
Jon Gifford, Loggly		 Improve Solr Results with Word Analyzers
Holger Keibel, Alberto Mijares, Canoo Engineering AG

15:45

NETWORKING BREAK
Sponsored by Retresco

16:15

 Solr on EC2
Erick Erickson, Lucid Imagination		 Better Search Engine Testing
Eric Pugh, OpenSource Connections LLC		 Solr @ Etsy
Giovanni Fernandez-Kincade, Etsy.com

17:00		 Lucene/Solr Roadmap Committer Panel: What's Coming?