BCS IRSG – Search Solutions 2009
I’m going to “Innovations in Web and Enterprise Search” at BCS next week
Search Solutions is a special one-day event dedicated to the latest innovations in web and enterprise search. In contrast to other major industry events, Search Solutions aims to be highly interactive and collegial, with attendance limited to 60-80 delegates.
Provisional programme
09:30 – 10:00 Registration and coffee
Session 1: (Chair: Tony Russell-Rose)
* 10:00 Introduction – Alan Pollard, BCS President
* 10:10 “Enterprising Search” – Mike Taylor, Microsoft
* 10:35 Accessing Digital Memory: Yahoo! Search Pad – Vivian Lin Dufour, Yahoo
* 11:00 “How Google Ads Work” – Richard Russell, Google
11:25 – 11:45 COFFEE BREAK
Session 2: (Chair: Andy MacFarlane)
* 11:45 “Location-based services: Positioning, Geocontent and Location-aware Applications” – Dave Mountain, Placr
* 12:10 “Librarians, metadata, and search” – Alan Oliver, Ex Libris
* 12:35 “UI Design Patterns for Search & Information Discovery”- Tony Russell-Rose, Endeca
13:00 – 14:15 LUNCH
Session 3: (Chair: Leif Azzopardi)
* 14:15 “Search-Based Applications: the Maturation of Search” – Greg Grefenstette, Exalead
* 14:40 “How and why you need to calculate the true value of page 1 natural search engine positions” – Gary Jennings, WebOptimiser
* 15:05 “Search as a service with Xapian” – Richard Boulton, Lemur Consulting
15:30 – 16:00 TEA BREAK
Session 4: (Chair: Alex Bailey)
* 16:00 “The Benefits of Taxonomy in Content Management”, Andrew Maisey, Unified Solutions
* 16:25 Panel: “Interactive Information Retrieval” – details to follow
17:00 – 19:00 DRINKS RECEPTION