SEARCH SOLUTIONS 2009

Thursday 1st October
BCS London HQ, Covent Garden

Search Solutions is a special one-day event dedicated to the latest innovations in web & 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.

The high quality technical programme includes presentations, panels and case studies in which delegates present and share opinions, insight and expertise.

The event should appeal to designers, developers, end users or indeed anyone interested in the latest developments in web and enterprise search.

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" - Tamar Sadeh, 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

The event will also be followed by the IRSG AGM (timing TBD).

Search Solutions is organised by the Information Retrieval Specialist Group of the BCS (British Computer Society), and is held at the BCS Central London Office:

BCS, 1st Floor
The Davidson Building
5 Southampton Street
London, WC2E 7HA
http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=nav.8404

For further details, see
http://irsg.bcs.org/SearchSolutions/2009/sse2009.php

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Tony Russell-Rose PhD MBCS CITP
Vice-chair, BCS IRSG
Chair, Ergonomics Society HCI Group
http://www.information-interaction.net/