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MONDAY& TUESDAY, MAY 7-8

Pre-Conference Training Agenda

7:30 AM - 8:30 AM

Breakfast for Training Attendees

9:00 AM - 5:30 PM

Scaling Search with Big Data and Solr
Waiting list only!

Solr Unleashed: A Hands-On Workshop for Building Killer Search Apps

Solr Under the Hood: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Solr

 

TUESDAY, MAY 8

Pre-Conference Welcome Reception

5:30 PM - 7:00 PM

Welcome Reception Happy Hour at the Royal Sonesta

 

Wednesday, May 9

Conference Day 1 Agenda

7:30 AM - 8:30 AM

Breakfast

7:30 AM - 10:15 AM

Sponsor Expo Hall

8:30 AM - 9:00 AM

Opening Remarks - What's New at Lucid Imagination
Paul Doscher, CEO Lucid Imagination

9:00 AM - 9:45 AM

Lucene/Solr on Windows: Azure: Microsoft and OSS Working Together
Gianugo Rabellino, Microsoft

9:45 AM- 10:15 AM NETWORKING BREAK

 

LUCENE/SOLR IN ACTION TRACK TECHNICAL DEEP DIVE TRACK BIG DATA TRACK

10:15 AM - 11:00 AM

Building Query Auto-Completion Systems with Lucene 4.0
Sudarshan Gaikaiwari, Software Engineer,Yelp

Search is Not Enough: Using Solr for Analytics
Steve Kearns, Basis Technology

Big Search with Big Data Principles
Eric Pugh, Principle, OpenSource Connections

11:10 AM - 11:50 AM

NetDocuments- Journey from FAST to Solr
David Hamson & Mou Nandi NetDocuments

Integrating Lucene into a Transactional XML Database
Petr Pleshachkov, EMC

Indexing Wikipedia as a Benchmark of Single Machine Performance Limits
Paddy Mullen,Independent Contractor

11:50 AM - 1:15 PM

LUNCH AND SPONSOR EXPO HALL

1:15 PM - 1:55 PM

Japanese Linguistics in Lucene and Solr
Christian Moen, Founder and CEO Atilika Inc.

Grouping and Joining in Lucene/Solr
Martijn van Groningen, SearchWorkings

Using Lucene/Solr to Surface the Big Data of Social Media
Glenn Engstrand, Sr. Software Engineer, Zoosk, Inc

2:05 PM - 2:45 PM

Using Lucene/Solr to Build CiteSeerX and Friends
C. Lee Giles, Professor, Pennsylvania State University

Automata Invasion
Michael McCandless, IBM & Robert Muir, Lucid Imagination

Using the LucidWorks REST API to Support User-Configuration Big Data Search Experience
Mark Davis, CTO Kitenga

2:55 PM - 3:35 PM

Introducing Hydra – An Open Source Document Processing Framework
Joel Westberg, Findwise

How SolrCloud Changes the User Experience In a Sharded Environment
Erick Erickson, Committer, Lucid Imagination

Delivering on the Promise of Big Data at the "Tactical Edge"
Wes Caldwell, Chief Architect, ISS, Inc.

3:35 PM - 4:00 PM NETWORKING BREAK

3:35 PM - 5:15 PM

Sponsor Expo Hall
4:00 PM - 5:15 PM Stump The Chump
6:30 PM - 9:30 PM Conference Party at Museum of Science

 

Thursday, May 10

Conference Day 2 Agenda

8:00 AM - 9:00 AM

Breakfast

8:00 AM - 11:00 AM

Sponsor Expo Hall

9:00 AM - 9:40 AM

Enabling Scalable Search, Discovery and Analytics with Solr,Mahout and Hadoop
Grant Ingersoll, Chief Scientist, Lucid Imagination

9:40 AM - 10:15 AM

Apache Hadoop:Now, Next and Beyond
Ari Zilka, Chief Product Officer, Hortonworks

10:15 AM - 10:45 AM NETWORKING BREAK

 

LUCENE/SOLR IN ACTION TRACK TECHNICAL DEEP DIVE TRACK BIG DATA TRACK

10:45 AM - 11:25 AM

Building a Real-time Solr-powered Recommendation Engine
Trey Grainger, Search Tech Development Mgr, CareerBuilder

Is Your Index Reader Really Atomic or Maybe Slow?
Uwe Schindler, SD DataSolutions GmbH

Solr 4: The SolrCloud Architecture
Mark Miller, Lucid Imagination

11:25 AM - 1:15 PM

LUNCH AND SPONSOR EXPO HALL

1:15 PM - 1:55 PM

Television News Search and Analysis with Lucene/Solr
Kai Chan, Instructional Technology and Database Developer, Social Sciences Computing UCLA

Challenges in Maintaining a High Performance Search Engine Written in Java
Simon Willnauer,Apache Lucene

Indexing Big Data on Amazon AWS
Scott Stults, Solutions Architect, Open Source Connections

2:05 PM - 2:45 PM

Solr, Lucene and Hadoop @ Etsy
David Giffin, Software Engineer, Etsy

Updateable Fields in Lucene and other Codec Applications
Andrzej Bialeki, Lucid Imagination

The Search Is Over: Integrating Solr and Hadoop in the Same Cluster to Simplify Big Data Analytics
M.C. Srivas, CTO & Founder, MapR

2:55 PM - 3:35 PM

How to Access Your Library Book Collections Using Solr
Engy Ali, Software Project Manager, The Library of Alexandria

Things Made Easy: One Click CMS Integration with Solr & Drupal
Peter Wolanin, Acquia, Inc

How is the Government Spending Your Money? How GCE is Using Lucene and the GCE Big Data Cloud
  Seshu Simhadri, CTO, Global Computer Enterprises

3:35 PM - 4:00 PM NETWORKING BREAK

4:00 PM - 4:40 PM

How to Gain Greater Business Intelligence from Lucene/Solr
Patrick Beaucamp, Bpm-Conseil

Search with Polygons: Another Approach to Solr Geospatial Search
Andrew Urquhart, Principal Systems Engineer, Raytheon

Big Data Meets Metadata – Analyzing Large Data Sets
Jermy Bently, CEO, Smartlogic




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