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Searchplex Events

Events featuring Searchplex and our community. Find conference talks, panels, webinars, podcasts, and meetups where we share practical work on production search and AI.

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Conference Talks

About Conference Talks

Conference sessions on production search, retrieval at scale, hybrid ranking, and applied AI—where correctness and economics meet operations.

Selected conference sessions and panels on production search and retrieval, including Vespa.ai Live, London Information Retrieval & AI Meetup, and Berlin Buzzwords.

Building Search for the Modern Age
Past

Building Search for the Modern Age

A Vespa.ai Live panel on conversational, multimodal, and agentic search, covering personalization, evaluation, hybrid retrieval, and modern search architecture.
  • Panelists: Jon Bratseth (Vespa.ai), Ravindra Harige (Searchplex), Atita Arora, and Andrius Jokubauskas (Vinted).
  • Moderator: Charlie Hull.
London, United Kingdom
Organized by: Vespa.ai
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Patterns from Shipped Migrations
Past

Patterns from Shipped Migrations

Searchplex founder Ravindra Harige presented Patterns from Shipped Migrations at the London Information Retrieval & AI Meetup on September 9, 2026. The talk shared practical patterns from shipped Vespa migrations across Lucene-based search systems such as Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, and Solr, covering schema modeling, query translation, parity testing, and tooling for getting to a working Vespa v0.1 faster.
  • Technical programme with Philippe Bouzaglou and Radu Gheorghe.
London, United Kingdom
Organized by: London Information Retrieval & AI Meetup Group
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The Three-Body Problem of Inverse Hybrid Search
Past

The Three-Body Problem of Inverse Hybrid Search

Saved searches and visual alerts flip retrieval on its head: documents trigger queries, and every true match must be returned—combining vectors, boolean filters, and lexical constraints with fetch-all semantics. This session explains why cost and instability track match cardinality and burstiness more than raw QPS, and why traditional search scaling intuition breaks down.
Berlin, Germany
Organized by: Berlin Buzzwords
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Webinars / Podcasts

About Webinars / Podcasts

Educational webinars and podcasts covering topics in AI search, migration strategies, and advanced search technologies.

Our webinars and podcasts cover practical topics in AI search, migration strategies, and advanced search technologies. Learn from industry experts and get hands-on insights into modern search solutions.

How Hidden Search Problems Derail Great Products
Podcast

How Hidden Search Problems Derail Great Products

In this episode of Vespa Voice, our founder Ravindra Harige shares insights on a common but often misdiagnosed issue in modern software: search problems hiding in plain sight. When users struggle with irrelevant results, poor UX, or high bounce rates, teams typically reach for the usual fixes-frontend tweaks, more testing, or scaling infrastructure. But in many cases, the real issue isn't performance or design. It's search. Discover why so many teams miss the mark, how conventional roles (frontend, backend, DevOps) obscure the need for search-specific expertise, and what it actually takes to build search that works.
Online
Hosted by Vespa.ai
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Migrating from Elasticsearch to Vespa.ai
Webinar

Migrating from Elasticsearch to Vespa.ai

Why teams migrate from Elasticsearch to Vespa.ai and how to evaluate schema translation, search quality, performance, phased rollout, and operational complexity.
Online
Hosted by Vespa.ai
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Find & Mind - The Search & AI Meetup

About Find & Mind - The Search & AI Meetup

A vendor-neutral, community-driven meetup that brings together practitioners and researchers across Search, Information Retrieval, and Applied AI/LLMs.

We create a space where Search meets AI in practice, sharing talks, demos, and case studies from the field. Our goal is to build a community of professionals and enthusiasts across the Netherlands.

Read our announcement blog post →

Find & Mind - The Search & AI Meetup
Past

Find & Mind: The First Edition

The inaugural meetup for the Search & AI community in Amsterdam. Join us for talks, demos, and networking.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Organized by: Searchplex
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