1. Search Solutions 2010 Covent Garden, London 21 October 2010

2. Search Solutions 2010 2 BCS: The Chartered Institute for IT Mission Promote wider social and economic progress through the advancement of information technology science and practice Bring together industry, academics, practitioners and government to share knowledge, promote new thinking, inform the design of new curricula, shape public policy and inform the public Be a world-class organisation for IT –70,000 members including practitioners, businesses, academics and students, in the UK and internationally Deliver a range of professional development tools for practitioners and employees Offer a range of widely recognised qualifications

3. Search Solutions 2010 3 Information Retrieval Specialist Group Traditional focus on text retrieval, but also: –Knowledge management, multimedia retrieval, user experience, Information visualisation, extraction, summarisation, etc. Busy events schedule –Annual conference: ECIR -Dublin 2011 –Various 1-day events Publisher of Informer –books for review Provides discounts for various events Mailing list is free to join!

4. Search Solutions 2010 Successor to Industry Day 2006, & Search Solutions 2007, 2008, 2009 Practitioner oriented Organisers: –Leif Azzopardi (Glasgow University) –Alex Bailey (Google) –Andy MacFarlane (City University) –Udo Kruschwitz (Essex University) –Tony Russell-Rose (Endeca) BCS London facilities Search Solutions 2010 4

5. Programme 10:10-11:25Session 1 11:25-11:45Coffee 11:45-13:00Session 2 13:00-14:00Lunch 14:00-15:15Session 3 15:15-15:45Tea 15:45-17:00Session 4 17:00-17:30Panel Session 17:30-20:00Drinks Reception 18:00-19:00IRSG AGM Search Solutions 2010 5

6. Session One 10:10 - 10:35 Behshad Behzadi, Google "Web Search Freshness"Web Search Freshness 10:35 - 11:00 Vishwa Vinay, Microsoft "Click evidence - Signals and Tasks"Click evidence - Signals and Tasks 11:00 - 11:25 Vivian Lin Dufour, Yahoo! "How to help searchers become better searchers"How to help searchers become better searchers Search Solutions 2010 6

7. Session Two 11:45 - 12:10 Nick Patience, 451 Group "The trends shaping the future of enterprise search 2010-2013"The trends shaping the future of enterprise search 2010-2013 12:10 - 12:35 Chirag Gandhi, mPhasis "I Still haven't found what I am looking for..."I Still haven't found what I am looking for... 12:35 - 13:00 Dusan Rnic, Endeca "Enterprise Search and its Evolution"Enterprise Search and its Evolution Search Solutions 2010 7

8. Session Three 14:00 - 14:25 Greg Lindahl, Blekko "Instant Indexing"Instant Indexing 14:25 - 14:50 Charlie Hull, Flax "What's the story with open source? --- Searching and monitoring news media with open-source technology"What's the story with open source? --- Searching and monitoring news media with open-source technology 14:50 - 15:15 Roberto Cornacchia, Spinque "Search by strategy"Search by strategy Search Solutions 2010 8

9. Session Four 15:45 - 16:10 Till Kinstler, German Common Library Network "Current trends in library search: From electronic card boxes to large scale, aggregated search engines"Current trends in library search: From electronic card boxes to large scale, aggregated search engines 16:10 - 16:35 Mihai Lupu, Information Retrieval Facility "Scaling up innovation"Scaling up innovation 16:35 - 17:00 Rob Stacey, TrueKnowledge "Reconciling facts: how to check the consistency of facts created from web crawling"Reconciling facts: how to check the consistency of facts created from web crawling Search Solutions 2010 9

10. Panel Session Yahoo’s Time Explorer: “lets users explore the future” & “allows users to view predictions that are yet to occur” What does it say about the way search will look in five years time? –What will search look like in five years time? –Which startups are most likely to change the commercial landscape? –Which research ideas and prototypes will have become mainstream? Search Solutions 2010 10