Enterprise Search Europe – Conference Programme

Wednesday, 15 May 2013

09.00 - 09.15

Welcome and Introduction to the Conference Themes

Martin White, Managing Director, Intranet Focus Ltd and author of ‘Enterprise Search’

Welcome from Valentin Richter

Valentin Richter, CEO and Founder, Raytion

09.15 - 10.00

KEYNOTE: The Six Drivers for Search Quality

Ed Dale, Search Services Manager, Ernst & Young

Ed Dale’s keynote speech will give delegates a process which they can adopt and use to improve the performance of their search applications, based on his own experience of being the business owner of search at Ernst & Young. He will talk about what he regards as the Six Drivers for Search Quality. These are: indexing the correct content; improving content findability; search engine algorithm tuning; search result UI improvement; contextual relevancy and pervasive search experience. He will set out the background on how he has developed and improved these drivers in his own work, and describes some of the projects that the team at Ernst & Young have undertaken.

10.00 - 10.30

The 2013 Survey of Global Enterprise Search Implementations

Kristian Norling, Enterprise Search Evangelist, Findwise

Following the opening keynote on search implementation Kristian Norling will present the results from the 2013 Findwise Search and Findability survey. This global survey seeks to give an insight into the current state of search implementation from both a business and technology perspective. What do search managers around the world see as opportunities? What trends should you be aware of in the year ahead?

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10.30 - 11.10

Coffee Break

11.10 - 12.20

CREATING AN EFFECTIVE USER INTERFACE

The Language of Discovery: A Toolkit for Designing Big Data Interfaces and Interactions

Joseph Lamantia, UX Lead: Discovery Products and Services, Oracle Endeca

Information Wayfinding: A New Era of Discovery

Tyler Tate, Cofounder, TwigKit

No matter how powerful the underlying technology the challenges of presenting a highly usable interface are considerable. The presentations in this session look at the principles of information discovery and how these can be used to create effective interfaces for both enterprise search and big data applications.

12.20 - 13.00

Big Data vs Search

Stephen E. Arnold, Managing Director, ArnoldIT.com

Stephen Arnold considers the similarities and differences between ‘big data’ and ‘enterprise search’ and explores the implications for search managers and for search vendors.

13.00 - 14.20

Lunch

14.20 - 15.20

Panel Session: Open Source Search: Trends and Opportunities

Moderator: Charlie Hull, Managing Director, Flax

Eric Pugh, Principal, OpenSource Connections

Daniel Lee, CEO & Co Founder, Artirix

This panel session looks at how open source search is developing, and highlights what this means for search managers. What are the trends that you need to be aware of, and how are they likely to impact on search implementations in the future?

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15.20 - 15.50

Coffee Break

Track A

Track B

15.50 - 17.00

Open Source Search

Moderator: Charlie Hull, Managing Director, Flax

In the first of two case studies, Cedric Ulmer discusses how the city of Antibes used an open source enterprise search solution for its intranet search needs. René Kriegler will reveal how a German shopping portal implemented a process of continuous search monitoring and improvement using metrics and tools which made the most of open source.

CASE STUDY: City of Antibes gives Open Source Search to its Employees

Cedric Ulmer, CEO, France Labs

Patrick Duverger, CIO HP Compaq DigitalEquipment OrangeLabs, City of Antibes

CASE STUDY: shopping24: Continuous Search Monitoring and Improvement using Open Source

Dennis Kallerhoff, Head of Operations, shopping24internet group

René Kriegler, Independent Search Consultant

15.50 - 17.00

SharePoint

Moderator: Valentin Richter, CEO and Founder, Raytion

Microsoft has announced major enhancements to the search application in SharePoint 2013. The two talks in this session set out the benefits of these enhancements and consider what the implications are for organisations considering if, and when, to upgrade from SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2013.

The Things You Need to Know about SharePoint 2013 Search

Matthew Willsmore, Senior Technical Consultant, Search Technologies

Search Based Applications with SharePoint 2013

Agnes Molnar, Independent Consultant, ECM & Search Expert

As the Enterprises grow, having more and more information stored in the various back-end and Content Management Systems, Search Based Applications get more and more importance and emphasis. SharePoint 2013 has countless new features and capabilities to provide contextually valuable information to every segment of your business.

In this topic, I'm going through several real world scenarios, highlighting the most important use cases, options and solution patters to provide a practical overview of the Search capabilities of Microsoft's latest platform.

17.00 - 18.00

Drinks Reception

An opportunity to catch up with fellow delegates, speakers and sponsors and continue the discussions of the day.