Lightning Talks
• Location: Theater 5 • Back to Haystack 2025
Quick discussions about anything around search relevance!
Featuring:
- Kathleen DeRusso: Better Binary Quantization (BBQ)
- Christopher Ball: Something for You (from members of the Apache Community)
- John Berryman: Roaming RAG – RAG without the Vector Database
- Phil Noël: Do you really need a search engine?
- David Tippett: Getting funding to improve search
- Mike Pellegrini: Optimizing Context Selection in RAG via Chunk-Level Reranking
- Michael Froh: Lucene University
- David Mackey: Heretical and Ethical Thoughts on Search and AI
- Paul Danckaert: Quick Chats with IoT Data
- Kristian Aune: Web-scale retrieval for robots (aka LLMs)
- Chuck Meyer: Agentic query understanding using search MCPs
- Trey Grainger: Quantization: Design patterns, key metrics, and why you should care
- Daniel Svonova: Metadata-aware Vector Embedding MoE Models