Lucene/Solr Revolution2016: Full Schedule

10:50am EDT

How Verizon Listens to its customer: Trends dashboard on Voc Data

At Verizon we get millions of calls, chats sessions, NPS feedback, surveys, online feedback, product reviews, emails and complaints. This session will go into the details of how we built a highly scalable, searchable, realtime dashboard on Sentiment scored and categorized customer feedback verbatim, using Hadoop, Lucidworks Fusion, Clarabridge, and Cloud foundry and real-time data flow. The Dashboards provide valuable insight into customer needs, pain points, intent, broken processes, brand insights, product insights, social insight etc. It helps us react to issues faster and provide the best possible service to our clients by listening to the Customer.

Speakers

Kaustubh Mishra

IT Systems Architect for Voice of Customer, Verizon Wireless

Responsible to building data architecture for Verizon Corporate Initiatives for Voice of Customer, Consumer and Social insights. Also an architect on web analytics for Verizon wireless commerce team. Previously worked on numerous reporting and data warehousing projects at Verizon... Read More →

Thursday October 13, 2016 10:50am - 11:30am EDT
Commonwealth Sheraton Boston

Data Science

Skill Level Beginner

10:50am EDT

It's Just Search

Think *inside* the box. Inside the *search* box, that is.

The "best"* search results incorporate many more factors than (just) textual matching and relevancy. Search experience owners manage query context _rules_, signals automatically feed back machine learned factors, users implicit and explicit behaviors filter and weight future interactions. Synergy emerges with several cooperating (just) searches.

This talk will showcase and detail several (just) search examples including rules, typeahead/suggest, signals, and location awareness, bringing them all together into a cohesive search experience.

Speakers

Erik Hatcher

Lucidworks

Erik Hatcher is the co-author of “Lucene in Action” as well as co-author of “Java Development with Ant”. Erik is a cofounder of Lucidworks, an active member of the Lucene community, a leading Lucene/Solr committer, member of the Lucene/Solr Project Management Committee, member... Read More →

Thursday October 13, 2016 10:50am - 11:30am EDT
Independence Sheraton Boston

Exploring Solr

Committer Talk Committer Talk
Skill Level Beginner

11:40am EDT

Creating New Streaming Expressions

Streaming Expressions can be used in a wide range of applications from order tracking to bioinformatics. They can be used to do massively parallel processing across huge datasets or simple joins between sharded collections. They can be used to update collections or alert when certain documents are seen. And streaming expressions are fully extensible.

In this talk, attendees will learn the ins and outs of creating new Stream classes and how to make use of those in their own searches. We'll cover the differences between stream sources and stream decorators. We'll discuss the minimum set of functionality a stream must provide. And we'll see how to add new streaming classes to your collections' configurations. In the end, attendees will see how simple it is to create and use new Streaming classes.

Speakers

Dennis Gove

Senior Software Engineer, Bloomberg LP

Dennis Gove is a member of the Search Infrastructure team at Bloomberg LP in New York. He is a Lucene/Solr Committer and lives in Massachusetts with his wife and two kids.

Thursday October 13, 2016 11:40am - 12:20pm EDT
Back Bay B Sheraton Boston

Exploring Solr

Committer Talk Committer Talk
Skill Level Beginner

1:30pm EDT

Automotive Information Research driven by Apache Solr

We are searching the unknown. How can you find hidden and unknown relationships in unrelated relational data silos? How can you search the relevant information in a 10^56 dimensional space? How do you create a consistent yet up-to-date information network for over 20 languages on a daily basis? And how on earth do you convice IT governance to let you use Solr for this kind of job? All this sound impossible? This talk will give the answers and present a detailed case study and success story about how we used Apache Solr to build a search based business intelligence and automotive information research application for a major German car manufacturer.

Speakers

Mario-Leander Reimer

Managing Director | CTO, QAware GmbH

Passionate software developer and architect. Proud father. #CloudNativeNerd. Leander is the CTO at QAware. He’s continuously looking for innovations in software engineering and ways to combine and apply state-of-the-art technology in real-world projects. As a speaker at national... Read More →

Thursday October 13, 2016 1:30pm - 2:10pm EDT
Back Bay A Sheraton Boston

Use Case

Skill Level Beginner

3:10pm EDT

Solr at the Core of a Search Engine for the Cuban Web

In this talk we'll cover the transition of Solr from "just the inverted index for search" into the core technology of a web search engine for the Cuban Web. The main purpose is to show how some of the more common features of today's web search engines could be fulfilled by the use of Apache Solr, which makes Solr the hearth of our system. Integration with several Apache projects will be covered and how these systems work together to build a basic web search engine, an image search engine and a real time news search engine with alert capabilities, all powered by the features offered by Solr. Also the use of Solr itself to help monitor and run the different components of the system will be discussed.

Speakers

Jorge Luis Betancourt Gonzalez

Developer, University of Informatic Sciences

Software Engineer with more than 5 years of experience using Java. Working with search engines for over 3 years, specially Apache Solr. Have done some consultancy work in the field of Web Crawling and NLP/Text Processing. Currently building a search engine for the Cuban Web. Interested... Read More →

Thursday October 13, 2016 3:10pm - 3:50pm EDT
Back Bay A Sheraton Boston

Use Case

Skill Level Beginner

10:30am EDT

Building a Search UI with Lucidworks View

Learn how to create a compelling branded search application with Lucidworks View. This session will be a tutorial on how to create a simple search UI, including the challenges that may be encountered.

Speakers

Joshua Ellinger

Manager, Cloud Engineering, Lucidworks

Josh is the Manager of Cloud Engineering at Lucidworks building the essential cloud infrastructure, tools, and platform to bring lucidworks into the future. In the past he has worked on complex problems such as building a tool to fact check the internet.

Friday October 14, 2016 10:30am - 11:10am EDT
Gardner

Ecosystem

Skill Level Beginner

1:10pm EDT

Build a great application in minutes

Talk about the importance of user experience in the context of search applications. Why UX should not be left till last. How use of search technologies like Solr has undergone a paradigm shift from simple keyword search to advanced analytics and discovery. Show how an application that works on mobile devices and meets these requirements can be built in minutes.

Speakers

Stefan Olafsson

CEO, Twigkit

Stefan is the founder and CEO at Twigkit which is actively changing the game for its partners allowing beautiful, user centric search-driven applications to be built, in a fraction of the time of traditional methods. Specialising in search applications, he has been creating and bringing... Read More →

Friday October 14, 2016 1:10pm - 1:50pm EDT
Gardner

Ecosystem

Skill Level Beginner

2:00pm EDT

Participating in the Community: Beyond Code

So, you've learned a bit about how to use Solr, just enough to be dangerous (as they say), but you're not really a Java programmer. Can you still participate in the community? Absolutely!

Much of the work we see going on in the Solr community is in the form of patches to the core codebase (or in contribs!), but any good open source community is larger than that. Good documentation, a professional website, a solid UI, and a strong base of users who help each other are all factors in a robust community.

Speakers

Cassandra Targett

Director of Engineering, Lucidworks

Cassandra has 20 years experience in search and knowledge management. She has been a Lucene/Solr committer since 2013 and a member of the PMC since 2016. As Director of Engineering at Lucidworks, she manages the Solr and partner development teams.

Friday October 14, 2016 2:00pm - 2:40pm EDT
Back Bay B Sheraton Boston

Exploring Solr

Committer Talk Committer Talk
Skill Level Beginner

2:50pm EDT

Rebuilding Solr 6 Examples - layer by layer

Did you know that Solr 6 ships with 10! different examples? Do you know where they are and how to best learn from each one of them? This session will do a quick yet thorough explanation of all the shipped examples. Then, we will take one of the examples and rebuild it from a basic schema up, so you understand how it ticks. At the end, you will know how to read the examples that ship with Solr and how to transfer relevant parts of those examples to your own schema and configuration.

Speakers

Alexandre Rafalovitch

Founder, Search Stack Solutions

Alexandre is a full-stack IT specialist with more than 20 years of industry and non-profit experience, including in Java, C# and HTML/CSS/JavaScript. He develops projects on Windows, Mac and Linux. His current focus is a consultancy specialized on popularizing Apache Solr. Alex has... Read More →

Friday October 14, 2016 2:50pm - 3:30pm EDT
Gardner

Exploring Solr, com

Committer Talk Committer Talk
Skill Level Beginner

2:50pm EDT

The Path to Universal Search

Too many search boxes? You don’t remember which one to use? You know the document you are looking for exists, but you just can’t find it. Come join us to get an understanding on how Lucidworks Fusion helped Allstate traverse disparate data sources and consolidate scattered search boxes to create a better user experience.

Speakers

Nery Encarnacion Padro

Lead Systems Analyst (search jedi), Allstate Insurance Company

Lead Systems Analyst at Allstate Insurance Company with 11 years of experience in Enterprise Search and related technologies. I’m a photographer aficionado and avid cyclist when I’m not behind a keyboard.

Sean Rasmussen

Systems Analyst, Allstate Insurance Company

Systems Analyst and Search Engineer at Allstate Insurance Company. I have four years in enterprise search experience, with two of those working with Solr. I’m also a father, husband and all around technologist!

Friday October 14, 2016 2:50pm - 3:30pm EDT
Commonwealth Sheraton Boston

Use Case

Skill Level Beginner