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03-17-2011, 07:40 PM
Lucid Imagination, the commercial company behind Apache Solr/Lucene search technology announced its initial speaker lineup for Lucene Revolution 2011 (http://www.opensourcegroups.com/showthread.php?t=1993&highlight=lucene), U.S. conference exclusively devoted to business-critical use of Solr/Lucene open source search technologies. In its second year, Lucene Revolution will take place May 25-26, 2011 at the Hyatt Regency, San Francisco Airport, California.
Building on the success of the 2010 conference, Lucene Revolution 2011 will focus on the disruptive changes taking place as a result of the power and economics of Solr/Lucene. Speakers will share best practices and open source enterprise use cases, showcasing why they chose to work with Solr or Lucene, what barriers and challenges they came across, and the steps they took to implement Lucene, Solr, or LucidWorks Enterprise to improve search application performance, scalability, flexibility, and relevance, while lowering their costs. Presenting companies represent a diverse and cutting-edge range of industries including ecommerce, Web 2.0, real estate, travel and hospitality, and law enforcement, among others. The exciting line-up reflects the broad spectrum of Solr/Lucene adoption, as a fast, flexible open source search technology that delivers unmatched power and economics.
Initial Confirmed Speakers Include:
•AOE media GmbH, Daniel Pötzinger, Head of Development and CIO
•Apache Lucene, Simon Willnauer, Solr/Lucene Hacker
•AT&T, Shantanu Deo, Technical Director
•BeyondTrees, Anne Veling, Search Architect
•Canoo Engineering AG, Alberto Mijares, Software Engineer
•CareerBuilder.com, Trey Grainger, Search Technology and Development Team Lead
•CERN, Roman Chyla, Fellow
•eBay, Olaf Zschiedrich, Head of Technology
•Etsy.com, Gregg Donovan, Technical Lead, Search
•Forensic Logic, Inc., Ronald Mayer, CTO
•Guardian News and Media UK, Stephen Dunn, Head of Technology Strategy
•Intuit, Floyd Morgan, Principal Software Engineer
•Kitenga, Inc., Mark Davis, CTO
•Loggly, Jon Gifford, Founder and CTO
•mixi, Inc., Takahiko Ito, Software Engineer
•National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Timothy Potter, Senior Engineer
•SD DataSolutions GmbH, Uwe Schindler, Managing Director
•Sematext, Otis Gospodnetić, Founder
•Sucomo OHG, Markus Franz, General Partner
•TheLadders.com, Laura Kang, Technical Lead, Sales and Matching
•Travelocity, Esteban Donato, Lead Architect
•Trulia, Alexander Kanarsky, Senior Software Engineer
•TwigKit, Tyler Tate, Head of User Experience
•Uchida Spectrum, Ushio Zaizen, Director
•Yammer, Inc., Boris Aleksandrovsky, Search Architect
•Yelp, Inc., Sudarshan Gaikaiwari, Software Engineer
Industry luminaries from Lucid Imagination participating and sharing their insight on open source search include:
•Grant Ingersoll, co-founder of Lucid Imagination and committer on the Apache Lucene Java, Solr and Mahout projects, and vice-president of Apache Software Foundation
•Dr. Marc Krellenstein, co-founder of Lucid Imagination with 30 years' experience in the computer industry, focusing for the last 20 years on information retrieval technology and applications
•Brian Pinkerton, developer of the web's first comprehensive search engine and VP Product Development at Lucid Imagination
•Yonik Seeley, the creator of Solr and an expert in distributed search systems architecture and performance
Registration for Lucene Revolution is now open for the conference at: http://us.ootoweb.com/luceneregistration (http://us.ootoweb.com/luceneregistration)
A full list of speakers is available at:
http://lucenerevolution.org/2011/sessions (http://lucenerevolution.org/2011/sessions)
Building on the success of the 2010 conference, Lucene Revolution 2011 will focus on the disruptive changes taking place as a result of the power and economics of Solr/Lucene. Speakers will share best practices and open source enterprise use cases, showcasing why they chose to work with Solr or Lucene, what barriers and challenges they came across, and the steps they took to implement Lucene, Solr, or LucidWorks Enterprise to improve search application performance, scalability, flexibility, and relevance, while lowering their costs. Presenting companies represent a diverse and cutting-edge range of industries including ecommerce, Web 2.0, real estate, travel and hospitality, and law enforcement, among others. The exciting line-up reflects the broad spectrum of Solr/Lucene adoption, as a fast, flexible open source search technology that delivers unmatched power and economics.
Initial Confirmed Speakers Include:
•AOE media GmbH, Daniel Pötzinger, Head of Development and CIO
•Apache Lucene, Simon Willnauer, Solr/Lucene Hacker
•AT&T, Shantanu Deo, Technical Director
•BeyondTrees, Anne Veling, Search Architect
•Canoo Engineering AG, Alberto Mijares, Software Engineer
•CareerBuilder.com, Trey Grainger, Search Technology and Development Team Lead
•CERN, Roman Chyla, Fellow
•eBay, Olaf Zschiedrich, Head of Technology
•Etsy.com, Gregg Donovan, Technical Lead, Search
•Forensic Logic, Inc., Ronald Mayer, CTO
•Guardian News and Media UK, Stephen Dunn, Head of Technology Strategy
•Intuit, Floyd Morgan, Principal Software Engineer
•Kitenga, Inc., Mark Davis, CTO
•Loggly, Jon Gifford, Founder and CTO
•mixi, Inc., Takahiko Ito, Software Engineer
•National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Timothy Potter, Senior Engineer
•SD DataSolutions GmbH, Uwe Schindler, Managing Director
•Sematext, Otis Gospodnetić, Founder
•Sucomo OHG, Markus Franz, General Partner
•TheLadders.com, Laura Kang, Technical Lead, Sales and Matching
•Travelocity, Esteban Donato, Lead Architect
•Trulia, Alexander Kanarsky, Senior Software Engineer
•TwigKit, Tyler Tate, Head of User Experience
•Uchida Spectrum, Ushio Zaizen, Director
•Yammer, Inc., Boris Aleksandrovsky, Search Architect
•Yelp, Inc., Sudarshan Gaikaiwari, Software Engineer
Industry luminaries from Lucid Imagination participating and sharing their insight on open source search include:
•Grant Ingersoll, co-founder of Lucid Imagination and committer on the Apache Lucene Java, Solr and Mahout projects, and vice-president of Apache Software Foundation
•Dr. Marc Krellenstein, co-founder of Lucid Imagination with 30 years' experience in the computer industry, focusing for the last 20 years on information retrieval technology and applications
•Brian Pinkerton, developer of the web's first comprehensive search engine and VP Product Development at Lucid Imagination
•Yonik Seeley, the creator of Solr and an expert in distributed search systems architecture and performance
Registration for Lucene Revolution is now open for the conference at: http://us.ootoweb.com/luceneregistration (http://us.ootoweb.com/luceneregistration)
A full list of speakers is available at:
http://lucenerevolution.org/2011/sessions (http://lucenerevolution.org/2011/sessions)