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Search Solutions 2026
Hosted by BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT
Wednesday 25 November 2026 · 9:30am · BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT · hosted by BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT
about this room
The conference day of Search Solutions, the BCS Information Retrieval Specialist Group's annual event, with a full programme of practitioner and research talks at BCS in the City.
Four sessions: agents everywhere (Alessandro Benedetti of Sease on open-source agentic search; Farhad Shokraneh on evaluating LLMs for systematic reviews), the backend (Radu Gheorghe of Vespa with Benedetti on sharding trade-offs; Mark Stevenson, University of Sheffield), the searcher (Marianne Lykke, Aalborg; Orland Hoeber, Regina) and the past and future of search (Martin White, Charlie Hull, Adam Roegiest of Zuva). A panel with Taketomo Isazawa of Microsoft Research, the BCS Search Industry Awards and an evening reception close the day. 09:30 to 21:00.
Paid ticket. The AGM at 18:00 has its own free ticket.
the UK's main day for search engineers and IR researchers to compare notes, and this year it's about agentic retrieval running on real systems. Best for people building search, RAG or retrieval infrastructure.
getting there
BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT
Ground Floor 25 Copthall Avenue, London, EC2R 7BP
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