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Search Solutions Tutorial Day
Hosted by BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT
Tuesday 24 November 2026 · 9:00am · BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT · hosted by BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT
about this room
Two hands-on tutorials on where search meets LLMs, run by the BCS Information Retrieval Specialist Group the day before its Search Solutions conference.
Morning: Alessandro Benedetti (Sease) and Radu Gheorghe (Vespa AI) on open-source agentic search, covering agent orchestration, MCP, evaluation, security and guardrails across Solr, Elasticsearch, OpenSearch and Vespa, with live demos. Afternoon: Kevin Roitero and Riccardo Lunardi (University of Udine) go inside the language models behind search and RAG, from probing to mechanistic interpretability, activation patching and sparse autoencoders, with practicals.
09:00 to 18:00 at BCS, 25 Copthall Avenue in the City. Paid, from £60.
a full technical day from people who build search engines rather than talk about them. Best for search, IR and RAG engineers who want depth before the conference on 25 November.
getting there
BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT
Ground Floor 25 Copthall Avenue, London, EC2R 7BP
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