The Speakers

Speakers and tutorials include

• Philipp Mayr, GESIS, Cologne, Germany (Scholarly Document Processing)

• Sean MacAvaney, University of Glasgow, UK (Neural Re-ranking)

• Alessandro Benedetti, Sease, UK (RAG systems)

• Tony Russell-Rose, City University, London, UK (IR and User Experience)

• Yue Feng, University of Birmingham, UK (Agentic and conversational systems)

• Xi Wang, University of Sheffield, UK (RAG and proactive system design)

• Yashar Moshfeghi, Strathclyde University, UK (NeuraSearch: Brain Machine Interfaces & Information Retrieval)

• Catherine Chen, Brown University, USA (Explainability)

• Mohamed Yahya, Bloomberg, London, UK (GenAI-driven IR systems)

• Anirban Chakraborty, University of Wolverhampton, UK (IR Introduction)

• Ingo Frommholz, Modul University Vienna, Austria (IR Introduction)

• Daniel Dan, Modul University Vienna, Austria (Hackathon, conversational systems)

More speakers and topics to be confirmed!