Speakers and topics include
Philipp Mayr, GESIS, Cologne, Germany (Scholarly Document Processing)
Sean MacAvaney, University of Glasgow, UK (Neural Re-ranking)
Alessandro Benedetti, Sease Ltd, UK (RAG systems)
Tony Russell-Rose, City University, London, UK (IR and User Experience)
Yue Feng & Mubashir Ali, 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 in AI and IR)
Anna Wróblewska, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland (Generative AI)
Halil Bilgin, Sawan Kumar, Shuo Zhang and Soumya Vadlamannati, Bloomberg, London, UK (Retrieval Augmented Generation for Industrial Information Retrieval)
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)
Florina Piroi, TU Vienna, Austria (Data Management for IR)
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