Program

  Pre-Event Tutorial
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
 
12:30 Registration
13:00 Mastering Solr 1.4 with Yonik Seeley
Yonik Seeley, Lucid Imagination & Creator of Solr
Tutorial in English with consecutive interpretation to Japanese
17:00 End of Program
  Next Generation Search Forum Tokyo
Thursday, April 22, 2010
 
9:30 Registration
10:00 Welcome and Overview
Carl Hoffman, CEO, Basis Technology
  Search Smarter with Rosette
Steve Kearns, Basis Technology
  Break
10:50 Partner Company Presentation
Jason Purcell, Endeca
11:20 Partner Company Presentation
Eric Gries, Lucid Imagination
11:50 Break for lunch
12:50 Partner Company Presentation
Tsuyoshi Hamaya, NTT Resonant (goo)
13:10 Partner Company Presentation
Noriyoshi Ichinose, NEC BIGLOBE
  Break
  Lucene/Solr & Search Engine Talks
Audience: Business/Technical
Basis Technology Talks
Audience: Business/Technical
Lucene/Solr Technical Tutorials
Audience: Technical
13:40 FAST's ESP and Solr: A Comparison of the State-of-the-Art in Commercial and Open Source Search
Christian Moen, Atilika
A Gentle Introduction to Entity Extraction and REX
Benjamin Douglas, Basis Technology
The State of Japanese Support in Solr
Koji Sekiguchi, Rondhuit
  Break
14:40 One Point for Access to All Enterprise Data
Joe McCunney, Endeca
Everything You've Ever Wanted to Know About Search Engines But Were Afraid to Ask
Kazuaki Hiraga, Basis Technology
Lucene Made Easy: Adding Search to an Application in 90 minutes
(part 1)
Teruhiko Kurosaka, Basis Technology
  Break
15:40 An Insider's Guide to Solr
Yonik Seeley, Lucid Imagination
Presentation of Exhibition Partners
Sumisho Joho
Kaku Yamaguchi
Oceanbridge
Chikako Miyazaki &
Yasuyo Mitani
Uchida Spectrum
Kazuhiko Koakaji
Lucene Made Easy: Adding Search to an Application in 90 minutes (part 2)
Teruhiko Kurosaka, Basis Technology
16:30 End of Program