IMS 2009 Search Solutions

Reviewing the latest advancements in enterprise search and comparison of the latest solutions

 

Showcasing all that is new in search solutions.  If you and your company are interested in enterprise search, semantic search, vertical serach, website search, information retrieval, search clustering or categorisation then this event is for you.

 

Relevant visitor job functions

• IT Managers
• Information Professionals
• Information Management Professionals
• Taxonomy Specialists
• Research Managers
• Finance Professionals

Show Floor Seminars

The event has a dedicated search solutions stream running for two days - Wednesday 2 and Thursday 3 December and listed below are some of the topics the programme will cover:

• Key success factors for successful Enterprise Search projects
• Developing a successful search strategy
• Driving innovation and collaboration with enterprise search
• Going Google: Lessons for the Enterprise
• Improve search and save time and money in your business
• Integrating enterprise search with content management
• Findability in the Web 2.0 World
• Using taxonomies and metadata to drive successful search
• Understanding the business benefits of search

 For full seminar sessions timetable click here

Online Information Conference

The associated conference hosts many relevant sessions on search solutions.  Click here to go to the full conference programme

 

Tuesday 1 December, 11.45-13.00 Track 1: The semantic web coming of age Session: In Search of Semantics

Moderator: Ian Davis, CTO, Talis, UK 

Track Keynote: The next generation of search
Ricardo Baeza-Yates, VP of Research for Europe, Middle East and Latin America, Yahoo! Research, Spain

Language and semantics: what can you do for my search engine (and for me)?
Antonio Valderrarrábanos, CEO, Bitext, Spain 

Semantic search: did you mean human-computer information retrieval?
Paul Sonderegger, Chief Strategist, Endeca

 

Wednesday 2 December, 14.15-15.30 Track 3: Information professionals delivering & demonstrating value Session: New search tools, techniques and search engines

Moderator: Mary Ellen Bates, Owner, Bates Information Services Inc, USA

A toolkit for searching the social web
Phil Bradley, Independent Internet Consultant, UK

Finding the key (words) to the hidden treasure
Inbar Yasur, Information Professional, Hipusit, Israel 

Competitive Intelligence and the evolving internet
Victor Camlek, Vice President - Market Intelligence, Thomson Reuters, USA

 

Thursday 3 December, 14.00-15.30 Closing Keynote: Cloud computing, open source and semantics: content and search predictions

Moderator: Stephen Arnold, President, Arnold Information Technology, USA

Panellists:
Charlie Hull, Lemur Consulting
Nicolas Maquaire, President & CEO, EntropySoft, France