It's a wrap! What was your personal highlight?

It's a wrap! Berlin Buzzwords 2021 is over. We have had four amazing days full of learning, gathering new experiences, and meeting new people! In a fully virtual environment we had a great selection of talks, workshops, debates and discussions by amazing speakers from all over the world. Some were first time speakers at #bbuzz, others were popular speakers returning to share some new ideas and insights.

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Thank you for everyone who participated: from the attendees to the speakers, the program committee, the emcees, our partners and sponsors! All of you make the event happen and we cannot believe how quickly it went. We had a great time, and here are some of our highlights:

TUESDAY:

  • Eric Pugh measured the diversity of search results
  • Scaling Search Clusters with Apache Solr and Kubernetes: Amrit Sarkar
  • Building a new big data distribution with a twist Lars Francke, Sönke Liebau
  • There is no such thing as bias-free tech: How models shape our world. Daniel Guagnin
  • Vector search ask me anything with Dmitry kan and Max Irwin

WEDNESDAY:

  • Megan Byrd-Sanicki: Be the leader we all need! Megan shared some important insights on how to be a good leader, and that it doesn't take authority to be a an excellent one. She further shed some light on what it means to be a woman in a leading role or taking on a lead in a company.
  • Change Data Streaming Patterns in distributed systems - Hans-Peter Grahsl, Gunnar Morling
  • The future of Lucene's MMap Directory: Why use it and what's comingwith Java 16 and later?
  • Search and Sushi; Freshness counts: Jo Kristian Bergum

THURSDAY:

  • workshop: Encores? - Going beyond matching and ranking of search results: with René Kriegler and Eric Pugh
  • Facets of Reproducible Research on Kubernetes: Sophie Watson, Will Benton
  • workshop:  Event-Driven micro-services with Kafka Streams: Christoph Schubert
  • debate: Which Search engine? hosted by Charlie Hull. With Jo Kristian Bergum, Anshum Gupta, Josh Devins

Thanks to all you amazing attendees, speakers, emcees, partners and sponsors. Stay safe and see you next year in person!