15th September

CET 17:00-18:15

Beijing 23:00-00:15

Sydney 01:00-02:15

New York 11:00-12:15

San Francisco 08:00-09:15



Industry Session 1

Time Will Tell

Maarten de Rijke, Ahold Delhaize, The Netherlands


TF-Ranking: Learning-to-Rank in Tensorflow

Xuanhui Wang, Google


Discovery in the Bloomberg Terminal

Mohamed Yahya, Bloomberg

16th September

CET 17:00-18:15

Beijing 23:00-00:15

Sydney 01:00-02:15

New York 11:00-12:15

San Francisco 08:00-09:15


Industry Session 2

Deep Question Answering at Baidu

Junfeng Wang, Baidu


Theory vs Practice in Offline Evaluation of Search and Recommender Systems

Ben Carterette, Spotify


Benchmarking search relevance in industry vs academia

Nick Craswell, Microsoft