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Attending #bbuzz26 with your team? Buy 5 or more tickets and get 10% off! June 7-9, Kulturbrauerei Berlin or online.
Get yours here: https://2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/tickets/

Scatter-read is one of the most stubborn performance bottlenecks in distributed search. Rishav Sagar and Tejas Shah are at #bbuzz26 with a practical solution: context-aware segments.
Learn more: https://2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/session/context-aware-segments-solving-the-scatter-read-problem/

Planning for #bbuzz26?
We kick off #bbuzz26 weekend on Sunday with our Barcamp and it’s open to all attendees with a valid onsite ticket.
Learn more here: https://2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/barcamp/

We're excited to welcome Aiven as a Get-Together Partner for #bbuzz26!
Check out Aiven ahead of #bbuzz26: https://aiven.io/
Join us for Berlin Buzzwords on June 7-9 at Kulturbrauerei, Berlin or online. https://2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/

#bbuzz26 is in full swing, and today is your last chance to get the official Berlin Buzzwords t-shirt and hat.
Stop by the registration & info counter to grab yours before they're gone! #bbuzz

Lunch break at #bbuzz26! Head to the Partner and Catering Area next to Kesselhaus.
Back at 1300hr.

Ready to talk vector search and high-performance AI retrieval? Swing by the Qdrant booth! 📐🚀 #bbuzz26

Looking for a powerful retrieval engine built for speed and scale? Make sure to check out the Hornet booth! 🐝⚡️ #bbuzz26

Looking for the latest in open-source search, analytics, observability, and AI-powered search experiences? Make sure to swing by the OpenSearch booth! 🔍✨ #bbuzz26

1 day to go until #bbuzz26.
It’s almost time. See you tomorrow at Berlin Buzzwords, and definitely at the Barcamp 🥳
https://2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/

Final reminder for #bbuzz26
The full schedule is live to help you plan your days, map out your favorite sessions, and make the most of your time in Berlin Buzzwords.
https://2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/schedule/

Nearly a year after #bbuzz25, it’s almost that time again.
#bbuzz26 is just around the corner, here’s a look back at last year’s edition before we do it all over again.
Join us for Berlin Buzzwords on June 7-9 June 2026 Kulturbrauerei or online
https://2026.berlinbuzzwords.de

2 days to go until #bbuzz26!
Now’s the time to get everything in place. Get your tickets now if you haven’t: https://2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/tickets/

Before we head into #bbuzz26 weekend, here’s a look back at #bbuzz24.
Get your tickets now: https://2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/tickets/

Only 3 days until #bbuzz26! Can you believe it?
Last minute tickets are now available and you can still be a part of this experience.
Get your tickets now: https://2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/tickets/

Join us as we welcome Xata as our Community Breakfast Partner for #bbuzz26!
Learn more about Xata: https://xata.io/
Join us for Berlin Buzzwords on June 7-9 at Kulturbrauerei, Berlin or online

Joao Magalhaes will be at #bbuzz26 to explore how to bring software engineering discipline, reproducibility, and governance to workflow automation using GitOps principles with n8n.
Learn more about this session: https://2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/session/gitops-for-n8n-treating-workflows-as-code/

Final Call!
Standard Tickets for #bbuzz26 are only available until the end of today. If you’ve been waiting for the right moment to secure your spot, this is it.
Get your ticket before Standard Tickets switch to Last Minute Tickets tomorrow:
https://2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/tickets/

Every PDF hides structure, metadata and embedded signals that can silently influence AI-based processing.
At #bbuzz26 Alessio Vertemati reveals how those hidden layers can be exploited for malicious purposes and how the same mechanisms can become powerful tools for smarter applications.
Learn more: https://2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/session/ultraviolet-turn-hidden-document-data-into-an-ai-advantage/

Improving search relevance without complex pipelines, recommendation engines or ML models? This session by Hajer Bouafif at #bbuzz26 shows how lightweight agents collaborate through OpenSearch's agentic memory to enrich queries in real time.
Learn more: https://2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/session/personalize-search-results-with-opensearch-agentic-memory/

Danica Fine is Joining us at #bbuzz26 with another session exploring the Iceberg catalog landscape, covering core functions, the impact of REST catalogs, and more.
Learn more about this session https://2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/session/herding-catalogues-the-apache-iceberg-catalog-landscape/

Rigid schemas slow teams down. At #bbuzz26, Gosia Zagajewska will show how RDF lets you build applications without being locked into a fixed data structure from the start.
Learn more about this session: https://2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/session/building-schema-free-applications-with-rdf/

Kris Freedain and Carlos Juzarte Rolo will be taking the stage at #bbuzz26 to talk through what transition has looked like for the OpenSearch Software Foundation, what they have learned, and where the project is headed next.
Learn more: https://2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/session/opensearch-software-foundation-1-year-of-open-governance/

Kafi Streams, built on (Py)DBSP, treats streaming like batch. Strongly consistent from day one. An open source Python library for the 80% of use cases that do not need extreme scale. Ralph Matthias Debusmann will be unveiling it at #bbuzz26.
Learn more: https://2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/session/kafi-streams-complex-stream-processing-made-simple/

Flink gets talked about a lot. Where does it actually make a difference? Naci Simsek is at #bbuzz26 to share real-world cases where Apache Flink solved concrete, hard problems in production.
Learn more: https://2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/session/beyond-the-hype-when-apache-flink-solves-real-problems/

Coming to #bbuzz26 on 7–9 June? Make the most of your trip!
Buzzwords is part of Berlin Search Week (7–12 June) - a week of search, AI & data events, many of them free. Absolutely worth extending your stay.
Full schedule and tickets here: https://2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/2026/06/01/berlin-search-week/

One week to go until #bbuzz26! An incredible lineup of speakers and sessions all at Kulturbrauerei, Berlin. Kicking off with our Barcamp on June 7th, followed by two packed days of talks and workshops.
Check out the full schedule: https://2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/schedule/
Get your ticket: https://2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/tickets/

You don't need a zero-day to compromise a developer's code, just target their coding assistant. Leo Visser (Microsoft MVP) is at #bbuzz26 to explain exactly how that works, and what you can do about it.
Learn more: https://2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/session/no-0-day-required-just-target-the-ai-coding-assistant/
Get your ticket: https://2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/tickets/

Good news! Bloomberg is joining #bbuzz26 once again as Recording Partner 👏
Check out Bloomberg ahead of bbuzz26: https://www.bloomberg.com/company/values/tech-at-bloomberg/
Join us online and in-person at Kulturbrauerei, Berlin. https://2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/

OpenSource Connections has joined #bbuzz26 as a Bronze Partner!
Check them out ahead of the conference: https://opensourceconnections.com/
Join us for Berlin Buzzwords on June 7-9 at Kulturbrauerei or online. https://2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/

We’re also thrilled to welcome Vespa.ai as Gold Sponsor for #bbuzz26
Check out vespa.ai ahead of bbuzz26.
Join us online and in-person at Kulturbrauerei, Berlin.
https://2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/

What works today may become obsolete in months. That's the reality of building with LLMs in 2026. This session by Carmen Iniesta and Carles Onielfa at #bbuzz26 shares real experience on how to evaluate new models, stay updated, and much more.
Learn more about this session: https://2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/session/how-to-survive-the-vortex-of-llm-change/

Small vision models can transform how buyers find fashion products. At #bbuzz26, Piotr Kobziakowski shows how Vespa's ranking engine makes product discovery faster and more aligned with what users actually want.
Learn more: https://2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/session/tensor-arithmetics-in-search-and-ranking-for-ecommerce/

We are pleased to welcome AI-Powered Search as a Contributor Partner for #bbuzz26!
Learn more about them: https://aipoweredsearch.com/
Join us for Berlin Buzzwords on June 7-9 at Kulturbrauerei or online. https://2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/

We are please to welcome Thomson Reuters Labs as a Silver Partner for #bbuzz26!
Learn more about them: https://www.thomsonreuters.com/en/careers/our-jobs/join-thomson-reuters-labs
Join us for Berlin Buzzwords on June 7-9 at Kulturbrauerei or online. https://2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/

Olena Kutsenko will be at #bbuzz26 to show how to keep streaming data private, from simple masking to tricks that beat re-identification, all with live demos and some juicy real-world stories.
Learn about this session: https://2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/session/keeping-data-private-in-real-time-pipelines/

Filip Makraduli will be joining us at #bbuzz26 to show how to run four retrieval modes from one process.
Learn more about it: https://2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/session/one-gpu-four-retrieval-modes-multi-model-search-serving/

We're beyond excited to announce that @suehle, Director of Open Source at SAS and President of the Apache Software Foundation, is joining #bbuzz26 as the keynote speaker!
Learn more on our blog post: https://2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/2026/05/13/ruth-suehle-to-hold-keynote/

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems rely on pre-chunked documents, tying retrieval to arbitrary boundaries. Carles Onielfa is joining us at #bbuzz26 to explore an experimental approach that surfaces semantically relevant text spans, without chunking.
Learn more: https://2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/session/towards-chunk-less-rag/

We are excited to announce Search Guard as a Silver Partner for #bbuzz26!
Learn more about what they do: https://search-guard.com/
Join us for Berlin Buzzwords on June 7-9 at Kulturbrauerei or online. https://2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/

KAFKA-6020 has been open for 7 years. David Kjerrumgaard and Álvaro Rodríguez are at #bbuzz26 with a live demo showing broker-side filtering for Kafka in practice, validation from financial services and logistics.
Learn more: https://2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/session/dynamic-broker-side-filtering-for-kafka/

Hartmut Armbruster's talk explores a different path: Kafka Streams DSL, adopting Flink-like exactly-once semantics, Project Loom, and challenging the assumption that stream processing must be distributed. Join him #bbuzz26!
Learn more: https://2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/session/what-if-weve-been-scaling-stream-processing-wrong-all-along/

André Charton and Valeriia Platonova are at #bbuzz26 to share how they introduced Vespa into Germany's largest classifieds website, what worked, what failed, and what only a real PoC can teach you.
Learn more: https://2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/session/from-legacy-search-to-vespa-what-a-real-poc-taught-us/

Introducing our next panel session!
Join our panelists, Charlie Hull, Atita Arora, Jo Kristian Bergum, Dmitry Kan, and Evgeniya Sukhodolskaya at #bbuzz26 to debate the future of search.
Learn more: https://2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/session/ai-is-here-time-to-throw-away-our-search-engines/

We are incredibly happy to announce that NetApp Instaclustr has joined #bbuzz26 as a Silver Partner.
Check them out: https://www.instaclustr.com/
Join us for Berlin Buzzwords on June 7-9 at Kulturbrauerei or online. https://2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/

Tom Scott and Roman Kolesnev are at #bbuzz26 to speak on Kleppmann's "Turning the Database Inside Out", showing how Kafka and Iceberg together replace brittle ETL and unify real-time and historical analysis.
Learn more: https://2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/session/turning-the-database-inside-out-again/

Radu Gheorghe and Rafał Kuć are joining #bbuzz26 to talk about ways to untangle it: lexical search, significant terms, training an embedder from scratch, etc.
Learn more about their amazing session: https://2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/session/circular-dependency-fixes-when-bootstrapping-a-golden-set/
Join us for Berlin Buzzwords on June 7-9 at Kulturbrauerei or online

Excited to announce our first panel session and panelists!
Meet Monica Sarbu, Danica Fine, Philipp Krenn who will be joining us at #bbuzz26 to debate how AI agents are forcing a redesign of data infrastructure.
Learn more: https://2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/session/the-agent-era-how-ai-agents-are-reshaping-data-platforms/

IResearch is an Apache 2.0 C search engine built to live inside databases.
Andrey Abramov is joining #bbuzz26 to benchmark it against leading open-source search engines, and explore how database-native search fits modern query execution.
Learn more: https://2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/session/c-search-for-database-kernels-built-in-not-bolted-on/

How does searching for new information often look?
Evgeniya Sukhodolskaya is joining #bbuzz26 to introduce a new instrument for search pipeline builders: propagating query-results relevance right inside the search algorithm of a search engine.
Learn more here : https://2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/session/relevance-feedback-inside-the-search-engine/

DuckDB is fantastic for notebooks and scripts, but how does it perform beyond it? Matthias Niehoff is at #bbuzz26 to share practical strategies for moving DuckDB into broader production workflows.
Learn more: https://2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/speaker/matthias-niehoff/

We’re pleased to announce that Qdrant is joining #bbuzz26 as a Gold Partner! 👏🏻
Learn more about Qdrant here: https://qdrant.tech/
And don't forget to secure your tickets: https://2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/tickets/

Standard ticket and Standard Group ticket sales for #bbuzz26 end on June 3rd. From June 4th, Last Minute Tickets will be available at a higher rate.
If you’ve been thinking about attending, this is your reminder to save your spot before the deadline.
Get your tickets here: https://2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/tickets/

Inverse hybrid search has a balancing problem, and it's messier than it looks. Ravindra Harige is at #bbuzz26 to break down why, and what you can do about it.
Catch up on everything about this session: https://2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/session/the-three-body-problem-of-inverse-hybrid-search/

We want Berlin Buzzwords 2026 to be accessible to everyone, which is why we're excited to announce our fully sponsored Diversity Tickets. This is for anyone who wouldn't be able to participate at #bbuzz26 otherwise.
Choose between an onsite ticket at Kulturbrauerei or an online ticket - both completely free!
Learn more and get a diversity ticket: https://2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/diversity-inclusion/

Spark for batch, Trino for SQL, Flink for streaming - but how do you run all three safely on the same data? Join @Geetha at #bbuzz26 to explore how Apache Iceberg acts as the shared table layer that makes multi-engine data platforms possible.
Learn more about this session: https://2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/session/how-apache-iceberg-enables-multi-engine-data-platforms/
Join us online and in-person at Kulturbrauerei, Berlin.

What happens when AI agents can react to complex event patterns in real time? Steffen Hoellinger is at #bbuzz26 to show how Flink's CEP capabilities can take event-driven architectures to the next level.
Learn more: https://2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/session/event-driven-agents-with-complex-event-processing-in-flink/

Grep isn't enough for coding agents. Amine GANI and Roudy Khoury are at #bbuzz26 to talk about what proper search infrastructure for reliable coding agents actually looks like.
Learn more: https://2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/session/beyond-grep-search-for-reliable-coding-agents/

Open source has always been built on people lifting each other up. Tilda Udufo and Busayo ojo are joining #bbuzz26 to explore what mentoring looks like in the age of AI and how communities can stay human-centred, keep growing new contributors, and make sure the knowledge transfer continues.
Learn more about their session: https://lnkd.in/eFAf7tx3

Language models are changing faster than most teams can keep up with. Carmen Iniesta López and Carles Onielfa are joining #bbuzz26 to share practical strategies for navigating that constant churn, how to stay grounded, make good decisions, and keep building useful things when the ground keeps shifting beneath you.
Learn more about this session: https://2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/session/how-to-survive-the-vortex-of-llm-change/
Come join us for Berlin Buzzwords on June 7-9 at Kulturbrauerei or online.