Your chance to learn live with leading information retrieval experts, Professors Ricardo Baeza-Yates and Fabrizio Silvestri, alongside a cohort of driven industry professionals

Ricardo Baeza-Yates is Director of Research at the Institute for Experiential AI of Northeastern University. Previously he served as the CTO of NTENT, a global semantic search leader,  and VP of Research at Yahoo Labs. Ricardo is also a co-author of the best-selling textbook, Modern Information Retrieval which is the most used and cited book on search concepts and technology. In 2009 he was named ACM Fellow and in 2011 IEEE Fellow, among other awards and distinctions. His areas of expertise are web search and data mining, information retrieval, bias and ethics on AI, data science and algorithms in general.

Fabrizio Silvestri is a Full Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Rome, La Sapienza. Before becoming a Professor, Fabrizio worked as a Principal Research Scientist at Facebook (now Meta) AI where he directed research groups implementing AI technology in Facebook’s products. He is the author of more than 150 papers in international journals and conference proceedings on Web Search and Machine Learning. He is the holder of the "test-of-time" award at the ECIR 2018 conference for an article published in 2007.