ISKO UK partners with the British Computer Society (BCS) Information Retrieval Specialist Group for Search Solutions 2025.
Search Solutions is the BCS Information Retrieval Specialist Group’s (BCS IRSG) annual event focused on practitioner issues in the arena of search and information retrieval (IR). We bring together practitioners, researchers, analysts and end users to discuss the latest developments in the IR community and to share insights between research and practice.
The event consists of a Tutorial day (25 November) and a Conference day (26 November), each of which has a separate registration. The conference day includes presentations, panels and keynote talks by influential industry leaders on novel and emerging applications in search and information retrieval.
Agenda
09:30 - 09:50 Registration and coffee
09:50 - 10:00 Introduction
We will then have a full day of talks and discussion. The detailed programme will be announced soon but here is the list of confirmed speakers so far:
- Alessandro Benedetti (Sease) "Search Quality Evaluation in the Era of Large Language Models: RRE-Dataset Generator"
- Jon Brassey (TRIP) "Harnessing AI for Faster, Smarter Clinical Decision Support: The Evolution of Trip Database"
- Gianna Cipponeri "Evaluating Citation Quality and Context Faithfulness in Retrieval-Augmented Generation: A Product-Specific Framework"
- Mark Harwood (Ex Elastic Developer) "Plasticine Not Porcelain: Shaping Embeddings Through Interactive Clustering"
- Orland Hoeber (University of Regina) "Support Human Intelligence – An Alternative to Retrieval Augmented Generation in Academic Digital Library Search"
- Marianne Lykke (Aalborg University) "Role of metadata and taxonomies in professional contexts"
- Adam Roegiest (Zuva) "Information Retrieval Evaluation in the Real-World: A Legal Tech Perspective"
- Cedric Ulmer (France Labs) "Adding GenAI to Datafari Community Edition - what and why"
- Sean MacAvaney (University of Glasgow) "Re-thinking re-ranking"
16:30 - 17:15 Panel Session
17:15 - 17:25 BCS Search Industry Awards
17:25 - 17:30 Closing words
17:30 Evening Reception
Location
Search Solutions is organised by the Information Retrieval Specialist Group of the BCS (The Chartered Institute for IT) and ISKO (International Society for Knowledge Organization), and is held at the BCS Central London Office:
BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT
Ground Floor
25 Copthall Avenue
London
EC2R 7BP
https://www.bcs.org/about-us/our-london-office-and-event-venue/
Tickets
(Prices stated are inclusive of VAT at 20% and fees)
- BCS and ISKO members: £92.00
- Non-members: £110.00
- Students: £80.00
Registration fees include lunch. Tea and coffee will also be available throughout the day followed by a drinks reception in the evening.
Join ISKO UK to receive a discount
Register for Search Solutions 2025 on Eventbrite
Refunds/cancellations
A refund, excluding fees, will be issued if a cancellation request is received within 14 days of the booking date or by noon on Wednesday, 19 November 2025; otherwise, name substitutions will be allowed after this date.
Our events are for adults aged 16 years and over.
Please note: if you have any accessibility needs, please let us know via groups@bcs.uk and we’ll work with you to make suitable arrangements.
For overseas delegates who wish to attend the event, please note that BCS does not issue invitation letters.
