Minneapolis Area Lucene/Solr meetup
Date: Tuesday, August 20, 2013
Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Location: 514 Studios 514 North 3rd Street STE 101, Minneapolis, MN (edit map)
Join us for refreshments, and socializing followed by presentations on What’s New in Lucene/Solr from Grant Ingersoll and presentations from Entegen and BestBuy on how they are using Solr to help their businesses. The event is hosted by Entagen and Lucidworks at 514 Studios, convienently located in the heart of the warehouse district, near the new Target Field, The Northstar Commuter Rail, and the Hiawatha Light Rail Line.
Featured Speakers:
Next Generation Search and Analytics with Lucene and Solr 4
Grant Ingersoll, Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of Lucidworks
Whether it’s enabling core search or powering a next generation product recommendation engine or building agile business intelligence tools, Apache Lucene and Solr are highly capable, open source search technologies that make it easy for organizations to drastically enhance data access. With the release of version 4.4 of Lucene and Solr, it is easier than ever to add and scale search capabilities to your data driven application. In this talk, Lucene and Solr committer Grant Ingersoll will walk you through the latest and greatest capabilities in Lucene and Solr related to relevance, distributed search, and faceting as well as show you how to leverage these capabilities to build fast, efficient, scalable, next generation data driven applications.