diff --git a/qdrant-landing/content/blog/vector-space-day-2025-lineup.md b/qdrant-landing/content/blog/vector-space-day-2025-lineup.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..5c992bcc8 --- /dev/null +++ b/qdrant-landing/content/blog/vector-space-day-2025-lineup.md @@ -0,0 +1,73 @@ +--- +title: "Announcing the Vector Space Day 2025 Speaker Lineup" +draft: false +slug: vector-space-day-lineup-2025 +short_description: "We are just days away from Vector Space Day in Berlin, and the full speaker lineup is here! " +description: "We are just days away from Vector Space Day in Berlin, and the full speaker lineup is here! This year’s program spans keynotes, deep-dive technical sessions, and lightning talks, covering everything from benchmarking search engines to scalable AI memory and multimodal embeddings." +preview_image: /blog/vector-space-day-2025-lineup/lineup-hero.jpg +social_preview_image: /blog/vector-space-day-2025-lineup/lineup-hero.jpg +date: 2025-09-15 +author: Qdrant +featured: true +tags: + - news + - blog +--- + +# Announcing the Vector Space Day 2025 Speaker Lineup + +We are just days away from [Vector Space Day](https://luma.com/p7w9uqtz) in Berlin, and the full speaker lineup is here\! This year’s program spans keynotes, deep-dive technical sessions, and lightning talks, covering everything from benchmarking search engines to scalable AI memory and multimodal embeddings. Here’s what to expect. + +## Opening Keynotes + +The day begins with perspectives from across the ecosystem: + +* **Andre Zayarni, Andrey Vasnetsov,** and **Neil Kanungo** sharing Qdrant’s vision for the future of vector search and how devs can engage with the Qdrant Community. +* **Robert Eichenseer (Microsoft), Kevin Cochrane (Vultr),** and **Inaam Syed (AWS)** offering insights on how cloud, infrastructure, and developer communities are reshaping AI systems. + +## Breakout Sessions + +#### Track A: Milky Way \- Architectures, Infrastructure and Multimodal Retrieval + +* **AskNews** \- *Building a News Sleuth for the Deep Research Paradigm:* How high-performance hybrid retrieval can support investigative journalism and geopolitical risk monitoring. +* **Delivery Hero** \- *How to Cheat at Benchmarking Search Engines:* Lessons from building reproducible benchmarking harnesses and public leaderboards. +* **Neo4j** \- *Hands-On GraphRAG:* Practical guidance on combining knowledge graphs with RAG for more explainable retrieval. +* **Superlinked** \- *Beyond Text-Only:* How mixture of encoders unlocks advanced retrieval using Google DeepMind’s latest embeddings. +* **Jina AI** \- *Vision-Language Models for Embedding:* Training insights for multimodal embeddings that span text, diagrams, and UI screenshots. +* **TwelveLabs** \- *Practical Multimodal Embeddings:* Real workflows for cross-modal video search and recommendations. +* **Baseten** \- *High Throughput, Low Latency Embedding Pipelines:* Patterns and open-source tools for production-ready embedding inference. +* **Google** **DeepMind** \- *Vector Search with Gemini and EmbeddingGemma:* Deploying cutting-edge embeddings with the right indexing strategies. + +#### Track B: Andromeda \- AI Workflows, Agents and Applications + +* **Linkup** \- *Beyond Web Search:* Infrastructure for AI-native agents that need structured, real-time web intelligence. +* **Cognee** \- *Building Scalable AI Memory:* Abstractions that sync graphs and vectors for durable, multi-backend AI memory. +* **n8n** \- *Evaluate Your Qdrant-RAG Agents:* A live no-code session on agent evaluation using n8n’s native tools. +* **Arize AI** \- *Self-Improving Evaluations:* Feedback loops and tracing for reliable agentic RAG in production. +* **LlamaIndex** \- *Vector Databases for Workflow Engineering:* Using Qdrant to orchestrate context-aware AI pipelines. +* **deepset** \- *Agent-Powered Retrieval with Haystack and Qdrant:* When retrieval agents outperform or overcomplicate pipelines. +* **GoodData** \- *Scaling Real-Time RAG for Analytics:* Lessons from streaming BI artifacts into Qdrant for natural-language analytics. +* **Equal** \- *Redefining Long-Term Memory:* Streaming-driven ingestion architectures that give agents enterprise-grade responsiveness. + +## Lightning Talks + +The afternoon features rapid-fire sessions from innovators including: + +* **bakdata** \- Streaming pipelines with Kafka and Qdrant. +* **KI Reply** \- GDPR-compliant retrieval with graph-augmented RAG. +* **iCompetence** \- Personalized product discovery with multimodal vectors. +* **Raiva** **Technologies** \- Voice-first multimodal search with Qdrant. +* **Superlinked** \- Stories from the AI Search Frontier. + +#### 👉 [**View Full Agenda Details**](https://try.qdrant.tech/hubfs/VSD-2025-program.pdf) + +## Hackathon Awards and After Party + +We will celebrate the winners of the [Think Outside the Bot Hackathon](https://try.qdrant.tech/hackathon-2025), followed by closing remarks and an after party with live DJ and networking. + +## Don’t Miss Out + +Vector Space Day 2025 takes place in Berlin on September 26, 2025\. Space is limited, and registration is filling fast\! + +#### [**Register today**](https://luma.com/p7w9uqtz) + diff --git a/qdrant-landing/static/blog/vector-space-day-2025-lineup/lineup-hero.jpg b/qdrant-landing/static/blog/vector-space-day-2025-lineup/lineup-hero.jpg new file mode 100644 index 000000000..6fa79f595 Binary files /dev/null and b/qdrant-landing/static/blog/vector-space-day-2025-lineup/lineup-hero.jpg differ