PIRST – the Pune Information Retreival and Semantic Technology – is a special interest group within POCC (the Pune Open Coffee Club), that is focused on search technologies, and the semantic web. PIRST has it’s first kickoff meeting this Saturday, July 18th from 9:30am-2pm, at SICSR, Model Colony. The event is free for all to attend, but you must register here.

This meetup is geared towards learning about IR & ST, networking of professionals interested / active in this area and brainstorming on various possibilities and ideas in this area. The following information is tentative:

Speakers

• Shashikant Kore, Co-founder, Bandhan.com
• Abhay Shete, Founder, FortyTwo
• Rajan Chandi, Founder, OpenWeb Labs
• Bhasker Kode, Founder, Hover.in
• Atul Tulshibagwale, Founder, Web2rank

If you are interested in speaking at this event, please contact Atul Tulshibagwale (atultulshi gmail)

Agenda

Each individual talk is expected to be 45 minutes, with 15 minutes for Q&A.

• 9:30am – 10:15am – Survey of startups in IR&ST – Atul Tulshibagwale
• 10:15am – 11:00am – Survey of various semantic technologies – Rajan Chandi
• 11:00am – 11:30am – Tea Break
• 11:30am – 12:15pm – – Lucene primer – Shashikant Kore
• 12:15pm – 1:30pm – Roadmap of required Math – Abhay Shete
• 1:30pm – 2:00pm – Panel: Future of IR&ST – All Speakers

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