The Search Relevance Conference
Created and organized by the search and AI experts at OpenSource Connections
Haystack US 2026
The next edition of Haystack takes place on 6th & 7th May in Charlottesville, Virgina. Enhance your experience and make the most of your trip by also taking part in on of our trainings, the search product manager barcamp or our social events.
May 5th
Training “LLMs as Judges for Search”
Meetup “We are Search Product Managers”
May 6th & 7th
Haystack Conference
Register now!
Join us in Charlottesville, VA, for Haystack US 2026 – an immersive experience featuring workshops, training sessions, and other exciting events tailored for search and AI professionals.
Speakers at Haystack US 2026
Agustín Bernardo
Superhuman
David Tippett
GitHub
Cem Aksoy
Yelp
Daniel Wrigley
OpenSource Connections
Trey Grainger
Searchkernel
Maëlly Dubois
Adelean
William Barber
turbopuffer
Ángel Maldonado
Empathy
Kevin M. Butler
KMW LLC
Tianxiao
MongoDB
Kathleen DeRusso
Elastic
René Kriegler
OpenSource Connections
Jon Handler
Amazon Web Services
Photo: Bobak Ha’Eri, CC BY 3.0, (Direct link)
Explore Charlottesville
There are many great places to see in Charlottesville and we’ve therefore compiled a list of places to visit, eat at and enjoy while you are in town for Haystack.
OpenSource Connections is a Search and AI consultancy empowering the world’s search teams. We have created the Haystack conference in order to extend our internal discussions about search and AI to a larger community of practitioners.
Learn more about our consulting offerings: https://opensourceconnections.com
Questions?
You want to learn more about the event, how you and your company can become a part of it? Just contact our team.
Haystack is the conference for improving search relevance. If you’re like us, you work to understand the shiny new tools or dense academic papers out there that promise the moon. Then you puzzle how to apply those insights to your search problem, in your search stack. But the path isn’t always easy, and the promised gains don’t always materialize.
Haystack is the conference for organizations where search, matching, and relevance really matters to the bottom line. For search managers, developers, relevance engineers & data scientists finding ways to innovate, see past the silver bullets, and share what actually has worked well for their unique problems. Please come share and learn!
Why we created the Haystack conference series.
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