René Kriegler

René Kriegler

OpenSource Connections

As Chief Strategy Officer at OSC, René is focused on technical strategy and fulfilling the needs of our clients.

René has worked in search for almost two decades, including on projects for some of the top 10 German e-commerce sites. He is co-founder and co-organiser of MICES (Mix-Camp E-commerce Search), an event that brings together the e-commerce search community each year. His technological focus is on OpenSearch, Elasticsearch and Lucene. He created and maintains the Querqy open source library for query rewriting.

Sessions

Do we still need search engines?

Talk
7. May 2026, 13:15 - 14:00
Main Stage
Search has a new User Interface! All search will be Agentic/RAG and delivered through a chat interface! The days of the monolithic search engine are over!