Tentative Event Schedule

Time (in EDT)

Session

Speakers

9:00-9:15 am Introduction Organizers
9:15-10.10 am Invited Talk # 1: Personalized Generation: Research Challenges & Opportunities Michael Bendersky
10:10 - 10:30 am Break -
10:30 - 11:25 am Invited Talk # 2: Toward Interpretable Information Access Systems Negin Rahimi
11:30 - 12:25 pm Invited Talk # 3: Interactive Language Agents: Training, Evaluation, and Interface Alane Suhr
12:25 - 1:00 pm Lunch -
1:30 - 2:00 pm Invited Talk # 4: More Like This…how? Combining engagement and semantic signals for recommending similar titles at Netflix Anne Cocos, Netflix
2:00 - 2:45 pm Invited Talk # 5: Task-aware personalization in eCommerce search and recommendations Surya Kallumad
2:45 - 3:15 pm Invited Talk # 6: Improving Relevance and Product Discoverability in Grocery search results Tejaswi Tenneti (Instacart)
3:15 - 3:30pm Break -
3:30-4pm Paper Presentations Authors
4:00 - 4:50 pm Panel Discussion: The Role of Generative AI in Revolutionizing Personalization, Recommendations, and Search Paul Bennet, Michael Bendersky, Sudarshan Lamkhede, Hamed Zamani
4:50 - 5:00pm Closing Remarks Organizers