BCS Search Industry Awards 2025
We are delighted to announce this year's Search Industry Awards, celebrating
the best search innovations of 2025. Presented by the Information Retrieval
Specialist Group of the BCS
<https://www.bcs.org/membership-and-registrations/member-communities/information-retrieval-specialist-group/>,
these awards recognize people, projects, and organisations around the world
that have excelled in the design of search and information retrieval products
and services. If you know of any people, projects, or products that deserve
recognition, let us know by submitting a nomination. Alternatively, if you're
involved with something special yourself, you can submit an application
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfxTx0oN3xCRcy1rgktug-k4e8kmVvvLQL_ZeZOIlx0Sr9Lmg/viewform?usp=sharing&ouid=116181701071998383533>
today.
Categories
This year we are offering four awards:
Best Search Project recognises the most impactful implementation of search
technology or methodology in solving a specific problem or need. Previous
winners include:
Datafari Enterprise Search <https://www.datafari.com/en/index.html>, an
open-source end-to-end solution covering the needs of enterprise search
scenarios
Wikiframe Visual Graph <https://wikiframe.library.unlv.edu/>, a search
capability for Special Collections data stored on Wikidata
CiteSeerX <https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/>, one of the largest open-source
academic search engines with over 10 million documents
Search Professional of the Year is made to an individual who has made a
significant contribution through their work and professionalism. Previous
winners include:
Jayaprakash Sundararaj <https://www.linkedin.com/in/osjayaprakash/>, Lead
Engineer at Google
Amey Porobo Dharwadker <https://ameydhar.com/>, Machine Learning Tech Lead
Manager at Meta
Adam Tocock <https://www.whittington.nhs.uk/mini-apps/staff/profile/?id=2478>,
Library Assistant at NHS
Most promising Start-up (or new Enterprise) recognises the innovative and
disruptive potential of a business model, technology, or solution. Previous
winners include:
deepset.ai <http://deepset.ai/>, a leader in framework and platform technology
that accelerates AI application development with large language models (LLMs);
and the creator of the Haystack open-source framework
batteryincluded.ai <http://batteryincluded.ai/>, First BI Product Discovery
Framework incl. 3 pillars for highest relevance within global product listings
Giotto AI <https://www.giotto.ai/>, an all-in-one platform to automatize,
digitalize, and standardize the data collection, analysis and writing of a
Clinical Evaluation Report
Best Presentation at Search Solutions Previous winners include:
Taketomo Isazawa, Microsoft Research: “Beyond RAG: Integrating Knowledge with
LLMs"
Charlie Hull, OSC: “Pragmatic AI-powered Search – Keeping it Simple, not
Stupid”.
Filip Radlinski, Google: “Challenges with Really Understanding Natural Language
in Conversational Recommendation”
The last award is open only to presenters at Search Solutions, and will be
judged on the day of the event. For all others, apply today
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfxTx0oN3xCRcy1rgktug-k4e8kmVvvLQL_ZeZOIlx0Sr9Lmg/viewform?usp=sharing&ouid=116181701071998383533>!
Judging Panel
Winners will be selected by our panel of judges (details to be announced
shortly).
Awards Ceremony
The awards ceremony will take place during Search Solutions 2025
<https://www.bcs.org/membership-and-registrations/member-communities/information-retrieval-specialist-group/conferences-and-events/search-solutions/>.
Apply
We’ve designed the application process
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to be simple to complete. If you are unsure which category to apply for, or
have questions about the application process, contact us via the address below.
For further details, see:
https://www.bcs.org/membership-and-registrations/member-communities/information-retrieval-specialist-group/awards/bcs-search-industry-awards/
<https://www.bcs.org/membership-and-registrations/member-communities/information-retrieval-specialist-group/awards/bcs-search-industry-awards/>
Nominations will remain open until 31st October 2025.
Contact
If you have any questions on the above, please contact the Awards Chair at
[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> with a copy to the IRSG
Events Organiser at [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
About IRSG
The IRSG is a Specialist Group of BCS <https://www.bcs.org/>. Its mission is to
provide a focus for the European IR community, facilitate communication between
researchers and practitioners and promote the adoption of IR research within
industry. We host a major European conference (ECIR) and provide an associated
programme of workshops, seminars and events. The IRSG is free to join via the
BCS website, which provides access to further IR articles, events and resources.
BCS is the industry body for IT professionals. With members in over 100
countries around the world, BCS is the leading professional and learned society
in the field of computers and information systems.
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