Hi everyone, I wanted to do a quick PSA for anyone who may have missed the announcement last month to let you know the call for speakers is currently open through *Wednesday, May 8th*, for Activate 2019 (the Search and AI Conference), focused on the Apache Solr ecosystem and the intersection of Search and AI: https://lucidworks.com/2019/04/02/activate-2019-call-for-speakers/
The Activate Conference will be held September 9-12 in Washington, D.C. The conference, rebranded last year from "Lucene/Solr Revolution", is expected to grow considerably this year, and I'd like to encourage all of you working on advancements in the Lucene/Solr project or working on solving interesting problems in this space to consider submitting a talk if you haven't already. There are tracks dedicated to Solr Development, AI-powered Search, Search Development at Scale, and numerous other related topics - including tracks for key use cases like digital commerce - that I expect most on this list will find appealing. If you're interested in presenting (your conference registration fee will be covered if accepted), please submit a talk here: https://activate-conf.com/speakers/ Just wanted to make sure everyone in the development and user community here was aware of the conference and didn't miss the opportunity to submit a talk by Wednesday if interested. All the best, Trey Grainger Chief Algorithms Officer @ Lucidworks https://www.linkedin.com/in/treygrainger/
