Engineering Product Search for Business Impact [Workshop]

Join us for a fun evening of hands-on building with the AI Collective, Code & Coffee, and Superoptimal.

Come to meet fellow engineers building product search for business impact.

🗓️ Event Agenda

• 5:30pm — Doors open | Food, drinks & networking

• 6:10pm — Talk by BAML: Fighting Slop with Slop

• 6:35pm — Workshop by Qdrant: From Relevance to Revenue Workshop

• 7:30pm — Breakout for networking

🤖 AI Engineering Kickoff: Fighting Slop with Slop

AI is writing more of our code, but much of it is slop. How should we live with this?

Vaibhav from BAML will kick things off with Fighting Slop with Slop: a look at using AI itself to test, evaluate, and catch problems in AI-generated code.

We'll then bring the coding assistant we're using straight for the workshop.

🔎 Workshop: From Relevance to Revenue

Everybody knows semantic search is a commodity now. So what's the problem with search?

Well, what happens when a search for “iPhone” returns iPhone cases? When an exact part number fails because someone added a dash? Or when page one is technically relevant, but commercially useless?

In this hands-on workshop with Qdrant, Neil will walk us through a real product catalog and tackle the retrieval and ranking problems that actually affect businesses.

You’ll experiment with:

• Hybrid search — combine semantic understanding with exact SKU and brand matching

• Filtering & ranking — keep results relevant under tight product constraints

• Business signals — bring stock, margin, freshness, and delivery into scoring

• Scale & performance — see what happens to latency, recall, and cost as the catalog grows

🏁 And yes, it’s competitive.

Everyone starts with the same catalog, baseline, and eval harness. You’ll use your coding assistant to improve the system and see how your approach performs.

The goal isn’t just to win the benchmark. It’s to leave knowing which knobs to turn when search goes wrong — and how to prove your fix actually worked.

👋 Who Should Join?

Anyone building infra behind product discovery, E-commerce and marketplace engineers, search and relevance teams, platform engineers will enjoy this!

Come for the workshop. Stay for the food, drinks, and people. 🍕🍻

Space is limited — register early.

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