Announcing the Vector Space Day 2025 Speaker Lineup

We are just days away from Vector Space Day in Berlin, and the full speaker lineup is here! This year’s program spans keynotes, deep-dive technical sessions, and lightning talks, covering everything from benchmarking search engines to scalable AI memory and multimodal embeddings. Here’s what to expect.

Opening Keynotes

The day begins with perspectives from across the ecosystem:

• Andre Zayarni, Andrey Vasnetsov, and Neil Kanungo sharing Qdrant’s vision for the future of vector search and how devs can engage with the Qdrant Community.
• Robert Eichenseer (Microsoft), Kevin Cochrane (Vultr), and Inaam Syed (AWS) offering insights on how cloud, infrastructure, and developer communities are reshaping AI systems.

Breakout Sessions

Track A: Milky Way - Architectures, Infrastructure and Multimodal Retrieval

• AskNews - Building a News Sleuth for the Deep Research Paradigm: How high-performance hybrid retrieval can support investigative journalism and geopolitical risk monitoring.
• Delivery Hero - How to Cheat at Benchmarking Search Engines: Lessons from building reproducible benchmarking harnesses and public leaderboards.
• Neo4j - Hands-On GraphRAG: Practical guidance on combining knowledge graphs with RAG for more explainable retrieval.
• Superlinked - Beyond Text-Only: How mixture of encoders unlocks advanced retrieval using Google DeepMind’s latest embeddings.
• Jina AI - Vision-Language Models for Embedding: Training insights for multimodal embeddings that span text, diagrams, and UI screenshots.
• TwelveLabs - Practical Multimodal Embeddings: Real workflows for cross-modal video search and recommendations.
• Baseten - High Throughput, Low Latency Embedding Pipelines: Patterns and open-source tools for production-ready embedding inference.
• Google DeepMind - Vector Search with Gemini and EmbeddingGemma: Deploying cutting-edge embeddings with the right indexing strategies.

Track B: Andromeda - AI Workflows, Agents and Applications

• Linkup - Beyond Web Search: Infrastructure for AI-native agents that need structured, real-time web intelligence.
• Cognee - Building Scalable AI Memory: Abstractions that sync graphs and vectors for durable, multi-backend AI memory.
• n8n - Evaluate Your Qdrant-RAG Agents: A live no-code session on agent evaluation using n8n’s native tools.
• Arize AI - Self-Improving Evaluations: Feedback loops and tracing for reliable agentic RAG in production.
• LlamaIndex - Vector Databases for Workflow Engineering: Using Qdrant to orchestrate context-aware AI pipelines.
• deepset - Agent-Powered Retrieval with Haystack and Qdrant: When retrieval agents outperform or overcomplicate pipelines.
• GoodData - Scaling Real-Time RAG for Analytics: Lessons from streaming BI artifacts into Qdrant for natural-language analytics.
• Equal - Redefining Long-Term Memory: Streaming-driven ingestion architectures that give agents enterprise-grade responsiveness.

Lightning Talks

The afternoon features rapid-fire sessions from innovators including:

• bakdata - Streaming pipelines with Kafka and Qdrant.
• KI Reply - GDPR-compliant retrieval with graph-augmented RAG.
• iCompetence - Personalized product discovery with multimodal vectors.
• Raiva Technologies - Voice-first multimodal search with Qdrant.
• Superlinked - Stories from the AI Search Frontier.

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Hackathon Awards and After Party

We will celebrate the winners of the Think Outside the Bot Hackathon, followed by closing remarks and an after party with live DJ and networking.

Don’t Miss Out

Vector Space Day 2025 takes place in Berlin on September 26, 2025. Space is limited, and registration is filling fast!

Register today