Fabian Geier
CODE University of Applied Sciences
Biography
Organisation
CODE University of Applied Sciences
Educational institution
www.code.berlin
Speaker session
PLENARY 3 : Open Web Search and Large Language Models and Beyond: Challenges and opportunities for Europe
Europe is currently piloting an open and distributed Web search ecosystem to support European Web search solutions. The core of European Web infrastructure is a substantial Open Web Index, hosted and maintained in a distributed manner across a number of European computing centres. The invited speakers will examine the current state and potential of this initiative. They will also reflect on the challenges in setting up such a cooperative undertaking.
The panel will discuss how start-ups and innovators can build and offer their services based on such the European Open Search infrastructure in the future. The panel will in particular address the overall role of web search in the current and future development of Large Language Models and the potential of an open and distributed web search model to train Large Language Models and build diverse public and commercial Web services at scale while remaining in line with European values and jurisdiction.
Moderated by Christine Plote, Co-Founder, Open Search Foundation e.V
Michael Granitzer
University of Passau
Biography
Prof. Dr Michael Granitzer has been the chair of data science at the University of Passau since 2017. His research interests are applied machine learning, web information retrieval and natural language processing. He has published over 190 mostly peer-reviewed works, including journal publications, book chapters and books in the above-mentioned fields. Currently he is coordinating the OpenWebSearch.eu project. For more details, see
Organisation
University of Passau
Educational institution
Speaker session
PLENARY 3 : Open Web Search and Large Language Models and Beyond: Challenges and opportunities for Europe
Europe is currently piloting an open and distributed Web search ecosystem to support European Web search solutions. The core of European Web infrastructure is a substantial Open Web Index, hosted and maintained in a distributed manner across a number of European computing centres. The invited speakers will examine the current state and potential of this initiative. They will also reflect on the challenges in setting up such a cooperative undertaking.
The panel will discuss how start-ups and innovators can build and offer their services based on such the European Open Search infrastructure in the future. The panel will in particular address the overall role of web search in the current and future development of Large Language Models and the potential of an open and distributed web search model to train Large Language Models and build diverse public and commercial Web services at scale while remaining in line with European values and jurisdiction.
Moderated by Christine Plote, Co-Founder, Open Search Foundation e.V
Alex Grech
University of Malta
Biography
Alex Grech is a strategist, change consultant and academic. Over the past 30 years, he has worked with multinationals, governments, NGOs and startups in sectors ranging from ICT, telecoms and neuroscience to culture, education and public policy. Following an early career in multinationals, Alex has advised organisations including the ILO, UNESCO, the European Commission, RISE, the Mastercard Foundation, Ericsson, the World Bank, the Pan-African Consortium on the Digitalisation of TVET and the Ministry for Education in Malta.
Alex is the founding Executive Director of the 3CL Foundation, a knowledge hub for a global network of institutions and educators interested in the rapid deployment of EdTech programmes based on action research, advocacy and praxis. He is a member of the strategic committee of DC4EU, a large scale EU-funded project piloting the EU Digital Identity Wallet in both the educational sector and the Social Security domain, and leading strategic communications. Alex teaches new media at the University of Malta within the Faculty of Media & Knowledge Sciences, with research interests in digital and media literacies, blockchain & self-sovereign identity, social media and power. He holds a PhD in Internet Computing from the University of Hull and is a Chartered Accountant by profession. His book Media, Technology and Education in a Post-Truth Society was published by Emerald. His latest publication, a Manifesto for Young People on Information, is being translated in several languages.
Organisation
University of Malta
Educational institution
Speaker session
PLENARY 3 : Open Web Search and Large Language Models and Beyond: Challenges and opportunities for Europe
Europe is currently piloting an open and distributed Web search ecosystem to support European Web search solutions. The core of European Web infrastructure is a substantial Open Web Index, hosted and maintained in a distributed manner across a number of European computing centres. The invited speakers will examine the current state and potential of this initiative. They will also reflect on the challenges in setting up such a cooperative undertaking.
The panel will discuss how start-ups and innovators can build and offer their services based on such the European Open Search infrastructure in the future. The panel will in particular address the overall role of web search in the current and future development of Large Language Models and the potential of an open and distributed web search model to train Large Language Models and build diverse public and commercial Web services at scale while remaining in line with European values and jurisdiction.
Moderated by Christine Plote, Co-Founder, Open Search Foundation e.V