Search Solutions 2026 is the annual conference of the BCS Information Retrieval Specialist Group, bringing together practitioners, researchers, analysts and end users to talk about current developments in search and information retrieval and to share insights between research and practice.
The day is organised into four sessions covering agentic search, the backend behind search systems, the searcher's experience, and the past, present and future of search. Speakers include Alessandro Benedetti, Farhad Shokraneh, Jelena Mitrovic, Radu Gheorghe, Mark Stevenson, Marianne Lykke, Orland Hoeber, Martin White, Charlie Hull and Adam Roegiest, with a closing panel featuring Taketomo Isazawa, Charlie Hull and Mark Harwood. The day also includes the BCS Search Industry Awards and an evening reception.
