Retail & E-commerce

MICES 2026

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MICES 2026 ran on Jun 10, 2026 at w3.hub in Berlin, Germany. It is a Retail & E-commerce conference. ConferenceGrid lists 12 speakers, 3 sponsors and 11 sessions. Dates for the next edition are not announced yet.

Lineup updated Jun 16, 2026 · dates verified May 6, 2026

MICES (Mix-Camp E-Commerce Search) 2026 is a one-day event in Berlin dedicated to e-commerce search. The event brings together experts from various disciplines - IT, product management, UX, search managers, information retrieval specialists, data scientists, and vendors - to discuss current challenges, best practices, and case studies in e-commerce search. T…

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12Speakers
3Sponsors
11Sessions
13Companies · in total

Speakers

Programmed at MICES, in alphabetical order.

Andrea Polonioli
Coveo
Arne Vogt
Lead Product Manager for Search & Discovery · OTTO
Charlie Hull
The Search Juggler
Denise Schäfer
dm-drogerie markt
Doug Turnbull
softwaredoug.com
Evgeniya Sukhodolskaya
Senior Developer Advocate · Qdrant
Gennady Shabanov
Machine Learning Engineer · idealo
Ivan Potapov
Research Engineer, Search & Browse team · Zalando
Maëlly Dubois
Product & Operations Manager · Adelean
Mike Dirnberger
Backend Software Engineer and Search Consultant · diva-e
René Kriegler
Chief Strategy Officer at OpenSource Connections · OpenSource Connections
Sebastian Russ
Team Lead Search at Tudock · Tudock

Sponsors

The companies behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.

Empathy.ai
OpenSource Connections
Tudock

Agenda

Selected from 11 sessions.

  • 09:00-09:25

    Opening and welcome

    Opening and welcome by the MICES organizers René Kriegler and Sebastian Russ.

  • 09:25-09:55

    Precision vs. Recall: When Good Enough Beats Perfect

    Precision is a fundamental pillar of information retrieval. Yet we struggled to prove its value. Over the past years, we transformed our search from purely lexical to fully hybrid,…

  • 10:10-10:40

    Search, Chat, Ockham: When Two Interfaces Are One Too Many

    Over the past twelve months, ecommerce chatbots have gone mainstream - from Macy's to Argos, from Vans to Belk and now Frasers - positioned as the natural, expressive alternative t…

  • 10:45-11:15

    The Journey to Semantic Search in Omnichannel Retail at dm-drogerie markt

    Semantic search is transforming product discovery in e-commerce by moving beyond keywords toward a deeper understanding of user intent. We share how dm-drogerie markt has been buil…

  • 11:35-12:05

    Inside Zalando Search: Architecture Behind Product Discovery at Scale

    A look inside the Search & Browse architecture powering product discovery for millions of customers across Zalando's European markets. We'll walk through the system end-to-end: Ela…

  • 12:10-12:40

    Fine-Tuning Sparse Neural Retrievers for E-Commerce Is Not That Scary (And Often Worth It)

    Sparse neural retrieval is the middle ground between BM25+LTR, which you've already squeezed, and dense retrieval you'd rather not put in front of users. Inverted index, exact term…

  • 13:35-14:05

    How much searchandizing is too much searchandizing?

    You've installed a new search engine with powerful matching and ranking features - and now your executives, commercial team and users are complaining that certain products don't ap…

  • 14:10-14:40

    Autoresearch: coding agents to optimize e-commerce retrieval

    Machine Learning can be a challenging path. Deploying ML rerankers requires unique deployment infrastructure and specific skills. A new option has appeared with the rise of coding …

  • 14:55-15:25

    Hybrid search at idealo: from fine-tuning to production

    We share our journey of bringing hybrid search to idealo - combining vector and keyword retrieval in production. We cover how we fine-tuned our embedding model, the challenges we f…

Quick answers

When is MICES 2026?
MICES 2026 ran on Jun 10, 2026 at w3.hub in Berlin, Germany.
Where is MICES 2026 held?
MICES 2026 was held at w3.hub in Berlin, Germany.
Who is speaking at MICES 2026?
ConferenceGrid lists 12 speakers, including Andrea Polonioli (Coveo), Arne Vogt (Lead Product Manager for Search & Discovery, OTTO) and Charlie Hull (The Search Juggler).
Who sponsors MICES 2026?
ConferenceGrid lists 3 sponsors: Empathy.ai, OpenSource Connections and Tudock.
Company intelligence

What does it mean when 13 companies show up, and 2 bet on three roles at once?

Thirteen companies. two are betting more than once.

The numbers below are derived from the speakers, sponsors, and exhibitors on this page, cross-referenced into one ledger. They are the only thing here that 10times.com cannot tell you.

Who's in the room
2All threespeak · spons · exh
1Sponsoringsponsor only
10Speakingspeaker only

In all three roles

OpenSource Connections·Tudock

Speakers by seniority

8% of the speakers carry senior titles: C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite18%
  • Manager / Lead217%
  • Product18%
  • Engineer · IC325%
  • Research / Science18%
  • Other roles433%

Of 12 speakers · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies
#CompanyRolesSpeakers
1OpenSource ConnectionsSponsor1
2TudockSponsor1
3Empathy.aiSponsor-
4Adelean1
5Coveo1
6diva-e1
7dm-drogerie markt1
8idealo1
9OTTO1
10Qdrant1
11softwaredoug.com1
12The Search Juggler1
13Zalando1
Sponsors by tier
unspecified3
100% of 3