MICES
MICES (Mix-Camp E-Commerce Search) is a dedicated e-commerce search conference held in Berlin, timed to run alongside Berlin Buzzwords (early summer). It is community-driven and organized by Rene Kriegler, with a strong practitioner focus on relevance, ranking, and query understanding for online retail. Closely overlaps with E-commerce Search.
Overview
- Focus: search relevance, ranking, and query understanding specifically for e-commerce.
- Location / timing: Berlin, adjacent to Berlin Buzzwords.
- Format: community-driven and sponsor-supported, with pre-conference training. One edition featured a “search relevance for product managers” e-commerce training run by OpenSource Connections.
Talks in this vault
- Rene Kriegler — organizer; his talk Rene Kriegler - Query Relaxation reflects the MICES practitioner tradition (Query Relaxation as a query recommendation problem).
- Andreas Wagner — MICES talk on diverse result sets and how result positioning shapes basket composition (see Search Result Diversity).
- Roman Grebennikov (Findify, 2019) — Roman Grebennikov - Personalizing Search Results in Real-Time: learn-to-rank across ~1,500 merchants, Position Bias feedback loops, and shuffled Exploration vs Exploitation segments.
- Evgeniya Sukhodolskaya (Qdrant, 2026) — Evgeniya Sukhodolskaya - Fine-Tuning Sparse Neural Retrievers for E-Commerce: SPLADE fine-tuning for catalogs, Hard Negative Mining with a search engine in the training loop.
Related
- Events and Conferences — the broader conference landscape
- E-commerce Search — the domain MICES serves
- Berlin Buzzwords — co-located open-source search conference
- Rene Kriegler · OpenSource Connections