Event Schedule

Time Session Speaker(s) / Description
08:55 AM - 09:00 AM CDT Intro and Welcome Organizers
09:00 AM - 09:45 AM CDT Keynote Talk # 1 - What can we learn from analyzing streaming music data? Eva Zangerle
09:45 AM - 10:00 AM CDT Accepted Paper # 1. Entity and Event Topic Extraction from Podcast Episode Title and Description Using Entity Linking (Amazon Music) Christian Siagian and Amina Shabbeer.
10:00 AM - 10:15 AM CDT Accepted Paper # 2. MEMER - Multimodal Encoder for Multi-signal Early-stage Recommendations (ShareChat) Mohit Agarwal, Srijan Saket and Rishabh Mehrotra.
10:15 AM - 10:30 AM CDT Accepted Paper # 3. Deep Neural Network with LinUCB: A Contextual Bandit Approach for Personalized Recommendation (Disney Streaming) Qicai Shi, Feng Xiao, Douglas Pickard, Inga Chen and Liang Chen.
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM CDT Break
11:00 - 11:45 am CDT Keynote Talk # 2 - Powering Personalized Binge-Watching Recommendations: A Journey of Realtime Multi-Interest Based Retrieval Jaya Kawale
11:45 AM - 12:00 noon CDT Accepted Paper # 4. Improve retrieval of regional titles in streaming services with dense retrieval (Amazon - Prime Video) Bhargav Upadhyay, Tejas Khairnar and Anup Kotalwar.
12:00 noon - 12:30 PM CDT Invited Talk # 1. Deep Downsampling (Netflix)
12:30 - 1:30 pm CDT Lunch Break
1:30 - 2:15 pm CDT Keynote Talk # 3 - Recent Advances in Conversational Recommender Systems Laurent Charlin
2:15 - 2:30 pm CDT Accepted Paper # 5 - A Probabilistic Position Bias Model for Short-Video Feeds (ShareChat) Olivier Jeunen
2:30 - 3:00 pm CDT Invited Talk # 2
3:00 -3:30 pm CDT Break
3:30 - 4:15 pm CDT Keynote Talk # 4. TBD Ben Carterette
4:15 pm - 4:45 pm CDT Invited Talk - When Hollywood Meets AI: The Use of Machine Learning in Creative Industries Lan Luo
4:45 - 5:00 pm CDT Closing Remarks Organizers