Jo Kristian Bergum

Jo Kristian Bergum

Hornet.dev

Jo Kristian Bergum is the CEO of HORNET.dev and a 25-year veteran of the search industry, formerly serving as the Chief Scientist at Vespa.ai and a Distinguished Engineer at Yahoo.

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Agentic Retrieval: Building Self-Optimizing Search Systems

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Relevance feedback loops used to take months. AI agents can now compress the process to seconds. This talk explores agentic retrieval: systems where agents adjust scoring models, schema, and indexing in real time. Learn how to build retrieval infrastructure with verifiable APIs that enable agents to optimize their own search context.