LARS 2019 will offer invited lectures by leading international researchers on foundational as well as trendy topics in recommender systems, an industry session, and a research consortium for selected graduate students.

Thursday, October 10, 2019 — Teatro (5th floor)

08:00-10:30LARS 2019 registration
10:30-11:00Coffee break
11:00-11:15LARS 2019 Opening
11:15-12:30Recommender Systems: Value, Methods, Measurement
Dietmar Jannach (Univ. Klagenfurt, Austria)
12:30-14:30Lunch
14:30-16:30FAT in Recommendation Systems
Denis Parra (PUC, Chile)
16:30-17:00Coffee break
17:00-19:00Recommender Systems Evaluation Beyond Accuracy
Pablo Castells (Univ. Autónoma de Madrid, Spain)

Friday, October 11, 2019 — Teatro (5th floor)

08:00-10:00Industry Session
08:00-08:15
How Globo.com is Automating Metadata Extraction for Video Recommendation
Felipe Ferreira (Globo.com, Brazil)
08:15-08:30
Explainable Machine Learning for a Better Understanding of Search Engines at Elo7
Junior A. Koch (Elo7, Brazil)
08:30-08:45
How Buzzmonitor is Using Facebook and Instagram Data to Improve Customer Experience for Global Brands
Fábio Leal (Buzzmonitor, Brazil)
08:45-09:00
Recommender Systems at Magalu: Past, Present and Future
Andrei Martins (Magazine Luiza, Brazil)
09:00-09:15
Challenges and Research for a Real-Time Recommendation in a Dynamic Marketplace Environment
Tiago Motta (OLX, Brazil)
09:15-09:30
The Problem of Matching Scarcity: When RSs Don’t Connect the Edges in Recruitment Services
Fernando Mourão (SEEK, Brazil)
09:30-09:45
iFood Recommendations
Renan Oliveira (iFood, Brazil)
09:45-10:00
How Virtus is Using Recommender Systems to Solve Sofware Engineering Problems
Mirko Perkusich (Virtus, Brazil)
10:00-10:30Coffee break
10:30-12:30Deep Learning for Recommendation
Anoop Deoras (Netflix, USA)
12:30-14:30Lunch
14:30-16:30Building Large Scale Recommendation Systems: An Industry Perspective
Tao Ye (Pandora, USA)
16:30-17:00Coffee break
17:00-19:00Recommender Systems: The Human Perspective
Joseph Konstan (Univ. of Minnesota, USA)
19:00-21:00LARS 2019 Closing Cocktail

Saturday, October 12, 2019 — Escola de Negócios (6th floor)

Saturday activities are restricted to selected research consortium participants and mentors.

09:00-10:00Poster Session
10:00-11:30Breakout Sessions
11:30-14:00Lunch
14:00-15:30Breakout Sessions