Technical Talks


AI Launchpad 2025: TopK
Marek Galovic and Jerguš Lejko share insights from TopK's unified search platform that drastically simplifies the modern search stack into a single API, exploring how they moved beyond vector database abstractions to production-ready search solutions. After building one of the market's most popular vector databases, this session offers valuable perspectives on unifying dense/sparse vector, text, and faceted retrieval with custom scoring, designed for teams seeking to reduce time-to-value in search implementations.

Co-Founder
Marek Galovic
TopK
Marek likes to break assumptions and push the boundaries of what's possible when building from first principles. Before founding TopK, Marek spent three years at Pinecone where he led data plane and control plane engineering. Prior to that, he worked on fraud detection and forecasting algorithms at Shopify and researched applications of game theory to make malware classifiers more robust at CTU/Avast.

Co-Founder
Jerguš Lejko
TopK
Jerguš cares about developer experience, fast feedback loops, and efficient delivery. At Pinecone, he built developer tooling, optimized CI/CD for snappy builds, and managed cloud infrastructure across all major hyperscalers. Before that, he worked with ML and bioinformatics teams, building data pipelines and automation for large-scale processing. Now, Jerguš is building TopK, a data infrastructure company to radically simplify search and make it more accessible to developers.
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