1pm - 1:15pm. Opening Talk
1:15pm - 1:40pm. Eric Weber, Grammarly
Understanding What's Not Measured: Closing Gaps in the End-to-End Customer Journey
1:40pm - 2:05pm. Changyou Chen, University at Buffalo
Behavior-Driven Content Intelligence: A Paradigm for Customer Journey Optimization
2:05pm - 2:30pm. Will Edwards, Spotify
Using Small Language Models to Reveal User Patterns and Preferences From Behavioral Timelines
2:30pm - 3:00pm. Contributed Talks
2:30pm: Budget Optimization Model Balancing Quantity and Quality | Yaxiong Cai (Pinterest), Taeyoung Choi (Pinterest), Bradley Turnbull (Pinterest) and Robert Paine (Pinterest)
2:40pm: A White Box Framework for Estimating Long-Term Experimental Impact via Short-Term Metrics | Wen Qiang Toh (Roblox) , Wenjing Zheng (Roblox), Yidi Wang (Roblox) and Joao Dimas (Roblox)
2:50pm: Detection and Measurement of Near-Policy-Violating Content in Online Platforms | Armando Ordorica (Pinterest), Anna Kiyantseva (Pinterest) and Karim Wahba (Pinterest)
3:00pm - 3:20pm. Break and Poster Session
3:20pm - 3:45pm Yesu Feng, Netflix
From Rows to Dialogues: GenAI for Homepage and Search Personalization
3:40pm - 4:10pm Contributed Talks
3:40pm: PCGNet: Unifying Shared and Specific Information for Fashion Matching Recommendations | Shuiying Liao (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) and P. Y. Mok (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
3:50pm: Dynamic Prior Thompson Sampling for Cold-Start Exploration in Recommender Systems | Zhenyu Zhao (Roblox)
4:00pm: Introducing Multi-Modal Search at Pinterest: A New User Experience | Mengze Li (Pinterest), Pouya Rezazadeh Kalehbasti (Pinterest), Sainan Chen (Pinterest), Minhazul Islam Sk (Pinterest), Kshiteesh Hegde (Pinterest), Karina Sobhani (Pinterest) and Zhenjie Zhang (Pinterest)
4:10pm - 5:00pm Panel Discussion