Free one-day community event on e-commerce search, held at w3.hub in Berlin on June 10, 2026. Barcamp-style format with scheduled morning talks and a self-organising afternoon, co-located the day after Berlin Buzzwords.
MICES, short for MIx-Camp E-Commerce Search, is a free one-day community event for e-commerce search practitioners. The 2026 edition ran at w3.hub in Berlin on June 10, the day after Berlin Buzzwords, with which it is co-located. The format is barcamp-style: a morning of scheduled talks followed by a self-organising afternoon where attendees set the agenda. It is run by René Kriegler of OpenSource Connections and Sebastian Russ of Tudock.
The day opened with scheduled morning talks and moved to a self-organising afternoon. Topics centred on e-commerce search quality, personalization, searchandizing, AI search, visual and voice search, and information retrieval. The barcamp structure keeps the event practitioner-driven, with sessions proposed and run by the people in the room.
MICES stands for MIx-Camp E-Commerce Search. It is a community event built around the practical problems of running search on e-commerce sites and marketplaces.
MICES runs the day after Berlin Buzzwords so that the European search and information retrieval community attending Buzzwords can extend their trip for a dedicated e-commerce search day. The two events share an audience and a city.
The morning is a set of scheduled talks. The afternoon is self-organising: attendees propose and run sessions on the day, which keeps the agenda close to the live concerns of practitioners.
w3.hub is an event space at Möckernstrasse 120, 10963 Berlin, in the Kreuzberg area. It hosts community tech events and suited the small, practitioner-scale format of MICES.
MICES is run by René Kriegler of OpenSource Connections and Sebastian Russ of Tudock. Both come from the search and e-commerce consulting world, and the event reflects that practitioner orientation rather than a commercial conference model.
MICES is the specialist community gathering for e-commerce search practitioners in Europe, deliberately small, free, and timed the day after Berlin Buzzwords so the search crowd can stay an extra day for the retail-specific problems.
MICES 2026 was free to attend, with registration via mices.co. The event has now taken place; this fiche documents the 2026 edition for reference.
w3.hub is at Möckernstrasse 120 in Berlin-Kreuzberg, served by the U-Bahn and S-Bahn at Gleisdreieck and Möckernbrücke, a short walk away.
Yes. MICES 2026 was a free community event. Registration was required to confirm a place.
Recording availability is not disclosed by the organiser. Check mices.co for any published material from the 2026 edition.
| Official website | https://mices.co/ |
| Register | https://mices.co/ |
| Programme | https://mices.co/ |