Things I Learned at the 2022 ACM Recommender Systems Conference in Seattle

Last week I attended the 2022 ACM Recommender Systems (RecSys) conference in Seattle, since I work on the Marketplace recommendation infrastructure team at Meta. I wanted to share some of the things I learned. Last week I attended the 2022 ACM Recommender Systems (RecSys) conference in Seattle. My manager had reminded our team that Meta has a policy of being able to attend one conference per year (paid for by the company), and I was eager to learn more about recommender systems since I work on a recommendations infrastructure team for Facebook Marketplace. I was also very excited to have the opportunity to meet more people in industry after not having attended business conferences for 3 years. Let's start with some photos. There were around 1200 conference attendees this year, which is the most RecSys has ever had. 500 out of the 1200 were remotely attending, and around 30-40% of the speakers were remote and gave presentations over Zoom. Here are some of the things that I learned this

Last week I attended the 2022 ACM Recommender Systems (RecSys) conference in Seattle, since I work on the Marketplace recommendation infrastructure team at Meta. I wanted to share some of the things I learned. Last week I attended the 2022 ACM Recommender Systems (RecSys) conference in Seattle. My manager had reminded our team that Meta has a policy of being able to attend one conference per year (paid for by the company), and I was eager to learn more about recommender systems since I work on a recommendations infrastructure team for Facebook Marketplace. I was also very excited to have the o