AI Con USA 2025 - Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Thursday, June 12

Francesca Lazzeri
Microsoft
T3

RAG at Scale: Building Production-Ready GenAI Solutions

Thursday, June 12, 2025 - 10:50am to 11:35am

This session serves as a deep dive into the strategies and best practices for data scientists aiming to build, fine-tune, and scale Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) based Generative AI (GenAI) applications. The core objectives for data scientists in the AI development cycle center around providing highly relevant results for end users and maintaining cost-effectiveness to support the sustainable growth of their products. RAG is a pivotal method that enables GenAI applications to operate effectively on proprietary data. At the heart of RAG are robust retrieval systems, which are crucial...

Matt Payne
Width.ai
T6

RAG Has Evolved - Enhance Your RAG Pipeline with These Concepts

Thursday, June 12, 2025 - 11:40am to 12:25pm

The majority of businesses today can set up a fundamental RAG pipeline that effectively handles most use cases. However, this basic setup eventually reaches its limitations in terms of functionality and accuracy, hindering further advancements. Matt Payne aims to detail the necessary pipeline components for building advanced RAG pipelines. For each component, he will explain the what, when, why, and how and provide real-world examples. Key areas of focus include leveraging tools and function calling, which enables you to create a systematic approach to using knowledge from multiple sources...