New York Metro Open Data User Group

Agenda​

​​5:00 - 5:30: Pizza / Beer

​​​5:30- 5:45: IBM Open Data Update

Gil Isaacs, IBM

Update on the latest in Open Data frameworks where IBM is continuing to participate and grow.

​​5:45 - 6:05: Fix Your Retrieval, Fix Your RAG

Ramya Ravi, Net

App

Most RAG systems have a retrieval problem. The language model gets the blame, but the real culprit is upstream in the search layer deciding what context the model ever sees in the first place. Fix the retrieval, and the answers fix themselves.

This talk is for developers and ML engineers who have shipped a RAG system with Open

Search and are wondering why the answers aren't as good as the demos suggested. No retrieval evaluation experience needed.

Through live demos on a real Open

Search index, the session will show you how to see exactly what your retrieval layer is returning, identify the failure modes that silently kill answer quality, and apply targeted fixes without rearchitecting your stack.

6:05 - 7:00: Lightning Talks

Devin