Building a RAG app to chat with your data + AI mini-workshop (hands on)

Our March 2024 #VirtualBostonAzure meetup features Pamela Fox's "Building a RAG app to chat with your data" session.

This ONLINE/VIRTUAL EVENT will take place on March 28th at 6:00 PM Boston time).
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║ 🎧 ONLINE MEETING DETAILS
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This event will be delivered as a Microsoft Teams meeting with the link provided in the Meetup location listing.
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║ ✓ AGENDA
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• 6:00 - 6:10: Introduction, announcements, banter
• 6:10 - 7:30: Featured talk by Pamela Fox

• 7:30 - 8:00: Optional hands-on AI mini-workshop (you need either (a) a functional Python 3 environment, or (b) a functional C#/.NET environment - everything else will be provided, including sufficient access to the Azure OpenAI LLM service to complete the mini-workshop)

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║ 🗣 DESCRIPTION of FEATURED TALK
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One of the most popular use cases for generative AI is RAG (Retrieval-Augmented-Generation), a technique that feeds context to an LLM (large language model) so that it can answer questions according to sources. Thousands of developers have deployed RAG applications to chat with their data, both for internal enterprise data (like HR or support) and external public data (like government or retail). In this talk, I'll show how to build a RAG with Azure technology, like Azure AI search and Azure OpenAI, and share best practices for data ingestion, orchestration, and evaluation.

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║ ℅ PEOPLE & SOCIAL MEDIA BEHIND #VirtualBostonAzure
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Virtual Boston Azure primarily organizers and group handles:
• Jason Haley • @haleyjason •
• Veronika Kolesnikova • @veronika_dev1 •
• Bill Wilder • @codingoutloud •
• Boston Azure • @bostonazure •
• Website • http://bostonazure.org/