2025-05-28 RAGs and the rest of it

At this meeting of the Brighton data forum, instead of a single speaker, we have a smorgasbord of short form content to share.

We will start the evening with an introduction to the forum's new sponsor. After that, we have a petition to the community to help us out with our collaboration project: to investigate local data and discover how our town ranks as a haven for the creative industry. Then we will hear about the recent Data Science Festival, learn a step-by-step guide to start using Retrieval Augmented Generation, and finally hear about the latest effort to teach data skills to school children.

• An introduction to Rittman Analytics, Mark Rittman
• An invitation to a collaboration: Local data and the state of the creative sector, Fiona MacNeill and Ladies that UX
• Lessons from a Data Science Festival, Oskar Holm
• RAG to Riches: First Step for AI in Enterprise, Thomas Mann
• What the hell are they teaching our kids?, Nigel Tart

The Brighton Data Forum is generously sponsored by Rittman Analytics and supported by Silicon Brighton.