Name: Nottingham DS&AI Meetup
Start: 2025-03-06T18:30:00Z
End: 2025-03-06T21:30:00Z
Location: Fothergill House

18.30 *Door Open*
18.45 *Start Time*
21.30 *Doors close*

This month's talk is:
**Building Intelligent Assistants with LLMs: Introduction to Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) with Custom Data**
Speaker: **Juan Carlos Jimenez**

The talk will cover the fundamentals of large language models (LLMs) and focus on implementing Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) using Python and tools like OpenAI and LangChain. It will include a live demonstration of a functional, custom RAG system and practical insights for real-world applications.

Nottingham Data Science and AI Meeting for:·

* Analysts looking to see what is out there
* Product builders
* People wanting to break into the profession
* End users
* Enthusiasts
* Businesses looking to find talent

Pizza and drinks are included! 🍕🧋

We are aware that this sessions falls on Ramadan, if you are fasting please feel free to bring something to eat when appropriate.

Join our Discord: [http://discord.gg/fhTdHdZju2](http://discord.gg/fhTdHdZju2)

This is an in-person event with a speaker/workshop followed by socialising/networking opportunity and usually a follow-up at the pub.
Photos are taken at the event, if you don't want your photo online please let an event organiser know.
Contact me ben@puffincube.com if you have any questions.

**Special thanks to our sponsors:**
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