Name: The Future of Information Retrieval: A Deep-Dive into RAG
Start: 2025-07-10T18:00:00-06:00
End: 2025-07-10T20:00:00-06:00

Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) may be the most important new software technology for business applications in a generation. RAG is revolutionizing the way we approach documentation and other information retrieval tasks. By combining the pre-training of large language models with your own data, RAG systems can help generate insights and ideas you might have never considered, enhancing real-world applications from question answering systems to content creation. Of course, these tools are not without their challenges. Systems built using any probabilistic model must be able to manage the size and complexity of requests and responses, ensure accurate and relevant retrieval, handle the biases inherent in the models, and identify if inaccuracies occur in responses.
In this session, we will empower you to harness the full potential of RAG. We will provide a detailed walkthrough of RAG implementation, offering practical insights and strategies to overcome the most common challenges associated with the use of language models. By the end of this session, you will understand how to build effective RAG systems that address many of the concerns with using these types of tools. Since we will be focusing on business operations tasks, our code samples will be in C# and leverage the Microsoft OpenAI Client and Semantic Kernel.

Rob Richardson

Utah County .NET User Group

.NET Foundation

Technology

.NET

Software Development

SQL Server

New Technology

Web Development

Computer Programming

Nav L. Volcy

Frank Visaggio

Felix Sahed Bedolla Perez

Scott Golightly

Stephen Shaw

Pat Wright

Joel Lyons

Barry (he/him) is a Software Engineer who has been creating business solutions for enterprise customers for more than 30 years, though you may know him as that guy that keeps a list of his favorite Physicists and favorite Mathematicians. Barry is also an Election Integrity Activist, baseball and hockey fan, husband of one genius and father of another, and a 30+ year resident of Phoenix Arizona USA. When Barry is not traveling around the world to speak at Conferences, Code Camps and User Groups or to participate in GiveCamps, he spends his days as a Solution Architect for Carvana and his nights thinking about the next AZGiveCamp, an annual event where software developers come together to build websites and apps for some great non-profit organizations. You can follow Barry in the Fediverse @bsstahl@fosstodon.org or read his blog at [http://www.cognitiveinheritance.com](http://www.cognitiveinheritance.com/).

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