Building Private RAG and AI Agents on Your Data
Webinar Speaker: Fern Halper, TDWI VP Research, Senior Research Director for Advanced Analytics
Date: Wednesday, December 11, 2024
Time: 12:00 p.m. PT / 3:00 p.m. ET
Organizations are increasingly building generative AI applications that utilize their own internal data. A common starting point TDWI often sees is using AI to extract insights from company documents, whether it’s analyzing call center notes to identify customer issues or helping life science researchers synthesize findings across research papers.
However, traditional keyword-based storage systems make it challenging to effectively search and analyze this content. Trust and accuracy are other issues. Private retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) technology brings the context to generative AI by pulling specific information from large amounts of unstructured, private data. Private RAG modernizes traditional search stacks, optimizing data retrieval for large language models (LLMs) and natural language queries. By retrieving the most relevant data, private RAG enhances the accuracy and depth of responses, providing users with insights that are contextually appropriate and grounded in research and facts.
Join this TDWI webinar with experts from you.com and Databricks to learn more about building private RAG and AI agents. Topics include:
- The current state of generative AI utilizing private company data
- How private RAG can help organizations gain better insights from their data
- Building AI agents that utilize private RAG
- The Databricks and You.com partnership and how it helps building private RAG
Guest Speakers
Bryan McCann
Co-founder and CTO
You.com
Bryan McCann is the co-founder and CTO of You.com. Previously, he was a Lead Research Scientist at Salesforce Research working on Deep Learning and its applications to Natural Language Processing (NLP) and presented his work directly to customers on the keynote stage at Dreamforce, on behalf of collaboration between Salesforce, Google, and Meta at the Pytorch Developers Conference (and a second time), as well as at broad, business-facing venues like VentureBeat Transform.
He authored the first paper and holds the patent on contextualized word vectors, which eventually led to the transfer learning revolution in NLP with BERT and other transformer-based architectures for contextualized word vectors. Other notable work includes early unified models for multi-tasking in NLP, training the largest public and open source language model in the world in 2019, and applying language models to biology in which his team generated proteins that were synthesized by a lab and shown to be as or more effective than those in nature. His work has been cited thousands of times and he has spoken about the cutting edge of NLP and AI at research labs around the world.
Bryan’s work comes out of a deep philosophical interest in meaning and the desire to use AI to complement human creativity, inspire new thoughts, and ultimately develop tools for more fulfilling lives. He was the recipient of the 1st ever eVe award at SXSW 2021 for his collaboration with award-winning (and Netflix show writing) author Daniel Kehlmann. He is a regular speaker on topics of literature and AI, poetry and AI, and other crossovers between AI and the arts.
Barry Dauber
VP of GenAI GTM
Databricks
Barry Dauber runs global GenAI GTM at Databricks coming over in 2023 as part of the MosaicML acquisition.
Barry drives GenAI adoption at Databricks enabling our customers and partners to leverage the full Mosaic AI product line allowing them to build AI systems utilizing their data. At MosaicML, Barry was responsible for all of GTM and grew the business from zero customers to many in less than a year helping to contribute to the $1.3B acquisition. Prior to Mosaic, Barry was the first head of GTM at a leading NLP startup, Primer AI. He also held various leadership roles at Cloudera and Topsy Labs (acquired by Apple in 2013). He started his career in management consulting at Deloitte where he focused on large business transformations.
Barry graduated from The University of Texas at Austin with a BA in Economics and Government.
Fern Halper, Ph.D.