RAG from Scratch: Programming Mini-Bootcamp

**Community-led, community-taught event sponsored by Pinecone!**

Are you in Toronto and want to upgrade your RAG application engineering skills? Or to understand why RAG is the trending software architecture in 2024?

​Whether you're a startup entrepreneur trying to impress customers, an application engineer looking for a promotion, or a student seeking cutting-edge skills, you'll find value in this course. This workshop, will cover the theory of RAG development, explain some of the most important recent research papers, and implement RAG from scratch without a framework.

​This is not a networking event. You will program on teams for the majority of time.

​Agenda:

​10:30 - Arrival & Networking
11:00 - Technical Lecture
11:30 - Programming Workshop
12:30 - Lunch on your own
13:30 - Workshop Continued
14:15 - Workshop Review
14:30 - Lightning Talks by Startups
15:00 - Optional Post-Event Networking

​If you have production RAG experience, you may volunteer to assist attendees or give a lightning talk.

Hosted by Toby Topkin.