RAG and Graph: Next-Level GenAi and Getting Started with Meadow IoT

Accso is in Suite 302 in the Clock Tower building. Nearest parking is in the Clock Tower parking.

This event is 17:30 for 18:15. The session content will start promptly at 18:15 PM. Attendees are welcome to arrive earlier for networking and snacks!

Agenda

Community Intro and Welcoming

Sneak Peak of .NET Conf 2024 South Africa!

Special surprise community giveways from Amazon Web Services (AWS) and also giveaways from Jetbrains! You definitely dont want to miss this! 😍

RAG and Graph: Better Together for Next-Level GenAI with GraphRAG

Join us for a 45-minute overview of GraphRAG, an innovative approach from Microsoft Research that reshapes the future of Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG). Unlike traditional RAG methods that rely on basic semantic search using plain text snippets, GraphRAG goes further with a structured, hierarchical approach. By transforming raw text into a comprehensive knowledge graph and building a community hierarchy, GraphRAG generates insightful, contextually rich summaries that revolutionise content retrieval and generation. Don’t miss this chance to explore a groundbreaking technique that will elevate your AI-powered content generation to the next level.

Speaker: Luis de Sousa

Senior Consultant: Data & Analytics @ Syeop

Luis de Sousa is a data and analytics consultant based in Johannesburg, South Africa. With 17 years of consulting experience with the Microsoft Data Platform, Luis has worked across a range of industries, including Financial Services, Insurance, Manufacturing, and Media. He has helped clients with data warehousing, data integration, business intelligence, and analytics projects, and has a passion for data and analytics technologies.

Introducing .NET on the Wilderness Labs Meadow Platform

Continuing my theme of .NET EVERYWHERE!: Meadow is a complete, IoT platform with defense-grade security that runs full .NET applications on embeddable microcontrollers.

We will have a look at Wilderness Lab's unique approach for bringing the full .NET implementation tp IoT and microscontrollers. Not just a framework to do this, but an entire platform!!

Key aspects of the Meadow Platform that we will cover

• Meadow F7 Microcontrollers
• Meadow Project Lab
• Raspberry Pi and other single-board-computers
• Meadow.Desktop + Simulator
• Meadow.Cloud
• IoT Accelerators
• Meadow Hack Kit

Speaker: Allan Pead

CTO, developer, lecturer, Microsoft Internet of Things MVP, Microsoft Dev Technologies MVP

Allan Pead is a CTO, architect and software developer with more than 20 years commercial experience. The love for programming started with writing that first BASIC program on a ZX Spectrum as a child.

What excites him is any project that involves mobile and / or
IoT devices. He is very happy to be in a position where his passion and hobby is also his day job.

Allan is also a Xamarin MVP, Microsoft Internet of Things MVP and a Microsoft Development Technologies MVP based in Cape Town South Africa. He is also sometimes a university lecturer inbetween his day job, lecturing on .NET and .NET mobile and also organizes local community user groups and events.