Sonoma AI with Wine

​This is an in-person private event! Registration required in order to get in.

​Thank you to our sponsors Neo4j and Williamson Wines.

​​Topic: Sonoma AI Tech Meetup with local food and wine, for remote tech workers

​​What we’ll do:
Have some food and wine. Hear two talks about developing with AI platforms, tools, unstructured data, and generative AI.

​4:30-5:00: Welcome/Networking/Registration
5:00-5:25: Philip Rathle, CTO Neo4j, "Why Knowledge Graphs & GraphRAG Are All The Rage"
5:35-6:00: Zhamak Dehgani, CEO and Founder, Nextdata
6:00-6:30: Networking

​Tech Talk 1: Why Knowledge Graphs & GraphRAG Are All The Rage

​Speaker: Philip Rathle, CTO of Neo4j

​Abstract: LLMs and vector-based RAG are great, up until you run into a use case where the cost of a wrong answer is costly, or you need the AI to reliably explain itself. The problem is: many problems in the enterprise take this shape. Tonight we will explore how knowledge graphs are complementing LLMs at the large enterprises, early-stage startups, and everywhere in between, to serve up more useful and reliable answers, with explainability and governance along the way. You’ll also learn how to get started, and what the most common patterns look like.

​Tech Talk 2: Data mesh paradigm: Approach for data management for AI

​Speaker: Zhamak Dehgani, CEO and Founder, Nextdata

​Abstract: As organizations look to deploy early AI experiments at scale, they are running into the age old bottleneck facing every new application initiative - access to the right, high quality, safe and trusted data to drive the application - whether to support learning or to augment inference. The data mesh paradigm provides a standard approach for data management across all use cases and data formats - from unstructured data to conventional tables to vector databases, so that data governance and regulatory compliance can scale to this rapidly expanding new area.