"The Power of Context - RAG enhanced AI" Keynote by Stephan Gillich - Enterprise RAG Challenge 2025

Stefan Gillich’s keynote, RAG-Enhanced AI, explores the power of context in artificial intelligence and its critical role in improving reasoning and accuracy. He shares insights from his 30-year career in computing and AI, discussing how Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) enables models to work with the latest data without expensive retraining.

Enterprises face challenges integrating AI due to concerns over data security, compliance, and accuracy, but RAG offers a potential solution by combining proprietary data with powerful models.

Stefan highlights how businesses can leverage AI while maintaining privacy and regulatory compliance, ensuring AI is both effective and trustworthy. He also discusses the rapid advancements in AI, including the shift towards multi-agent systems and reasoning-based models. The talk touches on the evolving AI landscape, comparing cloud-based and local AI models, and why many enterprises are moving towards in-house solutions for better control.

Stefan introduces the Open Platform for Enterprise AI (OPEA), a Linux Foundation initiative aimed at helping enterprises deploy AI securely and efficiently. He emphasizes that context is key to AI’s future, and RAG plays a pivotal role in bridging the gap between enterprises and AI capabilities.

This keynote provides valuable insights for developers, business leaders, and AI enthusiasts looking to harness the full potential of RAG technology.

Watch the full talk to gain a deeper understanding of how RAG can enhance AI for real-world applications!