Building End-to-End RAG: From Hardware to Application | with Jayprasad Hegde from NPCI

Join us for the keynote session at the LLM Bootcamp, a collaborative initiative between Pathway, the Programming Club at IIT Kanpur, CoPS IIT (BHU) Varanasi, and the Science & Technology Council at IIT (BHU) Varanasi. We're excited to have Jayprasad Hegde, a leader in AI from NPCI, present "Building End-to-End RAG: From Hardware to Application," focusing on the application of Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) in enterprise environments at scale.

✅ What to Expect

– Enterprise-Grade Insights: Dive into the nuances of implementing RAG and Generative AI in enterprise settings, learning about scaling these technologies for production applications.

– From Foundation to User: Explore the journey from foundational aspects—potentially touching on hardware—to deploying RAG in production applications serving users at a large scale.

– Leveraging Open Source for Scalability: Gain an understanding of how open-source platforms can be instrumental in the scalable deployment of RAG systems, promoting widespread adoption and innovation.

– Towards Scalable Solutions: The discussion aims to cover the spectrum of developing and deploying RAG solutions, moving upwards from technical foundations to real-world applications that impact users globally.

✅ About the Speaker

Jayprasad Hegde, Head of Data Science and AI Initiatives at NPCI (National Payments Corporation of India), spearheads ground-breaking initiatives, leveraging the capabilities of Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to revolutionize India’s digital payments landscape. Jayprasad has played a pivotal role in establishing an advanced AI platform tailored to address the unique challenges posed by India’s vast scale and complexity. His passion lies in the intricate domains of AI, ML, and Data Science, with a keen fascination for the underlying engineering that powers these systems. His diverse array of interests includes Fraud Modelling, Computer Vision, Voice Recognition, Graph AI, Natural Language Processing, large-scale architectural frameworks for AI/ML, Data Engineering, and Edge-scale Engineering for AI. With over two decades of experience in engineering and AI leadership, Jayprasad brings a wealth of expertise to the field. He is an alumnus from Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. Additionally, he is an alumnus of the University of Mumbai, where he earned his degree in Computer Engineering.

✅ About the Organizers

– About Pathway (pathway.com): Pathway is the world's fastest data processing engine, facilitating unified workflows for batch, streaming, and LLM applications. It's an advanced open-source framework developed in Rust and made accessible through Python, meaning proficiency in Python is all you need to leverage it for use-cases starting from data processing to information retrieval.

– About CoPS IIT (BHU) Varanasi: CoPS at IIT (BHU), part of the Science and Technology Council (SNTC) at IIT (BHU) Varanasi, is dedicated to nurturing a programming culture and developing significant projects using cutting-edge technology.

– About the Programming Club at IIT Kanpur: The Programming Club at IIT Kanpur, under the Science and Technology (SnT) Council, aims to cultivate a programming culture on campus, develop impactful projects, and educate on the latest technologies.