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World Congress 2026 Europe • Jul 9, 2026 • Session details

The R in RAG: Why retrieval is often the weakest link (and how to fix it)

Tomek Porożyński

Why is your RAG application failing on domain-specific queries? Discover how to fix architectural retrieval flaws and fine-tune embedding models in under a minute.

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