David vonThenen - Speaker at Devoxx Morocco

NetApp

David vonThenen is an AI/ML Engineer where he focuses on production AI systems, enterprise AI strategy, and architectures for explainable, governable, and reliable generative AI. His work spans Agentic AI, Graph RAG, Document RAG, AI memory systems, multi-agent architectures, OpenSearch, Neo4j, data lineage, provenance, and AI governance.David has more than 20 years of experience building production software across AI/ML, speech and NLP, Kubernetes, cloud-native platforms, storage, virtualization, and backup/recovery. He combines hands-on engineering with technical strategy, open-source leadership, developer advocacy, and customer-facing architecture work.

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David vonThenen

NetApp

Why Your RAG Agent Is Confidently Wrong: Retrieval Choices That Actually Matter

The talk argues that retrieval, not embeddings, is the key RAG design choice. It compares vector, graph, and BM25 methods, and shows how hybrid approaches like Vector+Graph or Vector+BM25 can improve...

Agentic AI & GenAI

Deep Dive 120 min.

INTERMEDIATE