RAGs to Riches: Engineering the Future of LLM Systems
This keynote panel features Denis Yarats and Joseph Gonzalez -- two pioneers bridging academic theory and practical application. Joseph Gonzalez has transformed his Berkeley research into tangible solutions through LM-Sys and Gorilla projects, now bringing his expertise in machine learning and robotics to RunLLM.com after successfully launching Turi based on his doctoral work. Denis Yarats complements this approach with his reinvention of information discovery at Perplexity, where he's leveraging his NYU PhD and Facebook AI experience to develop Comet, a revolutionary "browser for agentic search." Together, they exemplify how rigorous academic foundations can be transformed into technologies that solve real-world problems and reshape our digital interactions.