The goal of this workshop is to equip participants with practical strategies and hands-on skills to build and optimize RAG retrievers for flexible, high-performing Retrieval-Augmented Generation systems. During the session, attendees will:

• Understand why the retriever is the most critical component of a RAG system and how it impacts response quality.
• Learn proven strategies to improve existing RAG retrievers for more accurate and reliable context retrieval.
• Gain hands-on experience building flexible retrievers from scratch that capture user intent more effectively over time.