ODSC East has been done for over a month, but the lessons taught by the experts will be valuable for quite some time. Here’s a playlist of four sessions devoted to LLMs from ODSC East 2025 that you can watch whenever you’d like. The sessions are an excellent example of what you can expect from ODSC West later this year.

Entity-Resolved Knowledge Graphs: Taking Your Retrieval-Augmented Generation to the Next Level

Dr. Clair Sullivan, Founder and CEO of Clair Sullivan & Associates, LLC

LLMs powered by RAG are only as good as the data they retrieve, but messy, duplicate entities can sink accuracy fast. This talk explores how Entity-Resolved Knowledge Graphs (ERKGs) clean up your data, boost RAG performance, and supercharge LLM reliability using real-world examples and practical implementation tips.

Building LLM-Powered Applications for Data Scientists and Software Engineers

Hugo Bowne-Anderson, PhD, Independent Data and AI Consultant

Building GenAI apps takes more than just prompts—it takes engineering. In this hands-on workshop, you’ll learn how to build and iterate on AI-powered apps using multimodal models, tackle real-world challenges like non-determinism and evaluation, and walk away with a fully functional PDF-querying tool (and the skills to build much more).

Building Real-World Agentic Applications with LlamaIndex

Laurie Voss, VP of Developer Relations at LlamaIndex

Agents aren’t just the future—they’re the new programming paradigm. In this session, the LlamaIndex team shows you how to build powerful agentic systems that go far beyond chat, combining real-time RAG, orchestration patterns, and multi-agent coordination to create AI that thinks, acts, and executes inside your apps.

Cracking the Code: How to Choose the Right LLM Model for Your Project

Ivan Lee, CEO / Founder of Datasaur

Picking the wrong AI model can cost you time, money, and momentum—so let’s get it right. This hands-on workshop gives you a step-by-step playbook for testing, fine-tuning, and benchmarking models to find the perfect fit for your project—no fluff, just practical strategies that work.

What’s next?

These four videos are just samples of what you can expect from an ODSC conference, whether in-person or virtually. Our next big event, ODSC West this October 28th-30th, will have plenty of hands-on opportunities to learn the latest techniques and tools in LLMs from the experts who build and use them. You can register for the event here and use this link for an additional 10% off your pass!