DACHNUG_BCK_19-06-2025

Join Andrew to learn what's coming in Domino 14.5, Sametime 12.0.3 and a lot more.

HCL Domino has since long been the engine integrating several applications needed for day-to-day operations by the A1 Salesforce. Join the session to learn how A1 intends to take advantage of HCL Domino`s versatility & Nomad to further increase their Domino ROI.

This presentation outline emphasizes the importance of a comprehensive security strategy that goes beyond just securing Domino.

It highlights the role of HCL's intelligent operations solutions, particularly BigFix, in providing a holistic approach to security, elevating the overall security posture that will benefit Domino too.

More and more companies are turning to low-code/no-code (LC/NC) to accelerate digitalisation and avoid IT bottlenecks.

While LC/NC platforms promise to promote innovation and flexibility through so-called ‘citizen developers’, decision-makers are faced with key strategic questions:
- What benefits do LC/NC solutions actually bring?
- What pitfalls lurk when introducing them?

This presentation takes a critical look at the potential and limitations from a management perspective and presents empirical findings from practice, including success factors, challenges with regard to security, shadow IT and governance as well as recommendations for establishing LC/NC sustainably and securely in the company.

A few years ago, chatbots had very limited skills relying on predefined answer patterns, frustrating users and developers alike. This drastically changed with the release of the GPT 3. It’s enhanced language understanding and generation abilities changed the ceiling of what a chatbot can do and what not. But the open source AI market didn’t sleep on those developments and quickly build models even more powerful than what we know from the early days of ChatGPT - making building solutions with LLMs even more accesible.
One challenge that remained when building a useful company chatbot was the addition of your own data into the mix - especially if it wasn’t previously puplicly available (like internal company guidelines) or data that changes quickly (press releases, incident messages). Retrieval Augmented Generation introduced a framework to tackle this problem by smartly using the power of Vector Databases and Semantic Embeddings.
The release of powerful development kits reduce the complexity of building a chatbot even further, allowing even inexperienced AI developers to set up their frist working agent in little time - creating a world in which building your first chatbot as easier than ever.

In my talk I want to explain the fundamental concepts of building a company chatbot with large language models, Retrieval Augmented Generation, Vector Databases, Semantic Embedding and AI Function Calling while simultaneously using these concept to implement a simple chatbot using open source LLM models from german hosted IONOS AI Model Hub. By attending, the audience should be enabled to start building AI chatbots themselves and understand the core ideas behind it.

What is a sovereign cloud, what is the impact being in one and what are the risks not being in one. What is the impact on your data and organisation.
In the current political landscape this topic is becoming more and more important and HCL Ambassadors Andreas and Wannes will make sure you walk out of this session with he right amount of knowledge to take care of your own business.

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