Applied AI Summit

Free online conference | October 14-16, 2025

How to Improve Retrieval Systems in AI Products

The best way to improve your AI evals might not be LLM related at all. If your AI system relies on retrieving good context, you need a robust way to rapidly improve your retrieval system, which can easily be overlooked among more trendy topics. In this talk, you’ll learn why you need retrieval eval and how to implement it.

About the speaker

Mathew Wang

Data / AI Lead at Newfront Insurance

Mathew is an AI Engineer at Newfront Insurance, a late stage YC startup disrupting the insurance brokerage industry. He has shipped multiple RAG chatbot and LLM data extraction products with a focus on experimentation and evaluation and is currently building AI agents to automate insurance workflows on Newfront’s Agentic Services team.