Challenge Program

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SIGIR LiveRAG Workshop, July 17, Padua, Italy

Time	Details
9:00	Welcome – Liane Lewin-Eytan
9:05	LiveRAG overview - David Carmel & Simone Filice
9:35	Spotlight session (5-min each) UIUC-RAGents: Eric Modesitt, Ke Yang and Chengxiang Zhai UiS-IAI: Weronika Łajewska, Ivica Kostric, Gabriel Iturra-Bocaz, Mariam Arustashvili and Krisztian Balog RAGentA: Ines Besrour, Jingbo He, Tobias Schreieder and Michael Färber Starlight: To Eun Kim and Fernando Diaz Emorag: Chase Fensore, Kaustubh Dhole, Joyce Ho and Eugene Agichtein Ragmatazz: Matthias Krüger, David Fisher and Scott Stults GeAR: Zhili Shen, Chenxin Diao, Pascual Merita, Pavlos Vougiouklis and Jeff Pan BagBag: Shuailong Sang, Yourui Ye, Shimao Chu and Kun Zhang
10:30	Break
11:00	Finalist session (20-min each) RAGtifier: William Xion, Hailay Teklehaymanot, Oleh Astappiev and Tim Cofala UDInfo: Damian Martinez, Catalina Riano and Hui Fang Magikarp: Tong Zhou RMIT-ADMS: Kun Ran, Shuoqi Sun, Khoi Nguyen Dinh Anh, Damiano Spina and Oleg Zendel
12:30	Lunch
13:00	Workshop posters session
14:30	Keynote – “Sparse Retrieval in the Age of RAG”, Antonio Mallia, Pinecone
15:00	Oral session (15-min each) ScaledRAG: Alireza Salemi, Mukta Maddipatla and Hamed Zamani HLTCOE: Eugene Yang, Andrew Yates, Orion Weller, Kevin Duh and Dawn Lawrie Ped100X: Saksorn Ruangtanusak, Natthapath Rungseesiripak, Peerawat Rojratchadakorn, Monthol Charattrakool and Natapong Nitarach
16:00	Break
16:30	Prizes announcement
16:55	Panel with winners, moderated by Yoelle Maarek & Oren Somekh
17:30	Adjourn

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