Munich🥨NLP x SAP: Knowledge Graphs & Agents

What role do knowledge graphs play as LLMs get longer context windows and AI agents move into production?Join Munich🥨NLP and SAP for an evening bringing together research and industry perspectives on long-context LLMs, retrieval, knowledge graphs, and autonomous AI agents.Talk 1: Engineering Autonomous Industry Agents in ProductionSAPTalk 2: Needle in a Knowledge GraphJakob Sturm · TUM / BMWTwo talks, food & drinks, and plenty of time to connect with Munich’s NLP and AI community.📅 Agenda17:30 | Doors open17:50 | Welcome & Intro18:00 | Talk 1: “Engineering Autonomous Industry Agents in Production”Speaker: TBCAbstractHow do we move beyond promising AI prototypes and turn autonomous agents into productive, reliable workflows?This talk will explore the engineering challenges involved in bringing autonomous AI agents into real-world industry environments. It will look at the journey from experimentation to production and discuss the role of knowledge graphs in grounding AI systems and enabling robust real-world deployments.18:45–18:50 | Short break18:50–19:35 | Talk 2: “Needle in a Knowledge Graph”Speaker: Jakob Sturm (TUM / BMW)AbstractDo we still need retrieval when LLMs can digest increasingly large corpora through ever-growing context windows?This project investigates whether LLMs can reliably identify relevant information within large inputs by introducing a challenging benchmark based on knowledge graphs. It examines how model performance changes with increasing input size and how the ordering of information within the context affects an LLM’s ability to find the relevant information.About the SpeakerJakob Sturm is a PhD researcher at TUM’s Social Computing Group and BMW’s Innovation & Emerging Technologies department, supervised by Georg Groh.His research focuses on Information Retrieval and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), particularly on understanding when RAG is the right approach and when other methods may be more suitable. He also works on improving information retrieval for AI applications in specialized domains.At BMW, his industry focus is on domain-adapted RAG for quality management processes.19:35–21:00 | Food, drinks & networking 🍕🎟️ RegistrationRegistration is free but subject to host approval due to limited capacity at the SAP office. If your plans change, please cancel your registration so we can offer the spot to someone else.