For this call, we propose to highlight Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) applications as a secure and advanced alternative to conventional chatbots. RAG enables private, user-controlled knowledge corpora, ensuring data privacy while preserving the conversational capabilities of AI systems.

Users can securely upload their own data and interact with it through natural language prompts to obtain meaningful insights. The approach supports reliable descriptive, predictive and prescriptive analytics, grounded in retrieved data and backed by automatic code generation, ensuring transparency and reproducibility.

Through this interaction, users can generate graphics, statistical analyses, forecasts and what-if scenarios, transforming raw data into actionable, explainable and trustworthy insights within a fully private environment.

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