Nicholas Nadeau
Dr. Nicholas Nadeau is an engineer and builder developing systems that enhance human intelligence across humanoid robots, cognitive neuroscience devices, and privacy-first AI. He scaled 3D printers at AON3D with parts on the ISS and Moon, led humanoid robots as CTO of 1X, and later served as CTO at SmartOne.ai. Now Co-Founder & CTO of Onix building Personal Intelligence, he also co-founded AI Salon Montréal, mentors at CDL, Next AI, Startupfest, and serves on the board of Garage&Co.
Montreal 2026 sessions
Why Your Vector Search Is Silently Wrong (And How to Fix It)
English session - Beginner
A few years ago, a major enterprise wanted to spend months on human annotation to fix their broken RAG system. The actual problem? Their vectors weren't normalized. One line of code, and it worked.
Today it's worse. With vibe coding, developers ship vector search without looking under the hood.
This talk covers the geometry tutorials skip, why your results might rank by document length instead of relevance, and the one-liner that fixes it.
