Meetup #11 - An Introduction To Evals and The Story of DearGarden

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Join us for our next in-person meetup in London on Thursday November 27th.

This month we have two fabulous speakers. Amy Heineika (AI Engineer Tessl) will be providing us with An Introduction to Evals and we'll also be hearing a real world story from Lyn Callender-Easby, The Story of DearGarden, an app that uses AI to help you design and maintain your perfect garden!

Where and When?

• Thursday, November 27th
• Doors open at 18:00
• Talks start at 19:00
• Tessl HQ, 210 Pentonville Rd, London N1 9JY, UK

Talk: An Introduction to Evals

An "eval," short for evaluation, is a set of structured tests or benchmarks used to systematically assess the performance and quality of an AI model or a program. Creating evals is a foundational practice when building solutions with AI. In this talk Amy Heineike will provide an introduction to evals: What are they? Why do you need them? And how do you get started?

About Amy
Amy has been working in AI since the models were still small. She's grown multiple startups in data visualisation, nlp and summarisation. Now she's building the eval frameworks and tooling for Tessl - a company empowering coding agents with specs. She's fascinated by understanding how we use Data + AI to make sense of the world around us, and how we build effective teams that leverage it.

Talk: A Curious Mind Meets AI: The Story of DearGarden

What happens when a love of gardens meets the possibilities of AI? Lyn Callender-Easby, founder of DearGarden, shares how curiosity, empathy, and one wildly over-engineered PowerPoint garden plan grew into an AI-enabled garden companion helping people design and care for gardens they love.

About Lyn
Lyn is the founder of DearGarden, an AI-powered garden design and care app that makes creating and maintaining beautiful outdoor spaces simple, personal and joyful.

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