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⚠️ **REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED VIA [THIS LUMA FORM](https://luma.com/op00go1h)**[ ](https://luma.com/op00go1h)⚠️ A refundable deposit of SGD30 will be collected and refunded at the end of the workshop (within 2 working days). For refunds, attendees must email a screenshot of the completed post-event survey form to [community@div0.sg](community@div0.sg)[ ](https://community@div0.sg)via the email they used during sign-up. Dinner will be provided to all workshop attendees. — **ABSTRACT** **From Curiosity to Capability: Build Your First Home Lab** A home lab is a personal computing environment you build and run yourself — a sandbox to experiment, break things, and learn. In this workshop, we explore why building one at home is one of the most practical ways to develop real cybersecurity skills, bridging the gap between textbook knowledge and hands-on capability. We will walk through how home lab concepts map directly to professional cybersecurity environments, and demystify the core terminologies you will encounter along the way — SSH, NAT, VLANs, IP and DNS, virtualisation, Docker, and remote access. Whether you are a student, a career switcher, or an IT professional looking to go deeper, this workshop gives you the foundation to start building with confidence. **LEARNING OBJECTIVES** * Homelab foundations + Quick Threat Modeling * Lets build a simple DNS lab * Monitoring logs * What's next? **SET UP REQUIREMENTS** Bring your own laptops (and laptop chargers) * Install VMware * Download Proxmox Virtual Environment (VE) iso file and install in VMware * Make sure to use NAT Network Mode when installing Proxmox as a guest VM on VMWare **TRAINERS** * Jeremy ([LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeremyng123/)) * Jun Hong (Dave) ([LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/tan-jun-hong/)) **CO-ORGANISERS & VENUE SPONSOR** * [CyberSG TIG Collaboration Centre](https://www.linkedin.com/company/cybersg-tig-collaboration-centre) * [BLOCK71](https://block71.co/) **IMPORTANT NOTICES** * Code of Conduct: [https://www.div0.sg/code-of-conduct](https://www.div0.sg/code-of-conduct) * Terms of Use & Disclaimer Notice: [https://www.div0.sg/terms-of-use-disclaimer-notice](https://www.div0.sg/terms-of-use-disclaimer-notice)

**Register here:** https://luma.com/fongxt81 🚀 What does it mean to lead, build, and adapt in an AI-enabled world? Women Devs Singapore is excited to collaborate with Zenika for an insightful evening exploring the intersection of leadership, product thinking, and AI with our guest speaker, Jolyn Chuah. As AI becomes part of everyday work, the questions that matter most are still deeply human: ✨ Are we creating environments where people can do their best work? ✨ Are we solving real problems or simply shipping solutions? ✨ Are we approaching change with curiosity rather than fear? In this session, Jolyn will share practical frameworks and real-world experiences from product management, systems thinking, and data analytics to help leaders and builders navigate an increasingly AI-driven landscape while keeping people at the centre. You'll leave with three powerful questions to reflect on: 🔹 Lead — Am I creating conditions where people can do their best work? 🔹 Build — Am I solving real problems or just shipping solutions? 🔹 Adapt — Am I engaging with change with curiosity or with fear? Whether you're a developer, product professional, team lead, or simply curious about the future of work, this conversation is for you. 📅 Join us for an evening of honest insights, practical takeaways, and meaningful discussions.

**Register here (subject to approval):** [https://luma.com/fongxt81](https://luma.com/fongxt81) *This is an in-person event. Successful Registration is subject to approval.* **ABOUT** **In association with [Women's Dev Singapore](https://www.meetup.com/women-devs-sg/), [Zenika](https://www.linkedin.com/company/zenikasingapore/) presents -** An engaging session exploring what it means to lead, build and adapt when AI becomes part of everyday work. AI is transforming how teams operate, make decisions and build products. **Yet the biggest challenges remain deeply human:** * ​Creating conditions where **people can do their best work** — with high support and high challenge in equal measure * ​**Building products that solve real problems**, not just ship solutions * ​**Engaging with AI** and change with curiosity rather than fear ​This session explores the convergence of three forces reshaping how value gets created today: **leadership, product thinking, and AI**. Through the lens of modern product teams and real-world experience, **[Jolyn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jolyn-c/)** will make the case that these are no longer separate conversations. ​Participants will walk away with three honest questions every leader and builder should keep asking themselves: * ​**Lead** — *Am I creating conditions where people can do their best work?* * ​**Build** — *Am I solving real problems or just shipping solutions?* * ​**Adapt** — *Am I engaging with change with curiosity or with fear?* ​The future belongs not to those with the most information, nor to those who fear disruption — but to those who stay human at the centre of it all. Join us for an evening of honest insights, practical frameworks and real-world stories for navigating the future of leadership and product in an AI-enabled world. 📍 **Venue:** This meetup is brought to you by Zenika Singapore, 20 Bendemeer Rd, #03-10 BS Bendemeer Centre, Singapore 339914. **NOTE: Successful Registration is subject to approval. Sign up here:** [https://luma.com/fongxt81](https://luma.com/fongxt81) **EVENT SCHEDULE:** **6:30 PM - 6:45 PM:** Registration + Networking **6:45 PM to 6:55 PM:** Intro to WDS **7:00 PM to 7:10 PM:** Intro to Zenika **7:15 PM to 8:15 PM:** Human at the Core: Leading, Building and Thriving in the Age of AI by Jolyn + Q&A **8:15 PM onwards:** Networking + Photo-taking **TERMS & CONDITIONS** * Zenika Singapore reserves the right to amend these Terms and Conditions at any time. * Although very unlikely, please note that Zenika Singapore reserves the right to cancel or reschedule the event if necessary. However, in case of a cancellation, Zenika Singapore will inform all attendees one day in advance and will endeavor to provide an alternative date. * Please note that photographs and/or videos will be taken at this event for marketing, publicity, and archival purposes. Should you have any concerns with your image being captured or used, please approach one of our staff members. * Zenika Singapore owns the sole copyright of all content. * You will be added to our mailing list upon registration of this event and will receive updates on our next events and open positions at Zenika.

Are your blood pressure, blood sugar, or cholesterol levels quietly rising — even though you “feel fine”? Most people don’t take action until it starts affecting their daily life… Low energy, poor sleep, stubborn weight gain, and relying more on medication. It doesn’t have to get to that stage. Join our **offline health sharing session** and discover simple, practical ways to manage the “3 Highs” — without extreme diets or complicated routines. You’ll learn: • Easy lifestyle shifts to support healthier numbers • Smarter nutrition choices that fit your daily routine • How to build sustainable habits for long-term wellness Imagine waking up with more energy, thinking more clearly, and feeling confident that you’re back in control of your health. Whether your goal is prevention, improvement, or maintaining long-term wellness — this session will give you actionable steps you can start immediately. Seats are intentionally limited to ensure a focused, high-quality experience. 👉 Secure your seat now — message us or register today before spots are filled.

**NTU Alumni Club / VIbe@6** **2 Handy Rd, #06-10 The Cathay, Singapore 229233** Meeting Investment: S$70 (Refreshments included) **To register, use the form in the URL** https://bniorigins.sg/visitor-registration/ • What we'll do The Purpose Let's network and connect businesses using a well-structured and efficient format. We meet to network and also learn new skills. It's not just about exchanging contact information, but we also share experiences and other business contacts to help each other grow. **A Guide for New Visitors** • BE ON TIME Our meeting starts at 8.00am sharp and ends at 9.30am. Please come at 7:45am for the networking session. • FARM & COLLABORATE We gather together not to hunt business deals from one another but rather to explore means and opportunities to build our businesses through referrals and collaborations together. We appreciate that you don't push your business to our members and other visitors. • PREPARE A 15-SECOND INTRODUCTION Don't worry, despite sitting through numerous meetings, some of us are still as nervous as you. Just share a little about yourself, what you do, and how you can collaborate with the people present. 15 seconds go by really quickly anyway. • STAY FOR OPEN NETWORKING Don't be in a hurry to rush off after 9.30am. Many of our members and visitors stay for open networking well after the meeting, so do stay on and mingle with us for another 30 minutes to an hour. • MOST IMPORTANTLY, COME WITH AN OPEN MIND What makes BNI unique and efficient is the system and structure in place for business owners like us. Come with an open mind and understand why we are willing to sign up for the chapter and meet every week at 7.45am.

Casual small-group business networking meetup at Miam Miam at Level 2 of Bugis Junction (https://www.capitaland.com/sg/malls/bugisjunction/en/stores/miam-miam.html). Dos: * Remember to bring along your business cards, ideas, conversations and smiles. * Do buy at least a drink from the restaurant as we are using their premises for the event. Don'ts: * If you're not feeling well, don't come. Please stay home and join us another day!

**ANNOUNCEMENT – Registration via this [link](https://go.gov.sg/stackmeetup-2jul2026-mc) only.** Moving AI from prototype to a reliable production often raises questions about optimisation, scalability and compliance. At this STACK Meetup [AI], we strip away the hype to offer an exclusive look under the hood of PlatformAI, GovTech’s developer-first platform built to scale AI capabilities reliably for the Government. Take a peek into how PlatformAI provides an enterprise-ready platform layer to govern and orchestrate large-scale AI model and capability deployments. Our speakers will share strategies on unifying secure model access, balancing costs using Pay-As-You-Go (PAYGO) versus Provisioned Throughput, and leveraging managed multimodal pipelines – Vision, Document, and Audio – without the overhead of maintaining fragmented infrastructure. Walk away with fresh insights on how GovTech is democratising AI deployment at scale, whilst ensuring proper governance like prompt security, throughput optimisation, and architectural guardrails to address modern scaling bottlenecks. **Secure your spot for STACK Meetup [AI] today: [https://go.gov.sg/stackmeetup-2jul2026-mc](https://go.gov.sg/stackmeetup-2jul2026-mc)**. Limited seats available! Who should attend: Product managers, software engineers, AI/ML developers, infrastructure specialists, and system architects, who are looking to bridge the gap between AI prototyping and production-grade software engineering. **Programme** 6:30pm: Networking 7:00pm: Introduction By STACK Community 7:05pm: Opening By Ethan Goh, Director, Product Management, AI Programme, GovTech Singapore 7:15pm: Introducing PlatformAI – GovTech’s one-stop platform for AI Capabilities By Daniel Yuen, Product Manager, AI Programme, GovTech Singapore 7:35pm: PlatformAI – Models, Unified Easy Access To LLMs By Tan Xiu Quan, Product Manager, AI Programme, GovTech Singapore 7:55pm: PlatformAI for Multimodal Capabilities, across Vision, Documents and Audio By Suresh Kumar Sarad, Senior Product Manager, AI Programme, GovTech Singapore 8:15pm: Q&A 8:30pm: End of STACK Meetup Click **[here](https://go.gov.sg/stackmeetup-2jul2026-mc)\*** to sign up! \*Registration will be accepted via GovEntry only.

**Special topic for this week: TODO!** Have you ever wondered what happens after you write your program in any programming language and hit "Run"? Welcome to the new group dedicated to Compiler Engineering so we can discuss language design, static analysis, VMs, and code generation. Topics related to hardware architecture and FPGA are also welcomed! **Join us weekly and learn about:** * The vision for this group. * A crash course on how to start learning compiler dev (including top book recommendations). * An open networking session for showcasing projects and finding collaborators. * Weekly topic to learn about particular aspect of programming languages or hardware **Who is this for?** * Anyone building DSLs or new languages. * Anyone curious about low-level systems and programming * Anyone hiring for compiler/toolchain roles (come pitch your jobs!). * Anyone who wants to learn more about programming languages nature! This isn't a lecture—it's a conversation. Come share your projects and get motivated! This group is not super serious, so if you want to just yap about how bad is the new C++ standard you can find some listeners here. See you!

Hey Hashicorpians, We’re excited to invite you to the Cloud Native and HUG Singapore May Meetup, a collaborative in-person event with the Singapore CNCG meetup, hosted at SMU School of Computing and Information Systems 👉 **[RSVP now](https://konfhub.com/singapore-cncf-and-hug-20260701)** and join us in person! This meetup brings together the cloud-native community to explore AI innovation and Kubernetes data security, share practical insights, and connect with fellow practitioners. 👉 **[RSVP now](https://konfhub.com/singapore-cncf-and-hug-20260701)** and join us in person! 📅 Date: Wednesday, 1st July, 2026 ⏰ Time: 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM (GMT+8) 📍 90 Stamford Rd, Singapore 178903, SOE/SCIS2 Seminar Room B1-1 🎤 Talks include: 1. **Engineering "Invisible" Platforms With Crossplane and Score,** by [Mumshad Mannambeth](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mmumshad/), Founder & CEO of KodeKloud 2. **Terraform at Scale: Architecture, Automation, and AI-Assisted AWS Delivery** by [Nisal Wickramage](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nisal-wickramage/), Senior Consultant at Thoughtworks 3. **Enable Zero Trust for Service Connectivity across Hybrid Cloud with HashiCorp Consul ⛅️**by [Sai L.](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sailinnthu/), Sr. Solutions Architecture Specialist 🏟️ Venue - Sponsored by **SMU Artificial Intelligence Club (SmuAI)** 🍕 Networking, food & drinks - Sponsored By 𝗛𝗮𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗽, 𝗮𝗻 𝗜𝗕𝗠 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗻𝘆 🎁 Quiz, swag & vouchers - Sponsored By **KodeKloud** 3 Lucky winners will also get an opportunity to win **KodeKloud** Subscriptions 5 Lucky winners will get an opportunity to win Hashicorp Associate exam vouchers. 1 Lucky Winner will get - Print Copy of Terraform Authoring and Operations Professional Study Guide Azure Edition written by [Mattias Fjellström](https://www.linkedin.com/company/96315339/admin/page-posts/published/#), https://lnkd.in/gkByqHfQ Whether you’re a platform engineer, SRE, developer, or cloud architect, this is a great opportunity to learn, connect, and grow with the **CNCF & HUG community.** 👉[ ](https://konfhub.com/singapore-cncf-and-hug-20260701)**[RSVP now](https://konfhub.com/singapore-cncf-and-hug-20260701)** and join us in person! Join Our Telegram Channel: **[Singapore HUG Telegram Public Channel](https://t.me/+4TSTIb7Z31JkMTk1)** **[CNCF Telegram Public channel](https://t.me/+7nwzcfCV03JjMzhl)**[ ](https://t.me/+7nwzcfCV03JjMzhl) LinkedIn: **[Singapore Hashicorp User Group](https://www.linkedin.com/company/singapore-hashicorp-user-group-hug/)** **[Singapore Cloud Native Community Group - Official CNCF Community](https://www.linkedin.com/company/cloud-native-community-group-singapore-cncf/)** See you there! Singapore HUG Organizers.

**ANNOUNCEMENT: [Venue change] SQ Collective has generously offered to host the venue for this session for free. It is only appropriate that we allocate some capacity to them (via a Luma event). This is a chance for folks in the AI builder community to participate in our group’s philosophy practice, and for us to broaden our audience within that community. If you have already signed up via Meetup, there is no need to double-register through Luma, should the Luma event be made public.** “You insist that there is something that a machine can't do. If you will tell me precisely what it is that a machine cannot do, then I can always make a machine which will do just that.” —John von Neumann, in a talk at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, 1948 “Everything is computer!” – Donald J. Trump, sometime in 2025 What is computation? These days, it seems more provocative to stipulate what *isn’t* computation. For instance, to suggest that the brain can be functionally anything other than a kind of computer is suspect in the current technological zeitgeist. It seems self-evident that any system of information processing to achieve some output can be explicated in terms of computation. At the foundation of this conviction is the Church-Turing thesis, which both gave a logical definition to and circumscribed the bounds of computation in the form of the Universal Turing Machine, “a most general formulation of machine” (Alan Newell 1980). The idea that the Universal Turing Machine is an abstract design template that can encompass any kind of information-processing system has led some to extend the scope of the thesis to physics itself: “any finite physical system can be simulated by Universal Turing Machines” (David Deutsch 1985). What do we make of such ideas? Instead of fumbling in the accreted fog of the present, a quiet philosophical dialectic was already underway at the time Alan Turing demonstrated Universal Turing Machines in his seminal paper *On Computable Numbers* in 1936. Ludwig Wittgenstein was a contemporary of Turing’s, and made a number of keen observations in the years that followed\*. In particular, Wittgenstein anticipated readings of the Church-Turing thesis such as the above as resulting from an uncritical acceptance of some inferences within Turing’s demonstration. In this session, we will recount the Church-Turing thesis, its various interpretations, the Wittgensteinian response, and what it all means. Join us to discuss and re-examine the notion of computation, in the hopes of coming to a clearer understanding of it. The format of this session will be a presentation followed by an open-ended discussion. *Compiled in Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics. By L. Wittgenstein

Hey AWS Security fam 👋 **Our goal remains the same: bring security and cloud practitioners together.** Security is wide; cloud teams move fast. Let us meet in the middle — share what is working, what is painful, and how we can ship safer, faster. Want to speak next time? We are lining up lightning talks and deep dives for upcoming meetups — 30-minute sessions, interactive by design. New voices welcome: operators, builders, blue/red/purple teamers, platform folks. If you have shipped it, broken it, or fixed it, we want to hear it. (Ping the organizers / DM us after you RSVP.) 🎤 **Speakers** ✅ **AWS Privilege Escalation Paths: A Technical Primer** 📌 Nicolas Buzy-Debat, Red Team Lead, Grab A technical session on how privilege escalation paths can emerge within AWS environments, where practitioners can study known techniques, and how the approach differs between pentesting and red teaming. Nicolas will walk through selected examples, practical ways to reason about attack paths, and recommendations for reducing privilege escalation risk through better visibility, IAM design, and security controls. ✅ **Security Leadership in the Age of AI and Cloud** 📌 Damian Leach, Chief AI & Digital Officer, VISTRA 📌 Donald Ong, Senior Assistant Director, Cybersecurity Agency of Singapore (CSA) 📌 Swan Chin Yeo, Head of Greater ASEAN, Okta A leadership discussion on how security teams are navigating the intersection of AI, cloud adoption, identity, governance, and an evolving threat landscape. The conversation will explore how leaders balance innovation with risk, what security priorities are changing, and how practitioners can prepare for the next phase of cloud and AI-driven security challenges. 🧭 **Event Details** 📅 Date: Wednesday, 1st July 2026 🕡 Time: 6:30 PM – 9:00 PM 📍 Venue: AWS Singapore, 2 Central Blvd, IOI Central Boulevard East Towers, Level 5 🛂 **Registration & Check-in (Important)** Watch for an email titled: AWS Security User Group Singapore: Registration Confirmed for AWS Security Meetup – July 2026 Show this email at Level 1 Concierge to access Level 5 for verification. Walk-ins: Only if capacity allows. Confirmed registrations get priority. No confirmation email = walk-in; entry not guaranteed. 🙌 **What to Expect (and why it’s worth your evening)** * 30-minute interactive sessions — no death-by-slides * Live Q&A & show-and-tell — bring questions, tooling, and war stories * Security × Cloud crossover — incident learnings, IaC guardrails, identity, data protection, cost/risk trade-offs 🍕 **Agenda & Housekeeping** 6:30 PM — Pizza & drinks (vegetarian + halal options) Talks — Start right after dinner Networking — Meet builders, defenders, and platform folks 📸 Photos/recordings may be used for future promo Pro tip: Arrive early to skip queues and snag a good seat 🎁 Swag & promo codes — stay till the end for giveaways

Everyone is building agents. Far fewer have gotten them past the pilot and into the hands of real users inside a large organisation, where the constraints are different and the room for error is smaller. This edition of The Agentic AI Club brings together speakers who have done that, sharing first-hand what it took to move agentic AI from a working prototype into the enterprise. ## **What You'll Take Away** * What it takes to move an agent past the pilot and into everyday use across a large organisation * Where enterprise realities reshape the build: security reviews, legacy systems, procurement, and sign-off * Which design choices survived production, and which ones fell over * A sharper sense of where enterprise agentic AI is paying off right now ## **Agenda** 4:00 PM — Doors open · Registration 4:10 PM — Welcome by The Agentic AI Club 4:15 PM — Speaker sessions 5:45 PM till late — Community Mixers ## **Speakers** **Speakers** **Vidhi Chugh — AI Strategy & Governance Lead, Prudential AI Lab** Vidhi is a globally recognised AI leader and patentholder, working at the intersection of business, product, and engineering. Named among the World’s Top 200 Business and Technology Innovators, she has scaled enterprise-grade AI systems and taught more than 250K AI practitioners globally. **​Annie An — Senior Solutions Architect, AWS** Annie helps enterprises across ASEAN design and deploy production-grade GenAI, LLM, and agentic systems, spanning financial services, telco, insurance, and legal, with a focus on responsible AI and real-world impact. *\*All speakers appear in their personal capacity. Views shared are their own and do not represent the official positions of their organisations.* ## **Who Should Attend** * AI engineers, technical leads, and ML practitioners building agentic systems * Product and engineering leaders shipping AI-first products inside larger organisations * Enterprise innovation, strategy, and digital transformation leads * Founders and operators deploying agentic AI into enterprises * Anyone focused on getting AI agents from prototype into production at scale ## **About The Agentic AI Club** A space for people shaping how AI gets built and shipped. We bring together engineers, founders, operators, and ecosystem leaders working at the frontlines of agentic AI in Singapore.

🚨 **IMPORTANT – REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED VIA THE AWS SECURITY MEETUP PAGE** 👉 **Please RSVP here:** 🔗 https://www.meetup.com/aws-sg-security/events/312743656/ 📌 This event is hosted under the **AWS Security Users Group Singapore**. 📩 All attendees **must register** via the link above to receive a confirmation email and secure access to the venue. ❗ Registrations on other meetup pages will **not** be considered valid. **Hosted by AWS User Group Singapore x AWS Security Users Group Singapore** 📅 Date: Wednesday, 1st July 2026 🕡 Time: 6:30 PM – 9:00 PM 📍 Venue: AWS Singapore, 2 Central Blvd, IOI Central Boulevard East Towers, Level 5 🎤 **Speakers** ✅ **AWS Privilege Escalation Paths: A Technical Primer** 📌 Nicolas Buzy-Debat, Red Team Lead, Grab A technical session on how privilege escalation paths can emerge within AWS environments, where practitioners can study known techniques, and how the approach differs between pentesting and red teaming. Nicolas will walk through selected examples, practical ways to reason about attack paths, and recommendations for reducing privilege escalation risk through better visibility, IAM design, and security controls. ✅ **Security Leadership in the Age of AI and Cloud** 📌 Damian Leach, Chief AI & Digital Officer, VISTRA 📌 Donald Ong, Senior Assistant Director, Cybersecurity Agency of Singapore (CSA) 📌 Swan Chin Yeo, Head of Greater ASEAN, Okta A leadership discussion on how security teams are navigating the intersection of AI, cloud adoption, identity, governance, and an evolving threat landscape. The conversation will explore how leaders balance innovation with risk, what security priorities are changing, and how practitioners can prepare for the next phase of cloud and AI-driven security challenges. 📸 Kindly note that photographs and recordings captured during the event will be used for future promotional purposes. 🍕 **Agenda & Housekeeping** 💡 Pro Tip: Arrive early to avoid queues and secure your seat for the sharing sessions! 🍕 Pizza Time: Dinner starts at 6.30pm, enjoy pizza and drinks before the talks begin. 🎤 Talks start around 7.00pm 🍻 Post-Event Networking: Stick around to meet fellow builders, practitioners, and experts. 🎁 Swag & Promo Codes: AWS swag and giveaways await those who stay till the end! 🔗 Connect with us: Meetup: [AWS Security Users Group Singapore](https://www.meetup.com/aws-security-users-group-singapore/) Meetup: [AWS User Group Singapore](https://www.meetup.com/aws-sg/) LinkedIn: [AWS User Group Singapore](https://www.linkedin.com/company/aws-user-group-singapore/) Discord: [https://discord.com/invite/nkZagBG](https://discord.com/invite/nkZagBG) 📬 Enquiries: [aws.usergroup.singapore@gmail.com](mailto:aws.usergroup.singapore@gmail.com)

Most people use LLMs by feel: ask a question, read the answer, decide whether it “seems good,” and move on. That works for casual use. It does not work when you are building software, automating workflows, writing important documents, or relying on AI for anything that needs to be repeatable. In this talk, we’ll look at how to improve and evaluate the inputs and outputs of LLMs using practical measurement techniques. We’ll cover how prompt changes affect results, how to compare outputs, how to build simple evaluation sets, and how math-based methods like similarity scoring can help you move beyond guesswork. This will be beginner-friendly, so even if you don't know anything about AI, you should get something out of it. However, this will be a little more technical than our intro talks. You do not need to be an AI researcher, but programmers and technically curious attendees will get a lot out of it. We’ll cover: * Why “it looks good” is not enough * How to improve prompts by changing the input, context, and constraints * How to compare LLM outputs more systematically * Basic evaluation techniques for accuracy, consistency, and usefulness * How embeddings, cosine similarity, and scoring can help evaluate results * Where automated evaluation works — and where humans still need to stay in the loop By the end, you’ll have a practical mental model for treating LLMs less like magic and more like systems you can test, measure, and improve. LOGISTICS AND PARKING: The talk starts at 7:00 PM. The first half hour is reserved for everyone to get set up and mingle. Free pizza and drinks! The cheapest parking option is to find street parking, which will only cost you a few bucks. Otherwise, park in the nearby veteran's museum lot for $8. It's highly recommended you avoid the nearby $15 garage parking.

**Important time note:** Please plan on arriving between 5:30 and 6:00 as the elevators lock after 6 and you'll need to message us and we'll need to come get you. The building address is 4450 Bridge Park The entrance is 6620 Mooney St, Suite 400 You will need to scan your ID at the door to get a visitor badge. **Abstract** *July Meeting - Lightning Talks!* Lightning talks are very short presentations on a topic of your choice (must be related to .NET). Talks should be 15-20 minutes in length and include minimal slides and quick demo (no live coding please). There will be 6 slots available! First come, first serve! **YouTube Link** TBD

**Hello Columbus!** **The community is buzzing and growing well. We are thrilled to bring our fourth BrowserStack QA Meetup on Thursday, July 9th!** We are creating a space for deeper insights, meaningful connections, and a vibe you won't want to miss. **What to expect:** * **Connect:** Network with Columbus' top engineering and QA minds. * **Learn:** Real-world tactics and trends you can use immediately. * **Enjoy:** Food, drinks, and great community spirit. **Agenda** * **Two Roads Diverged in a Wood: Docker Compose vs. Kubernetes** by **[Doug Reeder](https://www.linkedin.com/in/pdouglasreeder/)** **RSVP Essential:** Space is limited, and we want to ensure a great experience for everyone. **RSVP now to secure your spot!** 📍 **Venue:** Leading EDJE, 6515 Longshore Loop, Suite 300, Dublin, OH 43017 📍 **Free Parking:** 6725 Longshore Street, Dublin, OH 43017 📅 **Date & Time:** July 9, 6:00 PM **Stay Connected!** Want to continue the conversation beyond the meetup? Join our **BrowserStack Discord Server** to get updates, connect with fellow QA professionals, and be part of an ongoing discussion. **Don’t miss out—click below to join!** 🔗 [\[](https://discord.gg/6SdCyWTNyW)**[Join the BrowserStack Discord Server](https://discord.gg/6SdCyWTNyW)**[\]](https://discord.gg/6SdCyWTNyW) **A Few Notes:** ✅ This is an **in-person event** ✅ **RSVP does not guarantee a seat** – A confirmation email will be sent one day before the event. **TALK ABSTRACT:** Docker Compose and Kubernetes are two of the most popular tools for running containerized applications. Their feature lists are similar. Architects and senior developers need to know how their different paradigms lead to unexpectedly different experiences in production.

Want to be a speaker? submit your talk to our Call for Presenters!!! https://sessionize.com/azure-cbus-2026/

Topic to be announced. **CALL FOR SPEAKERS** Learn more: https://www.awscolumbus.com/get-involved/ **THANK YOU** *VEEAM* for hosting our meetup! To learn more about *Veeam*, please visit their website: https://www.veeam.com/ **DIRECTIONS** 8800 Lyra Dr #450 · Columbus, OH go to 4th floor. **Want to sponsor the pizza and/or bar tab?** Please contact me if you would like to sponsor this meetup's pizza and/or bar tab: angelo@mandato.com

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We meet to learn and practice American Sign Language and to grow our familiarity with Deaf culture. Facilitated by hearing folks (with a connection to a professional interpreter) using Deaf-created content. People of all ASL skill levels are welcome! As we learn, we hope to connect more with the Deaf community in Central Ohio. Join us as you're able! Come regularly or just once - whatever you're looking for! Each meetup will explore different topics related to ASL/Deaf culture, and will feature time to practice conversation with one another. Just bring yourself and a willingness to learn!