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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.

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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.

## World Cup sharing and Exco Installation Join us for an exciting **in-person** gathering where we'll dive into your favourite **World Cup** moments and celebrate the new **Exco Installation**. It’s a perfect chance to connect, share your favorite highlights, and meet the team stepping up to lead. Don’t miss out on the fun, camaraderie, and some great conversations! Nee Soon East CC Level 4, Room 4, 7pm. Wei Bin

🚨 **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)

What if a tennis class became the easiest way to meet new people? **The Best Group** combines structured, level-based tennis group classes with an optional social matching experience. Here's how it works: 🎾 Join a tennis group class with players of a similar level 🤝 Having joined a class, you can choose to be matched with **three other people you've never met before** for dinner. The difference? **Everyone at the table will already have completed a tennis group class with The Best Group.** Instead of meeting complete strangers with nothing in common, everyone shares the same experience, making conversations feel far more natural from the very beginning. Think of it as a Timeleft-style social experience—but with a built-in shared connection before you ever sit down for dinner. **Join the waitlist for early access:** [https://thebestgroup.base44.app/](https://thebestgroup.base44.app/)

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## Struggling to Get Leads from People Who Don’t Know You? You’re posting content… trying different strategies… maybe even using AI tools… But still not getting consistent leads or customers. If that sounds familiar, this session is for you. ## How AI Can Help You Attract Cold Leads (Without Overcomplicating It) In this live, in-person workshop, you’ll learn simple and practical ways to use AI to: * Reach cold audiences more effectively * Generate interest without sounding “salesy” * Create content that attracts potential customers * Approach lead generation in a clearer, more structured way Everything will be explained in a beginner-friendly manner — no technical background required. ## Imagine Having a Clearer Way to Attract Customers Instead of guessing what works… You’ll start to see how to: * Turn strangers into interested leads * Use AI to save time and effort * Build a simple approach to attract potential customers This session focuses on practical understanding — not theory. ## Secure Your Seat This is a small-group, in-person session to ensure quality learning and interaction. 👉 Reserve your seat now to learn how to start attracting leads and customers using AI.

Are you walking correctly? Walking is one of the most natural human activities, but most of us aren't optimizing our stride for health and fitness. It’s time to turn your daily steps into a powerful, fat-burning tool. Join us early for the MetaWellness Fat-Burning Walking workshop. This session goes beyond a casual stroll; it is an active workshop designed to teach you the biomechanics of mindful, effective movement. Led by **JJ Mok, Accredited Mindfulness Coach**, you will learn how to align your body and mind to increase fitness, aid weight loss goals, and completely transform the way you walk. **What You’ll Learn in This Session:** * **👣 Proper Walking Technique:** Forget lazy strolling. We will teach you how to develop strong posture and an engaging, powerful stride that protects your joints and engages more muscles. * **🔥 Fat-Burning Principles:** Discover the specific techniques that turn a regular walk into a calorie-torching workout, helping you burn more energy with every step you take. * **🧘‍♀️ Breathing & Mindfulness:** Learn to integrate mindful breathing with your movement. This enhances mental focus, reduces stress, and helps naturally boost your metabolism. **Who Should Attend:** This session is perfect for anyone looking to improve their physical health, lose weight sustainably, or simply gain more energy from their daily routine. All fitness levels are welcome. **Event Details:** * **Time:** 7:30 AM – 9:00 AM * **Location:** [Entrance](https://www.streetdirectory.com/sg/entranceexit-a-botanic-gardens-mrt-station/106578_1.html "https://www.streetdirectory.com/sg/entranceexit-a-botanic-gardens-mrt-station/106578_1.html")/[Exit A](https://www.streetdirectory.com/sg/entranceexit-a-botanic-gardens-mrt-station/106578_1.html "https://www.streetdirectory.com/sg/entranceexit-a-botanic-gardens-mrt-station/106578_1.html") - [Botanic Gardens MRT Station](https://www.streetdirectory.com/sg/entranceexit-a-botanic-gardens-mrt-station/106578_1.html "https://www.streetdirectory.com/sg/entranceexit-a-botanic-gardens-mrt-station/106578_1.html") ([CC19](https://www.streetdirectory.com/sg/entranceexit-a-botanic-gardens-mrt-station/106578_1.html "https://www.streetdirectory.com/sg/entranceexit-a-botanic-gardens-mrt-station/106578_1.html") / [DT9](https://www.streetdirectory.com/sg/entranceexit-a-botanic-gardens-mrt-station/106578_1.html "https://www.streetdirectory.com/sg/entranceexit-a-botanic-gardens-mrt-station/106578_1.html")) * **Instructor:** JJ Mok, Accredited Mindfulness Coach **What to Bring:** * Comfortable walking shoes or trainers * Water bottle * Sun protection (hat/sunscreen) if outdoors * An open mind ready to learn! **Start your weekend with intention, movement, and vitality. Secure your spot today!**

**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 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.

Hello Flutter developers and enthusiasts! Flutter Singapore is hosting its Q1 meetup at the Launch/National Library room @ Bugis. **📖 1. Summary** Get ready to learn about different aspects of the Flutter Ecosystem! Our talks are focused on the technical details of Flutter and our speakers will share their insights from their experience. If you are interested in learning about cross-platform app development or want to meet the Flutter community in Singapore, join us! Further details can be found below. **📝 2. Registration** **🗣 A) Speakers** * We are looking for 1 speaker. If you would like to present a topic at this event, kindly join the telegram group and let us know in the chat room. [https://t.me/flutter_sg](https://t.me/flutter_sg) **👂 B) Participants** * RSVP on this page to reserve your spot! **IMPORTANT**: The venue does not allow food and drinks. We will head to another location to have food AFTER the event. **🎙 3. Presentations** Presentations will be **20-25mins** long with time for Q&A at the end. * **🎤 Talk 1: Flutter with non-Dart languages** **Speaker:** Eugene Toh. **Presentation summary**: Foreign function interfaces (FFI) for connecting Flutter with other languages like Rust and C/C++ **🎤 Talk 2: Build and Deploy Apps with FlutterFlow MCP** **Speaker:** Prashant R **Presentation Summary**: Discover how to build and deploy AI-powered applications using FlutterFlow MCP (Model Context Protocol). In this hands-on session, we'll explore how MCP enables FlutterFlow apps to connect with AI models, external tools, and data sources seamlessly. You'll learn how to build a real-world application, integrate AI capabilities, and deploy it efficiently for production use. **🗓 4. Timetable** * 18:30 \| Registration & Networking\! * 19:00 \| Presentation \#1: Flutter with non\-Dart languages * 19:30 \| Presentation \#1: Build and Deploy Apps with FlutterFlow MCP * 20:30 \| Networking * 20:30 \| End of Event

Welcome to our first Themed Meetup! (Max participants 16. 4 slots reserved from whatsapp already) Theme: **BeSci in the Wild** 🌿 • Who should use behavioral science? • What does it look like in practice? • How is it actually done? • Where do we need it most? • When can it make a real difference? Come meet fellow Nudgers, BeSci enthusiasts, and curious minds over food and drinks at **Tiong Bahru Bakery, Holland Village**. **What to expect:** • Quick intro to the topic, host, and group • Friendly themed chat over food and drinks • No prep needed — listening is perfectly fine too! You are expected to join our whatsapp group and confirm your RSVP before the event - https://chat.whatsapp.com/GdtgOpYf5idL95nJ9qmRou

**Curious about how AI is changing the legal profession and what that means for every knowledge worker?** Join us for this week's **The Stage**, our weekly lightning session where founders, builders, and operators share practical ideas, real experiences, and lessons they're actively applying today. Expect actionable insights, thoughtful discussions, and plenty of opportunities to connect before getting back to building. ### **Topic** **State of AI Adoption in the Legal Industry** ### **Speaker** **[Zeng Hanyi](https://www.linkedin.com/in/zenghanyi/)** Hanyi has worked as a litigation, arbitration, and investigations lawyer across leading Singapore and international law firms, as well as serving as in-house counsel in the oil & gas industry. Today, he explores what it means to become an **Authentically Integrated Lawyer**—embracing AI while staying grounded in professional judgment and ethics. ### **What You'll Learn** As AI reshapes professional services, the legal industry sits at the intersection of innovation, expertise, and responsibility. In this session, Hanyi shares his personal journey of adopting AI in legal practice, the opportunities it unlocks, the risks it introduces, and what every knowledge worker can learn from the legal profession's experience. Whether you're a founder, builder, consultant, or simply curious about AI's impact on specialized work, you'll leave with fresh perspectives on integrating AI thoughtfully into your own workflow. ### **You'll Leave With** ✅ A clearer understanding of how AI is transforming legal work ✅ Practical insights for adopting AI in knowledge-intensive professions ✅ A balanced perspective on the opportunities, limitations, and risks of AI in professional practice Bring your questions, grab your laptop, and stay afterwards to continue building alongside the community. [Get your Free Ticket here! ](https://luma.com/sxhi40i8)

**Practical Curiosity: Learning from Everyday Data** How do we actually get better at utilizing our day-to-day data? Fancy dashboards and complex models might look nice and draw attention, but that’s not where most of us spend our time. In fact those shiny outputs frequently sit unused, while the real insights are drawn from the analyst’s daily practice. Sometimes it’s as simple and as powerful as noticing that a segment is shrinking, a channel is underused, or certain links keep getting all the clicks. There’s many different places that the spark of insight can come from, but you have to keep your head in the data and know where to look. In this session, we’ll explore real-world examples of how segmentation, testing, and click behavior can uncover practical digital marketing opportunities. You’ll leave with inspiration for your own use cases, along with a few simple ways to ask better questions, spot meaningful patterns, and make smarter decisions without overcomplicating it. **About Our Speaker:** [Elaine Armbruster](https://www.linkedin.com/in/elainearmbruster/) is a Director of Digital Experience at the [American Diabetes Association](https://diabetes.org/), where she focuses on using data and insights to create smarter, more effective digital experiences. A lifelong Columbus resident, she has built her career in email marketing and the broader digital user journey, and is finding she most enjoys working in the messy middle where systems, data, and big ideas don’t quite line up yet. Thanks to our 2026 sponsors: [Clarivoy](https://www.clarivoy.com), [What Box Consulting Group](https://www.whatboxconsultinggroup.com), [Conductrics](https://www.conductrics.com), and [Piwik PRO](https://piwik.pro) More info at [cbusdaw.com](https://cbusdaw.com)

Highlights and Hidden Gems in SQL Server 2025 With so much emphasis on cloud data platforms and AI these days, SQL people can feel left behind by all the marketing hype. SQL Server 2025 was officially released in November of 2025, though, and contains a ton of improvements that will make our SQL Server deployments a bit faster, better, and more secure. There are even more improvements tucked into the release that never made a marketing blog or press release that you'll likely be learning about for the first time in this session! Join this session to learn about what makes your high availability a little more available, your performance a bit more performant, and your database more developer and app-friendly. Come spend an hour with SQL people talking SQL Server 2025 – the good, the "not quite ready for prime time", and the hidden awesomeness.

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

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.

**Latest Dojo Location!** **Knotty Pine Brewing** 1765 W 3rd Ave, Columbus, OH 43212 We're going to try a new dojo location for a few weeks and see how it works Dojos are informal Python group study sessions where everyone interested in Python gathers to learn about Python, help others with Python, or just hang out. Everyone is welcome from Python beginners to experts. Bringing a laptop is encouraged (we'll have extension cords and power strips). If there's something you want to learn leave a comment on this invite so we can plan ahead. We're looking for speakers for our Monthly Meetups! Fill out the form if you are interested in presenting to the Python Community. https://forms.gle/ehSfUAC2WgR34Crq9

We're planning a hands-on technical session focused on building AI solutions in ServiceNow - think skills, agents, and real-world use cases. If you’re curious about AI on the platform, RSVP now and stay tuned for more details. Let's build together!

You can sleep in on the Sesquicentennial (observed), we’re shifting to the following Friday. But join the local UX community for a chat and some biscuits to catch up. If you were in CA for Figma Config, tell us all the lines and you can tell me how I can animate an SVG without coding it by hand, and why I’d even want to. Thanks to the team at Nationwide of supporting the group.