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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/)

[Register to get your free ticket here!](https://luma.com/57d045bj) **Why we’re here?** Give serious AI-native founders in Singapore an edge so they keep moving from *building* to *delivering.* **Who it’s for?** * Actively building *(pre-MVP, post-launch, late-stage)* * Want’s likeminded peers and structured problem-solving * Interested in at-least weekly cadence * Open to committing if the value is real *** ## **How the day plays out?** **10am — Doors open** As we say in Singapore, OTOT. **12.30pm — Lunch & Social** BYOF. Meet your peers. Build real relationships over food. **2:30pm — The Work Room** From founder topics that broaden your awareness, to real-time problem-solving. This is where you build your founder muscle and keep moving **5pm — “Next move”** We roundup & wrap here. *** ## **The Work Room** We bring a veteran. ​You come with something real: what you’ve done, what changed, what’s stuck. ​This is *your* time to focus on being a founder, leader, business owner. Not just tech, not just AI, but running a business. ​It could be: Pipelines. Product. Marketing. Segments. Users. Traction. Flywheels. Budgets. Teams. Funding. Pricing Contracts. Taxes. Regulation… ​Bring a problem, leave with a decision/direction/solution that’s yours. Follow-up next week.

Join us for our Squash Sessions happening every Monday / Wednesday / Thursday 6pm to 8pm or 8pm to 10pm Suitable for beginners to the Squash Regulars. Each Session is $15 for pay per play. You can also enquire about being a member when you arrive. We use Meetup.com to advertise the session and our members use a private whatsapp group to register. So should you be the only one signing up, you may still see a full house that evening. Do sign up prior as we are limited to 16 pax per 2 hours sessions. Do whatsapp the organizer at 9006 0909 @Trevor to expedite the reply and confirmation of your bookings.

### **Booking Information** * Please contact **98225900** to find out how to book this class. * The instructor will reach out to you once you've booked the class ### **Cancellation Policy** Credits will be considered used if class is cancelled within 24 hours before the start of the lesson ###

Capacity of event is number of tables X 4. Having a waitlist does not mean event is full. It is for me to prioritize people as per the following clause: *Priority is given to regulars, past attendees, intermediate and above level players, players who have their private message function switched on and people whom I have met before. If I am unable to contact you, I cannot ask for your availability and skill level etc and you will be stuck in the waitlist forever and ever.* This is to ensure that the skill level of players are decent and to eliminate no shows. • Find us at the following tables in bishan sports hall.. 1,2,3,4,5 Ensure you are feeling well before taking part. Do not attend if you are not feeling well. \*NO GATECRASHING! • Do bring your own bat. Balls would be provided. - By participating in this event, you agree that the organizer shall not be held liable to any injuries or damages sustained by you as a result of taking part of this event. • If for some reason you aren't able to make it on that day, please update your status to "Not Going" at least one day in advance. The earlier you update your status, the easier it is for me to find a replacement. \*\*\*\*\*NOTE: FOR THOSE WHO HAD RSVP BUT 1. DID NOT TURNED UP ON THE DAY OR 2. DID NOT INFORMED THAT THEY AREN'T ABLE TO MAKE IT OR 3. DID NOT WITHDRAW RSVP WHEN THEY CANNOT MAKE IT, ON THE FUTURE MEETUP WHICH YOU RSVP, YOU WOULD BE BLACKLISTED. 1. REPEATED OFFENDERS (MORE THAN 2 TIMES) WILL MEAN AUTO DROP DOWN TO "NOT GOING" LIST IF I SEE YOUR NAME ON RSVP LIST ON THE NEXT MEETUP. \*\*\*\*\*\* Any questions, please feel free to drop me (John Tenergy) a message. Cheers

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dbt Meetups are networking events open to all folks working with data! Talks predominantly focus on community members' experience with dbt, however, you'll catch presentations on broader topics such as analytics engineering, data stacks, data ops, modeling, testing, and team structures. **🤝Organizer:** Jing Yu Lim, Michael Han (Infinite Lambda) **🏠Venue:** Monk's Brew Club **🍕Food:** Monk's Brew Club To attend, please read the Health and Safety Policy and Terms of Participation: [https://www.getdbt.com/legal/health-and-safety-policy](https://www.getdbt.com/legal/health-and-safety-policy) **📝Agenda** \*\*\*6:30pm \- 7:30pm \*\*\| Food and networking \*\* \*7:30pm \- 9:30pm \*\*\| Lightning talks and discussions **⚡Lightning Talks: Data Edition** Casual, rapid-fire talks where anyone can grab the mic and share something data-related — a question, a hot take, a war story, a cool trick, anything. We'll open with 2-3 pre-planned talks to set the tone, then the floor is open. No slides, no polish expected. Just real conversations between people who work with data. If you have questions: jump in and join the conversation! **Lightning Talk 1: A Smarter dbt, from dev to prod** * Speaker: Sin Ta Poon (dbt Labs) * LinkedIn: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/poon-sin-ta/](https://www.linkedin.com/in/poon-sin-ta/) **Lightning Talk 2: An insider’s perspective on Meta’s home-grown AI analytics agent and its impact on data-driven work** * Speaker: Jia Min Leong (Meta) * LinkedIn: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jia-min-leong-316aa6111/](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jia-min-leong-316aa6111/) **Lightning Talk 3: Prompt to pipelines: AI driven analytics engineering** * Speaker: Tan Ming Jie (foodpanda) * LinkedIn: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/tmj1432](https://www.linkedin.com/in/tmj1432) **Lightning Talk 4: Where is Singapore's Public Housing Prices at in 2026? - An Analytics Perspective** * Speaker: Cliff Chew (Tech in Asia) * LinkedIn: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/cliff-chew-kt/](https://www.linkedin.com/in/cliff-chew-kt/) Details for more lightning talks to be shared soon! Stay tuned 👀

**What if AI could help you attract leads—even if nobody knows who you are?** Imagine waking up every morning to new enquiries... without chasing friends... without cold calling... without spending thousands on advertising. If you're tired of wondering where your next customer will come from... this workshop is for you. **Before** ❌ No leads ❌ Random posting ❌ Unsure what AI tools to use ❌ Spending hours creating content **After** ✅ AI generating content ideas ✅ AI helping attract prospects ✅ Clear daily marketing workflow ✅ More enquiries **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** Imagine where your business could be six months from now if AI helped you consistently attract new customers. The sooner you start learning, the sooner you start growing. Seats are limited. Reserve yours today.

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.

**Please register here: [https://luma.com/vjjxuf4y](https://luma.com/vjjxuf4y)** How do you make sure you're building the right thing before you build it? ​*Inaugural workshop hosted by [Networking for Impact] x SG Innovation - This will be a series of workshops culminating in a Pitch/Demo day.* ​Join **Kush Amerasinghe**, Founder of **[BrainBank.world](https://brainbank.world/?utm_source=luma)**, for a hands-on session exploring how AI can bring market validation into the earliest stages of product development. From structured ideation using frameworks such as the Business Model Canvas to testing demand with AI-generated landing pages, you'll see how founders can rapidly validate ideas before committing significant time and resources. ​Through a live demonstration of BrainBank's idea sandbox, Kush will walk through how a concept evolves from an initial insight into a validated, build-ready product opportunity. The session will also explore how responsible innovation and AI governance can be embedded directly into the builder's workflow from day one. **Who should attend?** * ​Early-stage founders and startup teams * ​Product managers and builders * ​Innovation and corporate venture teams * ​Anyone interested in using AI to validate ideas faster and build with confidence ​**What to bring?** * ​Laptop ​ ​**About [SG Innovation powered by DT Matrix](https://dtmatrix.com/about/?utm_source=luma).** ​Formerly Pollinate, SG Innovation is a joint initiative backed by DT Matrix and Keppel which supports tech focused companies entering multiple global markets. **Please register here: [https://luma.com/vjjxuf4y](https://luma.com/vjjxuf4y)**

Join fellow ServiceNow users, practitioners and enthusiasts in Singapore for an afternoon of shared learning, peer exchange, and conversations about what is actually working in the field. Whether you are an admin, developer, architect, or business user, this meetup is a space to hear from peers, ask the questions you cannot easily Google, and connect with the local ServiceNow community. We are still shaping the agenda and would love your input. If there is a topic you want to present, a problem you are working through, or a use case you want to hear more about, let us know below. The best sessions come from the community. Light refreshments will be provided. Seats are limited.

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/)

Let's kick off our very first meetup right at the symbolic heart of Singapore's e-commerce district. We are gathering at **Jyu Gae Bistro** (Ground level of Lazada One) for a casual, low-pressure dinner and drink. The venue features a fantastic indoor area for grabbing a bite and sharing our latest multi-channel insights, alongside a relaxed outdoor alfresco space perfect for winding down and socializing. **Who this is for:** Independent solo operators handling Shopify, Amazon FBA, TikTok Shop, Shopee, or Lazada campaigns who are looking to step out for a vibrant weekday evening. Come grab a casual bite, share your screen fatigue, and meet the faces behind the stores. Space is limited to keep the conversation small, deep, and engaging—RSVP to save your seat at the table! pay your own meal or drink, i will place a signage of solo founder&e-com circle.

**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.

**Title**: PySteak: Simulation, Calibration, and Optimization for a High-Steaks Culinary Problem **Details:** Cooking an expensive cut of steak can be a daunting, high-stakes task for a home cook. From traditional pan-searing to reverse searing, cold searing, sous vide, cryofrying, and grill sous vide, many steak-cooking methods can be viewed as attempts to manage the same fundamental tradeoff: * *Exterior flavor and texture:* The surface typically needs to reach roughly 300–330°F to promote rapid Maillard reaction, producing a crisp texture and complex, aromatic flavors. It is often pushed beyond 350°F to induce pyrolysis and develop deeper browning, smoky notes, and char. * *Interior juiciness and texture:* To retain moisture and maintain a tender texture, the internal temperature should stay near the target temperature for the desired doneness, often around 129–135°F for medium-rare. The laws of physics are unforgiving. The heat equation tells us how the high surface temperatures needed to develop the exterior crust create steep temperature gradients that drive heat inward, often resulting in the dreaded gray band of overcooked meat beneath the surface. In this talk, I will share my journey toward engineering a steak recipe designed to develop a deeply browned crust while minimizing the gray band and preserving as much of the juicy, tender interior as possible. No advanced background in mathematics, physics, or programming is required. I’ll start with a brief and accessible introduction to the principles of heat diffusion and how to simulate it on a computer. Then, I’ll explore the role of data (i.e., measurement) in calibrating the simulation model and optimizing the recipe. **Audience Takeaway:** After this talk, the audience will have a basic understanding of how thermodynamics shapes the tradeoff between crust development and an evenly cooked interior, and how heat transfer can be simulated on a computer. They will leave with computational tools they can use to experiment with measurements, calibration, and optimization, giving them a practical starting point for engineering steak-cooking protocols tailored to their own preferences and equipment. **Zoom: This is a *hybrid* event. To attend online, join us on Zoom here at 6pm:** https://iit-edu.zoom.us/j/89379230295?pwd=NdETyE5sdYuSrvsrBZXSBFkUESBVkg.1 Meeting ID: 893 7923 0295 Passcode: 5t5WYn **Sponsor:** **[AlphaSense](https://www.tegus.com) will provide the meeting site, as well as pizza and soft drinks for the onsite participants.** * **Address:** 200 N. LaSalle Street. Suite 1100. Chicago, IL 60601 * **AlphaSense's Overview:** The world’s most sophisticated companies rely on AlphaSense to remove uncertainty from decision-making. With market intelligence and search built on proven AI, AlphaSense delivers insights that matter from content you can trust. Our universe of public and private content includes equity research, company filings, event transcripts, expert calls, news, trade journals, and clients’ own research content. * The acquisition of Tegus by AlphaSense in 2024 advances our shared mission to empower professionals to make smarter decisions through AI-driven market intelligence. Together, AlphaSense and Tegus will accelerate growth, innovation, and content expansion, with complementary product and content capabilities that enable users to unearth even more comprehensive insights from thousands of content sets. Our platform is trusted by over 6,000 enterprise customers, including a majority of the S&P 500. Founded in 2011, AlphaSense is headquartered in New York City with more than 2,000 employees across the globe and offices in the U.S., U.K., Finland, India, Singapore, Canada, and Ireland. * **Logistics**: To access the Tegus by AlphaSense building, we require **first and last names** of those who RSVP'd by July 15. Attendees will then present their **IDs** when they arrive at the front desk (right when they enter the building). They will be sent up in the elevator to the 11th floor where we will be.

You can sleep in on the Semiquincentennial (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.

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!