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LinkedIn TLA meetup - bootcamp finale
Bootcamp finale - but open to all! If you're interested in running Thought Leadership Ads (and you should), please join our webinar series at [zenabm.com/tla-bootcamp](https://zenabm.com/tla-bootcamp) and come to the finale + networking in London.
**Venue**: **[Indra Gallery](https://maps.app.goo.gl/YYQ7Y94QLPWt68Lr8)**
**Agenda:**
* **Welcome from the organizers** \- 10\-15 mins
* **Why TLAs win: Benchmarks, case studies, examples**\- Emilia Korczynska\, Userpilot \(15 mins\)
* **How to write winning TLAs** \- Liam Collins from Instantly \(15 mins\)
* **How to use TLAs in LinkedIn ABM Campaigns** \- Ryan James Rocket SaaS \(15 mins\)
* **How to measure TLA impact + capture intent signals** \- ZenABM \(15 mins\)
* **Live Knowledge Assessment** + **Open networking** 🍕 🍻 \*\*(\*\*60–70 mins)
HOSTED BY:
* [ZenABM.COM](https://%E2%80%8Bzenabm.com)
* [Rocket SaaS](https://rocket-saas.io/)
Apache Flink/London
**Real-Time. Real Challenges. Real Conversations.**
📅 *Jun 30th, London, 6:30 -8:30 PM*
180 Borough High St
London SE1 1AP, UK
**About this event**
Join us for an evening dedicated to real-time data and Apache Flink®. Whether you're already running streaming pipelines in production or just starting to explore stateful stream processing, this is a chance to learn from practitioners, swap war stories, and connect with the London data community.
Expect talks on building and scaling stream processing systems, lessons from production deployments, and where real-time architectures are heading, followed by drinks, food, and plenty of time to network.
**What to expect**
* Technical talks from engineers running Flink and streaming systems at scale
* Real-world use cases: exactly-once processing, CDC, event-driven architectures
* Q&A with speakers
* Food, drinks, and networking with the London data engineering community
**Who should come**
Data engineers, platform engineers, architects, and anyone curious about Apache Flink and real-time data processing. All experience levels welcome.
**Agenda**
* 6:00 PM — Doors open, drinks & networking
* 6:30 PM — Talks begin
* 8:00 PM — Open networking
* 9:00 PM — Wrap up
**Save your spot**
If you'd like to join the meetup, please make sure to register using the link below:
[https://luma.com/y9gskuu4](https://luma.com/y9gskuu4)
Your registration helps us plan seating, catering, and event logistics.
Looking forward to seeing you all there!
AI in Production: Vectors in the Newsroom & Healthcare Challenges
GDG Cloud London is thrilled to be partnering with Skyscanner for a deep dive into the world of AI applications in Production.
This meet-up is a unique opportunity to connect with fellow AI enthusiasts, industry practitioners, and researchers in a dynamic and interactive setting. We are going to have some pizza and networking at the end!
Don't miss out, RSVP now!AGENDA
18:00 - Doors Open & Check-ins
18:30 - Welcome & Intro
18:40 - Ellen Muller - Vectors in the Newsroom: Building Smarter Image Search at the Guardian.
When a photo editor searches our image management system for "protest" at 6pm on a deadline, they can't afford to get zero results because the images were captioned "demonstration." Traditional keyword search has no way to know those mean the same thing - and for an archive with inconsistent metadata, that gap matters. This talk is about how we added semantic search to the Grid (the Guardian's open source image management system) using embeddings and vector similarity. We'll dig into how vector spaces let you encode meaning rather than just text, and the practical choices (and mistakes) involved in shipping this into a real production system.
19:15 - Bruno Ripa - Technical challenges of AI adoption in Healthcare
Deploying AI in healthcare requires solving a shifting equation: balancing high-fidelity clinical utility against rigorous data sovereignty mandates and punishing infrastructure costs. This talk breaks down how our company navigates this fluid landscape daily. We will cover where we use AI in our stack, how localised data compliance continuously reshapes our engineering choices, and the concrete technical hurdles we encounter along the way. Rather than showcasing a finalised architecture, we will focus on the ongoing design decisions and trade-offs required to keep our product secure, reliable, and compliant, all while aggressively optimising compute and operational costs—proving that surviving the mutating challenges of healthcare AI is a continuous process of lean execution.
20:00 - Pizza & Networking
Agenda
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Speakers
Bruno Ripa - Dyad (Senior AI Engineer)
Ellen Muller - The Guardian (Software Engineer)
Hosted By
Amanda Cavallaro, GDG Organizer
I'm an Aikidoka, Developer Advocate, Software Developer, Google Developers Expert, Linkedin Learning Author and a Full Stack Web Development Specialist.
Saverio Terracciano, GDG Organizer
Stefano Le Pera, GDG Organizer
Lorenzo Turrino, GDG Organizer
Kubra Harmankaya, Android Developer
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Partner
Skyscanner (https://skyscanner.net/)
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Complete your event RSVP here: https://gdg.community.dev/events/details/google-gdg-cloud-london-presents-ai-in-production-vectors-in-the-newsroom-amp-healthcare-challenges/.
Tue 9pm Football at Mile End - RSVP ONLY on FootyAddicts.com
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7/8 a side casual football game in City - Mile End, East London
- 1 hour game
- 6 GBP per person
- KO 7pm
- Casual football just for fun
- No shouting, no aggressive behavior
If you want to join you will need to sign up on footyaddicts.com (https://footyaddicts.com/venues/37) and Confirm your attendance at the game page
We do not use Meetup.com to manage bookings any more.
Build Your Al-Powered B2B Outreach Engine
Registration Must Happen on: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/building-an-ai-powered-b2b-outreach-engine-find-qualify-convert-tickets-1992273247915?aff=oddtdtcreator
From finding the right leads to the final follow-up - personalisation at scale.
Generic outreach is dead. Spray-and-pray emails get ignored, burn your sender reputation, and waste hours you don't have.
In 90 minutes, you'll build something better: an AI-powered outreach engine that finds the right businesses, qualifies them automatically, and writes personalised messages at scale that actually get opened and answered.
Not just theory. Not "use ChatGPT to write faster." A real, repeatable system — built live, around an actual EU brand. You'll watch the full cycle work end to end, then walk out ready to run it on your own business tomorrow.
Here's what you'll walk away with:
🎯 Find — Pinpoint your ideal customers and pull a clean, structured lead list from sources hiding in plain sight. AI does the heavy lifting.
⚡ Qualify — Turn your gut instinct into a scoring system the AI runs at scale, so you only chase leads worth chasing.
✉️ Convert — Write outreach that goes way beyond {{name}} — then sequence follow-ups that hold the thread and pull replies.
By the end, you won't just understand AI outreach. You'll have designed the engine.
Perfect for SME owners, founders, consultants, employees and students who want a system that works — not another AI demo.
Seats are limited and these fill fast — grab yours now.
🕐 17:15–18:45 workshop · 18:45–19:15 networking & refreshments
📍 Barclays, 120 Moorgate, London 🤝 In collaboration with Barclays
Tue, 5 a side :: RSVP Open on FootyAddicts.com
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The series of Tue 5 a side games has now been transferred to www.footyaddicts.com
Please register there in order to sign up for the games!
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Unplugged with Alex Karim: At the cold face of the Microsoft customer journey
In this session Richard Conway co-founder of the UK Azure Users Group will interview Alex Karim, from Microsoft UK. Alex is at the cold face of the customer journey running executive briefings and providing Microsoft solutions descriptions based on what customers are trying to do. Alex works across all sectors and verticals and gets under the skin of the problem for Microsoft's customers. In this Ask Me Anything session (within reason), Richard will interview Alex about his experience with customers, solutionising with Microsoft tools and how Microsoft are helping customers in the new world of AI. Promises to be a great session. Please respond in discussion with questions you want to ask and we'll get them on the list!
BIO:
Alex is a technology innovator and evangelist specialising in Mixed Reality & AI. Alex began his tech journey in Automotive & Formula 1 at McLaren, leading the first ever deployment of HoloLens 2 in the industry and various AR & VR related projects across design and engineering. This ultimately led him to Microsoft where he served as UK “Metaverse Lead” shaping go-to-market strategies across Mixed Reality, Azure IoT, and Azure Data & AI before joining the Microsoft Innovation Hub. Today, at Microsoft Alex helps customers navigate the shift to AI-native organisations - delivering design thinking & prototyping workshops for some of the world's biggest enterprises & brands. Outside of work he hosts the Masters of Innovation Podcast - where he interviews leading voices across technology and innovation. He is also an aspiring racing driver working to transition from Sim Racing to the real world.
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Agentic AI Across Cloud, Platform Engineering & Data
Hello and welcome to our special joint meetup between **Cloud Platform Engineering London**, **Cloud Platform Engineering Leaders**, **Data & AI Leaders**, **AWS AI UG**, **Azure AI UG**, and **GCP London**.
This crossover event brings together platform engineers, cloud architects, data and AI leaders, SREs, engineering managers, technology executives, and practitioners exploring how AI is reshaping modern cloud platforms, developer workflows, business transformation, and enterprise engineering.
This is a special **Community Stack ecosystem event**, bringing together several of our cloud, platform, and data-focused communities for an evening of practical talks, senior technical discussion, and cross-community networking.
A huge thank you to **[Arrows](https://www.arrowsgroup.com/)** for hosting and sponsoring this event, and for supporting the growth of the cloud, platform engineering, data, and AI community in London.
Speakers and sessions:
**Get a High Return-on-Investment from AI Business Transformation**
**Nora Balla, Founder and AI Business Transformation Lead, Add Velocity**
Nora Balla is the founder of Add Velocity, an AI-native business transformation and implementation consultancy.
Nora has gained extensive experience across investment products, business transformation, finance operations, and regulated asset and wealth management environments. Previously a freelancer, she now operates in a collaborative delivery model, helping organisations scale AI and automation solutions in complex business settings.
Her experience includes finance transformation at Harley-Davidson, reporting process improvements in commercial real estate funds, and supporting the Aladdin implementation at Royal London Asset Management.
In this session, Nora will explore how organisations can achieve a stronger return on investment from AI business transformation. The talk will cover the opportunities and high-value use cases, the real risks organisations need to manage, the skills required for the agentic era, how to define and measure success, and practical tips for improving efficiency when working with AI systems.
**Agents in the Fastlane**
**Ryan Cormack, Principal Engineer, Motorway**
**Luke Marrai, Engineering Manager, Motorway**
Motorway has used traditional AI and machine learning for years to enhance and improve its systems. But how can those years of learning be applied to build the next generation of agentic systems for users?
In this session, Ryan Cormack and Luke Marrai from Motorway will explore how they are enhancing the functionality of Motorway’s platform to provide more accurate search results for dealers looking to acquire stock through the online marketplace.
The talk will cover how Motorway is using **AWS AgentCore** to run its agentic systems, and how evals are being used to ensure the system performs as expected.
Ryan Cormack is a Principal Engineer at Motorway, the UK’s leading used car marketplace, where he leads technical strategy and drives AI-powered transformation across the engineering organisation. With over 14 years of experience building and scaling systems on AWS, Ryan specialises in turning architectural best practices into practical engineering outcomes, from cloud modernisation programmes to the adoption of agentic workflows and AI-native developer tooling.
Luke Marrai is an Engineering Manager at Motorway, supporting engineering delivery and helping teams build effective, scalable technology for one of the UK’s leading automotive technology platforms.
Agenda:
**18:00** — Arrival, refreshments and networking
**18:30** — Welcome and introduction
**18:35** — Get a High Return-on-Investment from AI Business Transformation — Nora Balla
**19:00** — Break and networking
**19:20** — Agents in the Fastlane — Ryan Cormack and Luke Marrai
**20:00** — Networking
**20:45** — Close
**Join us on June 11th:**
We are also hosting the **Cloud Native & Open Source AI Conference** on **June 11th in London**, bringing together a fantastic line-up of speakers across AI, cloud-native, open-source, platform engineering, leadership, and modern infrastructure.
You can view the full speaker line-up and event details **[here](https://www.communitystack.io/conferences/cloud-native-london)**
**About the communities:**
This event is jointly hosted across **Cloud Platform Engineering London**, **Cloud Platform Engineering Leaders**, **Data & AI Leaders**, **AWS AI UG**, **Azure AI UG**, and **GCP London**.
Together, these communities form part of the **[Community Stack ecosystem](https://www.meetup.com/pro/generative-ai-uk-community/)**, bringing together technical practitioners, leaders, partners, and organisations across cloud, platform engineering, data, AI, and open technology.
We are always keen to hear from speakers, hosts, sponsors, and community partners.
If you would like to speak, sponsor, or host a future event, please reach out to **[Ethan Sumner](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ethansumner404/)** via LinkedIn.
This event follows the **[Community Stack Code of Conduct](https://www.communitystack.io/code-of-conduct)** and **[Privacy Policy](https://www.communitystack.io/privacy-policy)**, ensuring a respectful, inclusive, and welcoming environment for all attendees.
SWANA Pride Picnic
🏳️🌈The SWANA Pride Picnic, We're Back!🏳️🌈
Last year, we started something special, and we're doing it again this year. The SWANA queer groups - SQN, SQC, GAG, Bledi, Queer SWANA Parents, and SWANA Trans - are coming together for the second year running for a celebratory brunch, marking Pride the way we like! Good food, great company, and a moment to find your people before the day takes over.
Bring something to share if you can: food, drinks, a picnic blanket, good energy. Keep it light, we'll be on the move after 🌞
Lesbian, trans, queer, bi, gay, asexuals and beyond, bring friends, families, partners, and allies; everyone is welcome! Many of us will be heading to parties after, so come say hello, and join a bunch for after! If you're still figuring out your day, say no more!
Want more reasons to come to the SWANA Pride Picnic on 4th July! You have one 👇
You get a 10% discount from Ta’mini Lebanese Bakery on
Marchmont Street, London, WC1N 1AB
Come get your manaqeesh and coffee before you head off!
(We'll announce the discount on the day)
📍 Brunswick Square Garden, WC1N 1AX
⏰ From 11:00 am
📅 Saturday 4 July 2026
Sevillanas Dance Class & Social Soho
Learn sevillanas and join our Spanish dance social in Soho, London.
Sevillanas is a traditional partnered folk dance from Andalusia. You'll see it at every Andalusian **FIESTA** , feria, and local celebration. If you're Spanish and missing home, or you've always wanted to learn authentic Spanish dance, this is your space.
**What to expect:**
* 1.5 hours of sevillanas class (beginners welcome — we'll teach you from scratch) with 10 minute break
* 1.5 hours of social dancing where you can practise, mix, and enjoy the music
* Welcoming, inclusive atmosphere — half our community is Spanish, half international
* Your ticket includes 1 complimentary drink (soft drink, small wine, or sangria)
* The class is taught by Flamenco con Maika, a dance school and project led by Maika Jiménez Blanco, an instructor with more than 18 years of international experience.
**Why come?** If you've ever been to a Andalusian feria, or local fiesta, you know sevillanas is where the real fun starts. We're bringing that energy to London. Come dance, meet people who love Spanish culture, and maybe stay for dinner after (our Spanish kitchen is upstairs!).
**No partner needed.** We rotate partners during the class so everyone gets to dance.
**Important information:**
* We'll teach sevillanas step by step, covering the key sections and footwork
* The social hour is relaxed — no pressure, just practice and fun
* Sevillanas is danced in pairs but you don't need to bring a partner
* All levels welcome — most attendees are beginners or intermediate
Minimum number of attendees required. The organiser reserves the right to cancel up to 24 hours before the event if minimum numbers aren't reached. Full refund will be issued if cancelled. Attendees may cancel up to 2 days before the event for a full refund.
BOOK HERE:
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The Business Automation Blueprint: Where to Start with AI
**Moved from original date (requested by several members) due to the heat wave!**
Most businesses know they have repetitive tasks, manual workflows, and administrative bottlenecks - but few know where to start when it comes to automation.
In this practical introductory session, we'll explore how modern businesses are using AI, workflow automation, and intelligent agents to streamline operations, reduce costs, and free up teams to focus on higher-value work.
You'll learn how to identify the best automation opportunities within your organisation, map existing processes, and build a roadmap for implementing automation without disrupting your business.
We'll also demonstrate real-world examples of automated sales, marketing, customer service, finance, and operational workflows that are delivering measurable results today.
Whether you're a business owner, manager, operations leader, or technology professional, this session will provide a clear framework for turning automation from a buzzword into a competitive advantage.
### What You'll Learn
* Where automation delivers the biggest business impact
* How to identify and prioritise processes for automation
* The difference between traditional automation, AI, and intelligent automation
* Common automation mistakes and how to avoid them
* Real-world case studies and live demonstrations
* A practical roadmap for getting started immediately
### Who Should Attend
Business owners, founders, directors, operations leaders, department heads, and anyone interested in making their organisation more efficient through intelligent automation.
LJC Meetup at Neo4j - Smarter Search with Spring AI and Neo4j
Register: [https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ljc-meetup-at-neo4j-smarter-search-with-spring-ai-and-neo4j-tickets-1991379537804](https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ljc-meetup-at-neo4j-smarter-search-with-spring-ai-and-neo4j-tickets-1991379537804)
LJC Meet-ups is a series of events, aimed at giving all Community members an opportunity to present at an LJC event.
We're excited to invite you to our next Meetup, co-hosted with **neo4j**!
Join the London Java Community for an evening of technical talks, networking, and knowledge sharing hosted by Neo4j.
This month’s meetup explores two of the hottest areas in modern software development: integrating Generative AI into Java applications and deploying Machine Learning models within Java ecosystems.
Whether you’re a Java developer, architect, data engineer, or simply curious about the latest innovations shaping our industry, this session will provide practical insights and real-world examples from experienced practitioners.
Cloud Native London, July 2026
Hi folks!
Welcome to our July Cloud Native London meetup! Join us to hear from our two speakers and network with your fellow techies over pizza and drinks, or alternatively chat and following along on Youtube or LinkedIn!
6:00 Pizza and drinks
6:30 Welcome
6:45 Architecting Safe Autonomy: High-Stakes Autonomous Agents Need Deterministic Checkpoints for Safety (Hossein Kakavand, Luther Systems)
7:15 Putting Open GitOps to the test (Steve Fenton, Octopus Deploy)
7:45 Wrap up
See you there!
Cheryl (@oicheryl)
**Putting Open GitOps to the test (Steve Fenton, Octopus Deploy)**
The Open GitOps principles sound plausible, but the world is full of surprising realities. Join Steve Fenton and explore the GitOps research to see whether GitOps delivers on its promises, based on an analysis of over 600 perspectives from roles like DevOps engineers, developers, platform engineers, and cloud infrastructure engineers.
*Steve Fenton researches the socio-technical systems behind software delivery; how organizations, people, and technology actually work together (or don’t). At Octopus Deploy, he explores GitOps, Platform Engineering, Continuous Delivery, and compliance through a lens shaped by punk history, psychology, and the kind of genre fiction that asks uncomfortable questions about systems and society.*
*He’s an eight-time Microsoft MVP (DevOps), a DORA Community Guide, a CD Foundation Governing Board member, and a contributor to the CNCF Platform Engineering Community Group. He’s written books on TypeScript, Octopus Deploy, and Web Operations Monitoring, and occasionally writes horror fiction.*
*https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevefenton/*
*https://mastodon.social/@stevefenton*
*https://bsky.app/profile/stevefenton.co.uk*
**Architecting Safe Autonomy: High-Stakes Autonomous Agents Need Deterministic Checkpoints for Safety (Hossein Kakavand, Luther Systems)**
The more freedom we give an autonomous agent, the more it drifts into hallucinations or policy violations, yet clamping it down with prompts kills the reasoning we want. Think Brownian Motion versus a Brownian Bridge: a random walk wanders anywhere, but pin it at fixed points and it moves freely between them while always landing where it must. Deterministic checkpoints are those pins.
InsideOut applies this to infrastructure. It works with the user to shape a feature set, stack, config, Terraform and cost estimates, then deploys and manages the infrastructure in real time for monitoring, alerts and changes. Each stage must produce a structured artifact validated against fixed rules, and if a check fails only that stage repeats, catching errors before they propagate. High-stakes actions stay locked down by design: the agent can request a deploy by presenting a button, but never holds the cloud keys itself. The result is an agent that is more productive precisely because it is safely unconstrained.
*Hossein Kakavand holds a Ph.D. from Stanford University. He has been with several start up in AI, ML and Distributed Systems, with IPOs on NASDAQ and LSE. He is currently a Co-Founder of Luther Systems focused on solving the Enterprise Operations problem at scale. @HosseinKavavand*
***Check out [https://www.oicheryl.com/cloudnativelondon](https://www.oicheryl.com/cloudnativelondon) if you're interested in speaking or sponsoring.***
Harness Engineering in Practice: From Requirements to Implementation
AI assistants are getting more capable. The question is how we build effective workflows around them.
At DevDay London, [Lucy Joyce](https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucy-joyce-597485166/), [Ash Shakrani](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ash-shakrani/) and [Arun Kurian](https://www.linkedin.com/in/arun-mathew-kurian-39b8aa5a/) will explore harness engineering through the lens of a payment integration.
From requirements and design through to implementation, they’ll demonstrate why context alone isn’t enough for successful AI-assisted development. Drawing on real-world experience, they’ll show how engineering harnesses, reusable context, standards, and validation workflows help teams move beyond experimentation and build reliable, scalable AI-assisted development practices.
**This session will unpack:**
🎯 Why “more context” isn’t the answer on its own
🎯 What engineering harnesses are and how they create reliable feedback loops
🎯 How standards, workflows, and validation reduce AI-generated rework and technical debt
🎯 Practical techniques teams can adopt immediately to improve AI outcomes
🗓️ **Save the Date:** 2nd July, 2026
📍 **Location:** Sahaj Software, 1 Quality Court, London, WC2A 1HR
🕕 **Time:** 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM (BST)
The evening will feature:
🎤 **One engaging talk** with Q&A
🤝 **Plenty of time for networking** over free pizza and non-alcoholic drinks
Don’t miss this chance to learn, connect, and share with fellow tech enthusiasts.
👉 Please click the link below to register.
https://sahaj.ai/events/harness-engineering-in-practice-from-requirements-to-implementation/
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Data & Analytics Wednesday - Learning from Everyday Data
**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)
Columbus Medical Marijuana Meetup 6/30/26 - Network/Learn/Celebrate/Mix/Chill
Our next much-awaited **COLUMBUS** meetup is **Tuesday June 30th from 7-10 pm EST at ACE OF CUPS**. Meet patients, cultivators, processors, dispensary managers/staff, physicians, home growers, educators, activists, nonprofits, artists, attorneys, business owners, writers, students, and supporters to network, share our knowledge, collaborate, support each other and make new ones!
Hope you will be there too! Save the date and pass the word. **Please RSVP** so we know who is coming and how many to expect.
Find us to say hi and we will introduce you to others. We should be easy to spot. (The happy-looking group wearing cool nametags! See photos from our past events.) Sign in, grab a name tag, start your own bar/food tab, meet old friends and make new ones! Everyone is welcome. SEE YOU THERE!
Stop Guessing: How to Measure and Improve LLM Outputs
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.
ServiceNow AI Deep Dive: Hands-On Learning Session
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!
Omnipresent Atheists Weekly Meetup
Jimmy V's Grill & Pub in Grandview Heights. You are responsible for your own meal/drinks. We usually don't have any agenda other than eat, drink and talk. :) If the weather is nice we will be on the back patio, otherwise we are in the cigar room.
This group has been meeting every Tuesday evening for over a decade. Many attendees do not RSVP on meetup. Please don't let the small number here discourage you. Anyone/everyone is welcome to come. We'd love to have you join us.
COTA bus #5 comes to W. 5th and Wyandotte Rd. And it's a minute walk to the restaurant.
NFT AI ART Columbus
NFT's are here to stay folks!
This is a group for like minded people interested in understanding, leveraging, using, creating for, profiting from, trading too i suppose, NFT's.. everything around them, complexity, fear and exploits, best practices and more.
**PLUS**
This group will talk AI ART tools, techniques, artists, video, audio, prototypes and more in the AI assisted production space- ART specifically, but we can get into any aspect of some of the cooler things happening in AI in general.
Azure CBUS July
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