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The Data Science Speakers Club is a Toastmasters International club enabling the current and next generation of Data Scientists to improve their Public Speaking Skills. This is a HYBRID Meeting! So join us Online via ZOOM or In-Person. Joining the Data Science Speakers Club means joining a supportive environment to build your confidence in public speaking and to practice speaking in front of an audience. You will also gain the opportunity to receive feedback on your speeches in a friendly environment, including what you have done well and guidance on the areas you can improve upon. We also run a mentorship program where an experienced mentor supports you on your public speaking journey. Meeting Theme: **TBC** Tentative Schedule: 18:30 - President's welcome 18:40 - Prepared Speeches (3 prepared speeches with evaluation) 19:25 - Guest introduction 19:30 - Break 19:40 - Table Topic 20:30 - Wrap up, awards, announcements End of Meeting The theme is to do with exploring various aspects of power, including how it is distributed, challenged, and transformed in different contexts. In the first part, there will be speeches. In the second half, we will have impromptu speeches preparation in groups called Table topics where guests can participate. We meet on the 1st, 3rd, and 5th Mondays of each month from 6:30 pm online. Each meeting is a mixture of prepared speeches by our members, speaking roles, and impromptu speaking challenges by members and guests. Our meetings are free to attend and you only have to speak if you want to. For in-person attendance, snacks will be provided. Entrepreneurs, Innovators, and Mathematical and Logical Thinkers aiming to focus on their communication and leadership development are always welcome to attend our meetings, to increase their self-confidence, become better speakers, and become better leaders. TEAMS LINK: [https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/382345239116121?p=cuLtNaK8UsjrLbnexq](https://www.google.com/url?q=https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/382345239116121?p%3DcuLtNaK8UsjrLbnexq&sa=D&source=calendar&usd=2&usg=AOvVaw1h_-J2X3xLknX4gfg-Hy0V) FACEBOOK: [https://www.facebook.com/datasciencespk/](https://www.facebook.com/datasciencespk/) LINKEDIN: [https://www.linkedin.com/company/data-science-speakers-club](https://www.linkedin.com/company/data-science-speakers-club) TWITTER: [https://twitter.com/datasciencespk](https://twitter.com/datasciencespk) INSTAGRAM: [https://www.instagram.com/datasciencespk/](https://www.instagram.com/datasciencespk/)

FREE THE FIRST TIME YOU ATTEND. Meet at the Crown pub and draw or paint landscapes in Victoria Park or along the Regent’s Canal. This is a very a friendly and well-established group. You can draw or paint in your own way or the tutor can provide a plan for the session for you to follow. This will help you to understand techniques, motivations, colour and composition. PLEASE BRING YOUR OWN MATERIALS - pencil and a sketchbook or drawing pad and/or your choice of colour medium (pastels, water colour gouache etc.) and pastel or water colour paper.

**Join us on 6th of July for an exclusive hands-on evening and experience Viso Now, the world's first Visual General Intelligence (VGI) platform, a breakthrough that lets anyone build powerful computer vision applications using natural language.** 🍕🍺 **Perks** Food, drink, workshop and prizes provided! **🎫 Tickets** Free to attend. Spaces are limited. **📍Location** Secret Location- For now! Expect Central London **🕚 Rough timings** * 6:00 pm - 6:30 pm: Doors open with refreshments * 6:30 pm - 7:00 pm: Talk by Viso.ai's Co-CEO and CTO * 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm: Viso Now workshop * 8:00 pm-8:30 pm: Awards for the best use cases! * 8:30pm-9:30pm: Networking **What to expect:** viso.ai's Co-CEO and CTO will open with the case for Visual General Intelligence: why the old way of building computer vision is broken, and what's now possible without a single line of training code. **Then you build**. With access to Viso Now and 60 minutes on the clock, you'll turn a real-world idea into a working visual intelligence application — using plain language alone. Bring your own footage of something you want to analyse, or work with what's available on the night. No coding. No prior AI experience. Any industry, any use case. Come ready to participate: **bring your laptop, your phone, and any footage you'd like to analyse. Everything else is provided.** **Three prizes awarded for the most innovative use cases built on the night.**

5 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 http://www.footyaddicts.com and Confirm your attendance at the game page We do not use Meetup.com to manage bookings any more.

🚀AI Coding Summit 2026 is here - and it's the go-to event for developers who want to stay ahead of AI-powered development. 📍 Live in London 💻 Still fully online 🗓 July 6-7, 2026 **🚨Important! To secure your spot, make sure to get your ticket through this [LINK](https://aicodingsummit.com/)** **What's on the agenda?** ‣ Developer Workflows & CI/CD ‣ AI Agentic Programming & Orchestration ‣ AI-Assisted Testing & QA ‣ Smart Vibe Coding & Project Kickoff ‣ Debugging, Refactoring & Best Practices 🎟 Check it out: [https://aicodingsummit.com](https://aicodingsummit.com/)

**Monday Life Drawing Class** **When: Every Monday, 7-9 PM (Arrival from 6:45 PM). Latecomers welcome.** **Where: Sweet Thursday, De Beauvoir, Southgate Road, N1 3JS. (Nearest Tube: Dalston Junction - 7min, Haggerston - 5min).** **What: A fun, fast-paced variety pose class suitable for all levels, from 1-minute to 25-minute poses. All materials provided. Drinks and food available from the restaurant, with wine at cost price on Mondays.** **Cost: Use your Draw-More pass or pay on the night. You can also pay online in advance via Bookwhen: [https://bookwhen.com/londonlifedrawing_livestream](https://bookwhen.com/londonlifedrawing_livestream)** **[www.instagram.com/adriandutton_life_drawing](https://www.google.com/search?q=http://www.instagram.com/adriandutton_life_drawing)** **Contact: [www.LondonLifeDrawing.com](http://www.londonlifedrawing.com/) or email: adrianmarkdutton@gmail.com** **Share Your Work: Share on Instagram using #adriandutton #londonlifedrawing #adriandutton_life_drawing for a chance to be reposted. Non-IG users can email photos to [adrianmarkdutton@gmail.com](mailto:adrianmarkdutton@gmail.com).**

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🎉 **Event #25 – The Analytics Engineering Meet-up** 🎉 The London Analytics Engineering Meet-up - Hosted by Wise! **Speakers:** Emanuela Ciotti - Head of Enterprise @ Compare the Market 2nd speaker TBC 📅 **RSVP opens 15th June** (3.5 weeks before the event). This event will be **over-subscribed**, so set a reminder — you won’t want to miss it! 📍 **Agenda** 6pm – Doors open, networking, food & drinks 7pm – Talks kick off 8:30pm – More drinks & networking @ local pub This is a fantastic opportunity to connect with some of the UK’s top data professionals, share challenges, and exchange learnings. We are always looking to improve the event and get new ideas for talks, if you could please fill out a [feedback form](https://cognifysearch.com/the-london-analytics-engineering-meet-up-feedback-form/), this will help us continue to improve! The **Analytics Engineering Meet-up** is a community for data professionals working with the modern data stack, machine learning or AI. We host regular meet-ups featuring talks from data leaders building and scaling analytics, data platforms, and AI in forward-thinking teams. The community is ideal for Data Engineers, Analytics Engineers, Analysts, and those working in Data Science, Machine Learning, or AI. The **Analytics Engineering Meet-up** is organised by [Cognify](cognifysearch.com) — a specialist recruitment partner for teams working across the modern data stack, machine learning & AI. If you’re looking to hire top data talent or exploring your next move in data, feel free to reach out to the Cognify team — we’re always happy to help and chat through the market. Our sponsor is [Omni](Omni.co), an AI-powered BI platform that helps people use data to do their best work. Whether users prefer AI, Excel, point-and-click exploration, or SQL, Omni enables fast, trusted answers from a governed semantic model. If you’re eager to dive deeper into industry insights, check out ***The Stacked Data Podcast*** for conversations with industry leaders: Listen on: [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/show/24fIpekn8WfRDZsVHNcf7Q) [Youtube](https://www.youtube.com/@CognifySearch) or [Apple Podcast](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-stacked-data-podcast/id1700301417) Your feedback is so valuable to us, we'd love to hear from you to help us continue to improve, [Feedback Form here](https://cognifysearch.com/the-london-analytics-engineering-meet-up-feedback-form/) **No-Show Policy**: * If you miss **2 consecutive events** or **2 out of 3 events**, you wont be able to attend the next event. We hope you understand this is to keep things fair for venues and other attendees.

Hi everyone, We are holding a beautiful Breathwork & Sananga ceremony on 11th June in London. This is a guided journey combining conscious breathwork and Sananga, an Amazonian plant medicine traditionally used for grounding, clarity, and deep presence. We’ll begin with breathwork to release tension and reconnect inward, followed by Sananga in a safe and supportive space to deepen awareness and alignment. Open to all levels—no experience needed. Come as you are. Advance booking is required. You can reserve your place here: https://stan.store/sunnysekhon/p/darshan–breathwork–sananga-heart-opening-expe If you feel called, we would love to share this space with you. 💙

This is Free event. Pre-Registration is REQUIRED. RSVP here - [https://luma.com/odsc-jr98](https://luma.com/odsc-jr98) ## ODSC AI Skills Accelerator is Coming to London! We are ecstatic to announce the return of the ODSC AI Skills Accelerator to London! Join the local data science and AI community for an exciting, exclusive evening supported by Snowflake. Dive into a cutting-edge technical session led by a Snowflake expert and connect with your peers over complimentary food and drinks. Whether you're a seasoned professional or just starting your AI journey, this is the perfect place to learn, share, and network with fellow innovators. ## Featured Session **Speaker:** Teresa Nascimento, Senior Solutions Engineer at Snowflake [https://www.linkedin.com/in/teresanascimento/](https://www.linkedin.com/in/teresanascimento/) **Talk Title:** *Optimize your Agent’s GPA with Coding Agents* ``` In this talk, we will share how coding agents help developers build high quality agents faster. A key insight from building agents in production is that high quality agents operate with their goals, plans and actions aligned. We introduce the Agent Goal-Plan-Action or Agent GPA framework to capture this insight, which achieved state of the art benchmarks on TRAIL/GAIA with 95% error coverage and 86% error localization. This framework goes beyond examining the agent's final results to assessing the agent's process: Was the goal achieved efficiently? Did the plan make sense? Were the right tools used? Did the agent follow through? Without visibility into these steps, teams risk deploying agents that look reliable but create hidden costs in production. Inaccuracies can waste compute, inflate latency and lead to the wrong business decisions, all of which erode trust at scale. This approach to agent evaluation enables effective and fast optimization with coding agents. We will also show how to use coding agents to automate the process of measuring and improving an Agent's GPA by using agent optimization skills that take advantage of the GPA evaluation framework. By the end, attendees will be able to use coding agents and the GPA framework to identify common agent failures, improve their agent and make it ready for production. ``` Event Details * **Date:** Thursday, July 9th, 2026 * **Time:** 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM BST * **Location:** Snowflake HQ, 3 Crown Place, London EC2A 4EF, UK * **Networking:** Enjoy pizza and refreshments 🍕🥂 included with your attendance! Evening Agenda * **6:00 PM – 6:30 PM \| Arrival\, Welcome & Initial Networking** * Doors open! Grab some snacks and refreshments, and start connecting with the local London tech community. * **6:30 PM – 7:30 PM \| Featured Technical Talk by Teresa Nascimento \+ Q&A** * Dive deep into AI and data insights straight from a Snowflake Senior Solutions Engineer. * **7:30 PM – 8:00 PM \| Final Networking & Wrap\-up** * Your last chance to connect with the speaker, mingle with fellow attendees, and wrap up technical discussions. **RSVP today to secure your spot for this must-attend evening!** Useful Links * **Free access to more talks/trainings:** [Ai+ Training platform](https://aiplus.training/) * **ODSC Blog:** [opendatascience.com](https://opendatascience.com) * **Slack Channel:** [Join the Community](https://odsc.ai/slack) * **Code of Conduct:** [odsc.ai/code-of-conduct](https://odsc.ai/code-of-conduct)

🎟️ GET TICKETS ON LUMA (https://lu.ma/lon-jul9) 🎟️ Join our informal meetup for the biggest AI nerds! We share the latest insights about: AI dev tools, Agent frameworks, RAG, vibe coding, OpenClaw, Claude Code and more! FOR WHO ✅ Devs, Product peeps, Data lovers, ML engineers, Founders ✅ Anyone building with AI ⚠️ Some LLM knowledge required!\* FORMAT 🎤 Innovative AI Demos — from EU + Silicon Valley leaders 💻 Builder Tool Demos — ship fast, explain faster 🤝 A LOT of time for informal networking 🍻 Drinks & Snacks AGENDA 18:00 👋 Walk-in 18:30 🤝 Networking 19:00 🎤 I Let 3 AIs Trade the Stock Market for 30 Days What happens when you hand ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini $100,000 each and let them trade the stock market for 30 days straight, with no human. * Sohail Shaik 19:20 🎤 Using AI to Design Generative Art Michael tells the story of how he used GenAI to fill the gaps in his knowledge, taking his background in neuroscience and combining it with computation and automation to tell an important story and create Brain Mandalas. * Michael Angyus 19:40 🤝 Networking Break + Drinks 21:00 🔚 End FAQ What is AI Builders? A self-organizing nonprofit community of 5000+ AI nerds 🤓. We're building a democratic AI platform, to make our community completely co-owned and co-governed by you (yes, all attendees). Will it be recorded? Yes, some sessions are streamed live and recorded. By attending, you consent to being photographed and filmed. Let us know if you don't want to be on camera. I'm not technical. Can I come? Yes, but to actually enjoy the meetup we recommend understanding basic LLM concepts: Agents, Embeddings, RAG, MCPs, Inference, Structured Output, Finetuning, APIs, Reinforcement Learning. Not sure what those mean? Ask any chatbot — that's literally what they're for. Why do I need to pay? 1) So we know how many people will show up — less food waste and better allocation of limited seats. 2) Sponsorships don't cover all our costs (yet)! Every euro goes back into the community. Can I get a free ticket? Can I volunteer? Money should never be the reason not to join. If you need a sponsored ticket, or want to help out by arriving 1.5h early to set up, message AI (https://wa.me/31636570260). Can I demo, give a talk, or just help out? Message AI (https://wa.me/31636570260) if you want to shine ✨ on stage and grow your network — community demos are 10 minutes, builder demos are 15-20 minutes. What time does the event start? The event starts at 18:00 on Thursday, 9 July. Where is the venue located? The event will be held at beyond The Bower, 207 Old St, London EC1V 9NR, London. Is food provided? Yes! We'll have pizza and drinks available. VENUE & SPONSORS We look forward to hanging out with you! Thanks to our friends for hosting us in their beautiful space. 🎟️ GET TICKETS ON LUMA (https://lu.ma/lon-jul9) 🎟️

**Welcome to DSF Sandbox Sessions!** Top tech talks and masterclasses from the best in the industry. Every month, and completely free. The catch? There isn’t one. Just a monthly dose of epic content to power up your data passion! ⭐️ **Event:** Architecting the Future: An Evening of High-Stakes AI Engineering 📆 **Date:** Thursday 9th July 2026 ⏰ **Time:** 6:00 – 9:00 PM BST **📍 Location:** London, UK **🎟️ [CLICK HERE TO ENTER THE BALLOT!](https://datasciencefestival.com/session/faculty-sandbox-session/) 🎟️** **💡 About the event:** The “Chatbot” era of AI is over. For technologists in Financial Services, the real challenge is not writing a prompt. It is orchestration, security at scale, and integrating AI into complex, business-critical systems. Join Faculty and the Data Science Festival for our final in-person meetup before the summer break. This evening is designed specifically for practitioners building production AI systems and navigating the realities of deploying GenAI in regulated environments. We are stripping away the hype and taking a practical look at the architectural challenges, lessons learned, and engineering decisions involved in moving AI from proof of concept to production. Through two technical talks and a panel discussion, we will explore how organisations are building secure, scalable, and reliable AI systems that can operate in the real world. We will explore topics include retrieval systems, LLM orchestration, and agentic AI in enterprise environments. No fluff. No “AI will change the world” introductions. Just senior practitioners, technical discussions, real-world architecture challenges, and a few drinks to facilitate the “how did you actually solve that?” conversations. Food, drinks, and networking with fellow practitioners will be available throughout the evening. **Who is this for?** This event is curated for Senior and Lead Machine Learning Engineers, Software Engineers, DevOps Engineers, Data Architects, and Applied Scientists. While many examples come from Financial Services and Insurance, the architectural patterns and engineering lessons will be relevant to anyone building production AI systems at scale. **Talk 1: Scaling the Haystack: The engineering reality of processing thousands of sensitive documents for retrieval** [Brandon Lim](https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandonchinwoeilim/), Senior ML Engineer @ Faculty Most document processing pipelines look straightforward until you throw thousands of real-world files at them. Inconsistent formats, sensitive data, access controls, and scale all expose the gaps that prototype pipelines paper over. This talk covers the full journey from raw document ingestion to production-ready AI search: including data storage strategies, embedding and indexing, retrieval architecture, and how to keep quality and compliance intact as your corpus grows. **Talk 2: Claims Without the Hallucinations: A masterclass in LLM orchestration and deterministic outputs in production-grade environments.** [Prudence Leung](https://www.linkedin.com/in/prudence-leung-827998169/), Senior Data Scientist @ Faculty In high-stakes corporate workflows, production reliability is on the frontlines of preventing severe financial, legal or regulatory risk. It’s about architecture: validating outputs at every boundary and orchestrating multi-step pipelines so they’re resumable, observable, and safe to retry. This talk covers practical layers of that architecture, such as using Pydantic to turn LLM outputs into hard pass/fail gates, and durable execution frameworks like DBOS and Temporal to make multi-step pipelines resumable and safe to retry. The goal throughout is keep deterministic logic deterministic, and contain the probabilistic parts. **Talk 3: Panel - The Autonomous Underwriter: How do you integrate GenAI agents into legacy insurance systems without breaking the business?** [Chris Mullan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrismullan-ai/), Head of Data and AI @ CFC Underwriting [Divish Rengasamy](https://www.linkedin.com/in/divish-rengasamy/), Lead ML Engineer @ Faculty [Hanne Carlsson](https://www.linkedin.com/in/hanne-carlsson/), Senior Data Scientist @ Faculty Hosted by [Michelle Conway](https://www.linkedin.com/in/michelle--conway/), Lead ML & AI Engineer @ Lloyds Banking Group Agentic AI promises to transform underwriting but legacy systems, regulatory constraints, and organizational complexity make the path from demo to production far harder than it appears. Beyond the software engineering, this is a massive change management and operational transformation. Drawing on real-world experience, this panel unpacks the friction of decoupling agents from brittle dependencies, managing risk acceptance, and building systems that improve over time without creating new operational risks. **🕧 Schedule:** 6:00 PM – Doors open – networking with food and refreshments 6:45 PM – Intro 6:50 PM – Talk 1 (including Q&A) 7:10 PM – Talk 2 (including Q&A) 7:30 PM – Short comfort break 7:40 PM – Panel discussion 8:20 PM – Networking with refreshments 9:00 PM – Event close **🎟️ [CLICK HERE TO ENTER THE BALLOT!](https://datasciencefestival.com/session/faculty-sandbox-session/) 🎟️** **🎟️ IMPORTANT:** Due to high demand and limited space, tickets for this event will be allocated by a ballot. Applying does not guarantee entry. Successful applicants will be notified throughout June and early July. If you have not received confirmation by July 6th, this means your ballot ticket was not drawn this time. **🚨 PLEASE NOTE:** Clicking 'attend' does not register you for the event. You will need to register for the event on the link provided below to receive a QR code ticket via email. If you do not have a QR code, you will not be able to attend the event.

Join us on July 8th to learn, share, and network with some of the most experienced professionals who are passionate about AI/ML. ​This time, we’re excited to have Synthesia as a special partner. 1\. Daniel Thul \(Synthesia\) \- How Synthesia Builds Real\-Time Interactive Avatars with PyTorch 2\. George Grigorev \(Poolside AI\) \- "Scaling laws: what still holds\, what changed" 3\. Kirill Solodskih \(TheStage AI\) \- "Accelerating video diffusion pipelines on blackwell architectures" More talks will be added soon. If you’d like to become a partner for this or one of the upcoming meetups, message [https://www.linkedin.com/in/fedorshabashev/](https://www.linkedin.com/in/fedorshabashev/) or [https://www.linkedin.com/in/kirzharov/](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kirzharov/) In the meantime, you can watch the previously recorded talks: [https://youtube.com/@londonpytorchmeetup](https://youtube.com/@londonpytorchmeetup) Please subscribe to our channel! ❤️

**Venue:** Riverbank House, 2 Swan Ln, London EC4R 3AD **Please note:** 1\. 🚨🚨🚨 A valid photo ID is required by building security\. 🚨🚨🚨 2\. This event follows the [NumFOCUS Code of Conduct](https://numfocus.org/code-of-conduct). Please familiarise yourself with it before attending. If your RSVP status says "You're going" you will be able to get in. No need to show your RSVP confirmation when signing in. If you can no longer make it, please unRSVP as soon as possible. **Code of Conduct:** This event follows the NumFOCUS Code of Conduct. Please get in touch with the organisers with any questions or concerns. As always, there will be free food and drinks, generously provided by our host, Man Group. **Main Talks** 1. Itunu Ijila - **What AI Engineers Can Teach Python Developers** Itunu builds AI pipelines. She has shipped agents, automation workflows, and intelligence reporting systems. And she has done most of it without writing a single serious line of Python. In this talk she shares what building production AI systems with tools like n8n taught her about good engineering. Pipeline design, observability, fallback logic, cost awareness, and why these principles matter regardless of the tools you use. She will also show how the architecture behind AI workflows maps directly to the agent patterns Python developers are building today with frameworks like PydanticAI. This is a talk about systems thinking and how good engineering has no syntax. 2. Astha Gupta - **Beyond the Demo: What Nobody Tells You About Shipping AI at Scale** Everyone wants to talk about the model. In enterprise AI delivery, the model is rarely the hard part. Over the last few years Astha has led the delivery of AI platforms for Fortune 500 clients across energy, agriculture, and chemicals. The hardest problems were never algorithmic. They were getting the data in the first place, making sense of it, showing progress before anyone loses faith, and balancing the pressure to move fast with the need to build something that actually scales. This talk covers the full arc of what enterprise AI delivery actually looks like in practice. Getting data from large organisations is often the longest part of the entire project, and the EDA that follows surfaces assumptions that break everything you planned. Showing features early, before the formal UAT four months later, is what keeps projects alive. And the pressure to deliver fast in sprints that have no room for a month long feature is where most technical debt quietly accumulates. The latest chapter of this story is coding agents. They make you faster than ever. But in enterprise codebases where scalability is not optional and understanding what you built is not a luxury, speed without comprehension compounds into something much harder to fix. This is not generic software engineering. The constraints are different, the stakes are higher, and the lessons are hard won. 3. Lightning Talk TBC \-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\- **Logistics** * Doors open at **6.30 pm** (get there early as you'll need to sign in with building security). * Talks start at **7:00 pm**, with drinks afterwards from **9:00 pm** at The Banker (EC4). We have reduced capacity for this event, but there will be plenty of people to discuss data science questions with. Please unRSVP in good time if you realise you can't make it. We're limited by building security on the number of attendees, so please free up your place for your fellow community members.

**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)

📈 **Win on Prediction Markets – Polymarket Masterclass** Learn to read and win prediction markets consistently. Data-driven and repeatable. ⚠️ Register below to confirm — RSVP is not your ticket in. ### [🔗 REGISTER NOW](https://aiventurelab.org/product/Polymarket?city=Columbus&groupurlname=the-book-lovers-journey-discussion-group&startgmtdatetime=2026-07-07T22:00:00Z) --- What you'll learn: - Risk management techniques for prediction markets - The edge that separates profitable traders from the rest - How to read market signals others miss *The forecasters who win have a system. Get yours.* 🎯

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.

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.

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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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