Manchester May Meetup

Network, learn, ask a question, meet other folks - these are all things that happen at user group events. These events are a really great opportunity to socialise in an informal learning experience.

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In-Person only event. Not being recorded.

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17:45 – 18:00 Intro and updates
18:00 – 19:00 Shubhangi Goyal - Evaluation of LLMs using prompt engineering.
n this session, I will discuss how prompt engineering can be leveraged to evaluate the performance, reliability, and limitations of Large Language Models (LLMs). By systematically varying prompts, we uncover model behavior across various tasks, including reasoning, summarization, and code generation. We’ll discuss prompt-based benchmarking methods, prompt sensitivity, and how to design effective evaluation frameworks.
Takeaways:
- Understand the role of prompt design in LLM evaluation.
- Learn techniques to test reasoning, bias, and robustness via prompts.
- Explore limitations of prompt-based metrics and how to mitigate them.
- Gain practical examples of evaluation setups across NLP tasks.

19:00 – 19:15 Break & Pizza
19:15 – 19:45 Ian Pike - FabCon Atlanta Databases Updates.
Looking back at the recent Atlanta FabCon event and the updates announced around Databases.
This includes SQL Server, Azure, and general Fabric Database updates.
What is new, what was made generally available.
There were some exciting updates to share and discuss so we will share in a short 30 min session.