AI & ML · Hackathon
Hosted by The Friendly Data Meetup London
Hands-on evening hackathon from The Friendly Data Meetup London. Teams of 2-4 build an evaluation harness for a customer-support bot: write test questions, build pass/fail checks and an AI judge, improve the bot, then demo a before/after scorecard in 3 minutes. Doors 17:30, start 18:00. Bring a charged laptop with Docker, uv and an LLM option. Hosted by QuantSpark. Registration is subject to host approval.
QuantSpark, 230 Blackfriars Rd, London SE1 8NW
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Wednesday 4 November 2026
6:00pm
Price
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