The 21st Eindhoven Data Community meetup brings two powerful AI sessions focused on performance evaluation and operational efficiency. Learn how to scale LLM evaluation using LLM-as-a-Judge, Vertex AI, and Gemini on Google Cloud. Then, discover how Just Eat Takeaway uses Menu AI to automate restaurant menu transcription with multimodal models—cutting hours of manual work down to minutes. A must-attend for anyone working with AI in production.
📍Skybar, Microlab Eindhoven, Kastanjelaan 400, Eindhoven.
Evaluating LLM Applications at Scale
As LLMs are deployed across customer-facing systems, traditional evaluation methods fall short. In this session, you’ll learn how LLM-as-a-Judge, combined with Vertex AI and Gemini on Google Cloud, enables scalable, automated evaluation of chatbot performance—handling over 1 million conversations per year. Get practical insights into aligning automated assessments with human expectations, optimizing cost, and ensuring throughput at scale.
Decoding Culinary Complexity with Menu AI at Just Eat Takeaway
Manually transcribing restaurant menus can take up to 4 hours per menu—and JET processes 1,700+ every month in the UK alone. This session explores how Menu AI automates this task using multimodal models and computer vision. Discover how images become structured data, how cloud architecture supports human-in-the-loop workflows, and how this innovation drives major cost savings in customer service operations.
Program
- 17:00 – 18:00 Food
- 18:00 – 18:10 Welcome
- 18:10 – 19:00 Sander van Donkelaar: Evaluating LLM applications at scale
- 19:00 – 19:15 Break
- 19:15 – 20:00 Caio Benatti Moretti: Decoding Culinary Complexity: Transforming Menu Transcription with
- 20:00 - 21:00 Drinks
Sander van Donkelaar | AI/ML Engineer at Xebia Data
Sander is an AI/ML Engineer skilled in building AI products and platforms. Experienced across diverse industries, Sander has a proven track record of delivering innovative solutions At the core of Sander's expertise is the ability to translate complex business problems into tangible AI-powered solutions, driving efficiency, innovation, and data-driven decision-making for organizations.
Caio Benatti Moretti | AI consultant at Xebia Data
Caio holds a PhD in Computer Science and has been acting as a DS/MLE both in academia and industry since 2014. Currently working as an AI Consultant at Xebia, he created SlackGPT and is particularly keen on neural networks in its many forms and applications. His enthusiasm even led him to make a neural network fit inside a business card. Apart from practical experience, Caio has been giving seminars and trainings on how to empower businesses with LLMs from use cases to technical tooling. He is focused on how LLMs can augment human productivity and hence helping businesses to leverage novel technologies to achieve their goals.