Jackson Wells

Learn Key Takeaways Evaluation criteria must be defined in partnership with cross-functional stakeholders—spanning engineering, product, and compliance—before code is written to ensure that technical performance aligns with business ROI and regulatory standards.

Learn Key takeaways Conventional general-knowledge benchmarks are increasingly saturated, necessitating a transition toward refreshed, adversarial, and domain-specific tests that accurately discriminate between high-performing frontier models. Effective evaluation strategies require matching specific benchmarks to deployment needs, such as utilizing repository-level coding tests for software engineering or grounding-focused metrics for RAG-based systems.

On Apr. 12, 2026, over 500 attendees packed into the second-floor conference centre of the Crowne Plaza Kitchener-Waterloo to sample some of the most exciting dishes downtown Kitchener has to offer. The second annual Bite by Bite, hosted by the Downtown Kitchener Business Improvement Area (BIA), brought together 20 local restaurants from the downtown area to participate in some friendly competition.