Lightning Lessons

Bring AI Evals to Product Leadership

Hosted by Stella Liu and Amy Chen

Thu, Oct 23, 2025

4:00 PM UTC (30 minutes)

Virtual (Zoom)

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AI Evals and Analytics Playbook
Stella Liu and Amy Chen
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What you'll learn

Why Product Leadership Needs AI Evals Now

Most teams can ship AI fast—but few know how to evaluate it. Learn why AI Evals is now core to product strategy.

Build Your First AI Evals Team and Culture

Learn how to bring leadership, product, engineering, and operations together through actionable AI Evals practices.

Design Your AI Evals Playbook

Learn a practical framework to integrate evals into your product quality, performance, safety, and UX.

Why this topic matters

AI Evals is your new secret weapon for product success. Many product leaders haven’t yet realized the challenge isn’t shipping AI—it’s knowing how to evaluate, iterate, and understand user behavior and breakpoints. In this session, you’ll learn to build your first evals team, get buy-in, and design a playbook to embed AI evals into your product strategy.

You'll learn from

Stella Liu

Head of Applied Scientist, AI Evals

Stella Liu is an AI Evaluation practitioner and researcher, specializing in frameworks for large language models and AI-powered products.


Since 2023, she has led real-world AI evaluation projects in EdTech, where she established the first AI product evaluation framework for Higher Education and continues to advance research on the safe and responsible use of AI. Her work combines academic rigor with hands-on product experience, bringing proven evaluation methods into both enterprise and educational contexts.


Earlier in her career, Stella worked at Shopify and Carvana, where she built large-scale data-driven automation systems that powered product innovation and operational efficiency at scale.


Stella also writes an AI Evals newsletter on Substack: https://datasciencexai.substack.com/


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Amy Chen

Co-Founder at AI Evals & Analytics

Amy Chen is co-founder of AI Evals & Analytics and an AI partner helping companies with AI engineering, product development, and go-to-market strategy. With over 10 years of experience spanning data science, product management, ML engineering, and GTM, she brings versatile expertise to startups at every stage.


She is Top 1% Mentor in AI/ML Engineering and mentored over 300 data scientists and analysts on ADPList. She posts regularly about AI and data science on LinkedIn and has over 9.6k followers.


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Previously at

Shopify.com
Carvana
Harvard University
University of Washington
UCLA

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