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| 21 Oct 2025 | |
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The Data Foundation invited Data Coalition Members to please join us on Tuesday, October 21, 1:00 - 2:00 pm ET for a members-only roundtable with Data Foundation Center for Evidence Capacity Senior Fellow Lauren Damme, Ph.D.
Attendees who joined the members-only event experienced an interactive roundtable session to help develop evaluation standards for Large Language Models (LLMs). Dr. Damme shared how her small project to build a LLM to support early career evaluators evolved into an effort to develop better, social science-informed standards for evaluating LLM applications that go beyond performance and risk. During this interactive session, Dr. Damme facilitated a discussion to get your perspectives on critical components of assessing GenAI and what evaluation standards might shape the LLM.
Who attended: Those interested in or thinking about how GenAI applications will impact individuals, public institutions, culture and society, joined this interactive roundtable!
About the project: Working with the support of 45+ expert evaluators globally, Dr. Damme is creating an accessible, conversational GenAI tool that provides evaluation design support to early career practitioners. Her research includes developing performance rubrics and indicators that draw from social science research foundations to build a better understanding of the impacts of LLMs on evaluators. Her model will be tested by the expert group and public policy graduate students studying evaluation at George Washington University in the coming months.
Lauren Damme, Center for Evidence Capacity Senior Fellow, Data Foundation
About the presenter: Lauren Damme, Ph.D. is an internationally-recognized evaluation and human rights expert with 20+ years of experience across 30+ countries in government, think tanks, multilaterals, and the private sector. With the Data Foundation, she specializes in initiatives at the intersection of artificial intelligence, evaluation and evidence-building. Dr. Damme also serves as an adjunct professor in evaluation at GenAI at George Washington University, a Visiting Fellow at the University of Nottingham Right Lab, and a senior leader at the U.S. Department of Labor’s Chief Evaluation Office. Information shared at this event is solely a reflection of Dr. Damme’s personal views, and not representative of the U.S. Government’s position.
Jenna Marthaller, Data Coalition Member Engagement Manager: jenna.marthaller@datafoundation.org
Special note: This event is open to Data Coalition Members only. To learn more about membership, please visit our Data Coalition webpage or write to Coalition@datafoundation.org.
