Beyond the Benchmark: How to Evaluate AI Agents in the Real World
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Taylor Jordan Smith
Red Hat
Senior AI Developer Advocate
Evaluating AI Agent is a mix of science and art. Working with subject matter experts is more important than ever. New methods and best practices are emerging to evaluate these systems at scale.
In this talk we will discuss a case study of a production agent used across an entire company. We will discuss live evals, how to build a golden dataset, how to collaborate with SMEs, what worked and what didn’t over a 6 months project.
We will share some of the best practices we found are working well in production contexts after investing hundreds of hours analyzing evals, building reports and iterating.
This talk is not about just the theory, we will use a real case study and we will share all the info you need to really iterate fast and build evals that matter for your use case!
World Congress 2026 Europe
Taylor Jordan Smith
Red Hat
Senior AI Developer Advocate
Sebastian Messingfeld
Eurowings Digital
Staff Engineer
Liran Hason
Coralogix
VP of AI
Shachar Azriel
Baz
VP Product