The Fifth Elephant 2024 Annual Conference (12th &13th July)

General guidelines for conference submissions

We appreciate that many participants create submissions out of a genuine desire to share knowledge with our community, help solve common problems or to contribute in a meaningful way. However, we find that they sometimes fall short of achieving this objective because the written submissions fail to capture the attention of the community or meet acceptance through The Fifth Elephant’s peer review process. More often than not this is because the content of the submission does not explain what they intend with sufficient clarity or detail.

The template (and example) is an attempt to help you write a better submission, one that is noticed and understood by your intended audience and not lost in the crowd of interesting proposals we receive. Please use this template as a guideline, while ensuring that it is in your own unique and authentic voice.

BEFORE you begin writing your submission, please give some thought to the following:

1. Who is the audience for your session? Think about their interests, work roles, challenges, age or experience as you decide this.
2. What problem/pain are you trying to solve (for the audience)? This should be something that is communicated clearly so that they have a sense of your session’s importance.
3. What will be the scope of your session? This will help identify the central topic or theme and should describe broad areas you plan to cover during the session?
4. How will participants benefit from your session? Think of practical and specific ways in which they will be able to apply the knowledge they gain, and beyond just general awareness.
5. What is the appropriate format for your session, given the audience and objectives that you have in mind?

The most successful talks and sessions are those where presenters are able to abstract an actionable insight from a common pain area, enlighten the audience about something new, provide a fresh perspective, and/or demonstrate innovation.

Here’s a guide for speakers to draft their presentations.

You can view talks held at previous editions of The Fifth Elephant 2024 for reference:

1. Winter edition 2023 - http://has.gy/z_vu
2. Monsoon edition 2023 - http://has.gy/1ZAa
3. MLOps conference 2021 - http://has.gy/uefR

The call for submissions will be close on 3 June 2024. Talks will be selected on a rolling basis as submissions are made.

Topics for submitting talks

1. Data engineering - data pipelines and dataset creation for AI; LLM ops; managing NLP pipelines.
2. Best practices for LLM training, inference, deployment; LLM and security - best practices on security while incorporating LLMs and SLMS in organizations; working with Open Source LLM models; security, bias and risk mitigation.
3. GenAI - Generative AI based use-cases, products, platforms and research such as multi-lingual models, use-cases where GenAI is being used.

Types of submissions

You can submit a session for:

1. 30 mins talk
2. 15 mins talk
3. Demo and startup showcases
4. Birds of Feather (BOF) sessions
5. Hands-on workshops for three hours duration