The Fifth Elephant 2025 Annual Conference CfP
Speak at The Fifth Elephant 2025 Annual Conference
Accepting submissions till 31 May 2025, 11:59 PM
Not accepting submissions
📜 Submission and speaking policies for The Fifth Elephant 2025
To maintain the integrity and value of conversations at The Fifth Elephant, below are non-negotiable policies for talk submissions and speaker participation. Please read them carefully before submitting your proposal:
✅ Non-negotiable guidelines
1️⃣ Only one speaker per session
- We allow one speaker per talk/session. No co-speakers or joint presenters.
- Collaborators or co-authors may join during the Q&A session but must purchase a conference ticket or hold a Fifthel annual membership to attend the conference.
2️⃣ Vendor-neutral submissions
Talks must focus on technical concepts, case studies, and real-world learnings.
No sales pitches, product demos, or marketing content disguised as technical talks.
3️⃣ If You’re a Vendor or Tool Builder
If your intention is to showcase a product, platform, or tool, you’re welcome to:
- Submit a pitch session, or
- Run a sponsored workshop to teach your tool/product/platform - hands-on, deep technical dives preferred
These will fall under sponsorship slots. Please reach out to sales@hasgeek.com for workshop sponsorship and pitch session opportunities.
4️⃣ Prefer OSS-first stories
We strongly encourage talks that involve open source technology, tools, or frameworks - especially those built or adopted within your organization.
The goal is to ensure the audience can take back learnings and technology they can experiment with or implement independently.
Speaker hygiene guidelines for The Fifth Elephant 2025
To help us showcase you and your talk better, please follow these hygiene steps:
- Update your profile on hasgeek.com
- Add a clear, recent photo.
- Update your latest phone number and email address.
- Add a two-line bio about yourself.
If your talk is selected, this information will be used for conference posters, social media, and other promotional material. Help us represent you well.
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Accepting submissions till 31 May 2025, 11:59 PM
Shubham Rai Elasti, a k8s based scale to zero solution that works with kedahttps://github.com/truefoundry/elasti Elasti is a solution to enable kubernetes to safely scale services back from zero when traffic arrives. It relies on kubernetes built in resources only to perform this without any external dependencies. more
Choose the topic your submission falls under: DevOps for data engineering
I am submitting for: Review only
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Deepak Kumar Transforming Customer Support @Uber Using Generative AIGenerative AI is revolutionizing customer support across industries by enhancing automation, efficiency, and personalization. At Uber we are leveraging GenAI to streamline support interactions, enabling faster issue resolution, smarter agent assistance, and seamless self-service experiences. more
Choose the topic your submission falls under: Next generation architectures
I am submitting for: Speaking at the Fifth Elephant 2025 Annual Conference
Type of submission: 30 mins talk
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Fasih Khatib Powering Real-Time Analytics with Apache PinotAbstract Analytics is changing. Once upon a time, an analytical query taking a few seconds to execute was considered acceptable. Additionally, the query would analyze smaller volumes of data that were loaded in batches. This may have been sufficient for internal dashboards but falls short for customer-facing applications. In today’s on-demand world, customers expect up-to-date insights and millis… more
Choose the topic your submission falls under: Next generation architectures
I am submitting for: Speaking at the Fifth Elephant 2025 Annual Conference
Type of submission: 30 mins talk
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Harini Anand LLMs in Healthcare: Diagnostic Assistance not ReplacementA deep dive into multimodality in biomedical AI, clinical efficiency, and the power of biomedical fine-tuning. Discover how Med-PaLM M, the latest large multimodal generative model, is revolutionizing medical data interpretation – from clinical notes to genomics. more
Choose the topic your submission falls under: Applied ML - health
I am submitting for: Speaking at meetups
Type of submission: 30 mins talk
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Sarang Kulkarni Building RAG based LLM Applications: From PoC to ProductionIntroduction Did you know that almost all modern Large Language Model (LLM) applications have Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) as a core component? This workshop is designed to help developers and ML engineers build powerful LLM applications leveraging RAG and explore techniques to enhance them beyond basic proof-of-concepts. Participants will gain a solid understanding of the core RAG archit… more
Choose the topic your submission falls under: Other
I am submitting for: Speaking at the Fifth Elephant 2025 Annual Conference
Type of submission: Hands-on workshop - 2.5 hours
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Sarang Kulkarni  Productionizing LLM-Powered Agents: Lessons from Pharma R&DAbstract: Preclinical R&D is full of buried insights—locked in silos, old PDFs, and structured databases. What if a single system could surface the right answer or write a regulatory report in minutes? At Bayer, we co-developed PRINCE, a GenAI-powered research assistant that helps scientists navigate over 2 million+ data chunks and complex structured data, bringing order, speed, and precision to … more
Choose the topic your submission falls under: Applied ML - health
I am submitting for: Speaking at the Fifth Elephant 2025 Annual Conference
Type of submission: 30 mins talk
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Abhishek Rana Automating Customer Support with JSM Virtual AgentJira Service Management (JSM) Virtual Service Agent is an AI-powered tool designed to automate tier-1 support interactions, allowing for seamless transitions to human experts when necessary. It utilizes machine learning and natural language processing to automate ticket creation, respond to customer inquiries, and route issues to appropriate teams. more
I am submitting for: Speaking at the Fifth Elephant 2025 Annual Conference
Type of submission: 30 mins talk
Choose the topic your submission falls under: Applied AI Engineering & Agentic AI track
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Ayan Sharma Securely Hosting Private LLMs at Scale: Infrastructure Strategies and Access LayerOverview As organizations race to integrate large language models into their products and workflows, a new requirement is emerging: the need to host private LLMs in a scalable, secure, and operationally manageable way. more
Choose the topic your submission falls under: LLM-Ops
I am submitting for: Speaking at the Fifth Elephant 2025 Annual Conference
Type of submission: 30 mins talk
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Abhijeet Kumar Building Large-Scale Visual Augmented Q&A with Vision Language ModelsExisting Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) based Q&A systems could only process textual information and are unable to answer from infographics (visual elements of information) such as tables, charts, images etc. in documents limiting the value and productivity. more
I am submitting for: Speaking at the Fifth Elephant 2025 Annual Conference
Type of submission: 30 mins talk
Choose the topic your submission falls under: Applied AI Engineering & Agentic AI track
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Abhijeet Kumar Vision-RAG: Developing Visual Augmented Q&A using Vision & Multimodal LLMProblem Statement Most of the documents include infographics (visual elements of information) such as tables, charts, images etc. often used to convey complex information to readers. Multi-modal LLMs are powerful tools that can be used for question answering on such complex documents. However, there are two challenges which limits the productivity and value add: more
I am submitting for: Speaking at the Fifth Elephant 2025 Annual Conference
Type of submission: Hands-on workshop - 2.5 hours
Choose the topic your submission falls under: Applied AI Engineering & Agentic AI track
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Siddhant Agarwal Audio is the New UX: Reimagining Mythology with Graphs and LLMsIn a world where visuals dominate, what if mythological storytelling could speak back—literally? This talk explores how I reimagined the Mahabharata using a blend of knowledge graphs and Large Language Models (LLMs), layered with real-time Hindi voice responses. Instead of static text or pre-recorded audio, users can converse with the epic: ask questions about characters, events, or timelines, an… more
I am submitting for: Speaking at the Fifth Elephant 2025 Annual Conference
Type of submission: Demo - side project; open source project; something I have built in my org
Choose the topic your submission falls under: Visual AI track
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Hrushikesh Dokala From Keywords to Conversations: Evolving Search at AtlanAtlan is a control plane for data and AI that helps humans of data and AI to discover, understand, govern and collaborate on their data assets effortlessly. more
I am submitting for: Speaking at the Fifth Elephant 2025 Annual Conference
Type of submission: 30 mins talk
Choose the topic your submission falls under: Applied AI Engineering & Agentic AI track
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Karthika Vijayan Enhancing retrieval in RAG: The fused features wayRetrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has emerged as a dominant framework for leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) to generate responses grounded in extensive textual corpora. Within this architecture, the retrieval component plays a critical role in determining the overall system accuracy by surfacing the most relevant text chunks based on semantic similarity to the user query. Typically, this… more
Choose the topic your submission falls under: Experimentation
I am submitting for: Speaking at the Fifth Elephant 2025 Annual Conference
Type of submission: 30 mins talk
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