The Fifth Elephant 2025 Annual Conference CfP
Speak at The Fifth Elephant 2025 Annual Conference
Accepting submissions till 31 May 2025, 11:59 PM
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📜 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.
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- Add a clear, recent photo.
- Update your latest phone number and email address.
- Add a two-line bio about yourself.
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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: Speaking at the Fifth Elephant 2025 Annual Conference
Type of submission: Demo - side project; open source project; something I have built in my org
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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  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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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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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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Shruti Dhavalikar Evaluating Agentic Applications: Overcoming the Non-deterministic WorldAgentic applications powered by large language models (LLMs) are transforming the way we build intelligent, interactive systems. Agentic applications powered by large language models (LLMs) are transforming the way we build intelligent, interactive systems. However, their non-deterministic nature introduces significant challenges when it comes to testing and evaluation. How can we ensure reliabil… 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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Suman Paul Choudhury Demystifying LLM Agents: Building Blocks, Workflows, and Best PracticesTalk description : The rise of agentic workflows marks a significant shift in how we harness the capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) to perform complex, multi step reasoning and decision making tasks. Unlike traditional pipelines, where prompts are static and behavior is tightly scripted, agent based systems offer dynamic orchestration. LLMs can choose tools, recall memory, decompose pro… more
I am submitting for: Speaking at the Fifth Elephant 2025 Annual Conference
Type of submission: Tutorial (lecture style) - 60-90 mins
Choose the topic your submission falls under: Applied AI Engineering & Agentic AI track
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Karthika Vijayan Smart Agents, Smarter Schedules: Agentic AI for Complex OptimizationConstrained optimization lies at the heart of many complex systems where multiple limited resources, like time, labor, equipment, or energy, must be allocated efficiently while satisfying strict operational constraints. These problems are often high-dimensional, dynamic, and involve tightly coupled dependencies between variables. Traditional methods like Mixed-Integer Linear Programming or Heuris… 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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Sandhiya Giri Predicting Brain Age from MRI: A Visual AI Pipeline for Early Neurodegeneration Risk AssessmentProblem Neurodegenerative disorders like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s are on the rise, yet early detection remains elusive. Conventional imaging reports often lack quantitative insights and longitudinal baselines, limiting clinicians’ ability to identify subtle neuroanatomical changes over time. A reliable biomarker—brain age—can offer an interpretable and clinically relevant measure of brain heal… 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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Jayita Bhattacharyya  Scaling Test-time Inference Compute & Rise of Reasoning ModelsEnabling LLMs to improve their outputs by using more test-time computation is a critical step towards building generally self-improving agents that can operate on open-ended natural language. We study the scaling of inference-time computation in LLMs, with a focus on answering the question: if an LLM is allowed to use a fixed but non-trivial amount of inference-time compute, how much can it impro… 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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Shaikh Md Ashif Iqbal Multi-SDK Backwards Compatibility TesterAbstract In the dynamic landscape of distributed systems and streaming ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) pipelines, maintaining backwards compatibility poses a significant challenge, especially as complexity scales. Services that interact through multiple versions of SDKs must ensure seamless communication and data flow, even as new features are developed. Traditionally, manual testing for compatibi… 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: Data & ML Infrastructure track
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Vikas Tomar Scaling Up With Airflow: From 5K to 180KMigrating from an in-house MWS system to the Apache Airflow platform was a pivotal step in upscaling the SJIT flow at Myntra. This transition not only enhanced the system’s scalability but also significantly reduced the time required for RP (Request for Proposal) creation. For instance, the migration enabled a remarkable performance improvement—from 45+ minutes to just 4–8 minutes for RP creation… more
Choose the topic your submission falls under: Other
I am submitting for: Speaking at the Fifth Elephant 2025 Annual Conference
Type of submission: 15 mins talk
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Dhaval Moliya 100 Million Lines of Code, Millions of $ and thousands of developer hours saved, 0 Wasted Builds; AI Powered Agentic Dev Loop @ Atlassian Scale100 Million Lines of Code, Millions of $ and thousands of developer hours saved, 0 Wasted Builds; AI Powered Agentic Dev Loop @ Atlassian Scale 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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Siri P R Feature Platforms: The Backbone of Real-Time MLReal-time machine learning—making low latency predictions on live data streams—is now considered state of the art. In a hyperlocal delivery app, this means allocating drivers to orders in milliseconds using live data like location, traffic, and past performance. In this talk, I’ll share our first-hand experience building and deploying a feature platform to support these real-time ML use cases at … 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: Data & ML Infrastructure track
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Snehshikha Gupta Designing UX for AI: Precision Over PervasivenessAs AI capabilities become more accessible, there’s a growing temptation to sprinkle “AI” across every corner of an experience. But great UX isn’t about blanket automation—it’s about thoughtful orchestration. The most impactful use of AI comes when it’s mapped to specific user moments—where it can offer clarity, speed, or support at just the right time. 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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Banty Kumar MySQL @ UberAbstract This talk will explore how Uber leverages automation to deploy and manage MySQL for high-QPS, high-throughput systems, handling over 1 million queries per second while ensuring 99.99% availability and consistently low latencies. At scale, Uber runs more than 2,000 MySQL clusters managing over 2 petabytes of data, supporting a wide range of use cases including infrastructure-critical (tie… 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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Sezal Jain Text to SQL with GenAI: Beyond Proof of ConceptTalk Description There is an explosion of techniques and methods to harness the intelligence of generative AI into practical use cases, such as converting natural languages to SQL queries for analysts. In this talk, I attempt to separate out the chaff from the wheat by systematically applying these techniques to a text-to-SQL harness and quantifying techniques worth applying in production use-cas… 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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Neel Shah Building robust LLM observability and improve security posture with OpenLit and OpenTelemetryLLMs are game-changing in today’s world but understanding their behavior is much more crucial as it can improve the output a thousand times. Simply observing the input and output – the “prompt” and the “response” is no longer sufficient for building robust and dependable LLM-powered applications. 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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Rajat Gupta Leveraging Virtual Service Agents in Jira Service ManagementIntroduction Atlassian’s Jira Service Management (JSM) is dedicated to empowering users by delivering exceptional support. A primary objective for JSM is to empower users through self-service capabilities, enabling them to swiftly address issues with minimal human intervention (a.k.a Resolution rate). 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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Biren Goyal The Context-Aware AI Suggestion Panel: JSM Agent's Intelligent Co-PilotIntroduction Jira Service Management (JSM) is Atlassian’s platform provided to customers for service management, designed to help teams deliver exceptional service experiences. A core priority for JSM is maximizing the efficiency and effectiveness of support agents, as their productivity directly impacts customer satisfaction and operational costs. To address this, we developed the AI Suggestion … 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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Rahul Srivastava Unlocking Productivity: The Power of Rovo Search in the Age of AICurrent employees are increasingly using AI tools like ChatGPT to enhance their tasks, but these tools often lack access to internal organizational data, limiting tool’s effectiveness. This limitation leads to lower employee productivity. Key challenges include limited access to proprietary information by open AI tools, privacy and security concerns. AI tools may provide generic responses that do… 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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Priyanga P Kini OCR with LLMs. Expectation vs RealityYou know KYC – Know Your Customer. It involves sifting through and checking numerous documents, such as PAN cards, Driver’s Licenses, and RCs, often in different formats from various Indian states. Sounds like a job for today’s super-smart AI models, LLMs, right? That’s exactly what we thought when faced with the significant cost of our third-party OCR service – approximately Rs 1,500 for every 1… 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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Elakkiya R Beyond Pixels: Enhancing Wrist X-ray Diagnostics with Hybrid Vision-Language ModelsWrist injuries are among the most common reasons for emergency imaging, yet accurate interpretation of wrist X-rays remains challenging — especially in time-sensitive or resource-limited settings. Fractures are frequently overcalled or missed due to complex bone overlaps, variable views, and the subtle presentation of critical injuries like scaphoid fractures. Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have s… 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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Prateek Gupte Author Image Generation in ProductionDescription This session will explore the practical challenges and solutions for deploying image generation services at scale in production environments. As AI-powered image generation becomes increasingly mainstream, organizations face critical decisions about infrastructure deployment, cost optimization, and service reliability. The talk will cover real-world experiences with different deployme… more
Choose the topic your submission falls under: MLOps
I am submitting for: Speaking at the Fifth Elephant 2025 Annual Conference
Type of submission: 15 mins talk
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Preethi Srinivasan Geometry of Efficient Fine Tuning: LoRA, Intrinsic Dimension & Subspace LearningAbstract Large pre-trained models are now the norm, making Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning techniques like LoRA essential to reduce computational and storage costs. But why do these methods work so well? This talk explores the theory of Intrinsic Dimension (ID)—the idea that neural networks often need far fewer effective directions to learn a task than their total parameters suggest. 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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Kaushik Shelat Conversational commerce in retailIn the rapidly evolving digital landscape, conversational commerce is transforming how brands engage, convert, and retain customers. This session will trace the journey from early chatbots to intelligent, AI-powered shopping assistants within a leading e-commerce ecosystem. We’ll explore the shift from rule-based scripts to context-aware systems powered by NLP, machine learning, and real-time dat… more
I am submitting for: Speaking at the Fifth Elephant 2025 Annual Conference
Type of submission: 15 mins talk
Choose the topic your submission falls under: Applied AI Engineering & Agentic AI track
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Lessons from building and operating thousands of customer-specific models at AtlassianIn the complex world of 24/7 SaaS, operations like Alert oncall and Incident management are crucial. The variety of tools, architectural choices (like monoliths vs. microservices), and operational practices make a universal approach impractical. 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: Data & ML Infrastructure track
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Aayush Sarva 70% faster incident mitigation: Building and Using AI Powered Proactive Observability with ClickHouse & VictoriaMetricsAbstract Traditional observability often means sifting through fragmented data and relying on manual expertise, leading to slow incident resolution. At Atlan, we’ve transformed our approach by building Atlan Scout, an AI-native observability system. This system has dramatically cut our P90 incident mitigation time by 70% through proactive anomaly detection and automated root cause analysis. 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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Yogiraj Hendre Running LLM Infra Locally: A Practical GuideOverview: LLMs don’t have to live in the cloud. You can self host them even at home. Doing so doesn’t just provide control, but is also cost effective, and you can evaluate the trade-offs yourself by experimenting. 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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Anuj Nigam Reduce On-Call fatigue and Improve Incident response times with Atlassian AIOpsAbstract This session will include examples from Atlassian’s real-world implementation of AIOps in a large-scale enterprise, demonstrating how AIOps improved on-call productivity within Atlassian by reducing alert noise by ~85%, creating over 400k+ groups, particularly useful for high-volume customers having 5k+ alerts/year. AIOps can reduce MTTR by suggesting relevant resources from Integration … 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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Prabakaran Kumaresshan Perceive the Possibilities: Bridging AI and AR for Immersive Mixed Reality ExperiencesAbstract Tech giants like Apple (VisionPro), Meta (Orion), and Google (Android XR) are rapidly advancing immersive Augmented Reality (AR) through the integration of artificial intelligence, enabling a new wave of intelligent, context aware head-mounted devices (HMD) and new age context aware apps. 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: Visual AI track
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Akash Sathish  Building Self-Updating Knowledge Bases for AI Agents with Intelligent Monitoring using MCPAbstract As we begin to rely more on AI agents to assist us, it is also important to realize that they are only as useful as the knowledge they have access to. 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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Govind Joshi Right everytime*: Lessons learnt while building an AI-powered assistant for DoctorsOverview Electronic Health Records (EHRs) give clinicians decades of longitudinal data—labs, imaging, progress notes, doctor’s notes, device streams. This means large amounts of data being available for each patient, especially for those that with chronic illnesses. 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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Sagnik Saha Epipolar Geometry and Neural Matching for precise 3D reconstructionAbstract Photogrammetry is a computer vision discipline grounded in projective geometry and primarily relying on handcrafted keypoint detectors (SIFT/SURF). Recent AI advances, particularly learned feature extraction and neural depth priors are reshaping what is possible around accuracy and robustness. This talk will begin by revisiting the core math behind 3D reconstruction: deriving epipolar ge… 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: Visual AI track
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Johnu George Submitter Tuning the Inference stack for AIOverview Deploying large language models (LLMs) at scale puts heavy demands on AI infrastructure. The stack must be cloud-agnostic and hardware-independent, able to run everywhere—from edge devices to public clouds—and support a range of accelerators—GPUs from NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel, as well as TPUs and others. These high-end accelerators are expensive and often under-utilized. Model sizes range … 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: Data & ML Infrastructure track
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Priyanka Bharadwaj Submitter Relational alignment - designing AI systems that evolve with usAbstract As AI systems become increasingly agentic, safety becomes less about control and more about co-evolution. What would it mean to design AI not just for accuracy or alignment, but for mutual adaptability and scaling trust over time? This talk introduces relational alignment, a systems-level reframe that treats human-AI interaction as a living, co-evolving relationship. Drawing from behavio… 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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