BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//HasGeek//NONSGML Funnel//EN DESCRIPTION:Share you work with the community X-WR-CALDESC:Share you work with the community NAME:Speak at The Fifth Elephant 2026 Annual Conference X-WR-CALNAME:Speak at The Fifth Elephant 2026 Annual Conference REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT12H SUMMARY:Speak at The Fifth Elephant 2026 Annual Conference TIMEZONE-ID:Asia/Kolkata X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT12H X-WR-TIMEZONE:Asia/Kolkata BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Speak at The Fifth Elephant 2026 Annual Conference DTSTART:20260717T033000Z DTEND:20260718T123000Z DTSTAMP:20260529T153142Z UID:session/81v9ryXuyQTNgK5uMxoJyz@hasgeek.com SEQUENCE:12 CREATED:20260529T065954Z DESCRIPTION:# This page is only for submissions for The Fifth Elephant 202 6 annual conference\n**Dates** \n- Conference on Friday\, 17 July\, at the NIMHANS Convention Centre \n- Workshops on Saturday 18 July in Marathalli \, Koramangala & Whitefield\n\n**To attend the conference\, get an annual membership - https://hasgeek.com/fifthelephant#memberships**\n\n---\n\n# H ow to submit\n1. **Submit your abstract**. Your abstract should clearly de scribe:\n * the problem or topic being addressed\,\n * why it is relev ant\,\n * who the session is intended for\, and\n * the key takeaways attendees can expect.\n\n2. **Add a link to draft slides within 3ā€“5 days ** - after submitting your abstract\, add a link to the draft version of y our slides within 3ā€“5 days. Draft slides help editors better evaluate th e structure\, depth\, and delivery of the session.\n*Submissions without d raft slides may not be reviewed or may experience delays in receiving feed back.*\n\n3. **Add a 2-minute elevator pitch video** - introducing your se ssion and demonstrating your speaking style. This helps the editorial team assess presentation clarity and audience engagement.\n\n---\n\n# Review t imelines and submission deadlines\n* Feedback via comments may be shared e arly for submissions that include slide links.\n* Selected speakers will b e contacted starting 17 June onwards.\n* The final submission deadline is 25 June 2026.\n* Not every submission may fit the annual conference schedu le in July. Some proposals may be considered for future community sessions \, including weekly reviews and monthly meet-ups.\n\n--- \n\n# Conferenc e tracks\n## Track 1: Data Engineering & Infrastructure\n**Track editors a re looking for submissions that reflect what's actually working (and what isn't) in production data systems\, especially as AI workloads reshape inf rastructure assumptions.**\n\n### AI-native data systems\n- Data engineeri ng for foundational model training and fine-tuning\n- Data pipelines for i nference and post-training steps\n- Data stores and retrieval patterns for GenAI and LLM-based applications\n- Memory management and agent-to-agent communication\n- Evals\, guardrails and observability implemented in produ ction systems\n\n---\n\n## Foundations & storage\n- Lakehouse and lakebase architectures - what's working in production\n- Table format evolution: I ceberg\, DuckLake\, and how metadata management is changing\n- Query engin es in the wild - including newer entrants like Apache DataFusion\n- In-mem ory and local databases: when and why they make sense\n- Realtime CDC and streaming data patterns\n\n---\n\n## Governance\, compliance & data qualit y\n- Practical approaches to PII detection\, masking and management at sca le\n- Metadata management strategies that actually hold up in large organi sations\n- Governance frameworks adapted for AI and LLM pipelines\n- Data quality practices in the context of model inputs and outputs\n\n---\n\n## Ops\, reliability & costs\n- Observability practices for data and AI infra structure\n- Agent incident response and SRE patterns for agentic systems\ n- Cost optimisation strategies for AI infrastructure ā€” compute\, storag e\, egress\n- Hardware and compute considerations\; sub-architecture patte rns for inference and training workloads\n\n---\n\n## Orchestration & pipe lines\n- Production use cases with tools like Airbyte\, Fivetran\, Dagster \, Prefect or Temporal\n- Patterns for integrating orchestration with AI a nd agent workflows\n- Migration stories - from legacy pipelines to modern orchestration\n- Operational lessons from running pipelines at scale\n\n-- -\n \n## Track 2 - Building and implementing AI tools & agents in product ion\n### Topics for builders\n* Building production-ready agent frameworks and tools\n* Implementing MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers and client s\n* Tool development for specific domains (customer support\, operations\ , data analysis)\n* Multi-agent orchestration patterns\n* Reliability and monitoring for agentic systems\n* Scaling agent-based systems\n* Creating reusable agent components and libraries\n* Designing tool interfaces for L LM consumption\n\n### Topics for practitioners\n* Real-world case studies of agents in production\n* ROI and business impact of agentic systems\n* I ntegration patterns for enterprise environments\n* Prompt engineering and agent optimization strategies\n* Migrating from traditional automation to AI agents\n* Operational challenges and solutions\n* Agent evaluation and quality assurance\n* Team workflows with AI agents\n\n### Cross-cutting to pics\n* Security and safety in agentic systems\n* Human-in-the-loop patter ns\n* Cost optimization strategies\n* Tool choice and framework selection\ n* Debugging and observability\n* Testing strategies for non-deterministic systems\n\n--- \n\n# Workshop topics\nTopics include\, but are not limite d to:\n* MCP server creation with different protocol variations\n* Agent f rameworks like LangChain and LlamaIndex - which are widely used\n* Impleme nting specific agent patterns (e.g.\, ReAct\, chain-of-thought)\n* Tool de velopment tutorials for agentic systems\n* Integration exercises with real APIs and services\n* Hands-on prompt engineering and optimization techniq ues\n\n---\n\n# Conference editors\n* Jagadish K. (Tryft)\n* Ramkrishna Re ddy Y (Red Hat)\n* Ranganadh Thata (Mico)\n* Yash Gandhi (OrcaSheets)\n\n- --\n\n## Got a question? Need help?\nšŸ“ž Call or text The Fifth Elephant at (91) 7676332020\nšŸ“§ Email \nšŸ’° For sponsorship i nquiries\, email LAST-MODIFIED:20260529T070403Z LOCATION:NIMHANS Convention Centre\, Bangalore - https://hasgeek.com/fifth elephant/fifthelephant-2026-call-for-submissions/ ORGANIZER;CN="The Fifth Elephant":MAILTO:no-reply@hasgeek.com URL:https://hasgeek.com/fifthelephant/fifthelephant-2026-call-for-submissi ons/ BEGIN:VALARM ACTION:display DESCRIPTION:Speak at The Fifth Elephant 2026 Annual Conference in 5 minute s TRIGGER:-PT5M END:VALARM END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR