BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//HasGeek//NONSGML Funnel//EN DESCRIPTION:Hyderabad meet-up X-WR-CALDESC:Hyderabad meet-up NAME:In the Loop - harnesses\, loops\, graphs\, and the evals that keep th em honest X-WR-CALNAME:In the Loop - harnesses\, loops\, graphs\, and the evals that keep them honest REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT12H SUMMARY:In the Loop - harnesses\, loops\, graphs\, and the evals that keep them honest TIMEZONE-ID:Asia/Kolkata X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT12H X-WR-TIMEZONE:Asia/Kolkata BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:In the Loop - harnesses\, loops\, graphs\, and the evals that keep them honest DTSTART:20260905T050000Z DTEND:20260905T073000Z DTSTAMP:20260804T230208Z UID:session/37RQFkHr9ZH7fBs5CegHJb@hasgeek.com SEQUENCE:14 CREATED:20260802T124236Z DESCRIPTION:# Call for Proposals: Agent harnesses & small models in produc tion\nTwo years ago\, it was prompt engineering\, then context engineering \, then the harness: the tools\, permissions and sub-agents you build arou nd the model. Then the loop. Now the graph\, and state that has to survive a crash at step 40 of 60.\n\nEach shift arrives with a wave of posts writ ten by people selling a framework\, and it takes about a year to find out which parts actually held. So: which of these abstractions are earning the ir keep\, and which are ceremony?\n\nMeanwhile more teams are training and serving their own small models — and not all of them sit inside an agen t. Sometimes it's to cut the bill\, often it's data that can't leave the b uilding. Is a tuned 8B good enough for your problem? How would you know?\n \nIf you've designed tools an agent could actually use\, or wrestled a lon g-running job into surviving a crash — if you've fine-tuned a small mode l and measured what you gained and lost — if you've made inference cheap or fast enough to ship\, or built the evals that told you any of it was w orking — we want to hear from you.\n\n## What we're looking for\n- Talks grounded in hands-on experience\, not slides lifted from a launch post\n- Honest takes: what worked\, what didn't\, and what you'd do differently\n - Any domain: dev tooling\, healthcare\, legal\, financial services\, regi onal languages\, enterprise search — it doesn't matter\n\n**Format:** 30 -minute talk + 10 minutes Q&A\n\nYou don't need to be an ML researcher. If you're an engineer\, data scientist or technical founder who has shipped and operated something with models in the loop\, your experience is exactl y what this audience wants. First-time speakers welcome\, editors will wor k with you on structure.\n\n## Timeline\n- **Submission deadline:** 15 Aug ust 2026\n- **Notification of selection:** 22 August 2026\n\n## How to sub mit\n1. **Submit your abstract**. Your abstract should clearly describe:\n * the problem or topic being addressed\,\n * why it is relevant\,\n * who the session is intended for\, and\n * the key takeaways attendees can expect.\n\n2. **Add a link to draft slides within 3–5 days** - afte r submitting your abstract\, add a link to the draft version of your slide s within 3–5 days. Draft slides help editors better evaluate the structu re\, depth\, and delivery of the session.\n*Submissions without draft slid es may not be reviewed or may experience delays in receiving feedback.*\n\ n\n## About the editorial team\n**Chaitanya Sangani** - meet-up editor. [C haitanya is an independent AI consultant.](https://www.linkedin.com/in/cha itanyasan/) He is a member of The Fifth Elephant community and has reviewe d talks for the Pune edition\, and at The Fifth Elephant 2026 Annual Confe rence. \n\n**Srix Sriramkumar** - reviewer. [Srix is makes engineering tea ms AI-native.](https://www.linkedin.com/in/srixsriramkumar/). Srix is a me mber of The Fifth Elephant community and has reviewed submissions for the [Enterprise AI in production meet-up](https://hasgeek.com/fifthelephant/en terprise-ai-in-production-meetup/videos)\, held in Bangalore in June. \n\n ## Contact\n- Email: info@hasgeek.com\n- WhatsApp / Phone: 7676332020 LAST-MODIFIED:20260802T134649Z LOCATION:Hyderabad - https://hasgeek.com/fifthelephant/hyd-meetup-cfp/ ORGANIZER;CN="The Fifth Elephant":MAILTO:no-reply@hasgeek.com URL:https://hasgeek.com/fifthelephant/hyd-meetup-cfp/ BEGIN:VALARM ACTION:display DESCRIPTION:In the Loop - harnesses\, loops\, graphs\, and the evals that keep them honest in 5 minutes TRIGGER:-PT5M END:VALARM END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR