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DESCRIPTION:# Call for Proposals: Open Source AI in Production\nThe recent
  requests by the Indian government to avoid gold imports highlight how vul
 nerable India is to its dependence on U.S. dollars for imports. We already
  depend on other countries for oil and gold. Can we afford to also increas
 e our dependence on foreign models? NVIDIA recently announced RTX Spark\, 
 a one-of-a-kind reinvention of the Windows laptop that supports 120B param
 eter local model inference. Is the future local?\n\nThe Fifth Elephant is 
 looking for practitioners who've rolled up their sleeves with open source 
 AI models and have the stories to prove it.\n\nIf you've run inference wit
 h an open weight model on a tight budget\, or fine-tuned an open variant f
 or a real use case — if you have experience with Indian language models 
 and can testify to their behaviour in production — 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 model's launch post\n- Honest takes: what work
 ed\, what didn't\, and what you'd do differently\n- Any domain — healthc
 are\, legal\, code generation\, regional languages\, enterprise search —
  it doesn't matter\n\n**Format:** 30-minute talk + 10 minutes Q&A\n\nYou d
 on't need to be an ML researcher. If you're an engineer\, data scientist\,
  or technical founder who's shipped something using open weight models\, y
 our experience is exactly what this audience wants.\n\n## Timeline\n- **Su
 bmission deadline:** 10 AM\, 30th June 2026\n- **Notification of selection
 :** 4th July 2026\n\n## How to submit\n1. **Submit your abstract**. Your a
 bstract should clearly describe:\n   * the problem or topic being addresse
 d\,\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** - after submitting your abstract\, add a link 
 to the draft version of your slides within 3–5 days. Draft slides help e
 ditors better evaluate the structure\, depth\, and delivery of the session
 .\n*Submissions without draft slides may not be reviewed or may experience
  delays in receiving feedback.*\n\n## Contact\n- Email: info@hasgeek.com\n
 - WhatsApp / Phone: 7676332020
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