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📜 Speaking policies and guidelines One speaker per talk. No co-speakers or joint presenters. Vendor-neutral submissions. Talks must focus on technical concepts, case studies, and real-world learnings. expand

📜 Speaking policies and guidelines

  • One speaker per talk. No co-speakers or joint presenters.
  • Vendor-neutral submissions. Talks must focus on technical concepts, case studies, and real-world learnings.
  • If your intention is to showcase a product, platform, or tool, you’re welcome to submit a (paid) pitch session, or run a sponsored workshop to teach your tool/product/platform. (Reach out to sales@hasgeek.com for sponsored workshops and pitch sessions.)
  • 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.

Guidelines for submissions

BEFORE you begin writing your submission, please give some thought to the following:

  • Who is the audience for your session? Think about their interests, work roles, challenges, age or experience as you decide this.
  • What problem/pain are you trying to solve (for the audience)? This should be something that is communicated clearly so that they have a sense of your session’s importance.
  • What will be the scope of your session? This will help identify the central topic or theme and should describe broad areas you plan to cover during the session?
  • How will participants benefit from your session? Think of practical and specific ways in which they will be able to apply the knowledge they gain, and beyond just general awareness.
  • What is the appropriate format for your session, given the audience and objectives that you have in mind?

The most successful talks and sessions are those where presenters are able to abstract an actionable insight from a common pain area, enlighten the audience about something new, provide a fresh perspective, and/or demonstrate innovation.

Here’s a guide for speakers to draft their presentations.

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Harini Anand

The BERT Advantage: Deep Dive into Variants, Multimodal Evolution & Open Source Use Cases

Describe Your Session This is an enhanced version of a talk I previously delivered at a workshop organized by Google Developer Student Clubs. The presentation has been refined to highlight the open-source and multimodal capabilities of transformer-based models, making it suitable for submission to the Open Source AI community. The talk explores how BERT-like architectures have evolved into multim… more
  • 3 comments
  • Submitted
  • 22 Mar 2025
Type of session: Sponsored talk (25-35 mins) I am submitting for: Blr OSAI meetup in April 2025

Tricha Anjali

Making GenAI Testable: From Prompt to Production

Describe your session in 2 paragraphs GenAI is transforming the way we build and deploy software — but beneath the surface of working POCs lies a critical challenge: can we test these systems? In traditional software, test-driven development is a given. But with LLMs’ probabilistic outputs and evolving prompts, most AI systems today ship without clear test strategies. This session will look into … more
  • 1 comment
  • Submitted
  • 30 Mar 2025
Type of session: Sponsored talk (25-35 mins) I am submitting for: Blr OSAI meetup in April 2025

Kannan Ramamoorthy

Semantic Search - Beyond Embeddings & Vector DB

Description: It’s a simple claim that for semantic search, “Capture the embedding of the document and save it during indexing”, “Capture the embedding of the query and do the searching”. more
  • 2 comments
  • Submitted
  • 27 Aug 2025
Type of session: 25-35 min talk

Pavan Kumar Mantha

AI Based Agile Story Development

In this session, I will showcase an open-source AI platform that automatically generates user stories and test scenarios directly from initiatives and epics provided in CSV or Excel formats. Powered by a multi-agent LLM framework, the platform goes beyond generation by saving all outputs in a semantic vector database (Qdrant). This means teams can later retrieve and query their stories or test ca… more
  • 4 comments
  • Submitted
  • 27 Aug 2025
Type of session: 25-35 min talk

irfan basha sheik

Building Production-Grade LLM Applications with DSPy: From Simple Start to Scalable Excellence

Description The rapid evolution of Large Language Models (LLMs) has introduced a paradigm shift in AI development, but building reliable, production ready applications remains a challenge. Developers often face brittle systems, driven by ad hoc prompting and rapidly changing model guides. This session introduces DSPy, an open source, lightweight, declarative framework that brings engineering disc… more
  • 5 comments
  • Submitted
  • 29 Aug 2025
Type of session: 25-35 min talk

Saurabh Machave

Powering your workstation with local GenAI

Intro This talk will start with the question–why should one use open-source models in the first place? While it seems perfectly normal to make API calls to closed-source models for day-to-day tasks, it comes at the cost of privacy, judicious use of tokens and at the end of the day–money. I will explain how to wire up your code editor to use open-source models for autocomplete and chat, which exte… more
  • 4 comments
  • Submitted
  • 30 Aug 2025
Type of session: 10 mins Lightning talk/demo
Prudhvi Krovvidi

Prudhvi Krovvidi

AI as Your Co-Developer: Automating Schemas, Quality Checks, Ingestion, and Hypothesis Testing

Abstract AI is moving beyond code completion to act as a true co-developer across the software development lifecycle (SDLC). From structuring raw data into validated schemas to guiding analytical reasoning with statistical evidence, AI can reduce friction in everyday developer and data science workflows. more
  • 9 comments
  • Submitted
  • 06 Sep 2025
Type of session: 25-35 min talk

Namburi Manikanta

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Build AI Coding Agents with OpenAI, JavaScript & the Agent SDK

Introduction In this workshop, you’ll learn how to build AI coding agents using OpenAI, JavaScript, and the Agent SDK. We’ll go beyond simple prompts — covering how agents call tools, rewrite prompts for better outputs, and apply guardrails to stay safe and useful. Through live coding, you’ll see the agent generate, improve, and explain code step by step. more
  • 1 comment
  • Submitted
  • 12 Sep 2025
Type of session: Hands-on workshop

Namburi Manikanta

DevSecOps: Using Open-Source Security Tools with Local & Managed LLMs in the SDLC

Session Description: Secure SDLC is no longer just “scan and forget.” In this talk, I’ll show how open-source LLMs locally hosted and managed—can work inside your CI/CD pipeline to make security findings actionable: from static and dynamic analysis to human-readable remediation steps, code diffs, and auto-fix PRs. We’ll stitch together popular OSS scanners (for code, dependencies, containers, and… more
  • 0 comments
  • Submitted
  • 12 Sep 2025
Type of session: 25-35 min talk

Kartik

The Dependencies That Kill: How Knowledge Graphs Revolutionize Security in AI-Powered Code Review

Session Description: Traditional security scanners analyze files in isolation, missing the cascading vulnerabilities that emerge from complex dependencies. When a seemingly innocent config change can break authentication across services, or when a utility function modification introduces SQL injection risks in distant components, pattern-matching tools are blind. Through analyzing hundreds of PRs… more
  • 2 comments
  • Submitted
  • 13 Sep 2025
Type of session: 25-35 min talk

Amit Upadhyay

From Idea to Production: Reimagining the Software Delivery Lifecycle for the AI-First Era

Session Description: The way we build and ship software is undergoing a fundamental transformation. Traditional approaches to software delivery are being stretched thin by the growing complexity of systems, distributed architectures, and the demand for faster cycles. In this talk, I will introduce the concept of AI First Software Delivery (AIFSD) – a paradigm where AI agents are embedded into the… more
  • 0 comments
  • Submitted
  • 15 Sep 2025
Type of session: 25-35 min talk
Akash Sathish

Akash Sathish

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Building Self-Updating Knowledge Bases for AI Agents with Intelligent Monitoring using MCP

Abstract 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
  • 1 comment
  • Submitted
  • 15 Sep 2025
Type of session: 25-35 min talk

Jayanth PushpaRaju

Beyond Chat Copilots: The Future of Development with Spec Driven Development (SDD)

Talk Abstract While chat-based AI copilots have revolutionized coding in 2024-25, they still require developers to think in implementation details. This talk introduces Spec Driven Development (SDD) - a paradigm shift where developers write comprehensive specifications that generate entire systems. Through live demonstration, we’ll build a real application using SDD, showing how this approach del… more
  • 0 comments
  • Submitted
  • 15 Sep 2025
Type of session: 25-35 min talk
Akash Sathish

Akash Sathish

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Swetha A Co Presenter

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Mastering Prompt Engineering Across the Software Development LifeCycle

Abstract This workshop will demonstrate how AI assistants can be strategic partners throughout the software development lifecycle (SDLC). We’ll explore how to unlock their full potential with the right prompts, chat modes, instruction files, and Model Context Protocol (MCP). Starting from story grooming and design discussions, participants will learn how to guide AI assistants to act as mentors, … more
  • 0 comments
  • Submitted
  • 15 Sep 2025
Type of session: Hands-on workshop

Nashit Babber

Building Production-Ready RAG Systems: From Hugging Face Models to Self-Healing Pipelines

The excitement around open-source LLMs like Mistral, LLAMA, and models on Hugging Face has democratized AI development. However, the journey from downloading a model to deploying a production-ready Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) system is filled with hidden challenges. This talk bridges that gap by sharing battle-tested strategies for building RAG systems that scale, self-monitor, and integ… more
  • 0 comments
  • Submitted
  • 18 Sep 2025
Type of session: 25-35 min talk

Roshni Thomas

Event-Driven Architectures in BFSI: Scaling Legacy Systems to Real-Time Platforms

Description In the BFSI sector, organizations are under constant pressure to respond to market shifts, regulatory demands, and evolving customer expectations in real time. However, many still operate on legacy, batch-driven systems that limit agility and slow down innovation. Event-driven architecture (EDA) offers a way forward by enabling systems to react to business events as they happen, decou… more
  • 0 comments
  • Submitted
  • 18 Sep 2025
Type of session: 25-35 min talk

Himanshu Aggarwal

Architecting for Speed: Building Real-time Search & Recommendation Systems with Modern AI Stacks

The demand for instant, relevant experiences in fast-paced industries necessitates a new generation of search and recommendation systems. This talk will deep dive into the modern AI stack powering these systems. We’ll explore multi-stage architectures, from two-tower models for scalable candidate generation using vector databases, to advanced pretrained and rerankers for pinpoint accuracy. The se… more
  • 0 comments
  • Submitted
  • 19 Sep 2025
Type of session: 10 mins Lightning talk/demo
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