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Call for speakers

Talk at a meetup.

Anyone can pitch. You don't need to be a well-known speaker, hold a PhD, or have a polished deck. You need to have built something and be willing to tell the truth about it.

Formats

  • System Prompt

    Keynote25–30 minutesOne slot

    The anchor talk. Frame where agentic AI is heading and give the rest of the evening something to argue with.

  • Tool Calls

    Lightning talk5–15 minutesTwo slots

    One tool, one pattern, or one lesson, done properly. The easiest way in if you've never spoken before.

What we're looking for

  • Building agents, single-agent and multi-agent, and what changes once there's more than one
  • Tool use and function calling
  • Agentic RAG
  • Orchestration patterns: ReAct, plan-and-execute, and where each one falls over
  • Evaluations and guardrails for systems that don't give the same answer twice
  • Agentic coding
  • Real-world case studies: what you shipped, and what it cost you
  • Voice agents
  • Governance and safety
  • Research directions, if you're working on what comes next rather than what ships today

What we won't take: product pitches. Sponsorship never buys a speaking slot, and a talk that's really a demo of your paid product will get a polite no. Talk about the engineering and people will find your product anyway.

Who you'll be talking to

Software and ML engineers, data scientists, founders and product builders, students, and people who are simply AI-curious. Technical, but mixed.

Both ends of that range are welcome. An introduction to something the room hasn't met yet and a deep technical dive are equally good talks. Just tell us which one you're giving, so we can put it in the right slot.

First time speaking? Read this.

First-time speakers are actively encouraged, and a good chunk of ours have never presented before. We will read your draft, sit through a practice run, help you cut the twelve slides that aren't doing anything, and stand at the back making encouraging faces.

If you're not sure your topic is interesting enough: it is. The bar is “I learned something the hard way,” not “I invented something novel.”