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AAIF Sri Lanka

Call for speakers

Talk at a meetup.

You don't need to be famous or have a polished deck. You need to have built something and be willing to tell the truth about it.

Formats

  • Lightning talk

    5–10 minutes

    One idea, one demo, one lesson. The easiest way to speak for the first time.

  • Main talk

    20–30 minutes

    Something you built, how it works, and what you'd do differently. Slides optional, a live demo is better.

  • Hands-on workshop

    60–90 minutes

    You teach, the room follows along on their laptops. Needs prep, and we'll help you test it beforehand.

What we're looking for

  • Agents you actually put in front of users, and what broke
  • MCP servers you've built and what the protocol got right or wrong
  • Evaluation, testing and observability for non-deterministic systems
  • Cost, latency and reliability engineering for agent workloads
  • Security, identity and permissioning when an agent acts on someone's behalf
  • Honest post-mortems: the talk about what didn't work is always the best one

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.

First time speaking? Read this.

A good chunk of our speakers 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.”