Originally published on AI Tech Connect.
What you need to know Most AI engineers who would make excellent speakers never submit a proposal, and most first proposals that fail do so for reasons that have nothing to do with the speaker's ability. The call-for-proposals process looks opaque from the outside, but it runs on a small number of mechanics that are entirely learnable. Four of them carry most of the weight. Selection is about fit, not worth. A programme committee is assembling a schedule for a specific audience, under constraints you cannot see. Rejection usually means "wrong fit for this room this year", not "not good enough". Your production work already contains the talk. The failure that cost you a weekend, the constraint nobody else has, the number you measured and nobody else published — that is the material. You do…
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