Don't Panic: The Lazy Speaker's Guide to CFP Triage

Every new CFP triggers the same ritual:

• Open the conference page
• Copy the dates
• Check for duplicates in GitHub
• Find the right labels
• Write the issue
• Add a comment with talk suggestions

⏳ 42 minutes for 3 CFPs! But actually, 20 person-days per year across our team of 13 DevRels.

For. Copy-pasting.

My CFO nearly cried. 😭

So I looked around. Elastic already gave me Elasticsearch for semantic search, a native MCP server in Kibana, a conversational agent, a workflow engine and JINA Reader to parse the web. GitHub offered its own MCP server and GitHub Actions to handle updates.

In this session, I’ll show you — live, no slides — how I put all of this together to build an agent that does the work for us. One URL in ➡️ one complete GitHub issue out. With human validation, because I trust AI but not blindly. 👀

Whether you track CFPs or not, the patterns are here. Come for the lazy automation, stay for the architecture. So long, and thanks for all the fish. 🐟