Introduction
In 2013, commodity hardware and computing capacity for storing and processing large and small volumes of data are easily available on demand. The bigger issues pertain to questions of how to scale data processing, handle data diversity, manage infrastructure costs, decide which technologies work best for different contexts and problems, and build products from the insights and intelligence that the data is presenting to you.
The Fifth Elephant 2013 is a three-day workshop and conference on big data, storage and analytics, with product demos and hacker corners.
Highlights
Tickets
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Workshop
July 11
- Two parallel tracks of hands-on workshop sessions
- Breakfast & Lunch
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Conference
July 12 & 13
- Two days of talks & discussions
- Expo area & hacker corners
- Breakfast & Lunch
- Event party
Rs 4000Rs 3,000
Save Rs 1,000 until July 11th -
Corporate
July 11, 12 & 13
Workshop(sold out!) + Conference- Event T-Shirt
- Ticket sponsorship credit
- Custom invoice
Rs 6,000
Available until July 9th
Buy Tickets
Single day conference tickets for 12th & 13th will be available at the venue.
2012 Edition
- 2 days
- 3 tracks
- 50 sessions
- 600+ participants
Last year’s edition of The Fifth Elephant was the first conference in India which focused on big data and analytics.
The event brought together developers, researchers, scientists, analysts, CTOs, CEOs and academicians who took part in various discussions on big data infrastructure, analytics and application of technology for harnessing untapped potential of data.
Participants were exposed to some of the popular and emerging technology stacks for storing and processing big data. They learnt about programming languages and libraries available for producing compelling visualisations. In the analytics track, statisticians and analysts spoke about various tools and techniques for building business intelligence and telling stories with data. Overall, the first edition presented the multiple meanings and facets of big data to participants and helped them in understanding the emerging ecosystem.
The Fifth Elephant 2012 also brought together community and advocacy organisations such as The Centre for Internet and Society, The Internet Archive, Open Knowledge Foundation Network and Wikipedia India chapter to showcase the value of open data and community supported efforts in collecting and publishing public data. The presence of these organisations facilitated in answering participants’ questions about how to use big data for the benefit of society.
Sponsors
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10gen
10gen is the company behind MongoDB, the leading NoSQL database. MongoDB (named from "huMONGOus," meaning "extremely large") is reinventing data management and powering big data.
Designed for how we build and run applications today, MongoDB empowers organizations to be more agile and scalable. It enables new types of applications, better customer experience, faster time to market and lower costs.
Edouard Servan-Schreiber and Martin Cooke from 10gen will be present to speak to enterprises and developers about MongoDB, high speed data store and operational analytics.
- Gold
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Sprinklr
Sprinklr fundamentally believes that the advent of social technologies changes every aspect of how businesses connect with their audiences. With over 250 global brands as customers, and financing from Battery Ventures and Intel Capital, the company is relentlessly focused on helping large enterprises adapt the realities behind their firewall to the new realities of the socially-networked and empowered customer.
The company offers an enterprise-wide Social Relationship Platform and related services. The world's most social brands choose Sprinklr to be Social@Scale.
Pavitar Singh, Director (R&D), and Abhishek Khurana, Sr. Product Architect, from Sprinklr will be present at the Fifth Elephant 2013.
- Silver
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Intel Software and Services Group
The Intel Software and Services Group (SSG) is an organization within Intel Corporation that strives to make all software run best on Intel architecture by working with industry giants such as Microsoft, Google, Independent and open software communities and ISVs. Intel engages with more than 800,000 individual software developers through an online Intel Developer Zone offering design tools, resources and expert consulting.
Dushyant Singh Jadeja and Mukesh Gangadhar from Intel SSG will be present at The Fifth Elephant 2013 to meet decision-makers and developers to talk about Intel's offering on Hadoop.
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ThoughtWorks
ThoughtWorks - the custom software experts. A company wholly devoted to the art and science of custom software. We make it, and we make our clients better at it. Our bottom line is to design and deliver software fast and predictably. Doing enterprise-scale software is tough, but the returns to those organizations that can deliver - on target - are tremendous.
Our products division, ThoughtWorks Studios, makes pioneering tools for software teams who aspire to be great. Its products, Mingle®, Go™ and Twist® help organizations better collaborate and deliver quality software. ThoughtWorks employs over 2,000 professionals to serve clients from offices in Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Germany, India, Singapore, South Africa, Uganda, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Srihari Srinivasan and Shyam Kurien from ThoughtWorks will be present at The Fifth Elephant 2013 to talk to developers, enterprises and other stakeholders about ThoughtWorks's offerings on data analytics.
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Google
Larry Page, co-founder and CEO of Google, once described the “perfect search engine” as something that “understands exactly what you mean and gives you back exactly what you want.” Since he spoke those words Google has grown to offer products beyond search – Chrome and Gmail – which improve the web, its experience and make it possible for users to get things done.
Google also provides a variety of tools to help businesses of all kinds succeed on and off the web. While these programs form the backbone of Google’s business, they have also enabled entrepreneurs and publishers around the world to grow theirs. Google’s advertising programs, which range from simple text ads to rich media ads, help businesses find customers, and help publishers make money off their content. We also provide cloud computing tools for businesses that save money and further productivity in organizations.
Ashwani Sharma from Google will be present at The Fifth Elephant 2013 to engage with developers working in the space of big data, and to share information about Google’s developer programs and engagement with communities.
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Aerospike
Aerospike is the only real-time NoSQL database built from the ground up to take advantage of today’s multi-core, multi-processor architectures and solid-state drives (SSDs). That’s what makes it fast – 500k TPS per node with sub-millisecond latency. Hybrid architecture with indexes in-memory and data either in-memory or on flash. Strong consistency, tightly coupled clusters (auto replication, re-balancing, cross data center synchronization) reliably store billions of objects and terabytes of data. Native flash means fewer servers, less power, lower ops costs than with just DRAM. Deployed in demanding environments for almost 3 years with no downtime. You can follow them on Twitter @aerospikedb.
To learn more about Aerospike and how it works for businesses and developers, visit the Aerospike table at The Fifth Elephant 2013.
Eric Gold, International Sales Director, and Peter Milne, Senior Engineer, from the Aerospike team will be present at The Fifth Elephant 2013.
- Bronze
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Qubole
Qubole Data Service is the fastest, easiest and most reliable Big Data Service available in the Cloud. We provide a comprehensive analytics platform that can be used to integrate data from different sources, analyze them using Hadoop, Hive and Pig, build data driven applications using periodic workflows and export and visualize reports. Businesses in Online Advertising, ECommerce, Social Media, Gaming and Digital Media use Qubole every day to power their analytics and to empower analysts throughout their organization to access data directly.
Free signups and a wealth of information including case studies and technology blog posts are available at http://www.qubole.com.
Rajat Gupta and Rajat Venkatesh from Qubole will be present at The Fifth Elephant 2013 to meet enterprises to talk about the Qubole platform and Qubole data services.
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Nexus Venture Partners
Nexus Venture Partners is India’s leading venture capital fund, with offices in India and Silicon Valley. Nexus invests in a variety of technology companies: Cloud.com (Cloud provisioning platform acquired by Citrix), Gluster (Open source cloud storage, acquired by Red Hat), Pubmatic (Publisher Ad revenue optimization), DimDim (Open Source Web Conferencing acquired by Salesforce.com), Snapdeal.com (Ecommerce), MapMyindia (Digital Navigation), Netmagic (Managed Services and Cloud infrastructure provider, acquired by NTT), Komli (Online ad network), Druva (computing End-point protection), Unmetric (Social media analytics for business applications), ScaleArc (Database Infrastructure software), Indix (Big Data & Analytics). The Nexus team is particularly interested in facilitating innovative, ground-breaking ideas among startups in the early stages.
Nexus Venture Partners will be present at The Fifth Elephant 2013 to talk to developers and individuals who have ideas for innovation in the space of big data. To know more about the portfolio companies, pitch your ideas, seek assistance and expertise (and office hours), visit the Nexus Venture Partners lounge.
Jishnu Bhattacharjee and Sameer Brij Verma from the team will be present at The Fifth Elephant 2013.
- Party
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Neo4j
Neo4j is THE open-source NOSQL Graph Database. It makes dealing with connected data much easier by supporting the appropriate property graph data model. Neo4j provides a high performance, transactional database engine that can traverse billions of nodes and relationships at speeds that are orders of magnitude higher than relational databases. Our humane graph query language Cypher allows to ask complex questions in a simple manner and employs powerful operations to work with your data.
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Active Sphere
ActiveSphere is a software development company based out of Bangalore. They specialize in scaling web apps to millions of users as well as requests. Their technology development stack includes Rails and Node.js.
Active Sphere’s iterative design and development model combined with high customer collaboration ensures that customers get value. They cater to startups and are interested in distributed systems, analytics and NoSql databases.
Over the years, Active Sphere has built a number of projects which they’d like to share with programmers. Sreekanth Vadagiri (Gabbar) and Ciju Cherian from Active Sphere will be present at The Fifth Elephant 2013 to speak to developers and communities working in the areas of data processing, analytics and databases.
- Community
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Crayon Data
Crayon is building the next generation big data analytics platform that ingests web scale datasets from multiple sources and types, including enterprise and social data into its data platform. This is the foundation for Crayon's analytics engine, aptly called "SimplerChoices", which leverages the recent advances in data science in taste and intent graphs, sentiment analysis, machine learning and predictive algorithms to deliver unique insights that empower enterprises with competitive intelligence and data driven decision making. Actionable insights are then delivered through an innovative visualization engine which provides a creative user experience that can be customized and optimized to work across multiple channels.
Founded in 2012, Crayon Data was set-up with one clear ambition in mind – simplify and democratize the world of Big Data. It proposes to do this by challenging existing business models and by changing the way organizations handle the increasing complexity of using analytics in the new "big data" world. With headquarters in Singapore and key development center in Chennai, Crayon has been able to make impressive inroads into the global market in a very short period of time. It has built a strong team of 60 people in Singapore and India, including some great data scientists and technologists.
Malay Das, platform architect, and Pradeep Janakiraman, engineering lead (Client Delivery), will be present at The Fifth Elephant 2013 to talk to participants about how Crayon plans to color the world of Big Data.
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E2E Networks
Low latency cloud hosting in India.
E2E Networks Private Limited is one of India's first homegrown cloud computing hosting ventures. An exciting blend of cutting-edge technology, world class talent, highly skilled managed services and a commitment to bringing low latency hosting at a reasonable price.
E2E is one of India's fastest growing hosting companies, with a number of industry-leading customers in its portfolio. E2E works for both small custom testbeds for web applications still in development or multi-location, multi-terabyte, multi-gigabit deployments for some of the busiest Indian web verticals.
E2E hosts HasGeek's websites, including The Fifth Elephant 2013 website.
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Hypertable
Hypertable, Inc., is the developer of Hypertable, an open source, high performance, massively scalable, NoSQL database modelled after Google's Bigtable. Implemented in C++ for maximum performance, Hypertable can deliver significantly more scalable database capacity on a fixed set of hardware than any competing open source implementation (e.g. HBase).
Since it's inception in 2007, Hypertable has evolved into a mature and robust scalable database platform and is used by Baidu, China's leading search engine, and Rediff.com, one of India's largest email providers.
Doug Judd, co-founder and CEO of Hypertable Inc, will be present at The Fifth Elephant 2013.
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Fusion Charts
FusionCharts Suite XT is a JavaScript charting solution for the grown-ups, who won't make do with hobby projects. It offers a unified experience across all devices and browsers (including IE 6, 7 and 8). It can render over 90+ charts and gauges in JavaScript (HTML5), along with 965 data-driven maps. 21,000 customers and 450,000 developers in 118 countries use FusionCharts Suite XT to go from data to delight in minutes.
FusionCharts is looking to hire JavaScript and PHP developers to work with their product development teams in Bangalore to build cutting edge solutions for data visualization. If this sounds interesting to you, head on over to the careers section of the FusionCharts website, and get in touch with them. They'd love to hear from you.
- Travel
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PayPal
PayPal offers flexible and innovative payment solutions for consumers and merchants of all sizes.
PayPal is the faster, safer way to pay and get paid online, via mobile devices and in store. The service allows people to send money without sharing financial information, with the flexibility to pay using their account balances, bank accounts, credit cards or promotional financing. With more than 117 million active accounts in 190 markets and 25 currencies around the world, PayPal enables global commerce. PayPal is an eBay (NASDAQ:EBAY) company. PayPal is headquartered in San Jose, California, and its international headquarters is located in Singapore. More information about the company can be found at
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Red Hat
Red Hat is the world's leading provider of open source solutions. Our mission is to be the catalyst in communities of customers, contributors, and partners creating better technology the open source way. We strive to make freedom, flexibility, and open source the building blocks of our enterprise technology stack. And we passionately pursue our vision of a better future, based on open standards and interoperability.
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Neo4j
Neo4j is THE open-source NOSQL Graph Database. It makes dealing with connected data much easier by supporting the appropriate property graph data model. Neo4j provides a high performance, transactional database engine that can traverse billions of nodes and relationships at speeds that are orders of magnitude higher than relational databases. Our humane graph query language Cypher allows to ask complex questions in a simple manner and employs powerful operations to work with your data.
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World Wide Web Foundation
The World Wide Web Foundation was established in 2009 by Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee to tackle the fundamental obstacles to realizing his vision of an open Web available, usable, and valuable for everyone. We seek to establish the open Web as a global public good and a basic right, ensuring that everyone can access and use it freely. The Foundation's Open Government programme is working to support effective adoption of open data across the world. Tim Davies from the World Wide Web Foundation will be present at The Fifth Elephant 2013 to interact with participants and tell them more about the Foundation's work with Open Government Data.
- Corporate Tickets
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MaaS360
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Cisco
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Microland
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Exzeo
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Agiliq
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[24]7
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!dyllic
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MyParichay
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netapp
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HasGeek
HasGeek helps people in technology meet each other, collaborate on new opportunities and advance the state of the art. We organize conferences, hacknights, workshops and geekups, and provide tools for communities to self-organize.
We’ve created conferences around the themes of front end engineering, big data and cloud computing, JavaScript, Android, location-aware services and devops. Our Job Board is used by thousands of geeks every month to find new opportunities.
HasGeek is a technology company in the media business, bringing software automation to a traditionally people-intensive operation. In a little over two years, HasGeek has organized over two dozen conferences attended by thousands of technology professionals, made several thousand connections, and built open source tools that are now used by many communities.
Credits
- Lead Organizer
- Zainab Bawa
- Website
- Miranj
- Illustrations
- Nimisha Saikia
- Icons
- Speech Bubble designed by Naomi Atkinson
- Map Marker designed by Richard Schumann
- Like designed by Marwa Boukarim
- Bird designed by Thomas Le Bas
- Home from The Noun Project
- Supported By
- The Centre for Internet and Society
Team HasGeek
Haris Ibrahim K V
Jamna Vyas
Kiran Jonnalagadda
Krace Kumar Ramaraju
Nimisha Saikia
Praseetha K R
Radha Rao
Supreeth Srinivasmurthy
Zainab Bawa
Code of Conduct
We strive to make our events friendly, safe and harrasment‑free for all.
Please observe the code of conduct at the event.