The Fifth Elephant 2019

25-26 July 2019, Bangalore

Gathering of 1000+ practitioners from the data ecosystem

The eighth edition of The Fifth Elephant will be held in Bangalore on 25-26 July. A thousand data scientists, ML engineers, data engineers and analysts will gather at the NIMHANS Convention Centre in Bangalore to discuss:

  1. Model management, including data cleaning, instrumentation and productionizing data science
  2. Bad data and case studies of failure in building data products
  3. Identifying and handling fraud + data security at scale
  4. Applications of data science in agriculture, media and marketing, supply chain, geo-location, SaaS and e-commerce
  5. Feature engineering and ML platforms
  6. What it takes to create data-driven cultures in organisations of different scales

Format:

The Fifth Elephant is a two-day conference with two tracks on each day.

Sessions at The Fifth Elephant are of the following formats:

  1. Full talks of 40 minutes.
  2. Crisp talks of 20 minutes.
  3. Birds of a Feather (BoF) sessions on focused topics / questions. A BoF is 60-90 minutes long and typically has up to four facilitators and one moderator.
  4. Workshops and tutorials of 1.5-6 hours duration on Machine Learning concepts and tools, full stack data engineering, and data science concepts and tools.

Highlights

  1. Meet Peter Wang, co-founder of Anaconda Inc, and learn about why data privacy is the first step towards robust data management; the journey of building Anaconda; and Anaconda in enterprise.
  2. Talk to the Fulfillment and Supply Group (FSG) team from Flipkart, and learn about their work with platform engineering where ground truths are the source of data.
  3. Attend tutorials on Deep Learning with RedisAI; TransmorgifyAI, Salesforce’s open source AutoML.
  4. Discuss interesting problems to solve with data science in agriculture, SaaS perspective on multi-tenancy in Machine Learning (with the Freshworks team), bias in intent classification and recommendations.
  5. Meet data science, data engineering and product teams from sponsoring companies to understand how they are handling data and leveraging intelligence from data to solve interesting problems.

Why you should attend?

  1. Network with peers and practitioners from the data ecosystem
  2. Share approaches to solving expensive problems such as cleanliness of training data, model management and versioning data
  3. Demo your ideas in the demo session
  4. Meet data science, data engineering and product teams from sponsoring companies to understand how they are handling data and leveraging intelligence from data to solve interesting problems

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Gold Sponsor

AppDynamics
ShareChat
Flipkart

Silver Sponsor

Salesforce
Freshworks
Ericsson
Databricks

Exhibition Sponsor

Sapient
GO-JEK
Atlassian
Bayer

Bronze Sponsor

Sumologic
WalmartLabs
Atlan
Simpl
GreatLearning

Community Sponsor

Elastic
Anaconda
Aruba Networks