Fwd: The Fifth Elephant by HasGeek 27-28 July 2012
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The Fifth Elephant is a community-powered conference organized by HasGeek to demystify the big data ecosystem in India. The conference takes place on 27 and 28 July at the NIMHANS Convention Centre in Bangalore. It brings together speakers who have worked extensively with technology, statistical and mathematical tools, and user interfaces for mining, analyzing and representing data.
The conference attempts to showcase the technology landscape which today makes it possible to work with data and leverage on its predictive powers. On the first day, participants will get an understanding of the technologies available for managing big data, analytics and visualization. On the second day, the conference will showcase talks that explain how technology is being applied / can be applied in retail, medicine, IT, finance and governance to manage and analyze data.
The Fifth Elephant features speakers from Red Hat, Splunk, Google, Strand Life Sciences, IBM, Flipkart, HP Analytics, Mu-Sigma, Amazon, PayPal, MediaNama, Open Knowledge Foundation, among others. Keynote talks will cover topics such as how Google crunches big data at Google scale, community architecture and big data at Red Hat, the genomics project and challenges of big data in personalized medicine, and the process of building Watson and natural language processing.
Apart from keynotes, the conference features talks on building search engines, messaging architectures, use of Hadoop in mining and managing data collected under the Aadhar/UID project, data explosion in medical imaging, open data in life sciences, financial market and economic data, to name a few. To view the event schedule, visit: http://fifthelephant.in/2012/schedule
The conference also brings together community partners such as the Wikimedia chapter, the Internet Archive, the Open Knowledge Foundation and the Centre for Internet and Society. The presence of these partners expands the horizons of our understanding of data not only in the context of open data, but also the systems and frameworks that exist for data gathering, sharing and licensing.
Event registrations are open on http://fifthelephant.doattend.com
We also want to share videos of the pre-conference panel organized in Chennai on big data:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ii24UpWZTZs - Navjot Sidhu (PayPal) presentation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkmQhlCkrj8 - Srikrishna Shirin (CoolIris, Unclassroom) presentation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFeGbLyKQgY - Sridhar Iyengar (Zoho) presentation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0XS1gmC3aM - Asif Ali (formerly Komli) presentation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnKl0nFh6vg - Discussion with the four panelists
Also see interviews of some of the conference speakers featured in Analytics India magazine:
1. Dr. Ramesh Hariharan's interview in Analytics India Magazine - http://analyticsindiamag.com/interview-dr-ramesh-hariharan-cto-and-founder-at-strand-life-sciences/
2. Ajay Kelkar's interview in Analytics India Magazine - http://analyticsindiamag.com/interview-ajay-kelkar-co-founder-and-coo-at-hansa-cequity/
For more details, write to in...@hasgeek.com
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