HasGeek hosts the third edition of The Fifth Elephant

An annual conference on big data and analytics

Bangalore, July 2014: HasGeek, a platform for promoting interactions and
collaborations between developers, is hosting India's largest community
curated big data event The Fifth lephant !"#$% on &uly !'
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day conference/
The theme of this year%s edition is analytics/ Talks will focus on the
technologies for mining and processing data, and application of machine
learning in 1nance, healthcare, advertising, retail and other domains/
,peakers from organi2ations such as +erospike, Hortonworks, Google,
Flipkart, -isco and others will share application of latest technologies like
+pache Te2, ,,30based databases, etc/ and why techni4ues such as
modeling, audience segmentation and personali2ed search are used at
di5erent stages in the business cycle/
The highlights of this year%s edition are6
#/ 7eynote talk on 8ersonali2ed *edicine and .ig 3ata by 3r/ +nu
+charya, -9 of *ap*yGenome pro:ect/
!/ 7eynote chat between 3r/ ,rini ,rinivasan and *ohit ,a;ena on open
source technologies for real0time analytics and how they are applied in
enterprises/
</ 7eynote talk by 3r/ =i:ay ,rinivas on deep learning > a futuristic
perspective on machine learning/
$/ -losing talk on the art and science of data mining by 3r/ ,hailesh
7umar from Google/
The conference brings together developers, researchers, data scientists,
analysts, -T9s, -9s and academicians from various sectors/
The Fifth lephant and other HasGeek conferences are notable for their
crowd0sourced approach of generating and curating content/ This approach
enables fresh talent and innovative work > both otherwise unknown > to
become known to the community/
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The !"#! and !"#< editions of The Fifth lephant featured a diverse range of
talks/ Innovations such as I.*%s Catson pro:ect, ,trand ?ife ,ciences%
genomics pro:ect and others were demonstrated to participants/ !er the
years, The Fifth Elephant has "e#o$e an i$portant platfor$ for
te#hnology announ#e$ents and $oti!ating adoption in the industry%
This year, &'("ased #o$pany, )erospike, *ill announ#e the open
sour#e edition of their ''+ data"ase at The Fifth Elephant%
-ommenting on the success of the earlier editions of The Fifth lephant,
Dainab .awa, co0founder HasGeek says, Eprominent organi2ations are now
coming forward to share data mining practices and insights/ This is an
important change in the last two years where many were hesitant to share
their secret sauce/ The Fifth lephant is making inroads in knowledge sharing
and open access/F
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Interested participants can register on www/1fthelephant/inG!"#$ or write to
infoHhasgeek/com for more details/
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)"out Fifth Elephant: The Fifth lephant !"#! brought together
community and advocacy organi2ations such as The -entre for Internet and
,ociety, The Internet +rchive, 9pen 7nowledge Foundation )etwork and
Cikipedia India chapter to showcase the value of open data and community
supported e5orts in collecting and publishing public data/ The presence of
these organi2ations facilitated in answering participants% 4uestions about
how to use big data for the bene1t of society/
In the !"#< edition, about ("" participants were e;posed to some of the
popular and emerging technology stacks for storing and processing big data/
In the analytics track, statisticians and analysts spoke about
various tools, techni4ues, strategies and frameworks for building business
intelligence and telling stories with data/
)"out HasGeek: HasGeek is a technology company in the media business,
bringing software automation to a traditionally people0intensive operation/ In
a little over three years, HasGeek has organi2ed more than two0do2en
conferences attended by thousands of technology professionals, made
several connections, and built open source tools that are now used by many
communities/
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;ro/les of speakers
+r% 'rini ,% 'rini!asan, founder and ,i#e ;resident of Engineering A
perations, )erospike, brings !"0plus years of e;perience in designing,
developing and operating Ceb0scale infrastructures/ ,rini holds over a do2en
patents in database, Internet, mobile, and distributed system technologies/
,rini co0founded +erospike to solve the scaling problems he e;perienced with
9racle databases at LahooR where, as senior director of engineering, he had
global responsibility for the development, deployment and !$SP operations
of LahooR%s mobile products, in use by tens of millions of users/ ,rini also was
chief architect of I.*%s 3.! Internet products, and he served as senior
architect of digital T= products at ?iberate Technologies/
+t The Fifth lephant !"#$, ,rini will talk about how +erospike is being used
by In*obi and other world0class technology companies emerging out of
India, and the possibilities of the open source version for real0time analytics/
)nu )#harya is the founder and 3E of #i$u$ Bio 'olutions, a
genomics outsourcing company for discovery, development and diagnostics,
head4uartered in Hyderabad, India/
,he also serves as a member of the governing body of -ouncil of ,cienti1c Q
Industrial Jesearch, on the board for the )ational Institute of .iomedical
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Genomics based in 7alyani, Cest .engal, on the Global +genda -ouncil on
Genetics !"## in the capacity of =ice -hair/
+t this event, +nu will introduce the 1eld of genomics to participants and the
challenges involved in mining huge volumes of data in this 1eld/
+r% 'hailesh 1u$ar is a 8e$"er of Te#hni#al 'taB at Google% He is
also a member of the ditorial 8anel of The Fifth lephant which has curated
content for the conference and workshops/
,hailesh has over 1fteen years of e;perience in applying and innovating
machine learning, statistical pattern recognition, and data mining algorithms
to hard prediction problems in a wide variety of domains including6 remote
sensing, te;t mining, bio0informatics, computer vision and image
understanding, transaction data mining, retail analytics, neurological data,
risk analytics in 1nancial domain, and web analytics/
He will speak about the art and science of data mining > practical, real0world
applications of machine learning at this event/
+r% ,i<ay 'reeni!as )gnees*aran is the 3irector of Big +ata :a"s at
.$eptus%
The focus of his work is on reali2ation of a fully distributed deep learning
network, inspired by the pseudo0central reali2ation Twhich is the only one
available currentlyU/ +t this event, he will introduce deep learning to
participants, giving a futuristic perspective of machine learning to data
scientists in India/
Founders of HasGeek
1iran Jonnalagadda, founder HasGeek combines a career in building
technology solutions for traditional industries including media, research,
government and academia, with a passion for technology communities to
create HasGeek, a space for people in technology to learn from each other
and discover new opportunities/
Caina" Ba*a, #o(founder worked as an independent researcher on
urbanism, governance and the impact on technology on political practices
and institutions/ Dainab brings to HasGeek a keen understanding of the
social practices that a5ect the use and adoption of technology, an ability to
connect with a diverse range of individuals to get them working together,
and a strong e;ecution0oriented mindset/
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