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AI, sustainability and big tech

AI, sustainability and big tech: Signal Foundation's President - Meredith Whittaker - and the Signal team talks about AI, encryption and more.

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  • Rootconf

    Rootconf

    Rootconf is a community-funded platform for activities and discussions on the following topics:

    1. Site Reliability Engineering (SRE).
    2. Infrastructure costs, including Cloud Costs - and optimization.
    3. Security - including Cloud Security.
    4. Data privacy.

    In 2023, Rootconf is transitioning to become a community-funded organization. Rootconf has introduced memberships whereby members’ contributions will fund the activities of the community.

    Become a Member now to attend RootConf July 2023, SRE Nov 2023.

    Rootconf channels

    1. Rootconf on Twitter
    2. Rootconf on Telegram

    History of Rootconf

    Rootconf was produced as a media brand by Hasgeek Media LLP in 2012. With the exception of 2013, Rootconf ran as an annual, peer reviewed conference, in Bangalore. In 2019 and 2020, Rootconf traveled to Pune, Hyderabad and Delhi.

    Conference editors

    1. Rootconf 2012 - Nigel Babu
    2. Rootconf 2014 - Sreekandh Balakrishnan
    3. Rootconf 2015 - Pankaj Kaushal
    4. Rootconf 2016 - Pankaj Kaushal, Philipp Paeps
    5. Rootconf 2017 - Philipp Paeps, Saurabh Hirani, Adiya Patawari, Yagnik Khanna
    6. Rootconf 2018 - talks were peer reviewed by past speakers.
    7. Rootconf 2019 Bangalore, Pune and Hyderabad editions - talks were peer reviewed by past speakers.
    8. Rootconf 2020 Delhi edition - talks were peer reviewed by past speakers

    Rootconf during the pandemic: April 2020 - December 2022

    During the pandemic, Rootconf moved to online activities, mainly meetups and conferences. In April 2021, Rootconf ran India’s first Data Privacy conference. This was followed by a conference on data breaches in July 2021 in response to the data breaches at prominent payment companies which signalled the need to spread awareness in the community on the triad of observability, network security monitoring and anomaly detection. In 2021, Rootconf also ran topical seminars on cloud costs optimization and data stores.
    In 2022, Rootconf community engaged with CERT-IN by sending a submission on CERT-IN’s new regulations on storing logs and reporting incidents in connection with data leaks. CERT-IN responded to Rootconf’s submission by extending the compliance deadline for MSMEs by three months, thereby giving MSMEs a longer time window to become compliance ready.

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  • The Fifth Elephant

    The Fifth Elephant

    The Fifth Elephant - known as one of the best data science and Machine Learning conference in Asia - has transitioned into a year-round forum for conversations about data and ML engineering; data science in production; data security and privacy practices.

    The Fifth Elephant is now open for memberships, become a member to attend The Fifth Elephant conferences.

    Follow The Fifth Elephant on Twitter or participate by joining The Fifth Elephant’s telegram group: https://t.me/fifthel

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  • GenerativeAI

    GenerativeAI

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    Event announcements

    Hiring and Jobs

    Hiring Announcements:

    Please fill out this form. We will compile these and share them weekly with the group

    Looking for jobs?

    See open roles here

    Hackathon and Jury Recommendations

    Finances & Expenses

    All our budget and expenses are public. You can see them here: Generative AI Finances

    Code of Conduct

    We enforce the Hasgeek Code of Conduct -- and by being part of our communications e.g. WhatsApp group or attending any of ever events, you agree to adhere to the same. In case of violations, please report to coc {at} nirantk (dot) com

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  • Tech4Food

    Tech4Food

    Food Safety Works is India’s leading food safety solutions company based out of Bangalore, India.

    Tech4Food is our initiative to build a community of food scientists and IT/computer specialists who understand each other better. India’s prowess in IT and related technologies is now world class. So there is a great opportunity to apply these in the food science, technology and nutrition domain to innovate and get ahead of the world.

    Food is a high risk business and technology can play an important in managing the risks. Technologies like Blockchain, AI, IoT and Sensors can help streamline data, provide insights and help in better root causing of issues. Testing of products is critical but the costs of testing are prohibitive and there is an opportunity to reduce the same by developing indigenous and smart technologies. The amount of compute on the devices have gone multi-fold and there are opportunities to improve screening and reporting.

    The potential to apply technology to improve the food safety and nutrition is tremendous. To explore this, we starting a quarterly meetup of food scientists, technologists, nutrition specialists and IT/Computer specialists to discuss the problems, and build the next generation solutions that can be used in the food industry. The meetups will also be an opportunity for enthusiasts from outside the domain to understand the industry. If you are building a product, this is a great opportunity to meet with the industry experts to get quick feedback and also pitch in for a potential pilot.

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