The Fifth Elephant
@fifthelephant
Jump starting better data engineering and AI futures
- Joined Apr 2012
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.
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Spotlight
The Fifth Elephant 2025 Annual Conference (18 & 19 July)
Less hype. More engineering.
Membership
Becoming a member is the best way to connect with industry practitioners and like minded geeks from around the world. Members gain exclusive access to curated discussions and high quality content that is produced here, on a monthly basis.
Exclusive members-only benefits (not available to non-member participants)
The Fifth Elephant membership is valid for one year - 12 months. The member get the following benefits:
- Participation in all online peer review sessions.
- Access to all recordings from online reviews.
- Priority access to all offline meet-ups and online workshops hosted by The Fifth Elephant during the one year period.
- Access to The Fifth Elephant’s annual conference on 18 and 19 July 2025 in Bangalore - in-person and virtually (via live stream).
Corporate Members-only benefits (bulk ticket purchase)
- Transfer of memberships across individuals in the organization.
Exclusive members-only benefits (not available to non-member participants)
The Fifth Elephant membership is valid for one year - 12 months. The member get the following benefits:
- Participation in all online peer review sessions.
- Access to all recordings from online reviews.
- Priority access to all offline meet-ups and online workshops hosted by The Fifth Elephant during the one year period.
- Access to The Fifth Elephant’s annual conference on 18 and 19 July 2025 in Bangalore - in-person and virtually (via live stream).
Corporate Members-only benefits (bulk ticket purchase)
- Transfer of memberships across individuals in the organization.
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Upcoming
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Call for Papers: The Fifth Elephant Papers Reading community
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Call for Books: AI and Ethics Book Club
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Newsletter
Newsletter: Monthly updates for The Fifth Elephant members and community
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Playlists: The Fifth Elephant Video Playlist
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The Fifth Elephant 2025 Annual Conference CfP: Speak at The Fifth Elephant 2025 Annual Conference
Online reviews -
🚀 Showcase your Open Source AI work! Get expert feedback & present at the OSAI meet-ups and festivals in 2025!
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Visual validations using AI Agents
Visual validations using AI Agents: Technical review
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Seeing is retrieving: search chatbots with vision embeddings: Hands-on workshop - The Fifth Elephant 2025 Annual Conference
Underline Centre 2nd floor, Bengaluru -
Build smarter LLMs with dynamic data retrieval: Hands-on workshop - The Fifth Elephant 2025 Annual Conference
Underline Centre, 3rd floor, Bengaluru -
Graduating your AI agents: the path to production: Hands-on workshop on context, tracing and multi-agent orchestration
Composio, Bangalore -
Build MCPs: make your app AI-controllable: Hands-on workshop - The Fifth Elephant 2025 Annual Conference
Underline Centre, 3rd floor, Bengaluru -
Personalize your AI image generator by fine-tuning stable diffusion: Hands-on workshop - The Fifth Elephant 2025 Annual Conference
Underline Centre, 2nd floor, Bengaluru -
Beyond the jargon: making research papers work in the real world: A workshop on developing skills to read ML-Sys papers
Thoughtworks Data Lab, Ground Floor, Bengaluru -
Fifthel 5k: Gradient descent across Indiranagar (run/walk)
Start point: Nerlu Cafe on Indiranagar Double Road, Bengaluru
Past videos
Supported projects
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Decoding Llama3: An explainer for tinkerers: A not-so-quick 7-part guide to using the Llama3 open source AI model
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Open Source AI Hackathon 2024: GenAI makers and creators contest and showcase
Hasura, Bangalore -
A quick introduction to Data Mesh
A quick introduction to Data Mesh: Quiz
Online -
Data Governance and semantics: Approaches and practices for efficient data management
Online
Past sessions
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