The Fifth Elephant 2012

Finding the elephant in the data.

What are your users doing on your website or in your store? How do you turn the piles of data your organization generates into actionable information? Where do you get complementary data to make yours more comprehensive? What tech, and what techniques?

The Fifth Elephant is a two day conference on big data.

Early Geek tickets are available from fifthelephant.doattend.com.

The proposal funnel below will enable you to submit a session and vote on proposed sessions. It is a good practice introduce yourself and share details about your work as well as the subject of your talk while proposing a session.

Each community member can vote for or against a talk. A vote from each member of the Editorial Panel is equivalent to two community votes. Both types of votes will be considered for final speaker selection.

It’s useful to keep a few guidelines in mind while submitting proposals:

  1. Describe how to use something that is available under a liberal open source license. Participants can use this without having to pay you anything.

  2. Tell a story of how you did something. If it involves commercial tools, please explain why they made sense.

  3. Buy a slot to pitch whatever commercial tool you are backing.

Speakers will get a free ticket to both days of the event. Proposers whose talks are not on the final schedule will be able to purchase tickets at the Early Geek price of Rs. 1800.

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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. more

Sharad Agarwal

Big Data : The wave of Innovation and Disruption

Submitted Jun 28, 2012

To understand the ‘big’ picture and how the intersection of technology innovation, upcoming verticals and business landscape is driving the growth of Big Data ecosystem.

Outline

Big Data has become popular buzzword in recent times. There is lot of hype as with the case with any emerging and disrupting technology. There are a lot of nascent technologies and some are maturing fast to have widespread adoption. Big data is applicable to wide variety of industries and becoming even more relevant with the advent of cloud, broadband and social media. In this session I will talk about how the innovation in Technology and new market opportunities are fueling the growth of Big Data movement. I will talk about what different industry players address what part of the bigger puzzle and how they all fit together to form a complementary and thriving ecosystem.

Speaker bio

Sharad heads the Technology platform group at InMobi where he leads the development of hadoop and big data platforms. He is a Apache Hadoop committer, PMC member and is active in hadoop community for over 4 years. He has been involved with Hadoop 2.0 since it was in concept stage. He is the author of YARN core runtime libraries and Map-Reduce Application Master. He is also Apache Avro committer and worked on Avro during its early days. Prior to joining InMobi Sharad was Architect at Yahoo. Earlier he worked on search platforms and several middleware technologies at AOL and Oracle. Sharad holds BTech from IIT Delhi.

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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. more