The Fifth Elephant 2017

The aftermath of demonetization has led to a scramble for digital or cashless payments. Enter the era of the micro-ATM, the superhero of payment devices and a solution to the dearth of ATM networks in India, where all you need to transact is your fingerprint. This session will detail the journey of deploying mATMs across India and the leverage provided by deriving a data-driven strategy to do so

Outline

1) Introduction and potential of mATMs
-What is an mATM?
-What are its functionalities and how can you use it?
-What is the need of mATMs in India?
-What is the potential market is can serve?
3) Data science techniques deployed to derive strategy
-What part can Data Science play in such a product?
-Understanding the Indian landscape that does not have much or any digital footprint
-Leveraging Indian census data and other public sources of information
-The role of image recognition and NLP
-Other algorithms that can employed
4) Advantage of visualization, reinforcement learning

Speaker bio

Driven by identifying patterns, deriving insights and problem solving, data science and Vanitha is a natural fit. She has been instrumental in Oxigen’s evolution to a data-driven organization backed by a decade of experience in gleaning actionable insight and scalable data science solutions. She and her team enable key business decisions using ML, Big Data technology and sometimes just plain grit. When not working she is analysing random trivia usually over chai. She can be reached at vanitha.dsilva@gmail.com

Analyzing numbers, trends and visualisation is like breathing to Neelu, be it in industry specific domain analytics or identifying insights from polling numbers each election season as a hobby. As a core member of Oxigen’s Data Science Team, Neelu has built a company culture of utilizing data-driven insights for key business decisions. She has more than 7 years of experience in the industry across domains and can be reached at singh.neelu26@gmail.com.

Slides

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1TCNbPvt-xdsY2tDbYP_u9wa08dVg3UW0ms8AhqmDY4A/edit?usp=sharing