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##About the conference and topics for submitting talks:
The Fifth Elephant is rated as India’s best data conference. It is a conference for practitioners, by practitioners. In 2018, The Fifth Elephant will complete its seventh edition.
The Fifth Elephant is an evolving community of stakeholders invested in data in India. Our goal is to strengthen and grow this community by presenting talks, panels and Off The Record (OTR) sessions that present real insights about:
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##Target audience:
You should attend and speak at The Fifth Elephant if your work involves:
##Perks for submitting proposals:
Submitting a proposal, especially with our process, is hard work. We appreciate your effort.
We offer one conference ticket at discounted price to each proposer, and a t-shirt.
We only accept one speaker per talk. This is non-negotiable. Workshops may have more than one instructor.
In case of proposals where more than one person has been mentioned as collaborator, we offer the discounted ticket and t-shirt only to the person with who the editorial team corresponded directly during the evaluation process.
##Format:
The Fifth Elephant is a two-day conference with two tracks on each day. Track details will be announced with a draft schedule in February 2018.
We are accepting sessions with the following formats:
##Selection criteria:
The first filter for a proposal is whether the technology or solution you are referring to is open source or not. The following criteria apply for closed source talks:
The criteria for selecting proposals, in the order of importance, are:
No one submits the perfect proposal in the first instance. We therefore encourage you to:
Our editorial team helps potential speakers in honing their speaking skills, fine tuning and rehearsing content at least twice - before the main conference - and sharpening the focus of talks.
##How to submit a proposal (and increase your chances of getting selected):
The following guidelines will help you in submitting a proposal:
To summarize, we do not accept talks that gloss over details or try to deliver high-level knowledge without covering depth. Talks have to be backed with real insights and experiences for the content to be useful to participants.
##Passes and honorarium for speakers:
We pay an honorarium of Rs. 3,000 to each speaker and workshop instructor at the end of their talk/workshop. Confirmed speakers and instructors also get a pass to the conference and networking dinner. We do not provide free passes for speakers’ colleagues and spouses.
##Travel grants for outstation speakers:
Travel grants are available for international and domestic speakers. We evaluate each case on its merits, giving preference to women, people of non-binary gender, and Africans. If you require a grant, request it when you submit your proposal in the field where you add your location. The Fifth Elephant is funded through ticket purchases and sponsorships; travel grant budgets vary.
##Last date for submitting proposals is: 31 March 2018.
You must submit the following details along with your proposal, or within 10 days of submission:
##Contact details:
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Gaurav Godhwani
@gggodhwani
Submitted Mar 31, 2018
**About District Treasuries: **
District Treasuries are the nodal offices for all financial transactions of the Government within the district, managing both payment and receipts. They also monitors the activities of various sub-treasuries which work as an extension of the Treasuries at the Tehsil/Taluka level. Each district has various Drawing & Disbursing Officers who are authorised to draw money can present their claims in the Treasury which are then accounted by concerned authorities. Various states in India have developed Integrated Financial Management System which publishes detailed information of daily transactions happening at district treasuries within a state.
**About Time Series Analysis & Inferences: **
The detailed information of daily transactions at district treasury can helps us perform near real-time tracking of flow and utilisation of funds. This can be used to track expenditure on various schemes and social sectors, anomalies in fund disbursement, understanding near real-time alerts and predicting timely utilization of budgets. In this talk, we will explore how we can harness time-series modelling and analysis to better understand functioning of various district treasuries in India.
The session will be organized as:
Gaurav Godhwani is working as the technical lead with Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability, majorly focussing on Open Budgets India initiative. He has served as co-founder and chapter leader for DataKind Bangalore, building a team of pro-bono data scientists to help nonprofits start projects addressing critical humanitarian problems and explore how data science can be applied to solve these challenges. He has previously led data projects at Goibibo and PromptCloud, later focusing his work towards data-for-good ecosystem. He is a passionate open data and open source contributor.
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/17Suj2GZhgkcgpdVWeuMOBGFXXpmCn5vprEk-71sfx70/edit?usp=sharing
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