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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:
For more information about the conference, sponsorships, or any other information contact support@hasgeek.com or call 7676332020.
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Sushant Sinha
@sushant354
Submitted Jun 27, 2018
Nearly a year back, a nine judge bench of Supreme Court unanimously affirmed
that the “Right to Privacy” is a fundamental right under the Indian
Constitution. This was not the first time SC upheld right to privacy as it has
been doing this in a number of decisions since Maneka Gandhi vs UoI (1978).
The SC has repeatedly upheld in last four decades that individuals have
autonomy over personal choices and can control over dissemination of their
personal information. However, the right to privacy is not absolute and is
subject to own set of restrictions. In R. Rajagopal (1994), SC laid out the
contours of the right to privacy while dealing with the biography of a
convicted criminal and held that right to privacy ceases to exist in matters of
public records including court records. It is because the right to privacy
gives way to people right to know that is part of the fundamental right to
freedom of speech (Article 19(1)(a)). Now what this means is that once a
personal dispute or a commercial dispute reaches the courts it becomes matter
of public record. In this talk, I will highlight the challenges of public
exposure of such public data-sets and how sensitive people are with respect to
the so called public records. Since many court judgments are related to living
people, the public availability impacts them in terms of their marriage,
business and job prospects and sometimes just reputation in the society. Some
of these impacts may be justified or not but a mere publisher
cannot sit in the judgment of these issues. Court approach to these issues have
mostly been ad hoc and they ordered case removal or name anonymization in some
cases where as refused to entertain other pleas. As public availability of such
data increases, we will see more of the right to know conflict with the right
to privacy. I will also outline legal and regulatory changes that can be
taken up for balancing such conflict.
Sushant Sinha is the founder of the website Indian Kanoon (https://indiankanoon.org) -- that allows common people to quickly find relevant Indian laws and court judgments. He did his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from University of Michigan under the guidance of Professor Farnam Jahanian. He picked up his M.Tech and B.Tech degrees in Computer Science from IIT, Madras. The master’s thesis was guided by Prof. C. Siva Ram Murthy.
Jul 2018
23 Mon
24 Tue
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26 Thu 07:45 AM – 06:15 PM IST
27 Fri 07:45 AM – 05:35 PM IST
28 Sat
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