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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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Priyanka Bhatt
@priyanka_bhatt
Submitted Mar 31, 2018
Millions of users browse Walmart.com each day with varying levels of intent. Many of them end up making a purchase in the same session and most, well, do not. Display retargeting channels, with ads over open web and your favourite social media sites, are then used to reach out to the potential customers with relevant content. The ad serving comes at a cost and optimizing these costs becomes especially important given the huge scale. Predicting a user’s purchase (or click) propensity and bidding appropriately is crucial for reaching out to the right user with the right content and at the right time.
We discuss how we, at WalmartLabs, build the user propensity prediction models to efficiently bid for ad impressions. We start from ground zero - understanding data nuances and formulating the problem. We delve into the finer aspects of offline data crunching and building models and pipelines on top of petabytes of user data. We further elaborate the critical stage of deploying models into the real world, where the model scores are just not enough! We also discuss the affect of multiple user touchpoints on these models and how ‘robust’ algorithms come to the rescue.
Note:
A large part of the talk will be based on our paper titled “Robust Factorization Machines for User Response Prediction”. This reasearch work was accepted at the WWW’18.
Paper Link: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3186148
Co-Author: Surabhi Punjabi
Blog Links:
https://medium.com/walmartlabs/robustness-for-user-response-prediction-bae97d7f064f
https://medium.com/walmartlabs/robust-factorization-machines-1a9ef9f75abf
Talk Link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lImZBDHmibY&t=226s
Passionate about building intelligent machines. Working with @WalmartLabs for past 4 years. Experienced in driving and building scalable data-centric products and strategies. Working on challenging data and scalability problems as part of the Display-Targeting and Affiliate-Marketing Channels. Masters graduate from IISc Bangalore with specialization in Game Theory.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/priyanka-bhatt/
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LNwllXTzq7WOp0WoVRDd0DwIKPzNd6Wu/view?usp=sharing
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