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Anay Nayak A Pragmatic Guide to Robust Data Quality ChecksIgnoring data quality introduces significant risks such as flawed insights and poor business outcomes. This 30-minute talk moves beyond simplistic validation, offering a journey through a multi-tiered data quality assurance approach. We’ll start with foundational checks: schema validation, data volume monitoring, and defining value ranges (high/low thresholds) for immediate outlier detection. The… more
I am submitting for: Speaking at the Fifth Elephant 2025 Annual Conference
Type of submission: 30 mins talk
Choose the topic your submission falls under: Data & ML Infrastructure track
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Sarang Kulkarni Building RAG based LLM Applications: From PoC to ProductionIntroduction Did you know that almost all modern Large Language Model (LLM) applications have Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) as a core component? This workshop is designed to help developers and ML engineers build powerful LLM applications leveraging RAG and explore techniques to enhance them beyond basic proof-of-concepts. Participants will gain a solid understanding of the core RAG archit… more
Choose the topic your submission falls under: Other
I am submitting for: Speaking at the Fifth Elephant 2025 Annual Conference
Type of submission: Hands-on workshop - 2.5 hours
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Rachna Saxena Speaker Develop Visual Augmented Q&A using multi-vector Vision Embeddings with Vector DBProblem Statement Most of the documents include infographics (visual elements of information) such as tables, charts, images etc. often used to convey complex information to readers. Multi-modal LLMs are powerful tools that can be used for question answering on such complex documents. However, there are two challenges which limits the productivity and value add: more
I am submitting for: Speaking at the Fifth Elephant 2025 Annual Conference
Type of submission: Hands-on workshop - 2.5 hours
Choose the topic your submission falls under: Applied AI Engineering & Agentic AI track
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Anustup Mukherjee 
Prateek Gupte Journey of Finetuning Open Source Stable Diffusion ModelsAbstract: AI Images are revolutionizing the world from multiple perspectives which includes High Quality creative art, fashion images, animes and much more. Diffusion models are the heart of these use cases. Businesses are revolving around this technology to create niche use cases, However adapting these general purpose models specific use cases like : Can a Diffusion model generate an Indo-Nepal… more
Choose the topic your submission falls under: Training datasets - case studies; experience reports
I am submitting for: Speaking at the Fifth Elephant 2025 Annual Conference
Type of submission: Tutorial (lecture style) - 60-90 mins
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Chaitanya Anand 
shubhankar khare Co-Host Plug AI Into Your Systems: A Hands-on Guide to Building MCPs🔍 Workshop overview Large Language Models aren’t just for chat anymore, they can now take real action. With the rise of the Model-Context Protocol (MCP), it’s now possible to expose your backend services as tools that AI assistants like Claude can directly invoke. MCP bridges the gap between natural language and your actual systems. more
I am submitting for: Speaking at the Fifth Elephant 2025 Annual Conference
Type of submission: Hands-on workshop - 2.5 hours
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Amir Nagri Editor ML in a Box - a Birds of Feather sessionMachine Learning makes one think of large datacenters and high end hardware. But is it possible to run effective ML workloads on your laptop or your homebrew setup? What type of hardware and devices can you put together and wring some ML juice out of it? Join this Birds of Feather session to find out! more
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Pramod Biligiri Software development in the age of AI - a Birds of Feather sessionGenerative AI is transforming the software development workflow. What are some current techniques, tools and processes that harness the power of AI to great effect? And how to avoid subtle traps and pitfalls? This Birds of Feather session should hopefully have you amazed and provoked by what the participants will say - and show - about this topic! more
I am submitting for: Speaking at the Fifth Elephant 2025 Annual Conference
Type of submission: Birds of Feather (BOF) discussion
Choose the topic your submission falls under: Applied AI Engineering & Agentic AI track
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Anay Nayak And Yet It Moves: Data Quality and Observability - A Birds of Feather sessionBuilding a real-world data project is only half the fun. A project without high-quality data and robust observability quickly loses trust. High-quality data remains the bedrock of everything from BI reports to the latest LLMs, but how do we ensure our data is trustworthy in a system with a lot of moving parts and ever-evolving data? more
I am submitting for: Speaking at the Fifth Elephant 2025 Annual Conference
Type of submission: Birds of Feather (BOF) discussion
Choose the topic your submission falls under: Data & ML Infrastructure track
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Ayan Sharma From Data to Dialogue : Making Databases Conversational and IntelligentOverview As organizations race to integrate large language models into their products and workflows, a new requirement is emerging: the need to host private LLMs in a scalable, secure, and operationally manageable way. more
Choose the topic your submission falls under: LLM-Ops
I am submitting for: Speaking at the Fifth Elephant 2025 Annual Conference
Type of submission: 30 mins talk
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Prasun Anand Building High-Performance PyData Tools by Adding Go to the MixDescription Data science tools have come a long way, and Project Jupyter has been foundational to that progress. But what if we could dramatically improve their performance without abandoning the Python ecosystem? more
I am submitting for: Speaking at the Fifth Elephant 2025 Annual Conference
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Srikanth Sundarrajan Presenter Driving ML experimentation without breaking the infra budgetAt InMobi, data is foundational to everything we do, powering everything from personalization to predictive modeling across our products and platforms. Our data platform ingests, processes, and stores petabytes of data, and supports a wide spectrum of users, from product analysts to ML engineers. more
I am submitting for: Speaking at the Fifth Elephant 2025 Annual Conference
Type of submission: 30 mins talk
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Hrushikesh Dokala From Keywords to Conversations: Evolving Search at AtlanAtlan is a control plane for data and AI that helps humans of data and AI to discover, understand, govern and collaborate on their data assets effortlessly. more
I am submitting for: Speaking at the Fifth Elephant 2025 Annual Conference
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Raj Suvariya Presenter HTAP: bridging OLTP and OLAPProblem statement Today’s engineering teams don’t just build applications; they also need to deeply understand user behavior and align products with evolving sentiments. Traditional database systems often force a difficult choice: optimize for Online Transaction Processing (OLTP), ideal for rapid, individual operations, or for Online Analytical Processing (OLAP), designed for complex, aggregate q… more
I am submitting for: Speaking at the Fifth Elephant 2025 Annual Conference
Type of submission: 30 mins talk
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Priyadarshan Patil Life of PII In Sea of Tokens: Architecting a Geo-Distributed PII VaultAbout the talk: “Life of PII in a Sea of Tokens” isn’t just a talk—it’s a real-world engineering tale. more
Choose the topic your submission falls under: Global Risk Compliance (GRC)
I am submitting for: Speaking at the Fifth Elephant 2025 Annual Conference
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Shubham Tripathi E-commerce Infographics at AI speedAbstract An Infographic is a product image on Product Display Page (PDP) of an e-commerce website such as target.com, highlighting key features of the product in the image itself reducing the need to scroll down to read product specifications. Displaying the highlights of a product directly on images is shown to drive higher demand and increased guest conversion due to speeded up purchase decisio… more
I am submitting for: Speaking at the Fifth Elephant 2025 Annual Conference
Type of submission: 30 mins talk
Choose the topic your submission falls under: Visual AI track
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Pramod Biligiri And Yet It Moves - a Birds of Feather sessionUpdate: The topics listed in this Birds of Feather session are now included in this other session: https://hasgeek.com/fifthelephant/2025/sub/and-yet-it-moves-data-quality-and-observability-a-G2qD8eZwsWQEnYbtBdtYhT more
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Prakash Vanapalli Revolutionise Content Creation With Advanced Lip-Sync AIWe present a production-ready lip-sync model serving millions of creators, built on a novel Latent-GAN architecture that achieves superior identity preservation and audio-visual alignment compared to other approaches. more
I am submitting for: Speaking at the Fifth Elephant 2025 Annual Conference
Type of submission: 30 mins talk
Choose the topic your submission falls under: Visual AI track
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Muthukumar Ganesan AI for Nuclear Safety: Vision based Reinforcement Learning for the Prevention of Safety Critical Event in Reactor FacilitiesHydrogen explosions are an inherent risk in nuclear reactors due to the unavoidable generation of hydrogen during its operation. From Chernobyl to Fukushima, several major nuclear accidents have been significantly worsened by hydrogen explosion. In sodium-cooled fast breeder reactors, due to the use of sodium as a coolant, hydrogen production is prevalent. The disposal of used radioactive sodium … more
I am submitting for: Speaking at the Fifth Elephant 2025 Annual Conference
Type of submission: 30 mins talk
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Bala Nathan Presenter Rovo Dev CLI: Advancing AI-Powered Development with Language Models and Contextual MemoryIn the field of software development, the incorporation of AI into coding is transforming the way developers engage with their codebases. Atlassian’s Rovo Dev CLI is leading this charge, providing a cutting-edge AI-powered command line tool that boosts productivity by automatically generating code. It seamlessly integrates with the Atlassian software development ecosystem, delivering enhanced con… more
I am submitting for: Speaking at the Fifth Elephant 2025 Annual Conference
Type of submission: 30 mins talk
Choose the topic your submission falls under: Applied AI Engineering & Agentic AI track
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Chintan Betrabet Operating Uber's batch data platform in a hybrid cloud environmentSummary Migrating data and compute from on-premises to public cloud is a complex undertaking. This complexity is significantly increased when faced with the scale of hundreds of Petabytes of data and half a million workloads necessary to power business intelligence and maintain a competitive advantage. The migration of data workloads and storage to the cloud has been a multi-year initiative at Ub… more
Choose the topic your submission falls under: Big data in enterprises
I am submitting for: Speaking at the Fifth Elephant 2025 Annual Conference
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Sujit Kamthe  Engineering Reliable and Scalable Realtime Change Data Capture PipelinesAbstract Change Data Capture (CDC) is essential for real-time data architectures, but when handling critical financial transactions, even the slightest data loss or inconsistency is unacceptable. In this talk, we’ll share our experience designing and building a highly reliable, low-latency CDC pipeline for a finance use case where data integrity, availability, and observability were top prioritie… more
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@pacificleo Presenter Intra action: rethinking UI in the age of AIIntra action: rethinking UI in the age of AI Why buttons and text boxes wonʼt cut it anymore more
I am submitting for: Speaking at the Fifth Elephant 2025 Annual Conference
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Sibin Bhaskaran Real-world lessons from multi-agent architecturesMulti-agent systems are gaining traction across various domains due to their ability to adapt and operate in dynamic environments while accomplishing complex tasks. This is largely attributed to their capabilities in tool invocation, context management, planning, and inter-agent collaboration. While their potential is promising, developing sophisticated multi-agent systems for real-world applicat… more
I am submitting for: Speaking at the Fifth Elephant 2025 Annual Conference
Type of submission: 30 mins talk
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Chandramouli Enhancing Performance Observability through Tiny Time Mixers for Storage Domain.As enterprises increasingly rely on Software-Defined Storage (SDS) to manage cloud-scale infrastructure, ensuring optimal workload placement, capacity planning, and performance monitoring has become a complex challenge. Traditional AI-driven observability solutions for IT infrastructure monitoring often rely on device-specific data and short-term statistics, which restricts their ability to gener… more
I am submitting for: Speaking at the Fifth Elephant 2025 Annual Conference
Type of submission: 30 mins talk
Choose the topic your submission falls under: AI-driven analytics track
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Shruti Gupta Presenter Breaking Barriers: How AI is Pushing the Limits of Google SearchDescription of the problem statement or the context more
I am submitting for: Speaking at the Fifth Elephant 2025 Annual Conference
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Anustup Mukherjee
Prateek Gupte Relighting AI-ImagesAbstract: Real Life photography is controlled by light, a messed up lighting can ruin a high quality Camera photograph. The situation is similar with AI generated Images, specially when we are doing background swap or inpainting, where foreground is coming from a different light source and background is having a different one, the Images look pasty which affects realism. In real life photography … more
Choose the topic your submission falls under: Next generation architectures
I am submitting for: Speaking at the Fifth Elephant 2025 Annual Conference
Type of submission: Demo - side project; open source project; something I have built in my org
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Atharva Raykar Hard won lessons from building real-time voice AI applicationsRealtime Voice AI has disrupted the conversational voicebot landscape and made it trivial to create exciting demos. Unfortunately, deploying useful voice AI in production is an entirely different story. In this talk, we will present our findings from working with state of the art voice AI agents. more
I am submitting for: Speaking at the Fifth Elephant 2025 Annual Conference
Type of submission: 30 mins talk
Choose the topic your submission falls under: Applied AI Engineering & Agentic AI track
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Preethi Srinivasan Democratizing Large Model Training with FSDP and QLoRAAbstract Training large deep learning models like LLMs and vision transformers has traditionally required high-end GPUs with large memory, making them inaccessible to many. This talk explores how Fully Sharded Data Parallel (FSDP) in PyTorch can help overcome this barrier by enabling large model training and fine-tuning on smaller GPUs (8–16GB), using commodity hardware or affordable cloud credit… more
I am submitting for: Speaking at the Fifth Elephant 2025 Annual Conference
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Mukund Tripathi Metadata Lakehouse: Building the Active Nervous System for Enterprise Ready AI Control PlaneThe rise of AI has transformed data into a strategic asset, yet traditional metadata systems are failing to keep pace. Passive catalogs, built for simpler times, crumble under the demands of scalable, trusted AI. We’re entering an era where metadata must be active, trusted, and governed – becoming the central nervous system for your data ecosystem. more
Choose the topic your submission falls under: Managing meta data
I am submitting for: Speaking at the Fifth Elephant 2025 Annual Conference
Type of submission: 30 mins talk
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Karthika Vijayan Enhancing retrieval in RAG: The fused features wayRetrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has emerged as a dominant framework for leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) to generate responses grounded in extensive textual corpora. Within this architecture, the retrieval component plays a critical role in determining the overall system accuracy by surfacing the most relevant text chunks based on semantic similarity to the user query. Typically, this… more
Choose the topic your submission falls under: Experimentation
I am submitting for: Speaking at the Fifth Elephant 2025 Annual Conference
Type of submission: 30 mins talk
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Birds of Feather (BOF) session: Finding signal in a noisy landscape: keeping up with AI developmentsUPDATE: Collaborative doc to add trustworthy sources: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MFVOSPMznNa8MkDkhhpEpYQ28SsUEkRy9-4cjL-VVGg/edit?usp=sharing more
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Ravindra Babu Tallamraju Presenter The great pivot: from satellites to scaleAbout This Session Join us for a fascinating fireside chat with Dr. Ravindra Babu Tallamraju, whose 40+ year career exemplifies the art of successful career transitions in tech. From spending 24 years at ISRO tracking satellites and calculating orbital mechanics, to leading AI teams at Flipkart, Myntra, and now as Global Head of Data Science Practice at Sahaj, Dr. Ravindra’s journey represents a … more
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Sandeep Joshi Presenter Speaking dev to dev: crafting talks that stickYou may have a great idea you want to talk about. But you are struggling to create a presentation around it. more
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Siri P R BOF facilitator Feature Engineering at Scale | Birds of Feather SessionFeature engineering at scale Feature platforms centralize how ML teams build, share, and serve features across training and inference. They promise to solve the chaos of scattered feature scripts, inconsistent data pipelines, and the dreaded “it works in training but fails in production” problem. more
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