The Fifth Elephant 2026 Annual Conference
Built for humans. Now rebuilding for agents.
Jul 2026
27 Mon
28 Tue
29 Wed
30 Thu
31 Fri 08:45 AM – 06:00 PM IST
1 Sat
2 Sun
Jul 2026
27 Mon
28 Tue
29 Wed
30 Thu
31 Fri 08:45 AM – 06:00 PM IST
1 Sat
2 Sun
For years, data platforms, voice interfaces, inference pipelines, and testing frameworks were built for human assumptions — human-readable schemas, human-paced conversations, human-reviewed test cases. Agents are quietly breaking every one of those assumptions.
The Fifth Elephant 2026 brings together practitioners who have already hit these walls in production — at Dream11, IDfy, Onehouse — and rebuilt from first principles, with the numbers to prove it.
Two tracks, one question: what does your stack look like when agents, not humans, are the primary users of it? The Fifth Elephant 2026 brings stories from production and the trenches.
Includes all pre-conference workshops (7–25 July, plus 8 August) and the main conference day (31 July).
The comfortable assumption is that an “AI-ready” database just needs a vector index bolted onto native RAG. In practice, that leads to state fragmentation — teams end up juggling object storage, a relational database for metadata, and a separate vector database, none of which were designed to talk to each other at agent scale.
Modern agentic systems, with potentially millions of agents acting concurrently, demand convergence, not fragmentation. These agents drive bursty, schema-exploding workloads — creating, dropping, and querying millions of tables, spinning up temporary indexes, and requiring instant, consistent shared state. Legacy database architectures weren’t built for this, and the traditional catalog quickly becomes the bottleneck: metadata operations become the new scalability problem.
This keynote lays out the architectural breakthroughs enabling Agentic Scale — and why next-generation databases have to be agent-first, not human-first with an AI feature added on.
🔴 24 July — at Nutanix
Stop guessing. Start measuring.
Hands-on workshop on Agentic Evals.
🔴 25 July — at Nutanix
From Files to Catalogs
Modern data foundations with Parquet, Iceberg, and Polaris.
🔴 25 July — at Nutanix
Streaming Meets the Lakehouse
Hands-on workshop with Fluss and Iceberg. Instructor Alex Campos teaches remotely, with volunteers on the ground to guide participants.
🔴 8 August — at Sahaj Software
From Amnesia to Photographic Memory: Building Memory into Agentic Systems
A hands-on workshop on designing short-term and long-term memory for reliable, personalized AI agents.
🔴 8 August — at Sahaj Software
The AI Engineer’s Playbook: Turning Static Models into Dynamic Agents
A hands-on guide to embeddings, RAG, tool calling, and agentic reasoning — with working code.
Data platforms were built for humans. This assumption is breaking as agents read messy data differently and increasingly operate the platform rather than just query it. This track brings the rebuild in progress: Onehouse’s serverless compute breaking the cost/performance trilemma, InMobi’s governed cross-domain data sharing, Razorpay’s shift from full-refresh to incremental at billion-event scale, IBM Research’s sovereign AI inference on heterogeneous GPUs, and fast-scaling infra work from e6data, Oodle AI, StarTree, OrcaSheets and Skyflow.
— Curated by Piyush Goel (Razorpay), Ravi Balgi (Datanimbus), and Ranganadh Thata (Mico)
Building for agents in production breaks assumptions engineers didn’t know they were making — that voice is chatbots-with-audio, that GPU cost is fixed, that testing an agent works like testing regular software. This track brings the production numbers behind those corrections: Dream11’s voice agent rebuild for 5M+ daily users, IDfy’s 10× inference cost cuts, Atlassian’s AIOps for incident response, and multi-agent, evals, and orchestration lessons from Sahaj Software, Collate, and Chartboss.
— Curated by Jagadish Kasi (Tryft), Ramakrishna Reddy Y (Red Hat) and Yash Gandhi (OrcaSheets)
If your team’s stack was built for people and is now quietly serving agents too, this is where the people solving that problem in production are talking about it.
Your ticket covers the entire Fifth Elephant 2026 season — not just one day:
The Fifth Elephant runs on more than speakers and sponsors — it runs on volunteers. We have 20 roles open across the event, from floor operations to speaker coordination, with tiered deadlines depending on the role.
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