BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//HasGeek//NONSGML Funnel//EN DESCRIPTION:Built for humans. Now rebuilding for agents. X-WR-CALDESC:Built for humans. Now rebuilding for agents. NAME:The Fifth Elephant 2026 Annual Conference X-WR-CALNAME:The Fifth Elephant 2026 Annual Conference REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT12H SUMMARY:The Fifth Elephant 2026 Annual Conference TIMEZONE-ID:Asia/Kolkata X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT12H X-WR-TIMEZONE:Asia/Kolkata BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The Fifth Elephant 2026 Annual Conference DTSTART:20260731T033000Z DTEND:20260731T123000Z DTSTAMP:20260707T030823Z UID:session/NczrpL86vUfQK7kr6jS2CH@hasgeek.com SEQUENCE:13 CREATED:20260706T080924Z DESCRIPTION:# Who is your stack really built for now?\n## Built for humans . Now rebuilding for agents. The Fifth Elephant 2026 Annual Conference - f rom production\, not theory.\nFor years\, data platforms\, voice interface s\, inference pipelines\, and testing frameworks were built for human assu mptions โ€” human-readable schemas\, human-paced conversations\, human-rev iewed test cases. Agents are quietly breaking every one of those assumptio ns.\n\nThe Fifth Elephant 2026 brings together practitioners who have alre ady hit these walls in production โ€” at Dream11\, IDfy\, Onehouse โ€” and rebuilt from first principles\, with the numbers to prove it.\n\nTwo trac ks\, one question: what does your stack look like when agents\, not humans \, are the primary users of it? The Fifth Elephant 2026 brings stories fro m production and the trenches.\n\n### ๐Ÿ“… 31 July 2026 | ๐Ÿ“ NIMHANS C onvention Centre\, Bengaluru\n### โฐ One ticket. Five weeks of workshops + the main conference. Price goes up every Friday until 8 August.\n### [Ge t your ticket โ†’](https://hasgeek.com/fifthelephant/2026#tickets)\n\n**In cludes all pre-conference workshops (7โ€“25 July\, plus 8 August) and the main conference day (31 July).**\n\n---\n\n# ๐Ÿ”ด TOMORROW โ€” 7 JULY\n\n! [Poster image](https://images.hasgeek.com/embed/file/96a0b3cf6dd243b797915 0330ef8b413)\n\n## When Data Is for Agents - with S Anand\n"For thirty yea rs we built data for humans. That's changing โ€” agents are reading your t ables\, docs\, and APIs now\, and they see things differently."\n\nHands-o n workshop: rebuild a real dataset for agent consumption\, live โ€” then u se agents themselves to do the rebuilding. Bring a laptop\, a paid AI acco unt\, and a dataset you actually work with.\n\n[Workshop details โ†’](http ://has.gy/Od90)\n[Get your Fifthel ticket to attend โ†’](https://hasgeek.c om/fifthelephant/2026#tickets)\n\n_Part of the Data Engineering & Infrastr ucture track at The Fifth Elephant 2026_\n\n---\n\n## Conference tracks\n\ n### Track 1: Data Engineering & Infrastructure\nData platforms were built for a human at the other end โ€” cleaned\, joined\, dashboard-ready. That assumption is breaking. Agents read messy data differently\, pay by the t oken instead of the query\, and increasingly operate the platform itself r ather than just querying it. This track brings practitioners who've rebuil t data infrastructure from first principles for this shift โ€” from server less compute that beats the ease/performance/cost trilemma\, to hands-on w ork on what "agent-ready" data actually looks like.\n\n*โ€” Curated by Piy ush Goel (Razorpay)\, Ravi Balgi (Datanimbus)\, and Ranganadh Thata (Mico) *\n\n### Track 2: Agentic AI - Platforms and Use Cases\nBuilding for agent s in production breaks assumptions engineers didn't know they were making โ€” that voice interfaces are just chatbots with audio\, that GPU cost is a fixed tax\, that testing an agent works like testing regular software. T his track is about what actually held up once these systems hit real users at scale โ€” with the production numbers\, failures\, and fixes to back i t up.\n\n*โ€” Curated by Jagadish Kasi (Tryft) and Yash Gandhi (OrcaSheets )*\n\n---\n\n## Featured workshops and talks\n\n### Track 1: Data Engineer ing & Infrastructure\n\n๐Ÿ”ด **Workshop โ€” 7 July** ยท *When Data Is for Agents*\n**S Anand**\, Straive\nHands-on: rebuild a real dataset for agent consumption instead of human consumption โ€” then use agents themselves t o do it.\n\n**Talk** ยท *Breaking the Trilemma: Serverless Data Platform i n Your Own Cloud Account*\n**Nilesh Mahajan**\, Onehouse\nEase-of-use\, pe rformance\, cost โ€” pick two\, or engineer your way to all three. A worki ng answer to a problem most data platforms haven't solved.\n\n### Track 2: Agentic AI - Platforms and Use Cases\n\n**Talk** ยท *Your Voice Agent Is (Probably) Doomed*\n**Dhruv Nigam**\, Dream11\nFive months and 8 discarded prototypes later: why treating voice agents as chatbots-with-audio is the wrong playbook\, and what Dream11 built instead for 5M+ daily users.\n\n* *Talk** ยท *Beyond GPUs: Cutting ML Inference Costs by 10ร— Without Sacrif icing Latency*\n**Vivek Kalyanarangan**\, IDfy\nGPU cost isn't fixed โ€” h ow a 40-model production fleet cut cost-to-serve 10x at the same latency\, and the playbook to repeat it.\n\n๐Ÿ”ด **Workshop โ€” 17 July** ยท *AI Ev als: Stop Guessing\, Start Measuring*\n**Abhijith Neerkaje**\, Beyond Vect ors AI\nTwo hours\, hands-on: why agents fail differently from regular sof tware\, and how to build evaluation pipelines that actually catch it.\n\n- --\n\n## Who should attend\, and why\n\nThis isn't a conference for people curious about AI in the abstract. It's for people already responsible for systems that are starting to break under agent-driven assumptions:\n\n- * *Data engineers and platform teams** rethinking how data is structured\, s tored\, and served โ€” now that agents\, not analysts\, are often the ones querying it\n- **ML and AI engineers** building or scaling agents\, voice interfaces\, or inference pipelines in production โ€” and hitting walls t he standard playbooks don't cover\n- **Engineering leaders and architects* * making infrastructure and cost decisions that will age badly if they're built on human-era assumptions\n- **QA\, evals\, and product folks** figur ing out how to test and measure systems that don't behave like traditional software\n\nIf your team's stack was built for people and is now quietly serving agents too\, this is where the people solving that problem in prod uction are talking about it.\n\n---\n\n## What does your ticket include\n\ nYour ticket covers the entire Fifth Elephant 2026 season โ€” not just one day:\n\n- ๐Ÿ”ด **7 July** โ€” When Data Is for Agents (S Anand)\n- ๐Ÿ”ด * *17 July** โ€” AI Evals: Stop Guessing\, Start Measuring (Abhijith Neerkaj e)\n- ๐Ÿ”ด **25 July** โ€” Additional workshops (details announced soon)\n - ๐Ÿ”ด **31 July** โ€” Main conference day\, NIMHANS Convention Centre\n- ๐Ÿ”ด **8 August** โ€” Closing workshop block (details announced soon)\n\n- --\n\n## Volunteer with us\n\nThe Fifth Elephant runs on more than speaker s and sponsors โ€” it runs on volunteers. We have 20 roles open across the event\, from floor operations to speaker coordination\, with tiered deadl ines depending on the role.\n\n[See open volunteer roles โ†’](https://hasg eek.com/fifthelephant/volunteer-at-the-fifth-elephant-2026-annual-conferen ce/)\n\n---\n\n## Attend\n\n๐ŸŽŸ [Conference tickets](https://hasgeek.com/ fifthelephant/2026#tickets) and [annual memberships](https://hasgeek.com/f ifthelephant#membership)\n\n**Conference ticket**\n- Cancel any time up to 24 hours before the event for a full refund\, no questions asked โ€” *thi s doesn't apply once you've attended any workshop under the ticket (7\, 17 \, or 25 July)\; attending a workshop locks the ticket.*\n- Includes acces s to all Fifth Elephant activities โ€” workshops\, meetups\, and conferenc es โ€” for one year.\n- Easier to get reimbursed through company/HR.\n\n** Annual membership**\n- Access to all Fifth Elephant activities โ€” worksho ps\, meetups\, and conferences โ€” for one year.\n- No cancellation.\n\n-- -\n\n## Sponsorship inquiries\n\nWrite to \n\n---\n\n## Contact\n\n๐Ÿ“ž Call or WhatsApp: +91 76763 32020\n๐Ÿ“ง [info@hasgeek.com ](mailto:info@hasgeek.com) LAST-MODIFIED:20260706T185855Z LOCATION:Bangalore & Hybrid - https://hasgeek.com/fifthelephant/2026/ ORGANIZER;CN="The Fifth Elephant":MAILTO:no-reply@hasgeek.com URL:https://hasgeek.com/fifthelephant/2026/ BEGIN:VALARM ACTION:display DESCRIPTION:The Fifth Elephant 2026 Annual Conference in 5 minutes TRIGGER:-PT5M END:VALARM END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR