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THE FIFTH ELEPHANT

Dancing to old (data) and new (LLMs, GenAI) tunes - at The Fifth Elephant Annual Conference on 13 July

Late last year, the CTO of a famous company sighed, “Our jobs are simply glorified. In reality, all we do is to deal with data and do the grind of ‘garbage-in-garbage-out’ everyday.”

The jukebox at The Fifth Elephant 2024 will play the following tunes:

1. Data engineering - from managing data pipelines and data lakes, to optimization, open source, de-risking proprietary vendor lock-ins, and DataOps.
2. Models - text, image and audio - open source models, Indic LLMs, multi-models. Let’s not forget security and privacy concerns. Above all, compute efficiency - how many Amazon forests are burned in running LLMs!
3. GenAI use cases – innovative use cases. Meet the Who’s Who in the startup community.

10 editors — experienced industry practitioners — will curate The Fifth Elephant annual conference. Stay tuned for editor announcements at hasgeek.com/fifthelephant/2024

Participate

• Speak about your work. Share actionable insights with the community.
• Offer feedback by commenting on submissions for the Conference.
• Suggest topics and speakers.

… all of this at hasgeek.com/fifthelephant/2024/sub

Buy a conference ticket (grab early bird pricing)

Read here or join the conversation.

TUTORIAL

Introduction to Transformer Architecture on 11 April - Summary + Video release

Arvind Devaraj, member of The Fifth Elephant community, taught a tutorial on 11 April explaining how the Transformer model has evolved from neural networks to handle long sequences of text. This introduction is important to understand how ChatGPT works.

Watch the Tutorial video here

This video will be useful for:

• Developers working on NLP projects such as chatbots, document understanding, information extraction.
• Product managers who want to leverage NLP and GenAI in their business workflow
• Students and research to understand the foundational Deep Learning methods for NLP.

HACK5

Open Source AI Hackathon V1

Over the last few months, you have heard a great deal about The Fifth Elephant Open Source AI Hackathon. 5 winners, 5 lakh rupees worth of prizes for 5 winning teams, yadda, yadda, yadda.

This month, we conclude V1 of the Hackathon, with a brand new name - Hack5 - and a nifty report for you to get a quick snapshot of the Hackathon vision, process and winners’ details.

Read the hackathon report (PDF) here

P.S. Missed watching the Demo Day Video. Watch it here

HASGEEK REWIND ⏪

Should you migrate to k8s … who nodes?

Here’s a few videos to help you make your mind about it.

1. A packet’s pilgrimage from Pod A to Pod B - dissecting K8s Networking
2. Of molding platforms and shifting paradigms - running Kubernetes on production for 3 years
3. Practical container security - how to harden your K8s cluster, a demo

MEMBERS IN ACTION

Shadab Siddiqui — championing security to build digital fortresses

Security can feel like that annoying pop-up, interrupting your coding flow. But here’s the truth: ignoring security is like building a Ferrari out of cardboard - impressive speed, zero crash protection.

Shadab Siddiqui, the pioneer of security at Ola, and presently CISO at Hotstar, wants to champion security as a competitive advantage for developers.

According to Shadab, developers are uniquely positioned to become cybersecurity heroes because:

• Security is built-In, not bolted on.
• Embrace “security by design” mindset.
• Automation i.e., befriend the right tools.

To sum up, security is not an obstacle to overcome; it is an opportunity to demonstrate your commitment to excellence and integrity in everything you build.

Shadab is kickstarting a programme on practical security on hasgeek.com which covers different aspects of doing security as developers.

Follow Shadab’s profile on hasgeek.com to stay updated with BOFs, unconferences, workshops and more on Practical Security on hasgeek.com

MEMBERSHIPS

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Some exclusive Members-only benefits (not available to non-member participants):

• Virtual access to monthly Meet-ups; and GeekUp events
• Free virtual + in-person access to Rootconf/The Fifth Elephant conferences. Exclusive access to Speakers’ Lounge
• Priority virtual + in-person access to Podcasts, Roundtables and Virtual Meet-ups
• Members-only participation in rehearsals for Meet-ups and Conferences
• Access to video content archive - from past Meet-ups, Talks, Conferences and Workshops