The Fifth Elephant
The Fifth Elephant

Sponsor The Fifth Elephant 2026 Winter Edition

Sponsorship prospectus

Sponsor The Fifth Elephant’s activties and programmes; Winter Edition details

The Fifth Elephant is a platform for ideas that are innovative, inspiring, and relevant for practitioners. The Fifth Elephant is a round-the-year practitioner community, full of people who care deeply about their craft and show up to share knowledge, build collaborations, and sharpen each other’s thinking.

Each activity - workshops, meet-ups, conferences) and all sponsor interactions are thoroughly prepared for relevance to the audience, and to inspire them for new ideas. The fine-grained curation and community culture is why people keep coming back to The Fifth Elephant.

What’s coming up

Date Event Location
30 Oct 2026 Special edition meet-up — Enterprise AI in Production Mumbai
4–5 Dec 2026 Winter Edition — “Data science isn’t dead. It’s just not what you think it is anymore.” Bengaluru
Feb 2027 Special edition — AI in Manufacturing Pune
Jul 2027 2027 Annual Conference Bengaluru

See the Winter Edition programme and CfP →

Audience profiles

Who's in the room — role and seniority breakdown

  • ~1 in 8 attendees is a founder, co-founder, or CEO
  • Senior-heavy — strong Director/VP/Head-of and Principal/Staff/Lead presence
  • Rounded out by senior data scientists, ML engineers, and software engineers building in production

Domain-wise breakdown

Domains represented among past sponsors and speakers

Past sponsors

Past sponsors

Sponsorship tiers

Bronze Silver Gold Platinum
Price ₹60,000 ₹1,75,000 ₹4,00,000 ₹6,50,000
Spots available 10 3 2 1
Exhibition space Small table Table Booth Booth / lounge
At-shell engagement Treasure hunt + Giveaway ++ (quiz/demo optional extra) All 3, included
Speaking opportunity — Short talk (5–10 min) Talk (15 min) Choice of: fireside chat (at the conference) or round table (pre-event, 3–4 weeks before)
Branding Logo on website + Event banner + Notebook + Exclusive lanyard
Passes 2, entry-only 3, entry-only 10, catering bundled 20, catering bundled
The year-round bite — — Standing mention in Fifthel’s monthly activities, 3 months post-edition Standing mention in monthly activities (3 months) + one meet-up at the sponsor’s own venue, 60–90 days post-edition

Prices are per sponsorship, + GST. Gold and Platinum sponsors get a standing, year-round relationship with The Fifth Elephant community.

Add-ons & standalone items

Sponsorship options you can add-on, or pick up any time of the year, at any place.

Item Price (INR) Notes
Round table 1,00,000–1,50,000 Premium, pre-event, curated invite list
Meet-up 60,000–75,000 Curation, content alignment, promotion via Hasgeek channels. Outcomes curated, not guaranteed; subject to editorial review.
Pre-event mixer Flat 40,000 Audience curation/promotion only; venue, food, AV, and coordination billed separately
Geek-up 75,000–1,50,000 (by guest heft/visibility) Time with visiting practitioners from prominent organizations; year-round, decoupled from conference lead time; audience-only pricing, logistics extra
Photo kiosk Flat 35,000, all-inclusive Inclusive of set-up
Quiz/puzzle add-on 20,000–30,000 base + implementation Curation + facilitation
Demo add-on 15,000–25,000 base + implementation Editorial approval and floor-plan coordination for the sponsor’s own demo — space, power, and scheduling. Sponsor runs the demo; Hasgeek clears the path for it.
Giveaway add-on 25,000–35,000 base Item itself free if sponsor-supplied; pass-through at actual cost if Hasgeek curates

Prices are + GST. Base fees cover curation and coordination; implementation and logistics costs
are passed through at actual cost.

Looking to fund access rather than visibility? See the Diversity Fund below.

Contribute to the diversity fund

Some candidates just need the ticket covered; others — travelling in from outside Bengaluru — need travel and stay support too. Your contribution goes into a shared fund, allocated by The Fifth Elephant’s diversity grants team, directly to candidates by criteria.

₹25,000 → recognized as a Diversity Partner (listed separately from sponsorship tiers):

  • Recognition on the website and in social media promotion
  • Verbal acknowledgment at the conference
  • Post-event impact summary — usable in your own CSR/ESG reporting
  • Certificate of appreciation

A goodwill contribution, not a sponsorship tier — no booth, stage time, or lead-generation access.

Get in touch

Tell us what you’re trying to reach — hiring, product feedback, brand presence in the data science community — and we’ll help you pick the tier that fits, or shape a custom add-on.

📧 sales@hasgeek.com
📞 +91 7676332020

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