Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Participation in Fifth elephant conference

Dear all, We are participating in the 5th elephant event in Bangalore focused on big data, analytics and visualization. http://fifthelephant.in/2012/ http://fifthelephant.in/2012/#partners The organisers have given us a fee stall and space to participate as a community partner. Team of volunteers would be showcasing Wikimedia projects, Wikidata and also creating awareness about volunteering, the India chapter and membership. Wikipedia techies Arun Ganesh, Yuvi, Srikant (logic) will be participating. They will be supported by Arjuna, Naveen, Radhakrishna and self. regards Arun *Details about the Event (from Organisers)* The Fifth Elephant <http://fifthelephant.in/> is a community-powered conference organized by HasGeek <http://hasgeek.com/> to demystify the big data ecosystem in India. The conference takes place on 27 and 28 July at the NIMHANS Convention Centre in Bangalore. It brings together speakers who have worked extensively with technology, statistical and mathematical tools, and user interfaces for mining, analyzing and representing data. The conference attempts to showcase the technology landscape which today makes it possible to work with data and leverage on its predictive powers. On the first day, participants will get an understanding of the technologies available for managing big data, analytics and visualization. On the second day, the conference will showcase talks that explain how technology is being applied / can be applied in retail, medicine, IT, finance and governance to manage and analyze data. The Fifth Elephant features speakers from Red Hat, Splunk, Google, Strand Life Sciences, IBM, Flipkart, HP Analytics, Mu-Sigma, Amazon, PayPal, MediaNama, Open Knowledge Foundation, among others. Keynote talks will cover topics such as how Google crunches big data at Google scale, community architecture and big data at Red Hat, the genomics project and challenges of big data in personalized medicine, and the process of building Watson and natural language processing. Apart from keynotes, the conference features talks on building search engines, messaging architectures, use of Hadoop in mining and managing data collected under the Aadhar/UID project, data explosion in medical imaging, open data in life sciences, financial market and economic data, to name a few. To view the event schedule, visit: http://fifthelephant.in/2012/schedule <http://fifthelephant.in/2012/schedule> The conference also brings together community partners such as the Wikimedia chapter, the Internet Archive, the Open Knowledge Foundation and the Centre for Internet and Society. The presence of these partners expands the horizons of our understanding of data not only in the context of open data, but also the systems and frameworks that exist for data gathering, sharing and licensing. For more details, write to info(a)hasgeek.com _______________________________________________ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l