All the best, sounds like a very good outreach opportunity. Ashwin
On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 11:39 AM, Arun Ramarathnam <arunra...@gmail.com>wrote: > 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 i...@hasgeek.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > > -- Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur ------------------------------------------------------
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