It's so heartening to see how active the Agentic AI space is in India. I am super excited for the future! Some insane innovation is heading our way, and I'm happy to report that Indian devs are rolling up their sleeves and going all-in on building applications!

Catching VizChitra from our #Dharamshala Office - all the best Team! Hasgeek

A distinct aspect of the The Fifth Elephant conference is the informal "Birds of Feather" group discussions. Though the organizers come up with topics and identify some participants in advance, the overall idea is to let the attendees themselves pitch in and drive these discussions 🙂 1/4

Below are the BoF sessions being planned in the Data Engineering & Infrastructure track this year: 1. High Quality Data: How are we doing? - lnkd.in/gisR7gGP 2. And Yet It Moves (Ops and Observability) - lnkd.in/ghck_zmh 3. ML in a Box - lnkd.in/gD-Y69Tc 2/4

It was a while ago (like, two whole years ago - ancient history in AI time!) that I watched a Corridor video that blew my mind. That was back when Stable Diffusion was the shiny new toy, and we were just figuring out how to stop it from generating those crazy extra limbs

1/ Everyone’s talking about AI. You wish you were actually building with it, not just nodding along to threads about RAG pipelines you’ll never write. Welcome to The Fifth Elephant 2025 edition. Workshops for builders, hackers and curious minds. 🐘✨

Vedang (fosstodon.org/Vedang (fosstodon.org/@vedang)) Sid Thoughtworks 6/ ⚙️ The one @vedang can’t stop being excited about: Build MCPs: make your app AI-controllable by Chaitanya & Shubhankar of Atlan Everyone’s been hyping Model Context Protocol (MCP) on AI Twitter - let’s get real and see where it actually fits. 🔗 hasgeek.com/fifthelephant/…

If you're already comfortable with RAG, then this workshop might be for you. Figure out how to make use of visual embeddings in your RAG setup. Particularly interesting was the idea of image patches and how to leverage it.

This is what I'm most looking forward to. When fine-tuning images, it's a lot about your data and captioning it correctly. This workshop will shows you how to do that.

𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐢𝐬 "𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐱𝐢𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐣𝐨𝐛 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝟐𝟏𝐬𝐭 𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐲” 𝐞𝐯𝐨𝐥𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠? I remember that until recently - data scientists spent most of their time developing the best model for a specific problem. But lately, with the rise of strong general-purpose models

This is the feeling I had when reviewing one of the talks for Hasgeek Fifth Elephant. Shubham Tripathi beautifully illustrates this shift as he describes a complex pipeline that Target uses to make the process of creating e-commerce product infographics easier. They make use of

If you want to understand what this new paradigm looks like, maybe even figure out how you can adopt it - then I would recommend that you check out his talk at the upcoming Fifth Elephant conference. July 18-19th, Bangalore or online!

Check out the talk proposal here - hasgeek.com/fifthelephant/…

Infra folks assembled. Strict serializability got the spotlight it deserved. Seshadri Srinivasan broke it down at Sahaj Software with Hasgeek, @Rootconf & #BengaluruSystems. #DistributedSystems #StrictSerializability #TechCommunity #SahajSoftware #Rootconf

Depth. Paras Chopra felt it at The Fifth Elephant 2024. Meanwhile, AI’s busy questioning the meaning of life, replacing your job, and writing poems about sadness - but one thing it can’t cancel: your 2024 ticket. It’s good for 18 & 19 July. Come vibe with your tribe.

🚨 Speaking at The Fifth Elephant 2025 Intra-action: rethinking UI in the age of AI - why buttons & forms won’t cut it anymore. Let’s talk about multimodal, context-aware, proactive interfaces for AI-first products. 📅 19 July | BIC Bangalore 🎟️ hasgeek.com/fifthelephant/… Hasgeek

I'm very excited for this talk. I genuinely believe that all of the productivity unlock is in the UX layer at this point. We are barely scratching the surface with the current "chat" interface as the way to talk with Agentic Systems!

Voice bot development demands scientific methods and not just engineering blueprints. I will talk about what engineering teams can do to enable voice bots that can handle the messy real world. 📍Catch me The Fifth Elephant on 19 July. Hasgeek Pramod Biligiri Vedang (fosstodon.org/@vedang) Sid

The biggest takeaway you'll have from the conference is how everyone is building with and thinking about Generative AI. The future is being built right now, and Fifth Elephant is where you'll see it firsthand. Can't wait to see you there!

The The Fifth Elephant Editors and Reviewers did a fantastic job of finding the best talks for us Curators to look at.