Bangalore-based tech event management firm HasGeek is organising a conference that focusses on the big data ecosystem in India on July 27 and 28. Titled ‘The Fifth Elephant’, the event brings together speakers who have worked extensively with technology, statistical and mathematical tools, and user interfaces for mining, analysing 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, a release from HasGeek stated. On the first day of the conference, participants would be able to get an understanding of the technologies available for managing big data, analytics and visualisation.

On the second day, talks schedules would focus on explaining how technology is being applied in retail, medicine, IT, finance and governance to manage and analyse data.

The event features speakers from Red Hat, Splunk, Google, Strand Life Sciences, IBM, Flipkart, HP Analytics, Mu-Sigma, Amazon, PayPal and MediaNama, among others.

According to the release, the keynote talks would 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 personalised medicine, and the process of building Watson and natural language processing.

The two-day event is being held at the NIMHANS Convention Centre. For more details, log on to: http://fifthelephant.in or emailinfo@hasgeek.com