The Fifth Elephant Pune edition 2026
2026-02-27..2026-02-28
Pune, India
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who it's for
machine learning engineers, ai infrastructure engineers, engineering managers, qa engineers, robotics engineers, data engineers, site reliability engineers
topics
automated test generation; world foundation models for autonomy; diffusion backbone with 3D constraints; CARLA simulator scenario matching; knowledge graph prod memory; agentic AI scheduling; multi-agent PPO scheduling; causal DAGs for manufacturing; GenAI e-commerce catalog enrichment; repo-native PRDs with doc-indexed prompts; persistent context graph orchestration
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| From PRDs to test cases: building AI-powered QA | Manas Chaturvedi | 10m |
An internal AI-powered testing platform converts PRDs, visual designs and OpenAPI specs into runnable unit, integration and UI test cases across 160+… | ||
| From perception to action: World Foundation Models (WFMs) for autonomous robots and vehicles | Abhilash SK | 27m |
World Foundation Models replace modular stacks with an end-to-end AI that turns multi-camera and lidar inputs into control trajectories by training on… | ||
| Beyond vector search: knowledge graphs for an AI-native SDLC | Aditya Godbole | 32m |
Argues that running agents at organizational scale requires a schema-driven prod mode memory rather than raw vectors, and shows a real build: a knowledge graph… | ||
| From scratch to production in three months: the AI-first delivery model | Prasanth Jayaprakash | 38m |
A team rebuilds Travelopia’s lead‑scoring platform in 111 days, shipping 6 lambdas, 3 microservices and a frontend and running at 5,000 leads/month. Work… | ||
| How GenAI is transforming e-commerce catalogues | Neha Dixit | 29m |
Target describes a deployed stack that mixes classical ML, vision models and GenAI to clean and enrich millions of SKUs: anomaly detection for package… | ||
| How agentic AI solves complex scheduling problems | Karthika Vijayan | 47m |
Simulated an airline with 7,500 flights over 30 days, 80 aircraft, 900 crew and 25 airports and compares MILP (4%), genetic (4.8%) and simulated annealing… | ||
| Interrogating your twin: causal reasoning in manufacturing systems | Prasanna Bhogale | 34m |
Uses a causal DAG plus observational data to estimate interventions on a 23‑machine line and produce actionable policies. Tests implied conditional… | ||
| Building the systems that build the software | Atharva Raykar | 30m |
Claim: engineering shifts from writing code to designing sociotechnical systems that orchestrate AI code producers. Uses: StoryMachine experience, demos with… | ||
| The Fifth Elephant Pune edition conference | Prasanth J, Karthika Vijayan, Atharva Raykar | 08h 15m |
Claims a deployed system that turns LLMs into a decision engine for smart buildings, not a chatbot: it uses stateful orchestration, a persistent context graph… | ||
| nothing matches | ||