Category: Speakers

Gaurav Pareek must be familiar to quite a few of us from his talk at WordCamp Mumbai. At WordCamp Pune, Gaurav will give An Introduction to the WordPress REST API to developers in a mix of Hindi and English.

A Web developer, UI/UX hacker, free software activist, Doctor Who fan and all round geek. Gaurav discovered WordPress in 2009 and fell in love. He even ran a web development services company for 5 years completely revolving around WordPress.

Primarily a theme developer, he also dabbles in non-traditional uses of WordPress. When not doing his job as a web developer or geeking out on science fiction stuff, he dabbles in accessibility tech, bash, python, Linux desktop software, 3D design, music, and cooking. He aspires to start a social enterprise for accessibility related technology someday.

Speaking anywhere for the first time is harrowing enough. However, a WordCamp is a bigger deal for most of us because it comes with a whole lot of professional cred. The stakes are a little higher and so is our apprehension.

So, if you’ve been nursing ideas of speaking at WordCamp Pune but otherwise are not sure what to do, worry not, we’ve got you covered. We’re hosting a Workshop on Speaking at a WordCamp. While primarily meant for the first timers, experienced speakers may also pick up a technique or two to sharpen their game.

So, if you are in Pune on the 4^th of July, you might want to attend this one: Workshop on Speaking at a WordCamp.

Sudar Muthu is speaking at a WordCamp for the first time, though he’s a seasoned professional. At WordCamp Pune, Sudar is going to help developers raise their game to the next level by familiarising them with Unit Testing for WordPress. He’ll speak in English.

Sudar has been programming for more than a decade and is a polyglot. He has written production code in more than half a dozen programming languages – and most of it was using Vim!

Sudar first discovered WordPress in late 2005 while searching for a self hosted blogging platform for his migration away from Blogger. After tinkering with WordPress for his blog, he published his first WordPress plugin in late 2007 and has since continued to release more than 20 plugins with a total of nearly half a million downloads. He blogs about WordPress and web development at http://sudarmuthu.com.

We are kicked to announce a multilingual workshop on building multilingual websites by a multilingual team from WPML at the multilingual WordCamp Pune 2015.

Oh yes, you read that right. The team from WPML consists of Bigul Malayi, Harshad Mane, Ankit Gade, Minesh Shah and Sumit Singh. Each of them speaks a different native tongue, making the team multilingual as well! 🙂 These experts are going to conduct a hands-on workshop on building multilingual WordPress websites.

The workshop titled “Let your site speak multilingual!”, will be conducted in three languages at the same time: Hindi, Marathi and English. Now it’s up to you to make use of this opportunity and learn how to make all content and meta content of your WordPress site multilingual!

Photo Credit: A bad cross between Hindi and Marathi by Meghana Kulkarni is licensed under CC BY NC 2.0.

Meet Akshay Raje. Akshay’s speaking about Importing content from other systems into WordPress and WooCommerce at WordCamp Pune 2015. His talk will be a mix of English and Marathi. You might recognise Akshay from WordCamp Mumbai; he spoke there, as well.

He discovered WordPress in 2008 and has been in love with it since then. He started moonlighting on small client projects and custom plugin development. He subsequently tried to bootstrap a WordPress services firm just to discover that services is not something that he wants to do for a living.

He does customer support for WP All Import and also supports a couple of WordPress plugins authored by him. He aspires to build a successful WordPress product company some day.

We’re still accepting speaker applications, in case you’re wondering but it may not be for long. We’re already in discussions with a couple of speakers and plan to discuss with a couple more applicants. We even have a platform if you want to showcase your blog or a plugin/theme that you’ve authored. We’re more eager to hear you speak than you’d believe! Go ahead, apply before it’s too late.