WordCamp Pune 2015

Raghavendra Peri is someone who works on accessibility day in and day out. His opinions on accessibility are all the more important since it comes from his own experience. Which is why he’s the most appropriate person to conduct An Experiential Workshop on Accessibility with WordPress. You can experience websites the way a lot of people do and see why it’s awesome when websites are accessible, first hand!

Raghavendra is a Digital Accessibility Consultant at Deque
Systems. He is also a Digital Marketing Strategist, Speaker, and
Blogger & Entrepreneur. At the age of 8, he was diagnosed with a
degenerative eye condition called Retinitis pigmentosa that rendered
him totally blind at the age of 26. But that did not stop him from
pursuing his dreams. He keeps himself actively involved in the
technology space & uses various assistive technologies in his day to
day life.

He loves travelling, listening to audio books, partying, socializing,
trekking, running and giving motivational talks at schools & colleges,
apart from his day today work.

He is currently pursuing his bucket list of 101 things to do before I die

101 things to do before I die

Vachan Kudmule is an active member and organiser of the Mumbai WordPress community and has even initiated a WooCommerce Meetup. He’s going to talk about Indian Payment Gateways for your WordPress powered eCommerce sites in Marathi, Hindi and English.

Vachan became an entrepreneur in 2002, at 17, when he started his firm KDC (Krazy Devil Creationz). It has grown into a full-fledged web solutions agency. He’s studied architecture and started his second firm KDC Inc in 2006 which provides architecture and interior design solutions. He ventured into eCommerce Consulting in 2009 and started KDC Pay which assists startups in building full fledged eCommerce sites with Payment Gateway accruing and integration. At present Vachan is involved with all the three while also heading the design and technology teams for White Shadows, a digital marketing agency.

Vachan’s motto is “everything can and must be designed”. He’s passionate about FOSS (Free Open Source Software) and helping start-ups grow their business. Self learning and exploring new ideas keeps him motivated and he has pioneered many industry first concepts in alternative access mediums. He’s presently experimenting with Native Mobile App Development.

Vachan means a promise in Sanskrit. For those of you who couldn’t catch the wordplay in the title because of the language!

Alexander Gounder is a web design and SEO professional running a digital agency called Ink my web. At WordCamp Pune, he’s going to analyse The most popular SEO plugins/solutions for WordPress in a critique followed by a QnA. This grand-daddy of the Indian WordPress community is speaking at a WordCamp for the first time!

Alex is an SEO / SEM, Internet Marketer with a wide variety of work experience across industries and domains like Films, TV Production, Customer Service, Politics, Government Operations, Press Relations, Graphic & Web Design to finally Internet Marketing & SEO.

In the last few years he has been involved with the Indian WordPress Community which has helped him use WordPress for his clients at Ink my web  better and also dabble with theme development (th3mes.com).

We have announced quite a lot of sessions till now. While we work on the exact schedule and confirm a few remaining sessions, here’s a summary/recap of all the sessions announced till date.

Of the total 20 sessions as of now, there are 10 sessions related to development, 5 related to blogging, 5 related to administration, 8 related to business (including support) and 3 related to the community.

There are no more development related sessions to be announced. There’s more in store for blogging, business and the community. We have at least four very exciting speakers and sessions lined up that we will announce soon. In total, we still have to announce about 10 more sessions. Whether you are a blogger, developer or someone else, you’d find a lot of sessions in the list that’ll interest you!

There are 11 sessions in English, 2 in Marathi and English, 3 in Hindi and English, 2 exclusively in Hindi, 1 exclusively in Marathi and 1 in all the three languages. Like we had promised, you can go the whole day without attending a single session that’s exclusively in English!

There are 13 talks, 5 workshops, 1 QnA and 1 panel discussion. The discussions and workshops are longer in duration, so there’s more interaction time than plain listening!

So, how about making sure you don’t miss out on these and other awesome sessions by grabbing your tickets before we run out!

Nisha Singh spoke at the last WordCamp Pune and it was the first time someone was doing a session in Hindi! She’s back at WordCamp Pune 2015 to guide us with How to build a good quality WordPress theme and that too, in Hindi! Now how about adding your own theme to WordPress.org repository?

Nisha Singh is a Quality Analyst at WPoets Technology LLP. She is also a member of WordPress theme review team since 2010 and has reviewed more then 1300 tickets on WordPress theme trac.

If there’s someone who knows what makes a theme good or bad, it’s Nisha. She is also the best person to know if your theme would make it to the WordPress repository!