While we were announcing our speaker line up one by one – we are left with just another day for WordCamp Pune to start.
Here is a list of seven speakers that will speak at the WordCamp.
Md. Anam Hossain
Anam Hossain is a passionate WordPress Developer and developing at ThemeXpert for 3+ years. He likes to play with the technology and implement those into themes and plugins. On weekends he tries to contribute to the WordPress community and helps to solve problems in the WordPress Forums.
Alex is a known face in the WordPress Community in India, primarily because of his work as Meetup Organizer and Organizer in Mumbai.
He runs a digital agency called Ink my web in Mumbai which focuses on developing websites in WordPress, other than providing Inbound Marketing, Social media marketing and SEO Services.
Kushal is a Frontend Engineer at GitLab for past 2 years and is maintainer of both GitLab CE and EE. His job includes working mainly in Plan and Portfolio Management side of things in GitLab EE, he also is a Merge Request Coach (i.e. assisting community contributors in contributing to GitLab).
Saurabh is a Software Engineer lead and mentor at Axelerant. His forte is web development with WordPress and he’s contributed various WordPress plugins to the community—with several plugins are having 50K+ active installs.
Imran’s WordPress journey began in 2015, where he started learning WordPress and Javascript. What he loves about the WordPress community is that it is open and inclusive, one of the most vibrant open source communities globally!
Makarand is WordPress enthusiast, working on WordPress from last 7 years. From label of full freelance status he now turned into Agency with special brand for WordPress Service known as WPGenius.in
Tripad is a freelance UI/UX designer and a closet coder. He has helped worked on a wide variety of WordPress & WooCommerce projects in the past. He is an open source enthusiast with a passion for DIY and undying love for Coffee.
Uriahs is a WordPress Developer and Product Manager for Revive Social; a social scheduling and autopilot WordPress Plugin under the Vertistudio umbrella, alongside CodeinWP & ThemeIsle.
He also uses his skills to help local business individuals in St. Lucia build their dream websites and innovative online services using WordPress.
About Session
Uriahs will be talking about how he came across WordPress and feared it at first; later on, regretting not thinking outside box. He is going to speak on how the internet played and continue to play a major role in his life.
He is going to speak on the state of the web and technology currently on his island and how he thinks WordPress is going to play a big part in the technical boom that is to come.
Vachan has long been actively customizing WooCommerce plugin and wants to introduce how to use UPI payments on WordPress sites.
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 onboarding and integration.
About Session
The session can be broken into 3 parts.
How UPI works?
Who can use UPI?
What can we do with UPI on WordPress?
WP has plethora of eCommerce avenues: WC (WooCommerce) | EDD (Easy Digital Downloads) | GF (Gravity Forms) | GiveWP | etc.
Most of them have some Indian payment gateway extension/add-on/plugin.
BUT Payment Gateways charge a transaction fee + Need documentation, approvals, integrations and the odds.
Moreover, if do not have a registered Firm/Company, the process gets more complicated.
What if you are Tutor, Coach, Musician and anyone, who would like to collect payment in the most simple manner, without fees/deductions and moreover without the headache of dealing with ‘hazaar’ procedures.
IF simply direct payment is required. UPI is the best solution.
WP – at the core is a publication tool, thus widely adopted. If collecting payment can be as simple as a STICKY POST, what else do you need 🙂
Shakthi Kumar is an CMS E-Commerce Architect at Siam Computing, Broadway, Chennai with plenty of experience in building rich and interactive websites.
About Session
In this session, Shakthi will introduce an overview of the importance of building a WordPress website site is needs to be optimised for faster page loading. He will also cover some techniques used in optimisation.
The Page load speed plays a major role for customer satisfaction, Increase profit to the site owner, Site Ranking etc.
There are various techniques used in optimization. This includes Better web hosting provider, Use advanced caching mechanism, Use a CDN, Minify JS & CSS files, Control Post Revisions, Reduce image sizes etc.
This talk will be a flash talk for 10 mins in Marathi.
Harshvardhan Pawar is Digital Marketer with 8+ Years of Experience. He is currently working as Freelancer and as a consultant at Campus Times Media, All Angles Software Solutions and Avail Advertising.
Harshvardhan Pawar will speak about the simplicity of WordPress for developing the website, how he is adding WordPress Development Skills in his portfolio with Digital Marketing by developing brand websites as per client requirements and design needs.
Jitesh is a marketeer and a WordPress developer. He will take us through the 3 step process of writing content that creates great experiences for customers or users of a business.
Jitesh has built WordPress themes and plugins both as a freelancer and via his agency. Before joining the WordPress community, Jitesh worked as a software engineer in semiconductor, industrial automation, telecom and consumer domains.
Now he is a Business Manager at Hummingbird Web Solutions Pvt. Ltd. Manage the WordPress division at Hummingbird.
About Session
Creating content that creates magic is a 3 step process:
1. Understanding your audience’s problems 2. Creating unique content that solves your audience’s problems 3. Putting content in front of your audience
During this talk, he will discuss these 3 steps with real life examples.
What is required for a successful project delivery? Prasad, a Punekar will share some tips drawing upon his almost decade long experience delivering WordPress projects.
Prasad works with rtCamp – an enterprise-grade WordPress agency which is also one of WordPress.com VIP partner. In his 9 years journey at rtCamp, he has been involved in different roles such as theme development, plugin development, hiring, firing, project management & project delivery.
His current role at rtCamp is VP – Delivery. Prasad has also contributed to WordPress as a core contributor, plugin developer & translations contributor
About Session
Through this session, Prasad is going to share his experience on how empathy & ownership towards the project helps in successful delivery. Keeping in mind the client success as an end goal, Prasad will explain some important points one should focus on, along with the examples of how it helped him.
Our next speaker Sujay, is a local from Pune and has been selling plugins and themes for a long time. At WordCamp Pune, he will be sharing some of that secret sauce, that goes in to marketing those products.
Sujay co-founded Brainstorm Force which is parent company of my several 7 figure online businesses. Their software products collectively power over 2 million websites. His specialities are product development, launch & growth hacking. Follow him on Twitter @SujayPawar
About Session
Sujay has been involved in development of several successful WordPress products such as Astra theme, Ultimate Addons, Convert Pro, Schema Pro and CartFlows. His WordPress plugins and themes collectively power more than 2 million WordPress websites. Join us in this session where Sujay has promised us to share his experience and tips.
The next speaker being announced is Priyanka Behera, who has spoken at various WordPress meetups around accessibility.
Priyanka is native of Odisha India, currently providing WordPress development through Multidots. She is using and working in the WordPress platform since 2013. She was the Organizer of first WordCamp Ahmedabad 2017. In her free time, she likes to write blogs related to traveling, contributes to the community and photography.
About Session
In this session, you will get to know about the accessibility. All the different terminology related to accessibility. The need and the relation of accessibility in the WordPress. With some contribution experience in her life. The web accessibility rules and different statistics related to it.
For the developers and Quality analysis, she is going to deliver the steps to take when we are creating a site accessible. The HTML and coding rules need to keep in mind to achieve the accessibility. Some of the plugins and tools which are helpful to achieve the accessibility report.
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