Author: Aditya Kane

I believe that the core tenets of open-source culture and philosophy should make their way into education, politics, law, economics and more.
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Speaker: Karthik Magapu on Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO) on WP ecommerce sites

Karthik has been a regular at WordCamps around India. He is a local from Pune and will be speaking on Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO) specifically for WordPress based e-commerce sites.

Karthikraj is Co-Founder and Chief Explorer of Hummingbird Web Solutions (http://hbwsl.com), which builds and supports products for Web developers and Web Designers.

Hummingbird offers WordPress themes (http://cyberchimps.com), WordPress plugins (http://wpeka.com, http://slidedeck.com) and a SAAS commerce CRO tool (http://humcommerce.com)

He also practices Yoga, loves Open Source, and still hopes he will one day learn to ride a Unicycle 🙂

About Session

Karthik will be talking to us about Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO) for WooCommerce website owners. He will cover usage of Heatmaps, A/B testing, Session Recordings, Funnels and other techniques to figure out why visitors on your website are not converting to buyers.

His session will cover the basics of CRO, suggest which tools/plugins you can use, and also offer insights and tips from his personal experience

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Speaker: Vikram Kulkarni on Backups, Restore and Migration for WordPress

The one question that everyone while they level up on WordPress, is how do the backup, restore and migrate WordPress websites. We have a session by Vikram Kulkarni (a local from Pune) who will talk about just those sorts of questions.

Pursuing Passion….Creating Memories…!

Based out of Pune, Vikram is a WordPress Developer & Business Consultant. With over 11 years of experience, the field of Web Development, WordPress and Business Consulting – Vikram spends most of the time creating beautiful websites and helping businesses run online smoothly. He has helped many startups, non-IT businesses & SMEs in implementing new business practices, integrating IT systems to existing setup and leverage web & cloud-based technologies.

An MBA by qualification, he started programming during his high school days. After exploring numerous platforms and technologies, he finally settled on WordPress based development and customisations. He is the founder of Kulkarni Technologies (formerly VIKCON).

About Session

Vikram will shed light on how backup and practice of having backups of the website is a serious business, how it is important to manage them for easy use while restoring the site effectively. He will also talk about the most effective way of taking a backup, without logging into WordPress, or its various plugins available on WordPress Repo. He will guide us through the restoration process, the importance of on-site and off-site backups, along with the automation in the backup process.

Vikram will share his secret recipe to tackle the migration monster of moving the site from the development stage to the live link. Learn about do’s, don’ts and more.

Vikram is on twitter @vikramuk & various WordPress groups on FB.

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Speaker: Vaidehi Singh Sharma – Remote Job Or 9 Hours Office? | Covering Daily Stories

Our next speaker is Vaidehi Singh Sharma. She lives in Pune and is a Digital Marketer with no marketing degree but loads of failures to make her who she is. She turned her passion for writing to a profession.

She was bullied for having non-expertise in technology but then found her way into tech thanks to WordPress. She considers WordPress her superhero. She is often found online helping people on WordPress.com forums.

Remote Job Or 9 Hours Office? | Covering Daily Stories

Vaidehi will be discussing the difference between a professional working on a remote job versus a professional working in a full-time office-based job. This will be an interactive session where Vaidehi will be sharing some stories around these two kinds of work environments. The stories covered in this talk will be funny, extremely emotional, sometimes disheartening, may have too much drama, and will cover the topics that might disturb those who create and nurture taboos. However, the theme will be WordPress.

This talk will be in Hinglish (Hindi+English). It will be useful to those who are willing to see both sides of a coin and above all, loves stories!

To know more, visit her personal blog, Vaidus World or follow her on Twitter.

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Speaker: Ionut Neagu on The Good, The Bad and The Ugly of SEO

This will be Ionut’s first time speaking at a WordCamp in Pune. He will be visiting us from all the way from Bucharest, Romania.

Ionut is a young entrepreneur running several small & medium businesses with the help of a 20+ person team. His WordPress journey started with the launch of CodeinWP in 2012, a year later ThemeIsle was born.

Fast forward to 2019, products like Hestia, Neve or OrbitFox are used by half a million people, while CodeinWP and ThemeIsle blogs are visited by more than a million people every month.

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly of SEO

User acquisition and traffic, in general, are one of the biggest struggles startups have those days. In his talk, Ionut will try to shed some light on how SEO can help, debunk some myths and illustrate with practical examples some core concepts that will help you grow your site’s traffic

You can find Ionut on Twitter.

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Call for Volunteers for WordCamp Pune

A WordCamp is a conference which is organized entirely by volunteers. To pull off another great WordCamp, we are looking for volunteers.

About Volunteering

Are the tasks difficult? 

No. Volunteering requires help with ticketing, sponsor wrangling, marketing and spreading the word, writing content, help with design and more. On the day of the event a lot of volunteers are needed to do basic event management tasks.

Do I need to be WordPress expert?

Volunteers do not need to be WordPress experts at all. A lot of folks in the past have started volunteering as a gateway to learning more about the WordPress community.

At the Event: 

Help us work with vendors, speakers and participants to help everything go smoothly. We need volunteers to work with speakers and help them out while they are conducting a session, or helping people with directions to the event or offering help with transport options and more.

Why should you volunteer?

  • Respect & credits in the community.
  • Inside view & experience of organizing the WordCamp in India.
  • An opportunity to work or interact with and learn from leaders in the Indian WordPress ecosystem.

Let us know that you’d like to jump onboard by completing the application below:

Call for Volunteers is closed now.

Thank you for your interest though. We hope to see you at WordCamp Pune! 🙂
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Get Early Bird Tickets to WordCamp Pune

We opened our tickets to WordCamp Pune today. The early bird tickets are a nice early show of faith to the event.

Along with Early Bird tickets – we have also made Micro-Sponsor: Subscriber Tickets available.If you find the sponsor slabs a bit too steep, micro-sponsoring is a nice way to get involved.

Pricing Details

Early Bird Tickets:

Available till Wednesday, the 16th of Jan 2019. Tickets will be available for ₹350 instead of the regular ₹500.

Regular Tickets

Available after Early Bird Tickets at the regular price of ₹500.

Micro-Sponsor : Subscriber (WC Pune Friends)

This ticket is intended for WordPress professionals or people who recognize that WordCamp Pune is as valuable as more traditionally-priced industry conferences and want to help support the event.

You get everything you would from a standard ticket plus a sense of satisfaction in knowing that you’re giving extra financial support.

Plus you’ll be listed by name in the individual sponsors thank you section on the Sponsors page!

Get Tickets

WordCamp Pune 2019 is over. Check out the next edition!