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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.
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
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.
CyberChimps is a leading theme store with 60+ premium WordPress themes and plugins.
They are home to the famous Responsive theme and have 20+ themes on WordPress.org. Since it started, 10 million+ websites have been launched using a CyberChimps theme.
All CyberChimps themes are fully responsive, search optimized, and come with support for:
the WordPress 5.0 editor (Gutenberg),
drag & drop page builders,
and advanced customization options
CyberChimps is a part of Hummingbird Web Solutions and is based in Pune, India. They are a team of motivated designers, developers, and marketers. They actively look to hire WordPress talent and collaborate with freelance theme developers & content writers. Think you’re a fit? Connect with the CyberChimps team at WCPune or get in touch via http://hbwsl.com/careers.html.
rtCamp is a leading WordPress consultancy and product company based in India.
Founded in 2009, at a time when there was no dedicated WordPress company in India, rtCamp’s contribution to the WordPress community and focus on quality has earned them the distinction of being the only WordPress.com VIP Partner from Asia.
WordPress 5.0 was the 15th consecutive release with one or more patches by rtCampers. Apart from providing handcrafted WordPress solutions to enterprises, rtCamp has developed products such as EasyEngine and rtMedia, each with more than 20,000+ active users. Notably, rtMedia is WordPress.com VIP compliant and is used on new VIP-Go platform.
rtCampers are some of the most motivated, creative and active members of the WordPress community. With offices in India and the US, they are actively hiring talent from across the globe. Think you’ll fit right in? They are always hiring at http://careers.rtcamp.com.
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!
Jetpack is a WordPress toolkit that gives you the power to design, secure, and grow your site in one bundle. With Jetpack, you can customize your site with free themes, image tools, and rich content, increase your traffic through automatic social sharing, related content, and faster load times, and stay safe with secure logins and protection from brute force attacks. All of these core features are free, while advanced features like daily backups, spam protection, and SEO tools can be added with one of three simple and affordable plans.
To learn more about Jetpack or get started for free, visit Jetpack.com
WordCamp Pune is part of a network of WordCamps internationally, and is a community-driven event where all the speakers, organizers and volunteers donate their time voluntarily with no monetary gains.
All this is possible with the help of Sponsors who play a vital part in making this conference happen.
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
WooCommerce is proud to participate in the WordCamp Global Sponsorship Program.
Launched in 2011, WooCommerce is a WordPress-based eCommerce tool used by millions of shop owners. WooCommerce is fully customizable and allows you to build a store tailored to your specific business needs and objectives. Sell anything, anywhere, with no restrictions. And because it’s developed and supported by a distributed team across the globe, it’s accessible, flexible, and constantly improving.
It is built to integrate seamlessly with WordPress, making it the obvious eCommerce choice for existing WordPress users and connects you to the fast-growing WordPress ecosystem which now powers over 28% of all websites on the internet.
In July 2015, WooCommerce was acquired by Automattic, the creators of WordPress.com, also the creators of other popular WordPress services including Akismet, Jetpack, and VaultPress.
A huge Thank You 🙏 for your support and making Early Bird Tickets a success.
All the tickets went sold in only 24 Hours.Yes, you heard it right, it took only 24 Hours! 😇
We’re sorry if you missed your chance. Don’t worry though, if you’re a group of 20+ persons, you’ll get Group Discount offer of 10%.Just shoot an email to pune@wordcamp.org and we’ll take care for you. 😉
If you’re a Student and want to attend, you’ll get 20% off for which you’ll need to contact us on above email.
You can also buy Micro-Sponsor: Subscriber (WC Pune Friends) ticket for which you’ll be mentioned on the WordCamp website.
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