Abhishek Deshpande
How to Prepare For The Resurrection Of Your Hacked WordPress Website?
Topic Category: WordPress Business
Speaker Bio
Abhishek is a web technology consultant based in Nagpur, currently working as Solutions Architect at Peenak Solutions with 10+ years of experience in Web Development, Digital Marketing across various domains.
Abhishek started with his WordPress version 1.8 as a blogger in 2006. He has been active in the WordPress Community for the last six years. He is a serial WordCamper and Twitter addict, and you can find him on Twitter at any random hour.
Intended Audience: Website Owners
Talk Type: Lightning
Afsana Multani
20 Effective Ways to Build a Better Customer Experience
Topic Category: WordPress Business
Speaker Bio:
I am an Artist by Hobby and a WordPress enthusiast by profession. I am a Customer Support Executive at thedotstore, which is a venture of Multidots inc. Also, I recently started an initiative called “iamwplearner.” I started this as a knowledge sharing activity with a dream of helping the local as well as WordPress community through different channels and languages. I was also a part of Organising team at WordCamp Ahmedabad 2018!
My hobby is to travel and explore new places, reading stories, driving motorcycle, adventurous journey, and accept new challenges.
Intended Audience:
Techie, Non-techie, Leader, Frontend developer, businessman, students, and people of all ages
Talk Type: Full length
Aslam Multani
Panel Discussion: Future of WordPress Business in 2019 & Beyond
Topic Category: WordPress Business
Speaker Bio:
Being COO and Co-Founder at Multidots, Aslam is connected with WordPress since 7+ years. If you ask about WordPress he says “I am a WordPress Fan who wants to grow the list of WordPress Fans.” When not in the office, you can find him watching Hollywood movies or planning his next travel trip.
Intended Audience: Entrepreneurs, Startups and Small Businesses
Talk Type: Panel Discussion
Bhanu Ahluwalia
Panel Discussion: Future of WordPress Business in 2019 & Beyond
Topic Category: WordPress Business
Speaker Bio:
Bhanu is the co-founder of MyThemeShop, a provider of premium WordPress themes and plugins. He started his career as a hobby blogger which quickly turned into a full-fledged career. After being a premium AdSense publisher for many years, he felt the themes available for WordPress were not fast known.
So, he set out to change that along with his co-founders who shared the experience. Together, they created the fastest WordPress theme of its time and MyThemeShop was born.
MyThemeShop currently has over 110 premium themes and plugins and they recently created a revolutionary SEO plugin for WordPress, Rank Math – after spending years trying to create an all in one SEO solution for WordPress that doesn’t slow down your website
Intended Audience: Entrepreneurs, Startups and Small Businesses
Talk Type: Panel Discussion
Chirag Nayyar
Speaker Bio:
Started learning about Cloud Computing since my college days and now as a working professional from last two year.
Working with a couple of big enterprises to enable their Public cloud journey and adding the value to achieve their Business Goals.
Personally started using WordPress in 2013 and create a couple of Blogs and learn about the WordPress ecosystem in a hard way.
Intended Audience: Web Developers
Talk Type: Full length
M Asif Rahman
Speaker Bio:
I am long time WordPress Enthusiast, Serial Entrepreneur and Tech Evangelist. I am working closely with WordPress since 2004. I was CEO of large WordPress product company weDevs.
Not just because my company creates and sale WordPress product, I am a very well spoken, about business in WordPress. I am also Founder of ARCom, Alo Ventures, WPDeveloper.net etc etc.
I do read a lot and I write too, I foundered The Tech Journal, The Dhaka Times etc and serving information to millions. I invest and love to help startups and proudly involved with Trance App, Leanplum, FutureStartUp, Geeky Social, Facebook and several other companies from their early stage. Among many other things I was an Early Google Glass Explorer, and I appeared in various (80+) WordCamps around the world. And most importantly I am a blessed Dad of two super cute little princesses, and husband of a lovely wife! Though I mostly live in Orlando, Florida, but I am originally from Bangladesh.
Interestingly I just retired this year, at my 34th birthday, which I announced via a 10,000 word semi-autobiography in HeroPress, which you could read (pain) here – https://heropress.com/essays/retiring-young-bangladesh-thanks-wordpress/
Intended Audience: Anyone
Talk Type: Full length
Nazmul Hassan
Why Should I Choose Customer Support as My Career?
Topic Category: Customer Support
Speaker Bio:
I am Nazmul Hassan (Nayem) working as a Lead Support Engineer @weDevs from 2014 until now. I love to help people to solve their problem and make the things easy for them. As a WordPress lover, I always try to contribute to WordPress through support, development etc. Writing techy post is my another passion and I try to write some good things for WordPress users on my personal blog site- https://nayemdevs.com & https://wpdoctor.press
Doing creative work is my passion. I love to do hard work for successful output. My hobby is singing and learning about new technology. I love my parents very much. I want to lead an honest and happy life.
Also, I have two free plugins in wordpress.org –
Woo Login Redirect – https://wordpress.org/plugins/woo-login-redirect
Dokan Menu Hider – https://wordpress.org/plugins/dokan-menu-hider
Intended Audience: 20 Minimum
Talk Type: Lightning
Partha Bhattacharya
Speaker Bio:
I am Partha Bhattacharya, founder of HubSkills.com, a top resource center for content development skills. I’ve 8+ years experience in creating and selling e-learning courses including setting up online course websites with WordPress. Nearly 5,000 students (out of 39K) from 166 countries study my video making courses on Udemy.
Presently, I’m working on launching a premium course on video making with PowerPoint by mid-February. When time is kind, I also pursue my lifestyle blog, KolkataMusing.com.
Intended Audience:
Freelancers, Coaches, Teachers, Instructors and who wish to supplement earnings using WordPress.
Talk Type: Full length
Parvez Akther
How to do Remarketing & Email Marketing Right for your Small Business
Topic Category: WordPress Business
Speaker Bio:
Parvez Akther is a veteran web developer working on this industry since 2006. Throughout his journey he created several company for Joomla and WordPress such as, ThemeXpert and Themesgrove.
He is a contributor of Joomla and founder of Joomla User Group Dhaka.
He and his team working on WordPress since 2012 and elite author of several marketplace.
Intended Audience: Business Owners, Email Marketers
Talk Type: Lightning
Prakash Singh
Speaker Bio:
I’m a WordPress Theme & Plugin Developer living in Kolkata West Bengal.
For five years I have been building custom WordPress websites for businesses and individuals. I specialize in crafting easy-to-use backend experiences so my clients can easily manage their own website. I love doing research, writing, travel, exploring life.
Intended Audience: Developers
Talk Type: Lightning
Purnendu Dash
Pannel Discussion: Future of WordPress Business in 2019 & Beyond
Topic Category: WordPress Business
Speaker Bio:
Purnendu is an open source developer by passion. This passion gave him the high to became the founder of WC Marketplace amongst his other ideas. He cares for his customer the most, because most of his ideas have come after having some intense dialogues with them. And he believes in going beyond the technology and providing his customers a practical solution for his or her business.
He started working with WordPress in 2008. The journey started with a theme development, then moved on to other areas like hooks & filters. Now WordPress made him an enthusiast entrepreneur leading an entire entourage of ‘Digital Age’ that services in anything WordPress, Moodle and Internet Marketing.
Though he has a Master’s degree in Computer Applications, he still considers himself a student who explores the media and the web to feed himself with anything geeky, ‘economicky’ and ‘businessy’. He might not sound that rabid here to say that – “Feel free to get in touch and we might end up having a cup of Indian tea or travel to Ladakh”. You may reach him on Twitter at @dashpurnendu / on slack @purnendu.
Intended Audience: Entrepreneurs, Startups and Small Businesses
Talk Type: Panel Discussion
Rahul Bansal
Speaker Bio:
Rahul is founder and CEO of rtCamp — an enterprise WordPress agency which is also one of WordPress.com VIP partner agency, based in India and the USA.
Rahul’s started using WordPress in 2007 as a professional blogger. With WordPress, he enjoyed writing codes more than articles, so he shifted to freelance development projects which soon transformed into a rtCamp in 2009.
Over a decade, Rahul has contributed to the WordPress community in different ways such as a WordCamp speaker, organizer, volunteer, polyglot, theme & plugins developer and through side projects like EasyEngine.
He is also actively working with local universities and institutes to push WordPress in education.
Outside of WordPress, he loves spending time with his son and is a self-proclaimed foodie.
Intended Audience: Businesses, Freelancers
Talk Type: Full length
Rahul D Sarker
Inbound Marketing Strategies for Entrepreneurs, Startups and Small Businesses
Topic Category: Digital Marketing
Speaker Bio:
Rahul is a WordPress Developer & Digital Marketing Consultant who helps Startups, Small & Medium Business to solve Technical & Marketing Challenges, empowering them to focus and grow the business. Currently, handing 2 startups and working with few communities very closely. Also, he is a big foodie and self-proclaimed proud solo traveller.
Intended Audience: Entrepreneurs, Startups and Small Businesses
Talk Type: Lightning
Shail Bala Tripathy
Speaker Bio:
A creative human being, Proud daughter, law intern pursuing my passion for legal evangelism, Knack for IP and business law and a lawyer who can code. I am a deep thinker, a young blogger, traveller and poet from the heart, Entrepreneur, Influencer, community Co-ordinator for WordPress Kolkata Community and Co-organizer, speaker for WordCamp Kolkata, Founder and chief storyteller for IPGyaan. For more, you can find me on – LinkedIn, Facebook & Twitter
Intended Audience:
Leaders, Organizers, Managers and anyone interested in Community Building
Talk Type: Full length
Sudeshna Adhikary
Speaker Bio:
I’m the business development manager and editor at Design Studio. We are team of graphic designers that are into almost every sphere of design, from branding to digital, but have our forte in UI/UX designs for both web and mobile.
You may take a look at my writing experience in this field at http://design-studio.io/blog/.
Intended Audience: UI and UX Designers
Talk Type: Full length
Taleha Khan
Speaker Bio:
TEDx Speaker | International Speaker | Software Test Engineer| Blogger | RJ | Food Walks | YouTuber | Influencer | Traveller | Digital Marketing| Creative & Technical Writer | Poet |
• A full time Software Test Engineer with over 6 Years of experience.
• Completed Executive Management Programme in Strategic Innovations, Digital Marketing & Business Analysis from IIT-Delhi in June 2018
Intended Audience: Content Creators , Bloggers
Talk Type: Full length
Vaishnavi Patel
Gutenberg: New Generation, WordPress Editor
Topic Category: Significant changes and expectation from WordPress 2018 onwards
Speaker Bio:
I’m a deep thinker and young blogger who also loves to travel and see new places. Originally from Gujarat and living in Kolkata for 2 years. After completing my graduation in Information Technology from GTU, I started my career as a web developer. I have spent almost 2 years on WordPress website development and customization. Currently, I’ve started blogging on recent affairs of WordPress. I am passionate to learn new things. Recently I have joined the Kolkata WordPress Community and got a chance to associate with new people who all are passionate about WordPress as well.
Intended Audience: Any WordPress User
Talk Type: Lightning