Category: Speakers

Active in the WordPress domain from last 3 years, Achal Jain currently works with IdeaBox Creations as Sr. Web Developer. He also likes to get himself involved towards aesthetic parts of the functionality too.

Building custom WP themes, plugins and solutions around WordPress he is on a constant quest to extend and customize the WordPress based solutions. For the same, he explores and goes through new developments in the niche on the daily basis.

Making his WordCamp speaking debut at Udaipur, Achal would be covering the topic of “Templating with Underscore.js”.

Key Points:

Underscore.js is a part of WordPress default offering package from a long time, but still to find a solid documentation or a reference point to take its optimum use is the weak point.

Achal will talk about how one can leverage Underscore.js in specific use cases. He will also shed light on how you can take its use on frontend elements and data presentation.

In one of the interesting key aspect he will also brief on how jQuery and Underscore.js can come together as a powerful package, where jQuery places the data and Uderscore.js manipulating it.

Nidhi Jain, the Themeing rockstar of IdeaBox Creations has over three years of experience in the WordPress ecosystem.

Building solutions around WordPress, Nidhi finds her love and comfort towards building custom WP theme and tinkering with WordPress customizer. She has also started with Plugin development recently.

At WordCamp Udaipur 2017, she will be making her speaking debut and will be speaking about “Extending the WordPress Customizer”.

Key Points:

Nidhi will be talking about the ideology behind WordPress Customizer, how it is a useful tool and what are the things you should know while building or using customizer.

With her interest falling towards the same topic, we can expect some insights on what goes in the development of new controls when you move towards extending the customizer.

Have a question on how you can get rid of ‘another library’ to server theme options? Want to add new control to the existing customizer? Need to take the most out of this WordPress default offering? – Then this is THE session for you to attend.

Co-founder of rtCamp, the first and currently the only agency which is recognized as the WordPress VIP parter from India and Asia, Rahul Bansal needs no formal introduction. In last eight years, he along with his team has contributed to many open-source WordPress projects.

Rahul can easily be seen at WordCamps speaking or hosting a panel on one topic or another. He frequents every WordCamp, as we have seen him everywhere we go.

He is also WordCamp Pune co-organizer and involved with WordPress Hindi and Marathi translation.

He will be speaking at WordCamp Udaipur on the topic of how you can hire the right way in the WordPress ecosystem?

Key points in the session:

If you run a development agency or are the hiring face for your firm, you know how hard it is to find talent in web development niche, let alone WordPress.

When it comes to specific skill sets, like WordPress, it gets more tricky as you have many different factors to juggle with, many attributes that you many need to look into a potential candidate and most importantly the tactics you need to retain them.

Rahul will shed light on few common and many exclusive aspects that you should should keep in mind while hiring in the WordPress ecosystem.

Every business, in the current age, demands a web presence. The sooner they think of this, the sooner they start their search for someone or an agency which can help them achieve their motive.

Zachary Miller and Sarah Feinstein are two pillars of Superfein Creative Studio, a Web and Graphic Design Studio based in Canada.

“We are leveraging WordPress to help people change the way they do business. We help them figure out their pain points, admin tasks, all the inner workings of how the business works, and then as much as possible, try to create solutions that make everything streamlined and efficient.”

Zach acts as the WordPress Developer and Sarah handles the creative side of the team. Helping small-medium size businesses for their web development needs and acting as an e-com specialist, Zach entered into a partnership with Sarah in early 2014.

Sarah, with a bachelor’s in Graphic Designing along with a specialty in Logo designing and brand identity, started working on WordPress in 2012.

At WordCamp Udaipur 2017, they both will be speaking first time at a WordCamp and will talk about how WordPress can help in the Wholesale Apparel Industry.

In their own words, “Sarah’s family runs a wholesale apparel business in Vancouver. Because of her background, she has a complete understanding of the wholesale apparel industry’s pain points. We will be discussing those pain points and how, with the proper understanding and development, WordPress can be the perfect solution.”

With this talk, we will get a glimpse of how one can use WordPress to not only solve the primary motive of a getting a website, but also on how to leverage the platform side of it.

WordPress continues to multiply all the recognition and is dancing on the top position of most used CMS in the world. With this, what multiplies is the number of people who enter the niche as developers, we call them WordPress Developers.

With a combined experience of over a decade, Ajit and Jayman, at WordCamp Udaipur 2017, will tell you who exactly is a WordPress Developer.

Ajit Bohra, runs a boutique agency in Mumbai and with his experience of over eight years in WordPress, helps clients with complex solutions on te top of WordPress system.

Ajit collaborates with Jayman Pandya, who in his experience of over a decade have worked with leading brands such as Zee Entertainment, ICICI, JP Morgan, Boehringer Ingelheim, Johnson & Johnson, Axis Bank, Standard Chartered Bank among others to name a few.

Together Ajit and Jayman have built many complex systems, including a Lead Management System on the top of WordPress.

There is so much to grasp and explore to be an efficient and smart WordPress Developer. In the session of Ajit & Jayman, we will see what exactly is needed if you want to call yourself a developer.

Code over Plugins, Smart approach over Solutions, Right Networking, What drives WordPress, Plugins, Page Builders, Backups, Extending Functionalites among others would be the keywords in the session.

They will also give a brief of their Lead Management System which is right now being used by a well recognized firm pan India, and will explain how with smart approaches they derived the solution.

 

 

Founder at WPoets Amit is working with WordPress since 2007. He has contributed his first WordPress plugin to WordPress.org repository in 2008 and never looked back since.

Amit helps in organizing PHPCamps, WordCamps, Joomla Day and Drupal camps in Pune. Having experience of speaking at various WordCamps in India, the topic Amit chose to speak at WordCamp Udaipur is – Rapid Prototyping with WordPress.

Key Points:

This talk will be focused on developers and he will be showing various tools that you can use to do prototyping of ideas without writing code, paving way for quicker development workflow.

Bigul hails from Kerala and started his web development journey as a PHP developer in 2005. He is working with WordPress since 2008.

From 2012 he started working for OnTheGo Systems(the makers of WPML & Toolset) as QA & Support Analyst.

He is also the lead organizer of WP Kochi community and will also be one of the organizers of WordCamp inFebruary, 2017.

He will be presenting the topic of “WordPress Localization and Translation”.

In the session, Bigul will cover the basics of Polyglots, WordPress Localization and Translation of WordPress Contents, Plugins and Themes.

The session is targeted towards users and developers seeking information and has queries related to WordPress translation. Working in the same niche, Bigul is exactly the right guy who can answer all the queries and can give the in-depth overview of the topic.

Ayushdeep Singh is Senior Developer at BudyBoos and hails from Delhi NCR. In his words –  he is in love with WordPress and BuddyPress!

At WordCamp Udaipur, Ayushdeep will be covering the interesting niche of WP REST API. He will make his debut as a speaker with the topic – What can we do with WP REST API v2 & Why.

Key Points:

We asked a few questions to know about the depth of the session. This will give you a glimpse of what you can expect from the talk:

Will it be completely developer oriented? or will users be able to relate with it as well?

Yes it will be developer-oriented talk, but WordPress end users will also be able to relate with it.

Will you be presenting any code examples or live demo?

Yes, I’ll be providing expert and intermediate code samples.

How do you plan to make this session interesting for everyone?

I believe it’s a topic yet to be stored and hence the developers will find it interesting for sure.

Saurabh is the Chief Strategist and co-founder of Yapapaya and the lead organizer of the WP community in Pune. He writes, codes, thinks and speaks about WordPress all day. 🙂

At WordCamp Udaipur 2017, Saurabh will be speaking about Contribution-Oriented Development

Key Points:

If you release open source software, one of the things that you want to happen is that a community of users and developers should grow around it and contribute to it. So that your software can grow more than you could have done it yourself.

In his words, “In this session, we look at how some such open source projects have successfully oriented themselves to getting contributions and building a community around them. We analyze their strategies and learn from them so that we may use it for our own projects”.

Isabelle is a digital nomad who loves to travel and works remotely. The peculiar thing about her online presence is that she uses videos more often than anything else to communicate with her followers.

For about a year now, she’s been using videos, more and more, to illustrate her social media and blog. Bonus point – her follower loves that too!

Presenting the same topic at WordCamp Udaipur, Isabelle will share her workflow of how she creates, edits and publishes videos right from the WordPress dashboard and how it gives her opportunity to engage her audience.

Key Points:

If you want to learn how to create a video with a smartphone for your WordPress blog, then this talk is for you. With practical examples, Isabelle will demonstrate basic rules for creating relevant video content for your blog.

In words of Isabelle, “With an existing tool for WordPress, I found a way to easily create a video out of my smartphone directly onto my WordPress blog. My talk will include a live video recording that I will then edit and render with VINUBIS Video Editor plugin for WordPress. We will publish the result all together into a WordPress blog post. All this will be done live during the talk so that you will be able to really experience my process of video creation. Hopefully, I’ll inspire you to create more video for your blog”.