Author: Nidhi Jain

With 6 years of marketing and operations experience in a remote setting, Bhagyashree currently manages a hybrid remote team of 68 members spread across the world. She is passionate about remote work, environment and is currently learning Python at a novice level. When not in front of the computer, she can be found playing with her dog and her daughter and watching Friends.

About the Session:

Managing a remote international development team is hard. Her session includes the unique challenges the remote team faces – be it the tech team, the dev team or the operations/HR team.

It will also include what do they need to do to keep everyone on the same page, tools that they can use, solutions to some universal problems that remote team faces, if company retreats are the solution, how can startups cope with these challenges with a limited budget and why remote working may not be all that glamorous as it is often projected.

Ajit is the founder and CEO of LUBUS, a WordPress and Laravel agency. Though Ajit began his career in accounting with a business degree, engineering comes naturally to this problem solver. Contributing to WordPress community as WordCamp/Meet-up speaker, Volunteer, plugins and open source projects. Currently focusing and contributing to the Gutenberg project and spreading mental health awareness.

About the Session:

With Gutenberg, we are talking more about React and it’s component-based development. Breaking down the app into component helps in better organization and reuse. But growing components can quickly become overwhelming and error-prone. Storybook comes to the rescue to help you build components in isolation and test for various use cases. Also, it serves as centralized documentation for the team. The talk will help you understand what is a Storybook and how it can help you and what are its various features. A quick dive into setting up and writing stories.

EasyWP is the latest Managed WordPress product from Namecheap, built and hosted on Namecheap’s own cloud. EasyWP is designed to offer the fastest, easiest and hassle-free way to deploy WordPress with the whole process taking less than 30 seconds. EasyWP also introduces much more affordable Managed WordPress hosting with prices starting at just $3.88 per month.

Namecheap is a global domain registrar, web host and cloud company supporting 2 million customers worldwide, with over 10 million domains under management. Namecheap has a long-standing commitment to privacy, supporting the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Fight for the Future.

Every domain registered with Namecheap includes free WhoisGuard to protect users’ personal data.

Jayman Pandya is a UI designer with a flair for front-end development that makes any brand shine at what they do best. Jayman owns an Indo-US based web agency called Interactive Digital Labs. He spends much of his time investing in the WordPress Community.

Jayman is part of the Design and Marketing Teams for Make WordPress and has spoken at his local camps on Gutenberg as well as the importance of user experience. He is not intimidated by markup, languages, or tools: HTML to CSS, wire-framing to prototyping, JavaScript to agile development, and design programs including Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign.

Jayman loves languages, and not just programming either. He speaks English, Hindi, Marathi, and Gujarati. When he’s not taking courses to improve his skills, he’s trying new food, dabbling in filmmaking and photography, and running and cycling.

Say hi to him on Twitter here @jaymanpandya and check out his website at https://interactivedigitallabs.com/.

About the Session:

Anxiety and Depression are the two words that are thrown around every day in the tech world. People send out tweets expressing their demons partially or fully, people send out tweets asking people to open up about the demons. Conferences ask people to share their stories and here I want to share my story.

A story of a boy with a lonely childhood, bad relationships, failed friendships and attempted suicide. A story of a man who today stands strong and firm and has got back his life, found a partner, lives with his family again and is building a business he is passionate about.

I would want to share how I went into the deep abyss of Anxiety and Depression and tried to kill myself before climbing back up and doing what I do, how I do and who are the supporting pillars of my life.

Yashwardhan is currently working as the Content Marketing Head at IdeaBox Creations, Udaipur.

He has been working in the digital marketing and WordPress sphere for more than 4 years. Most of his experience comes from promoting and selling WordPress Products(themes, hosting, plugins, etc.).

He has been an active member of the WordPress ecosystem for quite some time. As of now, he is also WordCamp/Meetup co-organiser (WordCamp Bhopal).

He has attended various WordCamps in the past and also had a speaker session at WordCamp Nagpur 2018. He also volunteered at WC Udaipur 2018. 🙂

About the Session:

No matter how good the plugin or a theme is, devs have a hard time selling it because there is no proper marketing done for the same.

He is sure with this session they can understand where they are lacking in terms of marketing and where they can improve their sales records with simple marketing methods. 🙂

With the session, he will be covering these areas:

• Why marketing is required
• Basics requirements for marketing any WP Product (website, product pages, demos, etc.)
• Importance of Content Marketing
• Taking it to the next level with Marketing WP Products
• Closing and Q&A

Chandra is the Director of Engineering at rtCamp and also leads their internal training program. He started his WordPress journey in 2014 as a freelance Web Developer. Since then, Chandra has grown to become a WordPress Core contributor, Locale Manager for gu.wordpress.org, and has contributed to WordPress Meta projects.

Over the years, he has developed a love for learning, and hopes to learn WordPress ever more “deeply”. He loves reading, watching movies and exploring the city over the weekend.

About the Session:

WP-CLI is a great companion for developers who can leverage many of its features/functionality in their day-to-day development. In this session, I’ll give an introduction to WP-CLI, the basics command it provides and how we can use it. I will also discuss the other benefits, common useful commands in WP-CLI, installing external commands and a quick introduction to creating a custom command.

Jetpack is a free WordPress plugin that simplifies managing your sites. This single plugin enables Photon (a global CDN for images), uptime monitoring, brute force protection, traffic-boosting tools, single sign-on, multiple-site management, and automatic or bulk plugin updates. Additionally Jetpack includes several features that help you customize the look and feel of your site without installing other tools.

JetPack is strategically designed to help you in collecting valuable information and automatically growing your site traffic. In terms of security, JetPack has taken a huge leap and is providing many prime services like social sharing, protection, site verification, automation. Apart from these, JetPack comes with more than 200 themes, unlimited CDN, multiple SEO tools, unlimited storage, real-time backup system, etc.

Jetpack provides the essential security tools you need to keep your entire site backed up, instantly restore or migrate it, keep it free from malware and spam, and get priority support from WordPress experts just when you need it.

More information can be found at jetpack.com.

Hardeep Asrani is a developer and Star Wars fan from Kanpur. He loves contributing to the WordPress community in many ways, including support, themes, plugins and more. You can find him on Slack pretty much all the time exploring different parts of the WordPress community.

Hardeep works for ThemeIsle.com as a developer focusing on Gutenberg. Hardeep is also one of the organizers of WordCamp Kanpur.

About the Session:

Gutenberg is the hot topic of WordPress in the era of modern JavaScript development stack, and it brings tons of features to WordPress. But did you know Gutenberg brings in a lot of features that can also be used outside the editor, like Option Pages and Customizer? In this talk, we take a look at the features that Gutenberg brings in for developers to use outside the editor and we can take advantage to build faster and better applications.

We would like to thank WooCommerce, our Lake Jai Samad (Gold) sponsor.

WooCommerce is more than just a WordPress plugin. With its ecosystem of hundreds of free and premium extensions, WooCommerce has become a full user-end selling solution for small as well as big online stores.

Currently, WooCommerce is powering more than 30% of all eCommerce stores with over 1 million active users and has been claimed as the fastest growing eCommerce software/platform. It is built to integrate seamlessly with WordPress, making it the apparent eCommerce choice for existing WordPress users and connects you to the fast-growing WordPress ecosystem which now powers over 25% of all websites on the internet.

WooCommerce comes with all the necessary tools that any small business would require to set up their store online. Including the product setup, shipping options, payments, and after-sale reports and stats and as your business will grow you can choose from over 300 premium add-ons available including additional payment processors, shipping methods, inventory systems and marketing tools to sell anything, anywhere from real products and digital downloads to subscriptions.

In July 2015, WooCommerce was acquired by Automattic, the creators of WordPress.com which serves more than 15.8 billion pages a month and also the creators of other popular WordPress services including Akismet, Jetpack, and VaultPress. We look forward to growing WooCommerce to achieve even greater things together with Automattic.

Sujay is a 29-year-old young entrepreneur with several 7 figure businesses. In 2009, Sujay dropped out of college at the age of 19 and co-founded Brainstorm Force — which is now one of the most successful WordPress companies worldwide.

Astra theme, Ultimate Addons, Convert Pro, Schema Pro, CartFlows are just some of the very popular WordPress products that Sujay and his team at Brainstorm Force have developed. Collectively, these products are used by more than 2 million websites!

Besides business, Sujay is a father, husband, and family man. His hobbies include traveling, trekking, driving supercars, and any other adventurous things.

Check out the free Astra theme — which is one of his finest works.

About the Session:

Most WordPress businesses are started by amazing developers or designers who are really passionate about what they do. But unfortunately, when it comes to marketing, they find it difficult. As a serial entrepreneur and professional marketer, Sujay will share his practical tips, tricks, and experiences that will help you find your dream customers.