Category: Speakers

Learn how to scale WooCommerce with Rahul Bansal

Rahul Bansal
Rahul Bansal

WooCommerce is a very powerful plugin. But businesses who build online stores using it face problems when the number of people accessing the store increases.

Rahul Bansal will tell us about specific techniques which can be used to serve huge number of users efficiently. You’ll be able to apply many of his recommendations to other WordPress sites as well, where logged-in users make a bulk of traffic.

About Rahul

Rahul Bansal is the founder & CEO of rtCamp.

Starting his WordPress journey in 2007, he evolved into multiple roles with WordPress — blogger, developer, designer, entrepreneur, translator and also a WordCamp speaker & organizer.

In the last 8 years, Rahul has been part of many WordPress projects. His current favorite is EasyEngine which makes managing WordPress sites on Nginx easy.

You can connect with Rahul @rahul286 on Twitter.

Learning about building Freemium plugins with Bryce Adams

bryce-adamsWhat is a Freemium plugin? How to go about building a Freemium plugin? Get key insights from Bryce Adams. He is in a great place to talk about this topic because he is working for Automattic on the biggest WooCommerce store in the world –WooThemes.com.

A nomadic coder, he has spoken about WordPress at several events, including WordCamp Europe, WordCamp Kansai & WordCamp Mumbai 2015 and WordCamp Nepal. He loves open source software, building useful products and interacting with the community! In his spare time, he’s either traveling the world and attending WordPress events or building small products that try to push the boundaries of everyday development.

That apart, Bryce is very approachable to have a chat with regarding all things WordPress. He spoke last year at Mumbai and is now travelling back to the big city, for yet another WordCamp.

You can follow him on Twitter @bryceadams.

Learning how to write humour with Fairy Dharawat

Humour often gives us perspective. A lot of things that are difficult to convey can be done through humour. WordPress professional and fans all over write a lot. You could be a blogger, working on support, a developer or a CEO. Many of you will acknowledge that using humour is very important in your writing.

Fairy Dharawat is a professional blogger who’s been a writer for more than 4 years. She chose humour as a chosen topic for WordCamp as in her personal experience, her humour posts have worked well in connecting with her readers.

She performs stories at Katha Kosa and poetries at open mics. Some of her stories and poems are published in online e-books.

You can connect with her on her twitter id @dharawatf.

Stay tuned for more announcements.

Sam Hotchkiss will tell us about Best Practices in Plugin Development!

Sam’s WordPress profile

Sam has been developing sites with WordPress for over 10 years. He built and ran an enterprise-level agency, then built a plugin business around BruteProtect, a security plugin which was acquired by Automattic in August of 2014. Sam now leads the Jetpack development team, working on the Jetpack plugin in use on millions of WordPress sites across the internet.

Sam Hotchkiss travelled to Mumbai, India for last years WordCamp and is keen to travel again.

He will speak on Best Practices in Plugin Development!

He is very approachable and friendly and you can discuss all things WordPress with him, be it things like blogging, photography, cutting edge tech issues or even building a business around WordPress.

You can connect with him on Twitter @HotchkissWeb

Who is speaking at WordCamp Mumbai 2016?

So who is going to speak at WordCamp Mumbai 2016? That is a question which we will soon answer piece by piece. Yes, we will be announcing every single speaker in a dedicated blog post! Some of the names will be new, some will be familiar in the WordPress scene from India and some also will be travelling from other shores for this WordCamp.

Based on the applications we have received and confirmed at this point of time, we are coming up with a rough idea on the three types of sessions we will have. The three are Developer, Business, User/Community.

These won’t be parallel tracks as the venue does not have this facility. So these tracks will follow one after another. All this is still a rough idea and after we announce our speakers, we will release a more formal schedule of sessions.

If you think you want to speak at WordCamp or if you know someone go ahead and fill in the Speaker application form.

And keep in touch, we will start announcing our speakers from tomorrow onwards.

Come along and speak at WordCamp Mumbai

It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. – Mark Twain

The major activity at any WordCamp are speaker sessions. There is no WordCamp without speakers, without new speakers stepping up and speaking in front an audience for the first time in their life.

Many of the speakers are obviously experts in WordPress and technology around it. But there are many speakers who speak not as experts but as someone who have something unique to share.

It could be a unique WordPress story, a unique perspective that challenges how things are viewed in the WordPress community, a unique way at looking at customer support. As long as it’s unique there is a good chance conversations can be had around it.

Today we are announcing “Call for Speakers” for WordCamp Mumbai 2016.

Fill in the speaker form and our speaker review team will get in touch with you. Some quick pointers before you apply.

  • These are not paid gigs. Speakers are not paid to speak at WordCamps or paid by organisers to travel. They have to either fund themselves or ask their company to do so. Think of speaking at a WordCamp as part of volunteering.
  • Speakers will be selected based on their availability, overall topics they suggest and their relevance to the WordPress community.
  • No one is a celebrity at WordCamp Mumbai. Speakers when they apply should co-operate with the speaker review team to work on the content of their topics. Just like you, they too have full time jobs and careers and are volunteering their time to WordCamp Mumbai.
  • The time limits for a speaker sessions are usually about 20 mins.
  • The call for speakers will continue until 15 January, 2016.
  • If you have more than one topic in mind, go ahead an apply twice or thrice. Just do not spam us 😉
  • Do remember, there is limited time and limited resources. Not everyone who applies can be accommodated. Be nice! 🙂

WordCamp Mumbai 2016 is over. Check out the next edition!