Amit Kumar Singh
Amit Singh is a founder and CEO of WPoets Technology, a Pune based WordPress development company. He has been working with WordPress since 2007, and contributed his first WordPress plugin to WordPress.org repository in 2008.
He has helped organize PHPCamp, WordCamp, Joomla Day and Drupal camp in Pune. He believes that instead of coding websites, we should be able to assemble it, and is working towards that goal at WPoets. Amit Kumar Singh will be speaking on Alternative Development Techniques On WordPress
Ankur Raheja
Ankur Raheja is into law practice with over a decade of experience that includes consultancy to Technology Companies in matters relating to Cyber Law Compliance of websites, Cyber Crime Advisory, online issues as to Copyrights, Trademarks including Domain Disputes, Cyber Defamation, IPR Registration, Company Formation and more. He also possesses Master’s degree in Computer Applications; Fellow membership of Institute of Company Secretaries of India in addition to Bachelors of Law, which provides him with an in-depth understanding of the techno-legal domain.
He is an .IN Domain Dispute Panelist / Arbitrator with .IN Registry (NIXI) and has presided over as a Sole Arbitrator in numerous matters and Domain Dispute Panelist for other TLDs with ADNDRC, Hong Kong and MFSD, Italy. He has helped enforcement agencies in Cybercrime Investigation and is spreading techno-legal awareness through his venture CyLaw.
He is also a member of the Internet Society (ISOC) and an active member of the ICANN Working Groups on WHOIS policy and Rights Protection Mechanism and he has been actively using WordPress since August 2004! Ankur Raheja will be speaking on Interactive Session on WordPress, GPL and Copyrights : Learn why you cannot afford to ignore your legal strategy ?
Arun Bansal
Arun is co-founder and CEO at ServerGuy, a Managed Cloud Company. Since 2009, he has been working with businesses helping them Automate, Scale and Secure their Cloud Infrastructure. He has extensive experience with WordPress Scaling & Security.
He is also co-founder of StartupCafe and is advisor to startups like AdPushup, ThinkWP and Zest.MD. He also loves reading books on Philosophy, Biographies, Business & Investment. His newfound passions include Sales and Marketing Automation. Arun Bansal will be speaking on WordPress Security Master Plan
Ashutosh Gaur
I am a Serial Entrepreneur and a Developer. I have founded 3 companies and consulted in various other online ventures helping entrepreneurs with technical resources to help them launch their products.
Out of the 3 ventures, 2 have been IT companies where I headed the Business development and WordPress Development section and the other venture is an Online Radio Station where I head the Creative front. I have been associated with the WordPress domain now from past 4 years and have successfully helped complete and launch over 50 products.
I believe that innovation and creativity go hand in hand and that ideas are in the air, one must not waste time implementing what they wish to do. Ashutosh Gaur will be speaking on How WordPress can serve to be the first building block of your Entrepreneurial Journey
Damanjeet
Damanjeet Singh is the co-founder of XLPlugins.com. Based out of New Delhi, India, they build tool & solutions to help WooCommerce store owners boost conversions.His entrepreneurial stint started at age 19 with writing, publishing and selling course books. Later, he went on to start Wisetr Tech Pvt. Ltd., a full-fledged WordPress services arm which today serves clients globally and proudly parents XLPlugins.
Passionate about meeting people and a chai-lover- he loves striking conversations over tea.If you spot him at an event, stop by, step up and say hello! He’ll take care of the rest.
Hardeep Asrani
Hardeep is a WordPress developer and a huge Star Wars fan from Kanpur. He loves contributing to 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 WordPress community.
He works works for ThemeIsle.com as a support ninja and developer. Hardeep was also part of the organizing team of WordCamp Kanpur 2017, and volunteering team of WordCamp Delhi 2017.
Harsh Aggarwal
Harsh has been involved in the WordPress space for more than half a decade. He is popularly known as blog scientist for his award-winning Blog ShoutMeLoud.com.
As a professional blogger, Harsh has the opportunity to work directly with numerous brands since 2008. He also consult brands with their affiliate program strategies & helped numerous Indian startup with growth hacking. His superpower is his passion for blogging & interest in understanding customer psychology. Harsh Aggarwal will be speaking on Growth hacking your WordPress blog – Traffic and monetisation. Learn More »
Mani Karthik
From start-ups to Fortune 500 companies, he’s helped companies sell everything online, from software to cars, finance to e-com & agencies to enterprises. A passionate blogger & online marketing expert, he believes WordPress is one of the core reasons for his success. Mani Karthik will be speaking on From being a small town blogger to building a successful marketing career in Silicon Valley – How WordPress & blogging helped me.
Nagesh Pai
As a Happiness Engineer, Nagesh is a part of the WordPress.com Support Team at Automattic Inc. Nagesh started his WordPress journey as a hobbyist and freelancer, by building, and tinkering with WordPress websites between 2008 and 2016, alongside his different day jobs.
Nagesh comes with a rather diverse career track-record. With a strong background in Banking & Finance vertical, Nagesh has worked in the roles of Digital Marketing and Technology, as well as in Media houses. He has also served as a Media Planner with reputed agencies.
Nagesh’s WordPress journey kickstarted from a unique project: by setting up and running a community multimedia website that he built, without having any prior knowledge of programming. – RadioIdli.net. He started it on blogger, and, migrated it to self-hosted WordPress, sometime in 2009. This journey, introduced him to WordPress and a career in digital marketing, and eventually led him to Automattic!
Parth Pandya
Priyanka Sachar
She’s a computer engineer turned professional photographer who started blogging in 2003 when hardly anyone understood the word. She founded a group of bloggers in Delhi in Jan 2004, which was perhaps the first such organised group in India. She organized many blogger meets & events over the years. She’s organized India’s first Social media Camp in 2008 & India’s first WordPress camp in Feb 2009. It was attended by Matt Mullenweg & Om malik. She’s been featured on the cover of Outlook India for her social media success. Last but not the least, She is an active user of WordPress and uses the same to host and maintain 4 of her websites.
Rahul Bansal
Rahul is the founder and CEO of rtCamp – only WordPress.com VIP Partner from Asia. His WordPress journey began in 2007 when he was looking for ways to customize his blog.
Later on, he moved from professional blogging to freelancing, and from freelancing to starting rtCamp in 2009.
At work, Rahul plays multiple roles, switching between sysadmin (his favorite), to sales and everything else company demands from him. Over the years, Rahul has contributed to the WordPress community in different ways as a WordCamp speaker, organizer, volunteer, polyglot, theme/plugins developer. Rahul Bansal will be speaking on Selling WordPress to Enterprises Learn More »
Ravi Chahar
A WordPress Professional, web developer and designer who has forged his skills all the way from professional blogging to WordPress.
He has been developing WordPress custom websites with his own WordPress themes since 2014. He is your WordPress guy who is skilled in solving WordPress errors, WordPress security issues, theme development and design issues and what not.
You can find every solution to your WordPress problems from Ravi.
Rodney D. Ryder
Rodney D. Ryder is a lawyer with nearly two decades of experience in Indian Technology, Intellectual Property and New Media Laws. Mr. Ryder is the Managing Partner of Scriboard [www.scriboard.com], a full service commercial law firm with cutting edge specialisation in technology, new media and intellectual property laws. He is the author of Guide to Cyber Laws: the Information Technology Act, 2000, E-Commerce, Data Protection and the Internet, the first section-wise analysis of the Indian Information Technology Act, 2000. He is presently Advisor to the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Government of India on the implementation of the Information Technology Act, 2000. He counsels clients and represents them in litigation regarding technology law, data security, compliance with law enforcement and intellectual property strategy.
Mr. Ryder has been nominated as a ‘Leading Lawyer’ in intellectual property, technology, communications and media law by Asia Law, Who’sWhoLegal, Asia Legal 500, amongst other International publications. Mr. Ryder has been listed as one of India’s leading lawyers in the ’40 under 45′ study conducted by WhosWhoLegal, United Kingdom.
His second book, Intellectual Property and the Internet [published by LexisNexis] has been acknowledged to be an authoritative work on domain name disputes by the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India and has been quoted in the first and only judgement by the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India on domain names [Satyam Infoway Ltd. v. Sifynet Solutions Pvt. Ltd.; (2004) 6 SCC 145]. He is advisor to the National Internet Exchange of India [NIXI] and a member of the panel of independent and neutral arbitrators with NIXI. Rodney D. Ryder will be speaking on Interactive Session on WordPress, GPL and Copyrights : Learn why you cannot afford to ignore your legal strategy ?
Sanyog Shelar
With earning master’s degree in Technology and Business Administration. I design super cool websites. It is a long established fact that a reader will be distracted by the readable content.
Whether you have client work, commercial themes, or are submitting your free project to WordPress.org, I am here to help to review theme.
Also cyber security expert for panel discussion over various news channels.
About Work Profile: I am the key player in building Version Next Technologies by carrying 11yrs of experience in development and technology.
As passion about work, And giving back to the community, GT for WordPress Marathi Language., Theme Reviewer at WordPress Org.
Savita Soni
Savita is Co-founder & Business Head at WPoets, her WordPress journey started in 2009 with WPoets. She has been associated with WordPress community since 2010, spoke at WordCamp Pune 2013 and was in Pune WordCamp oragniser team for 2017.
Presently she is helping to enhance the web presence of websites though Continous Improvement Program of WPoets.
She finds her happiness in running marathons, trekking and long walks.
Tseten Dolkar
Tseten Dolkar is a Tibetan born and brought in India as a stateless person. She was educated in a Tibetan school under the Tibetan-government-in-exile (TGiE) and went on to pursue her further studies in Chandigarh where she got diploma in Web designing and programming. After the completion of her education, like many other young Tibetans in India, she went to Dharamshala, the place that hosts major Tibetan NGOs in the exile community and the Tibetan-government-in-exile. The place is also known as the capital city of Tibetans in the diaspora. After working for some time in the community and developing understanding about needs of Tibetans of web-developers, Tseten founded “Tibetan I Tech”, a web development firm based in Dharamsala, HP, which is a unique and first of its kind in the Tibetan diaspora.
It offers a wide range of services in an attempt to provide opportunities for every Tibetan business to be heard and to enhance their presence in the mainstream market.
She was first exposed to WordPress in the beginning of the year 2012 when she met James, an American who teaches people who are interested in learning webdevelopment.
Since then she has developed more than 30 websites using the Word Press for diverse clients; from promoting businesses and events to advocating social and political issues. She is a great enthusiast of all the Word Press contributors and truly believes in the power of open sources.
Tulika Kiran
Tulika is a digital marketing trainer and consultant. A firm believer in the open source initiative, her website Freelancing Wiz has been built on WordPress and strives to provide a platform for all freelancers to connect, share and learn from each other’s journey. She ditched the 9-5 routine five years back, followed her passion and hopes to help others create a similar niche for themselves in the online community.
Varun Sharma
Varun is the CEO & Founder, Teclab Solutions – Parent Firm for Tech Banker
Tech Banker is a leading WordPress Plugin Development Firm having developed major famous plugins like Contact Bank, Gallery Bank, Mail Bank, Clean Up Optimizer, Captcha Bank etc.
He runs two websites right now. http://beta.tech-banker.com and http://tech-banker.com which can provide you the info you’re searching for. Varun Sharma will be speaking on How to make your WordPress Code Super Readable, Safe & Secure! Learn More »
Vineet Talwar
Vineet found his love for WordPress after he was introduced to it in around 2012. This led him to develop numerous websites and making him want to crave for more to learn in WordPress. He have co-founded his first company at the age of 20. Till now, he have co-founded two ventures and heads them at technical front. He has been associated with various ventures consulting and guiding them with technical resources.
To gain more knowledge in WordPress, He is currently a part of dkd Internet Services GmbH, Frankfurt am Main, Germany as a WordPress developer following his passion. He loves cloud technology. Apart from developing the websites, he is a hobbyist photographer.