Speakers

  • Anil Nyoupane

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    WordPress as a platform to promote business

    @ownils
    Topic Category: Digital Marketing
    Speaker Type: National

    Speaker Bio: Anil Nyoupane is a WordPress enthusiast, a hardworking and highly positive person. He is working as a Content Developer at Eagle Eye International Technology. He is currently pursuing his Bachelor’s Degree in BE.d Major English at Oxford College, Butwal. Despite being from a non IT background he loves to play with new technologies and rummaging around internet. He is passionate about digital marketing, website designing, and reviewing themes/plugins on allrounderthemes.com . He manages one of the WordPress Resource Site.

    Moreover, he has been contributing to WordPress Butwal as an active member since 2019. He was one of the Volunteers of WordCamp Bharatpur 2019 organizing team. Since then, he loves to attend Wordcamps . His normal day would consist of writing articles, reading books or involving in Rotaract social activities and promoting Public speaking.He loves to talk to people, encourage youths and loves to share problem solving techniques for those in need. Anil, with a powerful and commanding voice loves to take leadership in every path of his life. He is truly an inspiration for the new generation.

    Session Summary: Me, a speaker from the local community will be covering the essence of investment in today’s business linking WordPress as a central point. My presentation will cover the introduction of WordPress CMS and need of website and why to choose WordPress CMS? How to promote business through SEO focusing on ‘Content is the King” Strategy and certain guidelines of SEO Optimized contents.

    Intended Audience: Everyone

  • Arun Kumar Pariyar

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    Handling High Traffic WordPress with Linux

    @arunpyasi
    Topic Category: Advanced Development
    Speaker Type: National

    Speaker Bio: Arun Kumar Pariyar is a free and open source and linux enthusiast. He has years of experience on web technologies, cloud infrastructures and WordPress as his primary content management system. He is also the Co-Founder and Lead Developer of a popular Linux distribution of Nepal ie Chitwanix OS. He is currently working as technical lead at Astranix Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

    Arun has expertise on security, performance, high availability and performance of cloud infrastructure running WordPress in large-scale. He has worked as Freelance Linux Engineer and WordPress Consultant for companies in Nepal and across the globe. Arun is one of the active volunteers in some FOSS communities like FOSS Nepal Community, WordPress Bharatpur Community and has presented in many WordPress camps, meetups and workshops. Besides technology, he enjoys riding his bike, hacking stuffs and trying new cuisines.

    Session Summary: In this session, Arun will share his journey on how he started WordPress with Linux. He’ll be illustrating system architecture for WordPress in production. Also, he’ll be sharing pros, challegenes and optimization techniques of WordPress in Linux systems for production. Moreover, the session will focus on high availability system architectures for high traffic WordPress sites

    Intended Audience: Developers

  • Chetraj Bhandari

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    Why SEO is Important For Websites?
    @chetrajbhandari
    Topic Category: WordPress Business/Marketing
    Speaker Type: National

    Speaker Bio: Digital Marketing Consultant in Nepal with extensive experiences in Onsite SEO, Offsite SEO, Technical SEO, Email Marketing, PPC Marketing, Social Media Management & Advertising, and ROI

    Session Summary: This session will focus on the importance of search engine optimization methods for developers so that they can integrate best SEO practices in their website development and also communicate the same as a means to improve their online visibility.

    Intended Audience: Everyone

  • Krishna Neupane

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    Pathway to become WordPress Developer

    @krishneup
    Topic Category: WordPress Development
    Speaker Type: National

    Speaker Bio: Krishna Neupane is a self taught programmer with almost 7 years relationship with WordPress. Started his WordPress journey first as a WordPress niche blogger , later he shifted fully towards WordPress Development. Now , he is a Owner/CEO of Butwal Web Pvt Ltd .

    Session Summary: In this session , he will cover pathway to become WordPress Developer. Starting from his experience of becoming WordPress developer, he will cover indepth & compresensive guide which will definitely help you if you are looking to become WordPress Developer.
    This session will also enlighten the audience about the job opportunity in WordPress other than design and development. This includes the journey of getting to the support staff and what are the skills required and mostly focuses on the dynamic and spontaneous role that is played by support staff for any product.

    Intended Audience: Everyone

  • Laxman Bhattarai

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    WordPress as CMS for Online News Portal
    @ laxmann
    Topic Category: WordPress Development
    Speaker Type: National

    Speaker Bio: I am Laxman Bhattarai, CEO of Genesis Web Technology a Web Agency based on Kathmandu. I am originally from Butwal (Mangalapur). I have been developing website using WordPress from long time and I really enjoy developing sites using WordPress because it is highly extendible and customizable through themes and plugins. This is the primary reason why I convenience my clients to choose WordPress over other CMS and frameworks 🙂
    Beside work I also like to travel, listen music, watch movies and play with my daughters.

    Session Summary:  In my session I will be covering below topics:
    – The core functionalities provided by WordPress which are useful for developing news portals.
    – Choosing WordPress Themes for News Portals       
    – Choosing WordPress Plugins which are useful for News Portals

    Intended Audience: Media Houses and Developers

  • Madan Panthi

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    Your First WordPress Theme

    @codemadan
    Topic Category: WordPress Development
    Speaker Type: National

    Speaker Bio: Madan is a full-time WordPress developer. He has been into WordPress and PHP development for the last 4 years. Apart from programming, he loves teaching, training, poetry, literature and sometimes lying in his room doing nothing. He is also involved in social activities and strongly belives to bring change through technology.

    Session Summary: In this session we will be developing a very nominal WordPress theme from scratch using underscores boilerplate theme. The topics that we will focus are: –

    • Template hierarchy
    • WP loops – WP Query
    • Basics of hooks
    • Style and scripts enqueue

    For the whole session, we will try to create a simple WordPress theme with basic essential pages.

    Intended Audience: Wannabe Developers, Beginners

  • Madhav Dhungana

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    Building a Successful Career as a WordPress Developer – Panel Discussion

    @madhavdhungana
    Topic Category: WordPress Development
    Speaker Type: National

    Speaker Bio: Madhav Dhungana, CEO and Founder of Eagle Eye International Technology operating from Nepal and New Zealand since 8 years. He is co-founder of a startup WordPress agency.He is fast learner, highly motivated Web Programmer, WordPress Developer, IT entrepreneur, Fintech investor and cyber security enthusiast.Apart from that, He is an easy going person and believes in teamwork. His is IT entrepreneur by hobby and social activist by passion. He is vice president at Rotaract Club of Tilottama, Rupandehi for 2019/2020 and he is Team Lead at WordPress Butwal . When he isn’t playing with a computer screen, he spends time on social activities, hanging out with friends and exploring new places.

    Session Summary: If you’re planning to build your career as a developer for WordPress, it could be a smart decision. Because of its simplicity and ease of use to create a website, it is being used by more and more people.

    Some Facts:

    • WordPress has more than 60% of the CMS market share more than all other systems (eg, Drupal, Joomla) combined
    • 35% of the internet is powered by WordPress
    • WordPress content is published in over 120 different languages.
    • WordPress 5.3 has been downloaded over 7 million times
    • There are 7,000+ free GPL-licensed Themes for WordPress
    • There are 55,000+ free Plugins for WordPress
    • WordPress developers make an average of $57,778 per year, according to Indeed.

    It ensures that today’s WordPress developers are in high demand and you can make the best out of WordPress with the right set of skills, resources and qualities.

    Intended Audience: Students, Developers

  • Nilkantha Koirala

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    Getting started in Digital Marketing with WordPress.
    @knilkantha
    Topic Category: WordPress Business/Marketing
    Speaker Type: National

    Speaker Bio: Nilkantha Koirala is an electronics engineering graduate with experience as PHP Programmer and Network Administrator in a multi-million-dollar international organization. He considers himself a “forever student”, eager to learn and build as he walks in the path of entrepreneurship.  And that has inspired him to lead a team as Managing Director of Tech Vumi where he is working to ease the bridge between the students and the enterprises via his next project called “Samriddhi: Learning to Earning.”

    Meanwhile, Nilkantha believes to maintain work-life balance, so, if not working, you might find him attending social events sharing a funny side of him.
    Session Summary: 
    – Overview of Digital Marketing, Area and Scope.
    – How good is WordPress for Marketing in terms of implementation and result?
    – Guides on SEO, SEO with WordPress, and tools.

    Intended Audience: WordPress Business Owners

  • Purnendu Dash

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    10 years of relationship with WordPress
    @purnendu
    Topic Category: WordPress Business
    Speaker Type: International

    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 @purnendudash_in / on slack @purnendu.

    Session Summary: In last 10 years, I have seen the Platform WordPress grow both as CMS and also the fantastic community of people around. In this talk, I want to share how you can contribute and grow with the WordPress ecosystem.

    Intended Audience: Everyone

  • Rahul D Sarker

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    How to improve the lifetime value of a Customer?

    @rahuldsarker
    Topic Category: WordPress Business
    Speaker Type: International

    Speaker Bio: Rahul D Sarker is a WordPress Developer & Digital Marketing Consultant, based out of Kolkata. He is working with WordPress for the past 7 years. Apart from that, He conducts lots of Training & Workshops in Kolkata & other metro cities in India on Web Development and Digital Marketing. Currently, handing 2 startups and working with few communities very closely. Apart from that, He is a big foodie and self-proclaimed proud solo traveler.

    Session Summary: Let’s face it, getting more customer is not an easy task. It takes lots of hard work, strategies and money to get them on board. How can we grow our service business without depending hugely on customer acquisition? In my proposed talk I will be addressing how we can generate more revenue from our existing customer, Improve the retention and grow our business.

    Intended Audience: Business Owner, Marketer, Entrepreneurs

  • Regan Khadgi

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    Building a Successful Career as a WordPress Developer – Panel Discussion

    @regankhadgi
    Topic Category: WordPress Development
    Speaker Type: National

    Speaker Bio: A freelancer WordPress plugin developer and former Senior Lead WordPress Plugin Developer at AccessPress Themes, Regan Khadgi is a programmer by choice and passion.

    He says, the first fire for coding ignited within him as he debugged codes with fierce energy inside his college classroom. And that fire, soon turned into a flame, making coding his profession. Today, he has had almost a decade of experience working with WordPress, and has developed more than 20 plugins. He also used to lead, manages, and guides a team of 6 programmers. A team that has developed over 100 plugins and has achieved the title of “Elite Author” in Envato in a surprisingly short time.

    Also, over the years, Regan has been committed to not only learning from WordPress, but for giving back to the community too. He shared his programming knowledge as a speaker in WordCamp Nepal 2015, and in WordCamp Kathmandu 2016. In the year 2017, he contributed as a volunteer in WordCamp Kathmandu. Again in the year 2018, he spoke at WordCamp Biratnagar. He also worked as a Speaker wrangler in WordCamp Kathmandu 2019, WordCamp Bharatpur 2019 and WordCamp Butwal 2020. For someone who has worked so long in the field, Regan still works with the same energy he had 8 years ago while he had just started.

    And when at times he is away from the computer, you can see him singing with a guitar in his hands or lifting weights at the gym.

    Session Summary: If you’re planning to build your career as a developer for WordPress, it could be a smart decision. Because of its simplicity and ease of use to create a website, it is being used by more and more people.

    Some Facts:

    • WordPress has more than 60% of the CMS market share more than all other systems (eg, Drupal, Joomla) combined
    • 35% of the internet is powered by WordPress
    • WordPress content is published in over 120 different languages.
    • WordPress 5.3 has been downloaded over 7 million times
    • There are 7,000+ free GPL-licensed Themes for WordPress
    • There are 55,000+ free Plugins for WordPress
    • WordPress developers make an average of $57,778 per year, according to Indeed.

    It ensures that today’s WordPress developers are in high demand and you can make the best out of WordPress with the right set of skills, resources and qualities.

    Intended Audience: Students, Developers

  • Roshan Bhattarai

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    Lesson learnt from buying and selling Styled Themes
    @roshanbh
    Topic Category: WordPress Business/Analysis
    Speaker Type: National

    Speaker Bio: Roshan is a co-founder of Proshore. Proshore is a dutch-nepali software agency with header quarter in Eindhoven, Netherlands. He is also a co-founder of digital products like WPDating, Keptify and ExportFeed. A die-hard Chelsea fan but prefers to play badminton on regular basis.

    Session Summary:  I learnt a very good lesson on while working with WordPress business. Why did we decided to buy it ? How to grow it ? Why we decided to sell it. And lesson learnt why we sell it on wrong time.Because many people wants to start their own business in WordPress so this topic can give good idea how you can get into other business as partner. How do you identify the right business for you.

    Intended Audience: Everyone

  • Sagar Chhetri

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    Pursuing WordPress as a Career

    @sagar7
    Topic Category: WordPress Development
    Speaker Type: National

    Speaker Bio: A Passionate Web Developer currently working in codethemes.co for about two years. I have been developing some awesome WordPress themes for codethemes.co used by thousands of users worldwide. Besides development, I love to travel and explore new places and culture

    Session Summary: I have been working as a web developer for the last two years, I started working when I was persuing my bachelor’s degree in computer science and information technology(CSIT). Most of the people asked me Why WordPress? why not python or java or another programming platform. In reply, i used to ask them why not WordPress.

    Intended Audience: Everyone

  • Shekhar Bhandari

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    Being a Support Representative – Is it worth it as a career
    @optimistic_shekhar
    Topic Category: WordPress Support
    Speaker Type: National

    Speaker Bio: Currently living in Kadaghari, Kathmandu. I am working on WPML plugin as a supporter from last 4 years, before that I have worked as a theme developer.

    Session Summary:  Support job doesn’t sound as good as others to most of the people. In this session, I will be mostly talking about the support system in WordPress and it will revolve around my experiences of being a support staff for 4+ years.

    This session will also enlighten the audience about the job opportunity in WordPress other than design and development. This includes the journey of getting to the support staff and what are the skills required and mostly focuses on the dynamic and spontaneous role that is played by support staff for any product.

    Intended Audience: Everyone

  • Shiva Shanker Bhatta

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    Building a Successful Career as a WordPress Developer – Panel Discussion

    @shivashankerbhatta
    Topic Category: WordPress Development
    Speaker Type: National

    Speaker Bio: Shiva Shanker Bhatta is the Founder/CEO at AF themes. He has more than 8 years of experience in WordPress; Community, Contributions, and Development – Basically focused on WordPress Themes and Plugins. He had contributed ( Organized/Contributors Day Lead ) various National and International WordCamps from WordCamp Kathmandu to WordCamp Bangkok and WordCamp Osaka. He also used to be the WordPress Kathmandu Meetup Coordinator. Being an active WordPress Community Contributor, he is a Theme Reviewer, Theme Author, Plugin Author and General Translation Editor(GTE).

    Session Summary: If you’re planning to build your career as a developer for WordPress, it could be a smart decision. Because of its simplicity and ease of use to create a website, it is being used by more and more people.

    Some Facts:

    • WordPress has more than 60% of the CMS market share more than all other systems (eg, Drupal, Joomla) combined
    • 35% of the internet is powered by WordPress
    • WordPress content is published in over 120 different languages.
    • WordPress 5.3 has been downloaded over 7 million times
    • There are 7,000+ free GPL-licensed Themes for WordPress
    • There are 55,000+ free Plugins for WordPress
    • WordPress developers make an average of $57,778 per year, according to Indeed.

    It ensures that today’s WordPress developers are in high demand and you can make the best out of WordPress with the right set of skills, resources and qualities.

    Intended Audience: Students, Developers

  • Shrijana Thapa KC

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    Public speaking in IT: Unveiling the bright side

    @shrijana1
    Topic Category: Public Speaking
    Speaker Type: National

    Speaker Bio: Shrijana Thapa KC is a Software Engineer and works as a Mobile App Developer at Nucleus, a leading company based in Pokhara. She came to WordPress by chance and got hooked since then as an active member of WordPress Pokhara. Having more than a decade long of experience in media, she has given trainings on public speaking and used to work at top radio stations of the city.

    When she’s not typing away on a keyboard, you will find her freelancing as an emcee at events around the city. She is an avid reader, has an immense love for travel and wishes to explore different cuisines in her spare time.

    Session Summary:  Despite the world of work being increasingly conducted behind computer screens, career progression is still about being seen and heard. Amidst all, we also come across the fact that many people suffer from stage fright and mass fear or anxiety when it comes to public speaking. This implies with IT personnel, developers or designers as well. One can have a hard time if you have a problem in delivering your ideas well with your clients or one can find it really difficult to convince his/her colleagues about his project if he doesn’t have good speaking skills resulting in unexpected outcomes.

    So, lack of public speaking skills can be a great hindrance to your success or career as a whole. So, unveiling the bright side of public speaking skills will allow you to have a better understanding of the subject matter, motivate you to do lots of preparation, implement the theories practically which is mandatory in IT sector and it will also let you explore new things and do more research which is so much essential in this technology driven world where everything keeps on changing with a blink of an eye. Public speaking skills is no longer optional in our professional life so, why not enhance it for a better us, for our better tomorrow?

    ​Intended Audience: Everyone

  • Subhasis Chatterjee

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    How to use WordPress for Blogging?

    @quizzycal
    Topic Category: Blogging/Marketing
    Speaker Type: International

    Speaker Bio: Subhasis Chatterjee is a Web Journalist, Content Architect, Content Analyst from Kolkata, India with an experience legacy of more than 24 years. He is an Author, Blogger, Traveller and a Keynote Speaker. He is a Social Media Influencer too. His core competency lies in the areas of Personal Branding, Digital Marketing, Social Media Propagation, Reputation Management & Entrepreneurship Skill Development. He runs an IT company in Kolkata since 2004. Apart from different IT services, ConnectIndia is engaged in offering a host of Tech and Non-Tech workshops and training programs across India and abroad.

    Session Summary:

    • Key rules for blogging
    • How to effectively do blogging using wordpress
    • Types of Blogs and how to decide on what to write
    • Anatomy of Blog post….what to write
    • Blog Marketing strategy
    • How to use social media

      Intended Audience: Anybody who is passionate about content, blogging, WordPress, Personal Branding, Freelancing, Digital Marketing.

  • Surendra Shrestha

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    Giving back to the community

    @nepsure
    Topic Category: WordPress Community
    Speaker Type: National

    Bio: I am Founder & CEO of Rigorous Web. I have worked as Software Engineer since 2010 and started my own web business in WordPress after getting potential knowledge of web design and development early at 2013. I am self learned and highly motivated Web Programmer, WordPress Developer and IT entrepreneur.​

    Session Summary: The beauty of WordPress is its community and giving back to the community is a kind of culture, developed by WordPress Communities. We learn and expand our skills using open source community. As we learn, we have to practice to teach others by sharing our skills, knowledges and experiences. When there are some problems related to WP,  there are definitely a millions of helping hands around the earth and that is what I will be discussing.​

    Intended Audience: Everyone

  • Tetsuya Yoshida

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    Daily maintenances of WordPress
    @tetsu8yoshida
    Topic Category: WordPress Development
    Speaker Type: International

    Speaker Bio: web developer / Senior Web Analytics Consultant
    Representative Director of TY Planning Co., Ltd. Japan
    I worked for the web industry since 2001 and became independent in 2002. Incorporated in 2006. I provide a wide range of web-related requests, including web design, coding, and CMS customisation, web analysis, website construction and operation consultation, and web advertising services. In addition to producing and attracting customers, we offer improvement proposals and advisories from a perspective that overlooks all operations and maintenance. I participate in educational activities such as speaker at WordCamp Tokyo, other seminar events, corporate training and one-on-one lessons.

    Session Summary: Maintenance of WordPress is very important. I will explain from the view of update, backup and security. Use backup and security plugin and keep your WordPress site safe.

    Intended Audience: WordPress Beginners, designers, bloggers and any people who doesn’t know about the update, backup and security.