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Official schedule for WordCamp Nashik 2016

WordCamp Nashik 2016 Schedule

Official Schedule for WordCamp Nashik 2016, Sunday, October 16, 2016

Regular Talk Regular sessions: 20 mins + 10 mins Q & A.
Lightening Talk Lightening Talk: 15 mins – Q & A will happen at Happiness Bar after the Session.
Panel Discussion Panel Discussion: 50 mins.

 

Nashik Engineering Cluster (NEC) – Akash Auditorium
Time Main Event
8:00 am – 9:30 am Registration Tea/Coffee & Morning Snacks
9:30 am – 9:55 am Opening Remarks
10:00 am – 10:30 am WordPress For StartupsHari Shanker R Regular Talk
10:35 am – 11:05 am Winning with WooCommerceNirav Mehta Regular Talk
11:05 am – 11:15 am Break
11:15 am – 11:30 am Positioning your product/brand or businessSandeep Kelvadi Lightening Talk
11:35 am – 11:50 am The BuzzWord ‘UX’, Why it is so Important?Jayman Pandya Lightening Talk
11:55 am – 12:10 pm OSCAR: Methadology to manage WordPress ProjectsDinesh Jain Lightening Talk
12:15 pm – 1:05 pm How to build a Business on WordPressPanel Discussion Panel Discussion
1:05 pm – 2:00 pm Lunch – Food Court
2:00 pm – 2:15 pm How to engage your readers by using storiesFairy Dharawat Lightening Talk
2:20 pm – 2:35 pm Automated Testing in WordPress Eco SystemAnand Thakkar Lightening Talk
2:40 pm – 3:10 pm WordPress APIs: Do more with less codeHarshal Limaye Regular Talk
3:15 pm – 4:05 pm Contribution to WordPressPanel Discussion Panel Discussion
4:05 pm – 4:30 pm Tea/Coffee Break
4:30 pm – 5:00 pm State of WordPress Security: Today and beyondShivam Singh Regular Talk
5:05 pm – 5:35 pm Marketing Lessons I learnt from the WP communitySaurabh Shukla Regular Talk
5:40 pm – 6:00 pm End Credits and Goodbyes
9:00 am – 6:00 pm Networking – Hallway (Multipurpose Hall)

One more Panel discussion on running a business on WordPress

How to build a business on WordPress

As you progress in your professional life as a WordPress user, you’ve probably considered starting your own business on WordPress. Maybe you’ve had a few paid freelance jobs. Or perhaps you’ve been refining your skills in your free time. However you arrived at this point, the logical next step is to start your own Business.

But that next step is a big one. Being a great developer doesn’t necessarily mean you’re great at sales, marketing, management, or accounting. If you’re willing to develop some new skillsets, though, you can drastically increase your potential for success.

Panelist in this discussion, will share their thoughts about the things to consider as you go from being in business to being a business, and how one can successfully run his business on WordPress.

Saurabh Shukla will moderate this Panel discussion, and CEO/Co-founder of Agencies running their Business on WordPress like Sanjeev Mishra, Rahul Bansal, Amit Singh, Deepak Kori, and Vishal Kothari will take part in the Panel discussion as a Panelist!

Panel Discussion on How you can contribute to WordPress?

Contribution to WordPress

If you’re a WordPress user, you may be aware of the “Five for the future” concept, in which WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg has suggested that companies wanting to give something back to WordPress should dedicate 5% of their resources to contributing in some way.

Contributing to WordPress doesn’t mean you have to speak PHP. While helping the WordPress community appears skewed towards those with programming know-how, there are many other valuable ways you can make your mark.

In this Panel Discussion our Panelist along with the Moderator will help you look at why it’s a good idea to contribute to WordPress and examine some of the ways in which you can make your contribution.

Alexander Gounder will moderate this Panel discussion, and Experts from WordPress Eco-system like Aditya Kane, Swapnil Patil, Vachan Kudmule, Bigul Malayi, and Ankit Gupta will take part in the Panel discussion as a Panelist!

Winning With WooCommerce by Nirav Mehta

Nirav Mehta

Nirav is called the entrepreneur geek. One who likes technology as much as businesses.

He’s built a rather eventful track record over the last 17 years. To summarize: he started at the age of 13, launched India’s first electronic magazine, a thriving web agency that went down in 2009, was asked to exit the company, made a heroic return and recovery, then a string of seven businesses, doing multiple product businesses in parallel, authored two – actually three – books, spoke at various events and conferences, contributed to open source and community, wrote some fancy code and got gray hair at early age.

He is a “parallel entrepreneur” leading multiple technology businesses and adventures. You can learn more about his WordPress solutions from: StorApps, Icegram and WPMeta

But hey, numbers and all the claim-to-fame apart, what’s most important about him is that he loves to contribute. He is easily approachable and has a lot of experience. So if you have any questions about WordPress, WooCommerce; starting up, running or scaling a tech business, he’d love to help!

Insights on Nirav’s talk: “Winning With WooCommerce”

WooCommerce has become the most popular e-commerce platform in a quick five years. But can it solve your business needs? If you are already running WooCommerce, how can you amplify your results?

If you are new to WooCommerce, this fast paced session will get you up to speed with the basics. Then you will discover neat techniques to grow your sales, increase customer engagement, effectively managing day to day tasks and make your dreams come true!

Whether you are evaluating WooCommerce or already using it, this information rich talk will fill your mind with new ideas that you’d want to go out and implement right away! It’s based on extensive experience so you will get no-fluff practical solutions.

You will also get ample opportunity to ask your questions – until the organizers go wild. And after that, we can always go off stage, outside the hall and answer your remaining questions.

Because it’s all about winning with WooCommerce!

Come prepared!

Start with following him on Twitter @niravmehta!

State of WordPress Security: Today and beyond by Shivam Singh

Shivam Singh

Shivam is a Senior Software Engineer with BlogVault. He spends most of his time glued to a computer writing codes directly/indirectly related to WordPress.

He has been using WordPress for 7 years now, and has authored popular plugins and a private theme. One of the core organizers of Bengaluru WordPress Community, he adores the idea of a strong community and never misses an opportunity to contribute. His contributions include – writing for the WordPress Handbook, blogging his experiences, and contributing questions/answers on StackOverflow. Helping people at Happiness Bars is his favourite WordCamp thing.

At BlogVault he has had the opportunity to lead a number of development projects which have further helped shape his understanding of WordPress. Inspired by the ‘State of the Word 2015’, he spent the better part for his last year learning and creating web applications on ReactJS.

When not online, Shivam may be found riding his bike, hiking and photographing a new trail or sleeping.

Insights on Shivam’s talk: “State of WordPress Security: Today and beyond”

WordPress is huge. One of the greatest things about WordPress is that it’s open source; which also means that it is really well understood. WordPress powers more than 25% of the web and it’s steadily moving towards the 30% mark. Thousands of third-party plugins and themes are available. All these points that make WordPress great, also make WordPress extremely vulnerable to hacking. Also, the scale and complexity of WordPress provides for a large attack surface.

The WordPress team is invested in maintaining the integrity of the application, and all core related security issues are quickly addressed. However the same cannot be said for thousands of plugins/themes out there which makes WordPress vulnerable.

Being in the backup business, Shivam and his team have spent a lot of time helping customers restore and clean their hacked sites. All this experience and learning was later translated into code that empowers their new product.

Shivam will be sharing some important takeaways from this experience in his talk.

  • Why will anyone hack you?
  • What are the common hacks?
  • How to prevent one’s sites against them?
  • Analyzing security related data collected from over 100K WordPress sites.

The talk will discuss what these data mean to the WordPress ecosystem in current times and what can it lead to in the future.

Meet our Friend – Savvii

Savvii

Savvii Managed WordPress Hosting

Savvii was derived from the English word ‘Savvy’.

Savvii is fast, secure & easy hosting for your WordPress websites. Would you like to try it out? The 30-day money back guarantee, month-to-month based agreements and migration service make it easy!

Follow Savvii on Twitter

Rochen completes the Sponsors list – Support us with Gold

Rochen

Founded in 2003 and today providing WordPress hosting for thousands of sites, Rochen’s mission is to build innovative hosting solutions that are easy to use and provide the highest levels of performance, security and reliability. Rochen provides hosting solutions for a range of customers, their Premium Web Hosting (PWH) offering is designed for smaller WordPress sites and their Managed Cloud Servers (MCS) can scale to handle tens of millions of monthly page views.

All of Rochen’s solutions are built on top of their own fully owned and managed infrastructure and benefit from features like built-in high availability with automatic server failover, managed backups and 24/7 technical support. Rochen uses the latest hardware and software technologies and offers many features beneficial to WordPress users such as PHP 7, LiteSpeed Enterprise Web Server, WP-CLI, Web Application Firewall Protection (WAF) for WordPress, free SSL certificates for all sites through the LetsEncrypt project and much more.

For more information on Rochen’s hosting solutions for WordPress, visit: www.rochen.com

Meet the GreatHearted Friends of #WCNashik

Friends
“The only way to have a friend is to be one” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Meet the GreatHearted Friends of WordCamp Nashik 2016:

Dr. Tarique Sani

Dr.Tarique Sani

Dr.Tarique Sani is a Pediatrician and a Forensic Expert. A passionate PHP geek. Currently CTO at SANIsoft. Also a cyclist, photographer, bird watcher, nature lover and a FOSS enthusiast.
He has a Depth understanding of web development, Servers, Scaling applications for High performance and High availability, User experience and Usability.. read more

Yapapaya

Yapapaya

Yapapaya is a group of reliable experts from India, passionate about building great WordPress solutions. Excellence, transparency and freedom are the values at the core of everything we do. Great customer service is something that gets things done, letting you focus solely on growing your business, is Yapapaya’s belief..read more

Chetan Prajapati

Chetan Prajapati

Chetan Prajapati is a WordPress Developer, from Gujarat, India.
Since Childhood having a passion to become an IT Engineer, He enrolled and completed the IT Engineering in 2013 from Bhavnagar, India. Since then he started his career as a PHP Developer…read more

Kind Support from ResellerClub joins the Golden Club

ResellerClub

ResellerClub is a Gold Sponsor at WordCamp Nashik and we are proud to partner with one of the India’s most popular Domains & Hosting brands for Web Professionals.

ResellerClub is a platform provider catering to the Web Design & Development community worldwide through a full-fledged Reseller Program that includes Product Integration’s, Order Management, Billing & Customer management and includes a free eCommerce storefront and API integration too!

With a product portfolio that includes scalable and secure Shared Hosting, Reseller Hosting, Cloud Hosting solutions and Dedicated Hosting, ResellerClub also offers domain name registration services and other essential web presence products such as email & security to bring SMBs online. Know more about ResellerClub.

ResellerClub also organizes SiteWars, the Web Design contest and Ctrl+F5, a multi-city series of summits for Web Designers.

Follow ResellerClub on Facebook and Twitter

OSCAR Methodology for managing WordPress projects by Dinesh Jain

Dinesh Jain

Meet Dinesh Jain, Dinesh is a Certified ScrumMaster® and has been a part of Organizing team of Pune WordCamp 2015.

Dinesh began leveraging WordPress right after graduation in 2012 and he has not looked back since. The manifold features of WordPress and the flexibility it provides has had Dinesh firmly glued and his attachment to the WordPress CMS is growing stronger with time.

From a novice level to acquiring expertise, he has evolved his skillset to also managing large scale projects in WordPress. Dinesh has been a vibrant part of the WordPress Community and has contributed to its open source community in myriad ways.

Dinesh was a speaker at Wordcamp Mumbai 2012 and also was a member of the Organizing Committee of Wordcamp Pune 2015. He is an enthusiastic attendee of WordCamps. At present, he is the VP of Services in Armentum, which is a full service digital agency and an emerging player in WordPress and based out of its Bangalore Development Center.

His Areas of expertise are:

  • WordPress Development
  • Project Management
  • Agile Methodology

Highlights on Dinesh Jain’s talk: OSCAR – A growth driven methodology for managing WordPress projects

  • Currently there are scores of project management methodologies available but almost all of them are either built for enterprise level or are difficult to manage. Hence the intuitive need to have a simple methodology which follows Agile and easy to manage for all genres whether they are freelancers, start ups, small or large businesses.
  • Why look into another one when there are a plethora of Project Management Methodologies present. The main purpose behind OSCAR is that it unifies user experience, development and customer acquisition. By leveraging OSCAR, an agency or a freelancer is able to de-commoditize their offering and continue to earn revenue for a client on a retainer basis that goes beyond support.
  • OSCAR helps companies build a revenue engine with no overhead costs as well as using the project management methods in an effective manner for smooth execution of the projects.


The Talk includes:

  • Why Project Management Methodology is essential for a WordPress project
  • Existing Methodologies and hindrances caused.
  • Understanding each phase of OSCAR methodology:

    • Objective
    • Strategy

      • Building a Baseline
      • Understanding “Why”
      • Defining “What”
      • Defining “How”
    • Create

      • User Experience and Interface
      • Code Wrangling
      • Content Development
      • Marketing and Sales Automation Engine
    • Analyze

      • Performance Measurement
      • Performance Analysis
    • Refine

      • Update based on performance measurements and analysis
      • Implement Product Roadmap Features
      • Follow Content Calendar For Content Development
    • Tools for each phase of OSCAR methodology
    • Advantages and Derivatives of using OSCAR for Freelancers and Agencies.


    How it will help the audience:

    • Non-Technical (Business Owners, Business Analytics, Business Development Managers)
    • Technical (Developers, Freelancers)

    Linkedin Profile: https://in.linkedin.com/in/dineshjain2911