September 11, 2017 — Hardeep is a WordPress developer, working for ThemeIsle as a theme developer, and as a support ninja. He loves to contribute to the community in every possible way.

He will be talking about the significance of local WordPress communities, and how they could help people gain knowledge, by sharing what they learn. He’ll try to emphasise on why meetups are the lifeblood of the WordPress community, will explain the need for WordPress enthusiasts, and developers, to get together for meet ups.

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September 11, 2017 — Harshad Mane is a PHP Programmer and a WordPress Enthusiast. He’s passionate about WordPress and uses it to develop modern and impressive websites. He has been working in the web industry for over 11 years.

Harshad will give an introduction to the two types of Caching in WordPress, and on Why Caching is important?

There are different types of caching in WordPress. Harshad’s focus on his talk is specifically on “page caching”. This is the type of caching that plugins like LSCache WP, WP Super Cache, W3 Total Cache and others plugins do.

September 11, 2017 — Mahangu is an Automattician hailing from Colombo, Sri Lanka, Mahangu first found WordPress when he stumbled upon 0.70 in the dark recesses of #wordpress on Freenode. He has used and provided support for every major release of the software, and is excited about the impact the platform can have on South Asia.

Though once a high school English teacher, his desire to make online publishing more democratic led him to Automattic, where he now works as a Happiness Engineer. He sincerely believes that stellar support will play a pivotal role in helping WordPress power the next 27% of the web!

Mahangu is an experienced speaker, and has spoken at several WordCamps, including WordCamp Pune 2015, WordCamp Mumbai 2016, WordCamp Singapore 2016, and WordCamp Kathmandu 2016.

September 11, 2017 — Keerthana K is a developer based in Cochin, India. She was a participant in Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2016. She’s an avid FOSS enthusiast and a passionate contributor to quite a few open source projects. She loves to tinker with gadgets and technology and to write about her coding escapades. She was also a speaker to DebConf16, the official Debian conference in 2016 held in Cape Town, South Africa.

This talk is especially meant for Front End Developers and Content Creators who are looking to expand their user base into South Asia and other emerging economies and will be in a beginner level.

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September 11, 2017 — Sudar Muthu, is a Senior Web Engineer with 10up, a leading WordPress design agency, and a WordPress.com VIP Partner. Sudar has released over two dozens of WordPress plugins, and has been developing WordPress plugins for more than 8 years. He has also contributed to all major WordPress releases starting from v 4.3.

In his talk, he will talk about the various developer tools that he uses, to increase productivity as a WordPress developer. Through his session, he will explain in detail about what worked for him, as a WordPress developer, and and what did not. He will also be giving an introduction to these development tools, through his session.

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September 8, 2017 — Tammie Lister shows John Parkinson some of the features of the Gutenberg Editor Plugin.

September 6, 2017 — Ciprian Gavriliu is a Product Designer, occasional blogger and aspiring writer. He has an broad experience working with important clients worldwide like Inbound.org, HubSpot, Neil Patel and Sujan Patel. Ciprian will share important findings about selecting a good client niche, building a personal brand and working with big clients. Pretty sure there are many of you looking to improve their entrepreneurial skills and in this WordCamp session, you will get some great, to-the-point, advice.

September 6, 2017 — Finding the best way to organize your code is one of the hardest parts of coding custom plugins and themes. Determining the best way to architect your code can prevent nightmare situations from surfacing in the feature. No more taking forever to add new features! No more breaking unrelated pieces of code that haven’t been touched! No more nightmares when refactoring code for compatibility with a recent WordPress update!

September 5, 2017 — Milan lives and breathes WordPress: he’s the WordPress.org global translation editor, WordPress Serbia lead and one of WordCamp Europe organizers. One of the lecturers of the WordPress Academy in Serbia, giving talks and free WordPress Workshops. WordCamp volunteer, speaker and organizer. Member of Theme Review Team.

In spare time he holds WordPress lectures and collects WordCamp T-shirts.
Working as a Web developer at Devana Technologies, company behind ManageWP.
Look him up by @lanche86

September 5, 2017 — Emanuel Costa is the guy who wears many hats at High Tech Web, INC, the web agency he owns in Las Vegas.

We talk about his involvement in WordPress, the presentations he has given and plans for future WordCamps.

Emanuel attended the DefCon Conference, which was held in Las Vegas at the end of July 2017. This is a Hackers Conference and first began in 1993.