July 19, 2017 — Having earned the moderator level on WordPress.tv, Nirmal works as a Business Manager at Multidots. His passion lies in contributing to WordPress and in his words – he loves increasing the fan base of WordPress.

In words of Nirmal – “In India and around Asia, we have very few contributors. As we know that, WordPress.tv is the only platform to publish the official WordPress videos. As moderator at WordPress.tv from India, I feel that if we have more and more contributors from India then we can have more larger community of WordPress.tv too”.

July 19, 2017 — Using WordPress for nearly a decade, David turned to WordPress as the main source of income three years back. Since then, it’s been a happy journey.

In last 5 months, David started producing video content for WordPress users (mainly for Beaver Builder users) on his Youtube channel.
WordPress (and open source in general) has been important in democratizing the web. Now with the likes of Wix, Weebly, and SquareSpace we probably need to turn our attention more towards User Experience.

July 19, 2017 — WordPress Pros and Cons

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July 18, 2017 — Learning the hard lessons the hard way is never fun. This talk will be in the form of 5 short stories on how I self-sabotaged my own career, and my business endeavors and briefly touch on how I recovered, or didn’t in some cases. Will close with 2 revelations that anyone can and should apply in their own business.

Burning the candle at both ends (2 jobs or a side job/product)
Taking on debt to make payroll as an agency
Firing slow (bad culture fits kill morale)
Swimming against the current in the community (necessary at times, but mind your tone)
All hustle, no personal time. (nothing is worth family + relationships)
Iterate, Iterate, Iterate (perseverance)
Invest in your team at every opportunity (the golden ticket)

July 17, 2017 — “Are we giving too much information away?
As we adopt use of technology into our daily routines, it’s easy to forget that our blogs and connected social media posts sometimes reach a wider audience than we mean them to. Updates intended for friends, family, and coworkers may seem innocuous enough, but often leak private information that hackers can use to invade our privacy and steal important data.
In this presentation I will discuss ways in which we can become more aware of our vulnerabilities online, and make recommendations on how to avoid some common pitfalls.

July 17, 2017 — One of the most confusing (and exciting) features of using WordPress is Plugins! But how do you know for sure which ones you absolutely need and which you should avoid at all costs?
In this session, Christina Hills will walk you though, step-by-step, the various types of plugins you might need as well as how to properly evaluate and install them. Discover which free plugins are essential and know when and if you should upgrade to the Pro version. You’ll also learn the exact steps to take when a plugin goes “bad” so your website is up and running in no time.
Attend this session and you’ll walk away fully understanding the Wonderful World of WordPress Plugins!

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July 17, 2017 — Bigul hails from Kerala and started his web development journey as a PHP developer in 2005. He is working with WordPress since 2008.
The session is targeted towards users and developers seeking information and has queries related to WordPress translation. Working in the same niche, Bigul is exactly the right guy who can answer all the queries and can give the in-depth overview of the topic.

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July 17, 2017 — Gaurav works as a Happiness Engineer at Automattic. He is in the web industry for about 8 years, and have donned a number of hats during this period, including startup founder, developer, designer, business manager, front office, 3d architectural designer, in-house developer etc.
With this talk, he want to explain how he have perceived these issues during his involvement in communities over the years, and want to raise some questions about the current situation, and what can be done to improve (and what exactly do we call improvement in such a case).

July 17, 2017 — Founder at WPoets Amit is working with WordPress since 2007. He has contributed his first WordPress plugin to WordPress.org repository in 2008 and never looked back since.
In this talk he focused on developers and he explained various tools that you can use to do prototyping of ideas without writing code, paving way for quicker development workflow.

July 17, 2017 — Victoria is a Happiness Engineer at Automattic, and she provides support for users on WordPress.com sites.She talked about The importance of providing support for your products.
This talk is intended to bring awareness to the fact that the work is not over once you ship a plugin/product. The value of a plugin/product is not just in the end result, it includes the support that you follow up with, and it’s the support that you provide that induces loyalty towards the user.