January 24, 2018 — We often hear that everyone should contribute to the core.In this talk, He will cover how contributing to the core helps an individual as well as a Business.

He will also try to address concerns and insecurities businesses have when encouraging their team to WordPress core.

The goal is to motivate people to contribute to the WordPress core and other areas of WordPress and open-source at large!

July 11, 2017 — If you run a development agency or are the hiring face for your firm, you know how hard it is to find talent in web development niche, let alone WordPress.

When it comes to specific skill sets, like WordPress, it gets more tricky as you have many different factors to juggle with, many attributes that you many need to look into a potential candidate and most importantly the tactics you need to retain them.

Rahul will shed light on few common and many exclusive aspects that you should should keep in mind while hiring in the WordPress ecosystem.

July 1, 2017 — WooCommerce is a very powerful plugin. But businesses who build online stores using it face problems when the number of people accessing the store increases.

Rahul Bansal will tell us about specific techniques which can be used to serve huge number of users efficiently. You’ll be able to apply many of his recommendations to other WordPress sites as well, where logged-in users make a bulk of traffic.

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June 21, 2017 — Rahul is the founder and CEO of rtCamp – the only WordPress.com VIP Partner from Asia.

He said in his talk Whether you’re a budding developer, a pixel-perfect designer, or just like helping out, we’re always looking for people to help make WordPress even better.

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June 20, 2017 — 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.

May 13, 2017 — In this unique and first of a kind session, one of the most successful and prominent members of the community, Rahul Bansal speaks with Kumar Abhirup, who at the age of 13, is probably the youngest WordCamp speaker ever.

Abhirup finds WordPress to be extremely easy and Rahul will converse with him to find out how that is in an interview in the first half of the session.

During the second half of the session, Rahul will moderate an audience QnA where you can ask all your questions and get answers from Abhirup.

Here’s your chance to discover a unique perspective and journey of a young WordPress developer. As Abhirup says, “If I find it this easy, you will find it easier!”.

March 31, 2017 — How translation sprints helps bring in new contributors!

October 1, 2016 — India has the second largest population in the world. More than a million people are directly working in IT sector.

Yet, WordPress agency or in general any software agency in India, or even in South Asia is often mistaken as that agency which does low quality work for ridiculously low rates!

When we started in 2009, it was very clear that we are not going to be part of this “race to the bottom” culture. We wanted to work on projects that were exciting and challenging. A kind of work that makes you proud at the end of the day!

I would like to talk about how we used innovative methods to hire passionate people, what challenges we faced in motivating our employees to be core contributors, nurturing a culture of giving back to open source and how it all helped us stand out.

The result – I am glad to say that I have the privilege to lead and work in one of the most talked about WordPress agencies in India today, for right reasons!

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July 17, 2015 — WordPress has thousands of themes and plugins freely available. Not all of them are coded beautifully or tested with big WordPress sites. When a bad piece of code goes live on a WordPress site, it can slow down site and even crash server in some cases.
Goal of this session is to show how EasyEngine and other tools/techniques can be used to debug performance bottleneck on a WordPress site.

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