Author: Abhishek Deshpande

Kaustubh Katdare is the founder and CEO of CrazyEngineers – a global community of engineers. Kaustubh is serial TEDx speaker/attendee and also B-plan judge & speaker at many entrepreneurship events in India.

At WordCamp Nagpur, Kaustubh will share how WordPress can be used SaaS(Software as a Service) platform.

He believes WordPress is ideal to build SaaS Product. He will share how he managed to release product as early as possible with a lesser learning curve. How CrazyEngineers tools like resume builder, jobs, events, quiz work using CPT and the Multi-Site environment without any database structural changes of WordPress setup.

How easy it is to scale the systems. How Startups can make use of WordPress to offer any kind of app as a service, save costs and have a proven solution to rely on.

Makarand is General translation editor for Marathi language and active in the polyglot community.

In his talk, he will cover the procedure for preparing your Themes and Plugins ready for translation. Tools that you need to explore, standard structural format, functions to make your theme or plugin translation ready.

Localising WordPress themes and plugins isn’t something developers should simply dismiss. And if you’re a developer who doesn’t know how to localise a theme or plugin, then you should go for it.

The digital marketing revolution has shifted the focus from the traditional 4Ps of marketing to the 4Cs of digital media – Creating, Connecting, Curating and Culture. Driving a stellar content marketing strategy is knowing what, when and how to share the beautiful content you spend hours creating and curating.

In this session, Sukhada will bust few myths around content marketing and explain how anyone with a vision can become a pro at killer content marketing. Content marketing moves people, pushes them towards sharing or similar actions and ultimately – drives commercial value for a brand/product.

Sukhada Chaudhary holds a post-graduate degree from Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad (MICA) with a specialisation in advertising strategy. Having worked in the strategy teams for Lakme, Citibank and Skoda in the past 2 years, she has now moved back to Nagpur to become a digital marketing consultant for SMEs and is Partner & Content Head at Buzo Media Services.

She is an avid business quizzer and loves everything connected to Nagpur. She also heads Nagpur Foodies – a community of 50,000+ food lovers in the city and the only Co-Working space Chaos Theory in Town.

Headless CMSs have been slowly gaining popularity for some time now. Even though WordPress is largely a presentational software it can be used as a headless CMS in a number of ways. Abhijit will give you an overview of the pitfalls and give you workarounds and some possible solutions of using WordPress as a Headless CMS.

Abhijit Rakas is a Nagpur-based web developer working for SANIsoft Technologies. He started his journey with WordPress in 2014. He is a major polyglot contributor for Marathi translations.

Jetpack is one plugin that helps you many ways. In this talk, Omkar will tell why you need Jetpack and how can it take your blog to the next level? How can Jetpack help to make your site more secure? How it’ll help to make your site faster and more reliable? Get answers to all these questions and more.

Omkar is Computer Engineer by degree but loves to draw and Illustrate things. He works as a Happiness Engineer at Automattic.

This Thane-based geek loves to create educational videos on his youtube channel TheCuriousEngineer. Earlier started as a place for Programming Tutorials & Tech Reviews, but later amazing science channels like Vsauce, Veritasium, MinutePhysics, SmarterEveryDay inspired him to make edutaining science videos.

Have you heard that someone is not a REAL developer if they don’t use a certain tool, technology or method? Have you heard someone call themselves a WordPress developer, but don’t know how to write code?

This talk will clear up some misconceptions and tell you what it takes to be a real WordPress developer.

Swapnil Patil is Pune based Developer, who started his WordPress journey back in Jan 2014. his passion for WordPress started at the college itself. Luckily right after the college, he got an opportunity to be at a place, where 100% of work involved WordPress!

When it comes to securing your WordPress sites, there are a lot of plugins that do the task for you. But the security of your site cannot be just an “Install this plugin and forget” affair – Securing your website demands attention on a constant basis.

In this talk, Karthik will take you through the basics of securing your WordPress sites and best security practices in the day to day life and in code.

Karthik is a polyglot programmer with experience in building apps in PHP and Swift.

Jayman is a designer who has spent a decade of designing experiences, He is a go-to guy for a lot of startups and agencies in the city of dreams, Mumbai.

Atomic Design details all that goes into creating and maintaining robust design systems, allowing you to roll out higher quality, more consistent UIs faster than ever before.

In this talk, Jayman will introduce a methodology for thinking of our UIs as thoughtful hierarchies, discusses the qualities of effective pattern libraries, and showcases techniques to transform your team’s design and development workflow.