Meet Jayman Pandya, With an experience of over a decade, Jayman has worked in lead roles of Design with companies like Bhujbal Knowledge City, Zee Entertainment, ICICI, J.P. Morgan, Leo Burnett. He has also worked with companies like Roche Pharma, Abbott Pharma, Boehringer Ingelheim, Johnson & Johnson, Axis Bank, Standard Chartered Bank, Mahindra Agri, Godrej, Legrand, EndemolShine, 9X Media, HDFC Bank as independent consultant on their various projects.

Jayman has been working with WordPress since 2008 when he pitched it for the first time to his client “9X Media” for a portal. Today he has more than 40 sites under his belt built of WordPress (with the help of a development team) and have built things like Twitter Consolidation App, Lead Management System on top of WordPress.

After attending a few WordPress meetups and talking with some seasoned WordPress developers, he decided to apply to talk at WordCamp Nashik.

Apart from this, Jayman has an experience of taking UX/UI, RWD workshops with his clients.

Highlights on Jayman Pandya’s talk: “The BuzzWord ‘UX’, Why it is so Important?”

His Lightening talk, will move on explaining what experience and how the empathy is to the core to have a good User Experience. To support his statements, he will walk through with 3 examples

• Angry Person
  • This example will iterate about hexadec error codes or white screen of death in WordPress.
  • He will also introduce programmers to the concept of empathy, talk about the psychological importance of the same and why they need to be empathetic.
  • WordPress Example: WordPress now lets you to select the language before installation is an amazing example of empathy. They analysis on what users are doing with the product and how WordPress acted to make it better.
• User is like your GrandParent
  • This example will highlight on how assumptions are major culprits, when it comes to destroying the usability of any product.
  • A real world example would be like helping an old person cross the road and then move to tech examples like giving coach marks to user on how to use a product.
• User is a Kindergarten student
  • This example will emphasize on the importance of making the product more playful, while focusing on function with an example of how Kindergarten’s use games and play activities to teach kids. He will follow this up with an example of gamification by Apple Watch to make you more active over a period of time.
  • He will also talk about Customizer in WordPress as a beautiful example of gamification and Visual Composer as a bad example of gamification.

Linkedin Profile: www.linkedin.com/in/jaymanpandya

Fairy Dharawat is a writer by profession who has dabbled in stand-up comedy and performance poetry, She believes in focusing on little details when it comes to writing impactful tales which could move your readers.

After conducting workshops on stories, and being part of a story group called Katha Kosa for more than 2 years, Fairy Dharawat is convinced she has barely scratched the surface when it comes to writing remarkable stories ready to dominate the world.

She recently started Stories4hire,a space dedicated to documenting her tryst with stories. Mumbai WordCamp 2016 was her debut where she did a talk on – How to write humor. The response was fantastic!

Glimpse on Fairy’s talk: “Engage your readers via Stories”.

Humans understand stories better. A useful tool to impart knowledge as its visual, stories also helps us bring clarity in our communications. While the blog is a front face, technical talent handles the background show. It becomes important for them to see what is the end product. Their expertise in the background coupled with working knowledge on how to write will give them a competitive advantage.

For Bloggers, writers, She’ll share fundamentals of stories, and how it can be incorporated into their writing to make their blogs more interesting which can help them get a higher reach, and bring engagement with their users. For beginners, She’ll introduce tools to help them in writing. She’ll also share a bit on SEO, which can guide them to write for users, keeping in mind certain key points.

So the talk is going to focus on;

• How to write a story. A brief on stories. A beginning a middle and an end. A formulaic approach, and follow the rule. Understand the rule thoroughly and then break the rule by knowing about characters, story arc, plot, conflict, and resolution.
• How to write a blog. The topic of your blog. Writing posts related to your blog. Topics for your posts. How to choose image/s. Tools to use for your Images/URL/SEO
• How to add a story into your blog. Narrate it in the first person. Add anecdotes. Tie it up together.
• How to make your story more engaging. Using action words. Experimenting with chronology. More moments. Character back stories. Conflict and resolution.

Linkedin Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fairy-dharawat-88435a20

Anand Thakkar is a Senior Developer working with Hidden Brains Infotech Pvt. Ltd. An Ahmedabad based Web & Mobile Apps Development Company.

He is associated with the WordPress development from last 5 years. He even started his career as a WordPress Developer and now works on multiple Web & Mobile technologies. Apart from WordPress Development, he holds a great command over Core php, Codeignator, CakePHP, Angular JS too. Anand also holds a Zend Certification for php 5.3

Anand is a Traveler. He travels to different destinations on the name conferences. He simply looks for a reason to get away and explore a new city. Apart from traveling, he likes to watch movie and is a big time foodie. It is quite possible that you encounter him on a food stall next to the WordCamp.

Anand will be providing a lightning talk about the “Automated Testing in WordPress Eco System”

As all we know that WordPress business has transformed widely from Only Service Centric to Product Centric approach. With changes, it will be challenging to provide quality in the Product Based Industry as always. Anand will quickly explain stuff regarding the “Automated Testing”; why it is useful to adept TDD [ Test Driven Development ] approach and how it can impact your Product/Service Quality?

• Types of testing involved in WordPress Development
• Short intro about the QUnit and PHPUnit
• Setup the basic test case for your WordPress Plugin and/or Theme
• Where to get started further
• Pros and Cons involved with the TDD.

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

Saurabh is the Chief Strategy Officer at Yapapaya and Chief Mentor at BaapWP.me. He understands freedom as having control on one’s own life and hence is fascinated by the GPL. He really feels that open source morality and the internet can solve a lot of India’s problems, especially the ones related to education and livelihood.

WordPress as an open source, democratic, self-controlled publishing system is very important to him and he writes, talks about, teaches and works with WordPress in various technical and non-technical ways.

Saurabh will share his experience in the WordPress ecosystem, in his “Marketing Lessons I learnt from the WordPress community”. talk.

He still likes to be called a WordPress developer but his role has increasingly tilted towards marketing and strategy in the past few years. He has managed products and dabbled at marketing before he took up development full-time.

In 2014, he started getting active in the WordPress ecosystem and eventually led the organizing of WordCamp Pune 2015. In this period, he was able to create successful, non-intrusive promotional campaigns for various WordPress related activities (especially WordCamp Pune).

He has been Working since he was 18, so he has been Working for 16 years now and have seen different sales and marketing tactics in his career in different executive and managerial roles in multiple industries.

Highlights on Saurabh Shukla’s talk: “Marketing Lessons I learnt from the WordPress community”.

Saurabh will be going to compare and contrast concepts behind some commonly prescribed marketing tactics/strategies with some proven engagement strategies that He learnt from the WordPress ecosystem.

While the topic is definitely business oriented, it will have insights and examples that are useful both for individuals and organizations. The concepts are simple and can be grasped by anyone with zero marketing skills as well.

Outline:

• Introduction.
• Contextual Conversations vs Sales Funnels.
• Cultural Transparency vs Self Promotion.
• Resource Entities vs People.
• A note on Goal Orientation.
• Conclusion.

WordPress.org Profile: https://profiles.wordpress.org/saurabhshukla

WordPress is handy tool for startups and small businesses looking to quickly launch new media products. Hari Shanker will help you, on how One can start his own Startup on WordPress in his “WordPress for Startups” talk.

Hari Shanker is a passionate WordPress enthusiast, Hari is currently employed as a Happiness Engineer at Automattic (The company best known for WordPress.com & more).
Hari’s association with WordPress dates back to 2007 – when he first discovered it as a college student at Government Engineering College, Trivandrum.

Little did he realize that the association would grow into a lifelong passion! This exhorted Hari to pursue WordPress development and support as a career after college, as WordPress Project Manager for a startup, where he oversaw the design, development and deployment of nearly 50+ WordPress websites for diverse clients including Fortune 500 companies.

The passion for WordPress eventually led him to Automattic, where he currently engineers happiness for customers using WooCommerce – the eCommerce plugin for WordPress from Automattic, which powers 39% of all eCommerce stores. Even though Hari is familiar with WordPress theme and plugin development, his expertise lies in providing WordPress support & consulting, which also happens to be his day-job.

A seasoned public speaker, Hari has delivered several talks about WordPress, Blogging, Open Source Software at different venues including National Institute of Technology Calicut and at NASSCOM-supported events.

A runner-up of the 2011 Mindful Leadership by the University of Dayton, Ohio, Hari is also a Stringer with the national newspaper – The Hindu, where he contributes features on topics Technology, Startups and Youth, among others.

Glimpse on Hari Shanker’s talk: “WordPress for Startups”

India is currently undergoing an entrepreneurship boom of sorts – with special emphasis on Technology Startups. Any technology startup requires a set of powerful technology products – both as a tool to build the startup, and as a means to an end, to provide services to bring revenue to sustain the startup; something that only WordPress can achieve.

With its extensive presence (26% of the web is currently powered by WordPress), and an-ever growing community, not to mention its easy learning curve and extensibility, WordPress offers a melange of solutions for business-owners. The talk assumes a two-pronged approach; viz to explore diverse realms of offering WordPress services/setting up a WordPress agency and to use WordPress as a tool to build your company and/or your software tool. I intend to do the same through case studies of successful companies who have achieved this, to display the true power of WordPress, through an interactive session.

Linkedin Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/harishanker