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Meet our next speaker Sudar Muthu, who will be covering developer tools to increase your productivity

Introducing Sudar Muthu, who is our next speaker for WordCamp Kochi 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.

Sudar will be talking at WordCamp Kochi, on the topic – Developer tools that I use to increase my productivity as a WordPress developer

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.

Tools that he’ll introduce to us will be:
- WP-CLI – To efficiently interact with WordPress admin, even over SSH.
- PHP_CS – To quickly catch any WordPress formatting or coding errors.
- xDebug – To debug performance and other code issues.
- Vagrant – To setup proper local development setup
- PHPUnit – To run Unit tests
- IDE – PhpStorm and Vim

Are you excited for WordCamp Kochi? Come share us with us your interests, and tell how you use WordPress in your day, to day life. Book your tickets at the earliest!

Meet Vivek Jain who’ll be talking about handling clients in human way

Introducing our next speaker for WordCamp Kochi 2017 – Vivek Jain

Vivek Jain is the the co-founder and the Chief Business Development Officer (CBDO) at rtCamp, a Pune (India) based WordPress.com VIP agency. He’s passionate about delivering successful enterprise projects, and about maintaining ongoing client relationships. An active member of the WordPress community, Vivek has volunteered at different WordCamps in the US, and in India.

He’ll be speaking at WordCamp Kochi on the topic – Handling clients, the human way!

“Best Practices for Client and Project Management” is a subjective topic because everyone has a different opinion on how to develop the required skills to manage clients. Some experts stress on the importance of professional training to achieve the same, while others find hands-on mentorship as a starting point for great client management. Vivek thinks that there is, in fact, an easier way to get started, and to excel at managing clients while running a company/agency.

After working with diverse clients – ranging from small agencies to big corporations for over eight years, and by learning from the the bouquets and the brickbats he has received, Vivek has found that there are five basic questions that should be answered, and introspected on, to make an agency-client relation successful- Who exactly is your client? Is he a techie, manager, marketeer, or a user? What is expected from you? Go beyond gathering requirements and find out what your clients’ & their customers’ expectations are. When do you plan to give ongoing demos, and delivery? Build predictability. Why do clients send you those agitated mails? What is the real reason behind them?

His talk will cover about about how you can make this happen: by following the LED principal – Lead, Empathise, Document. Vivek has learned through his experience that answering these questions are building blocks for a successful client relationship- whether a small theme project or one with a huge scope. Because at the end of the day, we are humans dealing with humans. This talk is intended for anyone who deals with client/customer management.

Introducing Hardeep Asrani who will talk about WordPress communities, and its impacts

Meet our next speaker for WordCamp Kochi 2017 – Hardeep Asrani

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, and is currently trying to get rid of his fear of public speaking, which eventually led him to apply at WordCamp Kochi 2017.

Hardeep is going to speak on the topic – Why local WordPress communities are important?

Hardeep 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 emphasize 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.

Are you excited for WordCamp Kochi? Come and share us with us your interests, and how you use WordPress in your day, to day life. Book your tickets at the earliest!

Nagesh Pai Will Talk About Easily Building Your Own Communication Medium With WordPress.com

Meet our next speaker for WordCamp Kochi 2017, Nagesh Pai.

A Happiness Engineer at Automattic, Nagesh started his WordPress journey as a freelancer, by building, and tinkering with WordPress websites between 2012 and 2016.

Nagesh comes with a rather diverse career track-record. With a strong background in Banking & Finance, Nagesh has worked in the roles of Digital Marketing at Technology, as well as in Media houses. He has also served as a Media Planner in quite-a-few agencies. The interesting part about his story is that, despite his diverse background, Nagesh’s WordPress journey kickstarted from a unique vertical: by setting up and running a community website that he built, without having any prior knowledge of programming. – RadioIdli.net. He started it on blogger, and, migrated it to self-hosted WordPress. This journey, introduced him to a career in digital marketing, helped him learn to create beautiful websites, and eventually led him to Automattic!

Nagesh will be speaking at WordCamp Kochi on the topic – Build your own Medium using WordPress.com

In today’s fast-paced world, it is essential for every individual, or institution, to ‘own’ their place in the World Wide Web, through a custom website in their own name. Whether one is a journalist or a teacher, an artist or an observer, having an own medium of communication with the world – through a website is exciting, to say the least. Through his talk, Nagesh will guide the audience on how to create a website through WordPress.com . Platforms like WordPress.com extend the functionality of the open-source WordPress software, and make it significantly-easy for anyone to create their own website, and to gain popularity, with quality content, and by sharing unique ideas.

Nagesh feels that a medium to express one’s own ideas through a unique website will be very relevant for the audience of WordCamp Kochi – considering the fact that Kochi (located in Kerala), known for its progressive socio-economic and cultural indicators, as well as its argumentative and democratic culture. Intended for all audiences, Nagesh will explain the ease, and convenience of making one’s own website, through his talk, by drawing references from how he made his own community website, with zero starting investment as programming knowledge. He will also share some quick tips and tricks on how one can create their own medium of communication on WordPress.com, and then popularize it towards making it a well-read destination.

Wanna learn more on how to blog, and set up your own WordPress website? Come, grab a ticket for WordCamp Kochi at the earliest!