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Daphnée Laforest, our next speaker, will talk about Changing the Rules, and thoughts on Remote Work

We are excited to announce our next speaker for WordCamp Kochi 2017 – Daphnée Laforest.

Daphnée is a Product Manager at Human Made, a leading international WordPress Agency and a WordPress.com VIP partner, that has over 40+ employees, and is operated 100% remotely. Her passion for travel made her quickly adopt a location-independent lifestyle, and develop a massive interest in a flexible work culture. Today, she tries hard to inspire others to do the same.

She will be speaking at WordCamp Kochi on the topic – Changing the Rules: Thoughts on Remote Work

Today’s technology and connectivity allows us to achieve the extraordinary. Remote work not only enables WordPress companies to access the best talents in the world, but, is also becoming an incredible opportunity to empower work-life balance, and happiness at work. It’s definitely changing the rules for the future generations. However, it also comes with a big list of new challenges, including miscommunication, and isolation. The aim of this talk will be to discuss the impact of a remote workforce in India, as well as sharing best practices and tools to succeed at online collaboration.

She has spoken in various meetups about Remote Work, and is a co-organizer of the first online conference about Remote Work: http://outofoffice.hm

Amit Singh will be speaking about How to Build MVP with WordPress

We are excited to welcome – Amit Kumar Singh, as a speaker for WordCamp kochi!

Amit Singh is the founder and CEO of WPoets Technology. He has been working with WordPress since 2007, and contributed his first WordPress plugin to WordPress.org repository in 2008. Since then he has helped organize various meetups, and conferences including PHPCamps, WordCamps, Joomla Days and Drupal camps in Pune.

He will be speaking at WordCamp Kochi on the topic – Creating MVP (Minimum Viable Products) with WordPress

His talk will cover all about what an MVP is, and why it is essential to build one – when it comes to building a great product. In his talk, Amit will be discussing further about the work flow of creating an MVP, and on how to use WordPress to create MVPs with minimal investment.

Amit has given talks at different WordCamps in India including Baroda, Mumbai, Pune and also at WordCamp Kathmandu. He strongly believes that instead of coding websites, we should be able to assemble it, and he’s working towards that goal at WPoets.

Mahangu Weerasinghe Will Talk About Support, And Standing Behind WordPress Products

Introducing our First Speaker for WordCamp Kochi 2017 – Mahangu Weerasinghe.

Mahangu is an Automattician hailing from Colombo, Sri Lanka, Mahangu first found WordPress when he stumbled upon 0.70 in the dark recesses of #wordpress on Freenode. He has used and provided support for every major release of the software, and is excited about the impact the platform can have on South Asia.

Though once a high school English teacher, his desire to make online publishing more democratic led him to Automattic, where he now works as a Happiness Engineer. He sincerely believes that stellar support will play a pivotal role in helping WordPress power the next 27% of the web!

Mahangu is an experienced speaker, and has spoken at several WordCamps, including WordCamp Pune 2015, WordCamp Mumbai 2016, WordCamp Singapore 2016, and WordCamp Kathmandu 2016.

He will be speaking at WordCamp Kochi on the topic, Support First: Standing Behind Your WordPress Products

In his talk, Mahangu will explore more about how WordPress developers and agencies can benefit by building their products and services around the support they hope to provide for them, and show how support can be an investmentm if you think of it as branding through customer service. Using real world examples from the support space, he will explore further as to how one can provide a great support experience for their clients by costing for support, charging for support and hiring for support.