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All You Wanted To Know About WordCamp Kochi 2018

WordCamp Kochi 2018 is happening on the 3rd of November 2018, at Udyan Convention Centre, Vennala, Kochi.

We have brought together all the information you wanted to know about the event, in this page, so that you don’t have to search at other places.

Venue

Where is the venue?

Udyan Convention & Exhibition Centre
Near Kent’s Nalukettu, Kottankavu- Arkakkadavu Road, Kottankavu, Vennala, Ernakulam, Kochi, Kerala 682028, India.
Website: http://www.udyanconventioncentre.com/
Google Map Link: http://bit.ly/wckochivenue

How do I reach there?
The venue is located near Hotel Holiday Inn, located by the side of NH47/NH66 – not too from from Vyttila junction (this is the road that connects Vyttila, Palarivattom Junction, and Edappally and proceeds to Aluva, and beyond). Holiday Inn is located on the right if you are coming from Vyttila – take the service road in front of Holiday Inn, and proceed right. You will also notice sign boards for Udyan Convention Centre written prominently, which will guide you. The Google Maps Link should be helpful, if you are confused.
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Accomodation

We have a list of hotels that you may want to check – for some great options to stay.

Registration

Registration for the event starts at 9 AM, and will go on till 11 AM. Make sure you’re there before 11 AM, to ensure that you get our awesome registration kit. 🙂
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Schedule

WordCamp Kochi 2018 is a single track event. Registration starts at 9, and the event starts at 10 AM with the opening remarks, and the first session by Mani Karthik, at 10.15 AM
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Food

WordCamp Kochi has a lot of sessions that are food for thought, but we are sure that’s definitely not just the food you need for the event! 😉 We’ll have morning snacks, along with tea and coffee at 9 AM, followed by a 15 minute Tea Break at 11.15, and a Lunch Break at 1 AM. If you feel hungry after lunch, there’s a tea break at 3.30 PM.
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Networking

We have some cool networking options for WordCamp Kochi 2018! We have a Get Involved table as well as a Try Gutenberg Table, where you can talk to our expert volunteers who will talk to you more about WordPress itself and show you around the amazing world of Gutenberg – the upcoming, new editor in WordPress, the open air space outside the venue, and the networking venue – where you can meet and discuss WordPress (and life) with our attendees. The best of them all – you can talk with our awesome sponsors, to learn more about them, and to get some super-cool swag too!
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Things To Do At Kochi

Ask not what you can do for Kochi, ask what Kochi can do for you. 😉
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Do’s And Don’ts

We are doing our best to ensure that WordCamp Kochi is a green event, so please be sure that you try not to litter, and make the venue clean. Thank you so much in advance, in helping make the world a better place! You may also want to check out our Code of Conduct.
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Truly Converting Content Is Our Friendship Sponsor

We are happy to announce that Truly Converting Content is our friendship sponsor!

Truly Converting Content is a company that does content writing service for websites, blogs with effective content marketing strategies. We also do SEO for websites, WordPress website development and content creation for Social Media Management. You can learn more about them at http://trulyconvertingcontent.com/
Thank you for sponsoring WordCamp Kochi 2018!
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Renjini Narendranath Will Talk About How WordPress Empowers Women By Sharing Her WordPress Journey

It’s time to announce the next speaker for WordCamp Kochi 2018 – Renjini Narendranath!

Renjini is a freelance content writer who builds websites using WordPress. Her strength lies in combining the power of words and visual elements to make a website interesting to the user, and friendly to the search engines, such that the pages rank well in the search results.  She possesses a strong interest and skillset in Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Social Media Marketing (SMM).

At WordCamp Kochi 2018, Renjini will be delivering a session on the topic: WordPress For Women Empowerment: How WordPress Helped Me As A Content Writer To Build A Successful Career 

WordPress gives tremendous power for women entrepreneurs who want to start a business online. Selling through social media was the trend among women for a while now. That trend is shifting rapidly to a website centric approach with e-commerce platforms. More and more women are aware today that building a website and updating content is easier than ever with WordPress.

The user can update the content themselves and do not have to call in the web developer – this is an attractive option for every business owner who at the core is a DIY-person. Women are natural storytellers. And we know that stories make great brands. Logically coherent, intensive and innovative stories can be written by women who are the owners of business. These stories can then be utilized as blogs for SEO and social media sharing. WordPress can be used as an excellent platform for rigorous and iterative content creation and revision until satisfied result is achieved.

Through her talk, Renjini will be sharing her experiences – on how she got into the WordPress world, and how she has built, taught and transferred WordPress websites rich with shareable engaging content for her women clients who have thriving businesses online. By sharing her experience, Renjini will also talk about how WordPress is a wonderful tool for women to find their voice, establish themselves online, and succeed.

Want to listen to this amazing talk by Renjini? Come, attend WordCamp Kochi 2018! Get your tickets now!

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Ashutosh Gaur will talk about 10 Steps to market your WordPress Website

Meet our next speaker for WordCamp Kochi 2018 – Ashutosh Gaur!

In the past 5 years, Ashutosh has founded 2 IT firms that revolve around WordPress. Being a marketing and business development person, his core focus while using WordPress, was on bringing-in business as well as on branding.

Ashutosh is currently the Co-Founder and Creative/Marketing Head of FireMud FM – An Online Radio Station. It is after he was left more or less stranded technologically for my current venture, that he found his technological love – WordPress. Since then he has developed and delivered over 200 websites and consulted with 20+ online ventures. His belief is that ideas are in the air and one must start working on them immediately or someone else will.

His session on WordCamp Kochi will cover on the topic – 10 steps to market your WordPress blog/venture/website like a pro!

As much as 83% of Indians are unemployed; among them there are several literates that prefer entrepreneurship as their field of interest. However, nearly 25% of them fail for the simple reason that either they lack innovation or the way to reach market. Ashutosh’s talk is aimed primarily at WordPress beginners and marketers to help them understand the basic strategies that will benefit them enter, flow and rise in the CORRECT market with the means of Social media, innovation, and correct content using WordPress. His session will also shed some light on how this amazing platform is self sustaining and innovative enough to make your blog/website grow.

Further, his aim in this session is to share his journey, and how, with time, he developed the maturity of reach the correct audience, and to brand his venture. He hopes to enlighten his listeners to NOT make the same mistakes that he made while attempting to reach out to correct audience. He will also share his journey about how he boosted his user count from thousands to lakhs in 4 months. His talk will rather be an interactive session, that will attempt to bring a sense of marketing “out of the box” in the minds of the listeners, and a smile of confidence in their faces. As an entrepreneur, he wishes to give back to this amazing community, and help them in any way he can.

Have you bought the tickets for WordCamp Kochi yet? Grab your tickets to attend this wonderful session by Ashutosh Gaur.

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Nirmal Desai will talk about WordPress for enterprise publishers

Introducing Nirmal Desai  – our next speaker for WordCamp Kochi 2018.

Nirmal Desai is currently associated with rtCamp professionally, as a Business Manager. Having started his career as a developer, Nirmal soon redirected his focus on Business development, and consulting. Apart from being his passion, Nirmal believes that WordPress has helped his career grow, and has provided multiple platforms to utilize his skills. He wants to use this opportunity to share insights gained from years of experience, at WordCamp Kochi.

Nirmal Desai will present a session on the topic – WordPress for Enterprise publishers.

His topic will cover about the power of WordPress in an enterprise level. He will talk about, flexibility & editorial workflows for publishers with WordPress. He will also delve into capabilities and management for large teams, and will share more details about guiding enterprise businesses, online publishers, and eCommerce stores towards all-around web solutions using WordPress.

Apart from using WordPress for work, Nirmal is an active member of WordPress community, and you can find him moderating, and contributing to the WordPress.tv Team.

Just a few more days left for WordCamp Kochi! Are you excited? 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!

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Saleeh will talk about WooCommerce Rest API Integration with Google assistant

Presenting Saleeh K – our next speaker for WordCamp Kochi 2018

Saleeh has had a passion for development since his school days. At age of 17, Saleeh started programming as a career, by developing a Student management system for his school. Eventually Saleeh got hooked to the world of WordPress and WooCommerce, when he worked on a freelance project for developing a custom WooCommerce site, in 2012. After understanding the M-commerce wave (ushered in by the mass adoption of smartphones), he got several enquiries for developing Mobile apps for Online stores and Blogs.

After building several apps from scratch, by hand, Saleeh his team later automated the task, by making an software-based engine. They realized that this was just the tip of the iceberg, and that, this has potential to become a platform for anyone to create in native mobile apps in just few clicks. Thus,  Appmaker.xyz was born! Appmaker.xyz is a company that provides tool for any WooCommerce store owner to convert their stores into Native mobile apps with just a few clicks.

Saleeh K is going to speak on the topic – WooCommerce REST API integration with Google Assistant

WooCommerce is the most popular eCommerce platform on the web and is a major eCommerce platform based on WordPress. Many businesses use WordPress and WooCommerce to manage their online presence. However, many store owners use other applications to manage their business, and often have no integration between these offline and online applications. In this session, he’ll demonstrate how you can use WordPress and WooCommerce REST APIs to seamlessly integrate together. As an example, Saleeh will show how to integrate a Telegram bot/Google Assistant with your WooCommerce-powered eCommerce store, and get notifications on new orders and updates. Various features like list all your orders, listing products, displaying order Summary, using webhooks to receive instant notifications of new WooCommerce orders, and a lot more can be achieved using such integrations.

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

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Introducing Jose Varghese who will talk about Progressive Web Apps In WordPress

Meet Jose Varghese – our next speaker for WordCamp Kochi 2018!

Jose started his journey in WordPress during 2010, and has worked upon more than 200+ websites on WordPress. He enjoys experimenting with PWA on websites, and tweaking settings, until they’re just right to make an increase on the website’s performance. Jose loves to stay current with the latest news and features coming out in Progressive Web Apps, and he loves  sharing his views, and ideas on the latest trends of PWA.

Progressive Web Apps (PWA) is a relatively new technology that aims to bring the best of mobile apps into mobile web. PWA’s enable websites to be installed on devices and have the content available for offline browsing, thus delivering app like browsing experience and improved performance. Although PWA’s are still in their early stages, a lot of the modern browsers already support them, and the possibilities they bring forth, are exciting.

Jose will be speaking at WordCamp Kochi on the topic – The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Progressive Web Apps In WordPress.

His session aims to introduce PWA fundamentals like ‘manifest’ and ‘service worker’ in an easy-to-understand language, with a demo of what a PWA experience looks like. He will also discuss some future possibilities of PWA. With the knowledge and the tools, users will be able to implement PWA features on their websites, right away.

Over the last year, Jose has been founded and working on a plugin to bring PWA features to WordPress named SuperPWA ( Super Progressive Web Apps – available on WordPress.org).  In his session, he will also share his experience, and lessons learned from working on the plugin, and on building a community around it.

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

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Introducing Gaurav Pareek who will talk about their adventures in updating WordPress theme for Gutenberg

We are excited to announce our next speaker for WordCamp Kochi 2018 –  Gaurav Pareek

Gaurav is a Happiness Engineer at Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, and has been contributing to the WordPress community for a number of years.

Gaurav started working with WordPress in mid 2010, a staunch supporter of free software as a philosophy. They have spoken on topics such as local development, REST APIs, community, accessibility, as well as mental health, in WordCamps and other conferences across the world.

They will be speaking at WordCamp Kochi on the topic – Adventures in updating my WordPress theme for Gutenberg support

Gutenberg is one of the most important changes coming up in the WordPress ecosystem. It replaces the existing TinyMCE editor, and gives a much needed face-lift to the content editing experience in WordPress.

In their session, Gaurav will share their experiences with adding support for Gutenberg-specific features to one of their existing themes, and will be sharing tips on how to make your theme Gutenberg friendly.

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

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Hardeep Asrani Will Talk About Gutenberg – The Future Of Content Editing In WordPress

We are excited to announce the next speaker at WordCamp Kochi 2018 – Hardeep Asrani!

Hardeep Asrani is a developer and Star Wars fan from Kanpur. He loves contributing to WordPress community in many ways, including support, themes, plugins and more. You can find him on Slack pretty much all the time exploring different parts of WordPress community.

Hardeep works for ThemeIsle.com as a support ninja and developer. Hardeep is also one of the organisers of WordCamp Kanpur.

If you have used WordPress recently, you would definitely have noticed the Gutenberg notification in the WordPress dashboard. Gutenberg is the brand new editor in WordPress which uses a concept called ‘blocks’ to build content, instead of the standard editor, and is all set to be merged in the WordPress core!

Hardeep will introduce all of you to the wonderful world of Gutenberg and blocks!

His talk will introduce the audience to Gutenberg, its history and its present state. Additionally, he will do a deep dive into the progress of Gutenberg, all its features, and all the possibilities it offers to developers.

That’s just the tip of the iceberg – there’s more to Gutenberg that meets the eye, and major changes are planned in upcoming phases. Hardeep will also delve into the upcoming phases of Gutenberg (especially Phase 2), and will share more details on how people are doing amazing projects with the same.

Are you excited to learn about the most revolutionary change to WordPress since its inception? Come, attend WordCamp Kochi 2018 to meet Gutenberg and listen to this amazing talk from Hardeep! Get your tickets now!
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Meet our next speaker Fairy Dharawat who’ll be taking about content marketing basics

We are excited to present the next speaker at WordCamp Kochi 2018 – Fairy Dharawat!

Fairy is a professional blogger who’s been a writer for more than 7 years.  Having worked across different platforms which include magazines and websites. Her role as a content strategist is about ideating different communication and engagement strategies across platforms which includes social media.

Her session on WordCamp Kochi will cover on the topic – Content Marketing Basics.

Content marketing is a wide topic which requires nuanced discussion, but when it’s simply put, it’s about adapting your write up to create an engaging reading experience which helps you to generate leads and sales.

Fairy will try to define what is content, and how to come up with ideas to write and market them. She will also delve deeper on how to make your content interesting and engaging, with best examples of Content Marketing, and resources to learn.

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

WordCamp Kochi 2018 is over. Check out the next edition!