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\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tRenjini Narendranath\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t
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I am a freelance content writer and WordPress website developer. My 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 so that the pages rank well in the search results. Search engine optimisation (SEO) with content (blogs, articles etc) and social media marketing (SMM) are two powerful tools that I use for online marketing and for carving out a formidable online presence for any business.<\/p>\n

Session:\u00a0WordPress For Women Empowerment: How WordPress Helped Me As A Content Writer To Build A Successful Career\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tAshutosh Gaur\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t
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I am Ashutosh Gaur – a serial entrepreneur. In the past 5 years I have founded 2 IT firms that revolved around WordPress. Being a marking and business development guy my core focus was bringing business and branding. I am currently the Co-Founder and Creative\/Marketing Head of FireMud FM – An Online Radio Station (www.firemudfm.com) It is after I was left more or less stranded technologically for my current venture, that I found my technological love – WordPress. Since then I have developed and delivered over 200 websites and consulted 20+ online ventures. I believe that Ideas are in the air and one must start working on them immediately or someone else will.<\/p>\n

Session: 10 Steps To Market Your WordPress Blog\/Website\/Venture Like A Pro<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t

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Nirmal Desai is currently associated with rtCamp<\/a> professionally, as a Business Manager. Having started his career\u00a0as a developer, Nirmal soon redirected his\u00a0focus 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.<\/p>\n

Session: WordPress For Enterprise Publishers<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t

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I become passionate about WordPress and WooCommerce, when I got into Freelance work for developing a custom WooCommerce site, in 2012. I started my journey as a developer at age of 17, when I developed a Student management system for my school. As the M-commerce wave swept the world (ushered-in by the adoption of Smartphones), I got several enquiries for developing Mobile apps for Online stores and Blogs. After creating several apps for such eCommerce websites and blogs, my friends ( who later became co founders) and I, automated the tasks involved in making the app, and created an engine to reduce the time involved. We later realized that this engine we created, has the potential to become a platform, for anyone to create in native mobile apps in just few clicks. Thus Appmaker.xyz was born! We are a company handling international clients and have customers from 55 countries! We provide tool for any WooCommerce store owner to convert their stores into Native mobile apps in just few clicks.<\/p>\n

Session:\u00a0WooCommerce Rest API Integration with Google assistant<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tJose Varghese\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t
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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\u2019re 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\u00a0 sharing his views, and ideas on the latest trends of PWA.<\/p>\n

Session: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Progressive Web Apps In WordPress<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tGaurav Pareek\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t
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I started working with WordPress in mid 2010, and have been contributing to the community for a number of years. I am a staunch supporter of free software as a philosophy, and I have spoken on topics such as local development, REST APIs, community, accessibility, and mental health in WordCamps and other conferences.<\/p>\n

Session:\u00a0Adventures In Updating My WordPress Theme For Gutenberg Support<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tHardeep Asrani\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t
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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.<\/p>\n

Hardeep works for ThemeIsle.com<\/a> as a support ninja and developer. Hardeep is also one of the organisers of WordCamp Kanpur.<\/p>\n

Session:<\/strong>\u00a0Gutenberg: Future of Content Editing in WordPress<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tFairy Dharawat\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t
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I’m a writer with around 7 years of experience and have written across different platforms which include magazines and websites. My role as a content strategist is about ideating different communication and engagement strategies across platforms which includes social media. I like to talk about writing and share reading recommendations. That’s how I become a writer actually and its by reading fiction. Now I’m trying to read different kinds of non-fiction books. Exploring new books and reading is how you grow as you multiply your experience and learn to see things from different perspective. That’s why I like to read, and you should read too \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Session:\u00a0Content Marketing Basics<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tGovind Maheswaran\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t
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Govind started using wordpress early from his college days, helping SMEs and personal brands get online quicker and cheaper through his part time web development endeavours. Currently working as a Data Scientist in EY, in the AI team, he spends his day cooking up solutions that lie in the realm of Machine Learning and Artificial intelligence to build a better working world.<\/p>\n

Session: Say Hello to your customers | Conversational Intelligence in your WordPress Website<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tKhyati Gala\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t
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Khyati Gala started her career with WordPress five years back and ever since she’s been in love with it. She has an experience of four years as a plugin tester and is currently working as a Happiness Engineering with Automattic. She’s a people’s person and people like her company immediately as they meet her. She’s been mentoring everyone around openheartedly. Apart from her career, she enjoys the company of her family and travels as much as she can.<\/p>\n

Session: Making An E-Commerce Website With WordPress<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t

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With a decade of experience in Online Marketing and blogging,\u00a0Mani<\/span>\u00a0Karthik<\/span>\u00a0has worked with many small and big companies in the US & Middle East. He quit his job in U.S and returned to India to follow his passion – blogging. He’s a full time blogger now and currently runs his own startup in Kochi with a distributed team. He blogs at\u00a0https:\/\/manikarthik.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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