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Abhishek Deshpande will deliver a session on getting Amazon Alexa to Talk about your WordPress Content

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Announcing our next speaker for WordCamp Kochi 2019 – Abhishek Deshpande

Abhishek is a web technology consultant based in Nagpur, currently working as Solutions Architect at Peenak Solutions with 10+ years of experience in Web Development, Digital Marketing across various domains.

Abhishek started with his WordPress version 1.8 as a blogger in 2006. He has been active in the WordPress Community for the last six years. He is a serial WordCamper and Twitter addict, and you can find him on Twitter at any random hour.

Abhishek will be speaking at WordCamp Kochi 2019 on the topic – Let Amazon Alexa talk about your WordPress Content

The growth rate of smart speakers is faster than any device since the smartphone. In his session will have a demo of Using Alexa with WordPress Blog. Will go through how-to’s, Amazon Polly, and other options.

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!

Introducing Aditya Shah who’ll talk about Web Optimization

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Meet our next speaker for WordCamp Kochi 2019 – Aditya Shah!

His passion for WordPress began in 2012, and ever since then, he hasn’t looked back. An avid contributor in the WordPress community, he is currently employed as a support superhero at WPMUDEV.

Aditya will be speaking at WordCamp Kochi on the topic – Website Optimization – The Right Way

WordPress today powers around 30% of the internet. That’s a huge piece of the pie and a perfect place to scout for opportunities for new and experienced developers alike. In his talk, Aditya will talk about solutions for several people who face problems with the slow speed of their WordPress website.

Apart from obvious frustration for users, above-average loading-times for websites will hamper website ranking in search engines, and will decrease the business efficiency. Aditya’s talk will mainly revolve around how to decrease page loading time by optimizing the asset (CSS-Minification, combining, Eliminate Render Blocking Script) and images.

Don’t miss this opportunity, come attend #WCKochi to listen to this amazing talk from Aditya. Get your tickets now!

Kumar Abhirup will talk about Headless WordPress with React

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Meet our next speaker for WordCamp Kochi 2019, Kumar Abhirup

Kumar is a 16-year-old JavaScript React Developer who builds cool projects since 2018. He’s specialized in building full-stack applications that use React in frontend and GraphQL in the backend.

Kumar will be speaking at WordCamp Kochi on the topic – Headless WordPress with React

Headless WordPress means using WordPress only for its backend and building the frontend in any other framework/language that can fetch JSON Response that WordPress spits out.

In his session, Kumar will be looking to cover how WordPress can be used as a headless CMS and how to pair it with React on the frontend with some tips about the best deployment and git workflow. He’ll also explain why splitting frontend and backend can be a good idea, along with some examples from many gists and GitHub boilerplate code to start playing with WordPress REST API with React Hooks.

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

Introducing Menaka who will talk about local WordPress development

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Excited to announce our next speaker for WordCamp Kochi – Menaka S

Currently working at Automattic’s WooCommerce division as Code Wrangler, she started developing software 22 years back and has been intermittently working on research projects and as a developer, during this time. Menaka has a PhD in Natural Language Processing, and enjoys all aspects of working with software – including development, testing and support.

She has been working with WordPress for the past 7 years, of which the last 2 years have been in WooCommerce.

Menaka is going to speak on the topic – Local WordPress Development – What, Why and How

Today, there are many options to set up a local WordPress development environment. In her session, she’ll be talking on what are the popular options available/used. She will also share more about why should one use a particular environment, and will give all attendees a brief on how to set up your local WordPress environment, and to use it effectively.

Are you excited for WordCamp Kochi? Don’t miss this opportunity to learn about WordPress. Book your tickets at the earliest!