As the event is getting nearer, the final speaker’s lineup for WordCamp Kathmandu 2022 is here. According to the official WCKTM2022 website, there are a total of 21 inspiring speakers who will take the stage at the country’s biggest WordPress conference — WordCamp Kathmandu 2022.
WordCamp Kathmandu 2022 is going to take place on the 3rd and 4th of September at Alice Reception, Garidhara, in Kathmandu. The organizing team of WordCamp Kathmandu is on its toes to provide the best in them and make the event grand. The team is finally done with the speakers’ selection for the event.
So, without any further ado, let’s meet the WordCamp Kathmandu 2022 speakers and know about their respective topics for the day.
WordCamp Kathmandu 2022 Speakers
Aayush Shrestha
He would like to introduce himself as Aayush Shrestha, a senior WordPress developer working in the Nepalese IT sector for more than 8 years. For the last 2 years, he has been a part of Outside, a purpose-driven design and tech studio based in Kathmandu. At work, he is a part of a team of highly motivated individuals who love pushing each other forward.
Topic Title: WordPress Deployment with CI/CD
Intended Audience: Developers who have interested on devops
Alina Kakshapati
Alina is a Product Manager at Code Themes. She likes to call herself a Proud WordPresser rather than a Web Developer. It’s been more than 12 yrs that, she has been involved in the IT sector, and is still going great. As a WordPresser, she has been a Speaker in WordCamp Nepal 2014, WCKTM 2017, Panelist WCNPL 2015, and Communication Wrangler of WordCamp Nepal 2015.
Topic Title: Why should you hire mothers back into the workforce?
Intended Audience: Employers
Ashish Rai
Ashish is a Creative Designer currently working at Catch Themes with strong interpersonal, communication, problem solving and decision making skills. A self-managed and result-oriented Web/Graphic/UI designer with many years of experience in Branding, Web Designing and related Visual Communication.
Topic Title: Vertical Rhythm; Efficiency in WordPress Theme Layout
Intended Audience: Designers and Front-end Developer or anyone who is willing to understand some basic concept of vertical typography spacing.
Bishnu Sunar
Bishnu is from Chitwan and has been doing web programming for Eight years. He is currently the team lead at AFThemes. Aside from my professional work, he loves to spend my time with Music and read about the latest trend of WordPress Theme/ React js.
Topic Title: Workshop on Developing Full Site Editing Theme for WordPress
Intended Audience: WordPress Theme Developers
Bishwas Thapa
Bishwas is a Student Developer Working as a WordPress developer since past 3 years. He loves WordPress because of its easiness, flexibility and availability of beautiful community for the support. He has been creating custom themes from Figma designs most of the time.
Topic Title: Making money from WordPress as a Student Developer
Intended Audience: Students
Devin Maeztri
Devin Maeztri is a highly motivated and experienced professional with expertise in interdisciplinary projects. She is a cat lover and uses WordPress to promote the welfare of street cats in Jakarta, called Catrescue.id. Devin is a sponsored contributor to the WordPress.org Community Team. She is also a WordPress Meetup Organizer, a General Translation Editor for Indonesian, and the Lead of WordCamp Asia 2023 Attendees Experiences (AX) Team.
Topic Title: Importance of Community and Contribution – Panel Discussion
Intended Audience: Everyone
Hasanuzzaman
He is a WordPress enthusiast and love to learn new technologies. Open source contribution is his place of passion.
He is in a relationship with WordPress for over 5 years and started developing WordPress extensions (Plugin) at the end of 2018.
Currently, he is leading two teams for a WordPress company in Bangladesh and actively contributing to WordPress.org on bbPress, BuddyPress, Pattern, Photo, Plugin Development, Polyglots, Openverse, and the WordPress-Core.
Topic Title: Contributing to Make WordPress
Intended Audience: The people works and enthusiastic about WordPress
Lax Mariappan
Lax is a web developer, Open Source enthusiast, and lover of all things WordPress. He is currently working as a backend engineer at WebDevStudios. Lax has been tinkering with websites since high school but it all changed when he discovered WordPress in 2010. When unplugged, he reads a lot and enjoys traveling around the Philippines.
Topic Title: Accelerate Your Migration Process with WP CLI
Intended Audience: All levels, developers, site owners, agencies, freelancers
Laxman Bhandari
Laxman is a Web Designer, Developer & an entrepreneur based in Nepal. He has been working in the Web Development field since 2005. He has experience as a Developer, Project Manager, Team Leader and now Working as a CEO of Genesis Web Technology, a company focused on developing Websites, Mobile apps and Web based applications.
Topic Title: Your next website in WordPress
Intended Audience: Beginners
Raju Khadka
Raju Khadka is the Founder of RankMeTop SEO Agency. He has been working as an SEO Specialist for many years. When he is not doing SEO, You can find him in the circle of entrepreneurs and content creators.
Topic Title: Scale Up Your Local Business With SEO & WordPress [ The Practical Session ]
Intended Audience: Business Owners, SEO Practitioners, Developers
Rohit Maharjan
Rohit was born and raised in Kathmandu city. He is currently working as a Sr. Front End Developer at AF Themes. He has 5 years+ design experience in WordPress Themes and Plugins. Since 2019, He is also involved in WordPress Community Nepal. He was also one of the helping hands in #wcktm2019.
Topic Title: Workshop on Developing Full Site Editing Theme for WordPress
Intended Audience: WordPress Theme Developers
Roja Shrestha
An aspiring content writer/copywriter who always thrives with curiosity and enthusiasm for new experiences. The constant need to learn something new has shaped her into the
writer she is today. Her best area of writing includes Technical Writing, Feminist Literature,
Advertisement Copy, Blogging, and more. She has been closely working in the WordPress world since last year, and further, she pursues skills and experience in Social Media Marketing.
Topic Title: Use of Social Media Platforms for WordPress Community
Intended Audience: WordPress Users, Developers and Digital Marketers
Saif Hassan
Where developers are focused on code, architecture, performance, and engineering, Saif focuses on the big picture of “what are we trying to do” and on the details of the user experience, the feature set, and the way the product will get used.
Saif is currently working as the Lead Product Manager at weDevs. He had previously worked as a Product Manager at Poptin & Premio before this role.
Topic Title: The Secret Life of Fonts
Intended Audience: Beginner and Advanced
Sakar U Khatiwada
Sakar is a Senior Web Developer working at Proshore who has a great love for the community. He is also a Community Sheriff at Proshore who helps to connect the community with the community. He has been working with website and web apps for more than 9 years and have started working with Frontend Development from past 3 years.
Topic Title: Thinking the React Way for WordPress Developers
Intended Audience: Developers
Saloni Mehta
Saloni Mehta is a WordPress Engineer at Matat Technology. A computer engineer by education, she has been contributing to the WordPress with her expertise in plugins, themes, and website development for 7 years. As for the WordPress community, she has been speaker in WordCamp Kathmandu & Bharatpur 2019.
Topic Title: Creating WooCommerce Addons
Intended Audience: Developers
Sandip Basnet
Sandip is a passionate software developer who loves to work on the javascript ecosystem, mainly with node and react. Apart from He likes to spend his weekends attending and/or volunteering at tech events/conferences in his city and roaming around the mountains.
Topic Title: Harnessing the power of GraphQL in WordPress
Intended Audience: Developers
Santosh Kunwar
Santosh Kunwar is the Founder of Acme Themes and co-founder of Acme Information Technology. He developed many themes, plugins and custom Gutenberg Blocks and Templates for WordPress users, developed starter frameworks for developers, reviewed many WordPress dot org themes, done translation, and also contributed WordPress community as a WordCamp and Meetup speaker.
Topic Title: How to create custom Gutenberg Blocks in WordPress?(Workshop)
Intended Audience: Developers
Shiva Shanker Bhatta
Shiva Shanker Bhatta is the Founder/CEO of AF themes. He has almost a decade of expertise in WordPress; Community, Contributions, and Development – mostly focused on WordPress Themes and Plugins. From WordCamp Kathmandu through WordCamp Bangkok and WordCamp Osaka, he had contributed to various national and international WordCamps.
Topic Title: Workshop on Developing Full Site Editing Theme for WordPress
Intended Audience: WordPress Theme Developers
Subhasis Chatterjee
Subhasis Chatterjee is a Content Analyst and Strategist with an experience legacy of more than 3 decades besides being a passionate Author, Blogger, Traveler and a Keynote Speaker. He is a Social Media Influencer too. His core competency lies in the areas of Personal Branding, Digital Marketing, Social Media Propagation, Reputation Management & Entrepreneurship Skill Development. He is the Founder & CEO of an IT company, called ConnectIndia in Kolkata, India.
Topic Title: How the Pandemic Has Influenced to Change the Content Writing Trends in 2022
Intended Audience: Anybody and everybody who has interest and inclination to know the changing scenarios of content across the globe.
Surendra Shrestha
Surendra Shrestha likes to call himself a learner. He has been acquiring knowledge in web development and design for more than a decade now. Surendra first encountered WordPress back in 2010 and set up his personal blog site with it. He has helped and worked with multiple teams and companies to develop WordPress Plugins/Themes. He is a Full Stack Designer who enjoys fiddling with new technologies.
Topic Title: Mastering Developer Tools
Intended Audience: Beginner to Intermediate
Vineet Rauniyar
Experienced technical content writer with a demonstrated history of working in the writing and editing field. For a few years, he has been working as a technical writer for a Nepal-based WordPress company. Besides WordPress, he has also worked as a travel blog writer and possess strong Social Media Marketing and Search Engine Optimization (SEO) skills. So far, he has worked for multiple Nepalese WordPress companies and consider my strong points as communication and interpersonal skills.
Topic Title: Use of Social Media Platforms for WordPress Community
Intended Audience: WordPress Users, Developers and Digital Marketers
So, these were the total 21 speakers that will present their talks in WordCamp Kathmandu 2022.
You are more than welcome at WordCamp Kathmandu 2022 to hear these inspiring WordPress personalities and grow your knowledge on WordPress.
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