WordCamp Nepal 2022 is getting nearer and gearing up to take place on Nov 5th and 6th, 2022 at Chitwan Garden Resort, Bharatpur, Nepal. According to the official WCNP2022 website, there is a total of 19 inspiring speakers who will take the stage at the country’s biggest WordPress conference — WordCamp Nepal 2022.
WordCamp Nepal 2022 organizing team 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 introduce you to WordCamp Nepal 2022 speakers and know about their respective topics for the day.
WordCamp Nepal 2022 – Speakers
Abhishek Rijal
Abhishek Rijal is a professional WordPress developer primarily involved in WordPress Plugin development. Currently Working as a Sr. Software Developer at Brainstorm Force, he has been involved with Theme Review, WordPress themes and plugins development, customizations, and leading development of WordPress-based products used by thousands of users globally.
Topic: Block Optimizations – Developing optimized Gutenberg blocks plugin
Intended Audience: WordPress Theme and Plugin developers
Aditya Shah
Aditya manages the Hosting Support team at WPMU DEV. He is a WordPress evangelist, and is a tech enthusiast, & has presented talks at several tech conferences including WordCamp Kochi, Google Cloud Community Days, Microsoft Global Azure Bootcamp, etc. He has also been an active contributor to the community for 7+ years where he organized numerous WordPress meetups in Bhopal, India and various workshops on WordPress that have positively impacted thousands of students and professionals.
Topic: WPCLI Unleashed
Intended Audience: Beginner to Intermediate
Alina Khashapati
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. As a mother of a fairly hyperactive toddler, she uses her (little) human resource management skills in her work to manage the team better and get things done.
Topic: WordPress as a Career
Intended Audience: Students, fresher and to those who wants to make a career out of WordPress.
Anup Adhikari
Anup is Assistant Professor at Gandaki University, the first provincial university of Nepal. Currently, he’s doing his research on “Course Recommendation System based on Semantic Search” with the university grant from the university. He has also co-founded Simle Infotech Private Limited, which works on data based applications for government services. Previously, he worked as an IT engineer in Parbat, District Co-ordination Committee for 3 years.
Topic: RDFs in WordPress for Knowledge Representation of Blog Articles
Intended Audience: Content Creators, Developers and Students
Eeda Rijal
Eeda Rijal is a Tech professional with expertise in Product Design and Project Management. Currently, she is a Delivery Associate- pilot project at Cloudfactory, managing ML and AI-related projects. She is a former Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder at SochWare where she worked to manage the overall company with a specialization in Product Design. She looks at the application aspect of knowledge and believes in utilizing intellectual ability for the betterment of society.
Topic: The evolution of UI/UX in WordPress
Intended Audience: Beginner- Mid
Garvit Shrestha
Garvit is a Senior Developer at Everest Themes and Team Lead for the Everest Backup plugin. He is primarily involved in WordPress Themes and Plugins but also likes to work with other technologies such as ReactJS, Flutter, Node, and Bash. Garvit started his career as an intern at WEN Solution and worked as a core developer for the WP Travel plugin. Also, he likes guiding and mentoring new developers and researching new technologies whenever possible.
Topic: Block Optimizations – Developing optimized Gutenberg blocks plugin
Intended Audience: WordPress Theme and Plugin developers
Krishna Neupane
Krishna Neupane is a full-stack software developer, mainly working with WordPress & JavaScript. He has more than 7 years of industry experience working for popular products, international communities & companies.
Topic: Creating efficient WordPress Queries with WP_Query
Intended Audience: Developers
Laxman Bhattarai
Laxman Bhattarai is a web designer, a developer, and also an entrepreneur. He has been working in the web development field since 2005 and has been gaining experience as a designer, developer, team leader, and project manager. He feels like he should start his own company that focuses on developing websites, mobile apps, and web-based applications. So, back in 2015, he registered his own company named “Genesis Web Technology”.
Topic: Your Next Website with WordPress
Intended Audience: Beginners
Nabin Jaiswal
Nabin is the Chief Product Officer at Codewing Solutions. He started his career as a support intern and is now leading all the team members in the company to develop and maintain WordPress products. Also, he is a WordPress enthusiast who loves learning new technologies and interacting with his customers to improve his products. He spends his leisure time reading books and blogs, learning new skills and watching Netflix shows.
Topic: Skills You Need as a Customer Support Representative
Intended Audience: Targeted for students and CSR
Rabin Shrestha
Rabin Shrestha is a WordPress enthusiast and developer. He started his career in WordPress back in 2012 as a developer. And since then, it has been an incredible ride. He is the co-founder of ThemeGrill, a WordPress themes and plugins selling company. ThemeGrill holds a portfolio of multiple WordPress products that have crossed 100K active installs. Currently, he is working as a project lead for WordPress products under WPEverest branding and is busy strategizing on a new project called Masteriyo.
Panel Discussion — WordPress in Business & Prospects of the Community
Rahul D Sarker
Rahul D Sarker is a Digital Marketing consultant with over 8 years of experience in SEO, Brand communication, Conversion optimization, Sales & Acquisition Funnel, etc. He is a regular contributor to various projects (WPTV, polyglot, Diverse speaker support, Community) and is very active in the WordPress community. Rahul is one of the team refs for WPTV and GTE for polyglots Bengali. He is also one of the organizers of the WordPress Kolkata community and WooCommerce Community.
Topic: Isn’t SEO dead?
Intended Audience: Business owner, Digital marketing professionals
Raushan Jaiswal
Raushan Jaiswal is a WordPress Entrepreneur, Marketer and Investor. He is co-founder and CEO of Codewing Solutions, the company behind Rara Themes and WP Travel Engine. Raushan has been using WordPress for over ten years. He created his first website in 2012 with WordPress and immediately fell in love with WordPress’s simplicity. That later inspired him to build a career in WordPress and build WordPress products.
Topic: WordPress Marketing – 4 Easy & Effective Marketing Channels to Promote WordPress Products
Intended Audience: The topic is intended for anyone who wants to promote WordPress products or is a part of a WordPress product team, such as WordPress entrepreneurs, developers, marketers and product managers.
Rayhan Arif
Rayhan Arif is a WordPress and eLearning enthusiast working as an AVP of Business Development at Themeum. He has a long experience in educating WordPress users through content marketing. Rayhan finds it fascinating to create content for WordPress and talk to customers, business partners, and WordPress enthusiasts. He is always looking for newer ways to spread eLearning in WordPress With Tutor LMS and make it even better.
Topic: How to Get Started With Content Marketing in WordPress
Intended Audience: Content marketers, bloggers, technical writers, marketing strategists, and anyone with an intention to have a headstart in content marketing in WordPress.
Santosh Bhandari
Santosh has been in the field of Information Security professionally since 2015. His expertise includes web application , mobile application, and network vulnerability assessment/ penetration testing. Besides, he is also skilled in vulnerability management, server assessment/hardening, and cloud security assessment. He has worked in various domains including banks, payment gateways, Internet service providers, co-operatives, etc.
Topic: WordPress Application Security
Intended Audience: Developers, WordPress Users, InfoSec enthusiasts, WordPress hosting providers
Shristi Shrestha
Shristi Shrestha is an Associate Product Manager at Code Rush. At Code Rush, her key role is to anchor the service and product design process. She manages inter-team collaboration and facilitates effective communication to ensure stakeholder alignment in all aspects of product development. Shristi enjoys working at the intersection of business, marketing, and technology. She has worked on projects across branding, web development, app development, e-commerce, and AR domains.
Topic: Leveraging Design Thinking to Elevate User Experience on WordPress Websites
Intended Audience: WordPress Developers, WordPress Designers, Bloggers, Small Business Owners using WordPress
Sunita Rai
Sunita is a content marketer with more than seven years of experience. She specializes in WordPress SEO content writing, affiliate marketing, and email marketing. After working on popular WordPress blogs like AccessPress Themes, ThemeGrill, and WPBeginner as a full-time writer, she is now more involved in hiring and training beginners, freelance writing, and managing some WordPress blogs. She was a speaker at WordCamp Kathmandu 2016 and WordCamp Biratnagar 2018 and a co-organizer of WordCamp Kathmandu 2022.
Topic: How Success Gaps Help You Build a Robust Content Strategy?
Intended Audience: Aspiring content marketers and anyone interested in content marketing.
Suvash Khadka
Suvash Khadka, WordPress Enthusiast has been engaged in WordPress Nepal Community since its establishment from 2011/12 to present date. He’s the President of WP Nepal, Coordinator of WordPress Nepal Community. He’s been actively supporting WordPress communities via different activities, few to include are WordPress Meetup, WordPress College/University Events, WordCamps. Suvash has played various organizer roles in WordCamps continuously in WordCamp Kathmandu, Bharatpur, and so forth.
Panel Discussion — WordPress in Business & Prospects of the Community
Tanaz Masaba
A senior executive for a WordPress company by day, and a book blogger by night, Tanaz is a content creator with a passion for writing–be it for WordPress news and products, book reviews, or film recommendations. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration with a major in Marketing. Her hobbies include blogging, reading, and contributing for the WordPress project.
Topic: How To Avoid Burnout When Working With WordPress
Intended Audience: This topic is intended for individuals who are working at a WordPress company, or those who work with WordPress in addition to holding a different day job.
Zena Poudel
Zena is an Assistant Lecturer and Master’s student at Gandaki College of Engineering and Science. Currently, she’s doing her thesis research on “Applying Deep Learning to Identify Schizophrenia using Structural MRI” as part of her Masters studies. Previously, she has worked as SEO Expert and Junior Developer at Books Mandala, Pokhara, Nepal as well as part time freelancer as Search Engine Optimization Specialist at RankSense New Jersey, United States remotely.
Topic: Machine Learning and WordPress
Intended Audience: Anyone who is interested in Machine Learning
So, these were the total 19 speakers that will present their talks in WordCamp Nepal 2022.
You are more than welcome at WordCamp Nepal 2022 to hear these inspiring WordPress personalities and grow your knowledge on WordPress.
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