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Our First List of Confirmed Speakers

As our ‘call for speakers’ enters its final week, we have already confirmed a few speakers. WordCamp Mumbai 2015 should be a great meeting point for local WordPress users, enthusiasts and developers to listen to and interact with many experts from around India and also around the world.

We were lucky to get applications from around the world and also a few locally.

Today we are announcing a first list of four confirmed speakers.

Sam Hotchkiss

Sam Hotchkiss has been working with WordPress for the last 10 years. Over that time he worked as a freelancer, built a successful agency, raised venture capital and started a product business, BruteProtect, which was acquired by Automattic in 2014.

Sam now works on the Jetpack team at Automattic and lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico with his wonderful wife and their three dogs.

Speaker Session: Goodbye to /wp-admin

Amit Sharma

Amit is a self-taught designer-developer, who runs a development firm by the name of 13 Llama Studio in Mumbai, who specialize in making WordPress do things that you have probably not heard of. Besides development, he likes to spend his time with music, photography or on a road trip.

Speaker Session: WordPress as the backbone of a mobile app

Konstantin Obenland

Konstantin is a WordPress developer, and Core contributor based in Southern California. After contributing to Twenty Twelve, he was the backup lead and main developer for Twenty Thirteen and Twenty Fourteen, the most recent default themes.

At Automattic he’s is part of a team that contributes back to WordPress full time. He enjoys craft beers and good food — sometimes so much that he blogs about it.

Speaker Session: Building Themes: Lessons Learned from Contributing to Default Themes

Rahul Bansal

Rahul Bansal is founder & CEO of rtCamp. He is using WordPress from 2007 and developing on WordPress from 2008.
These days he is focused on making WordPress sites faster using Nginx through his EasyEngine project.

Speaker Session: Debugging WordPress Performance using EasyEngine

We have confirmed a few more speakers and some final details are being worked out. We will publish a second and possibly third list over the next week.

The call for speakers is still open and if you plan to speak at WordCamp Mumbai 2015 – I advise you to apply fast!

Links: Apply as Speaker | List of Confirmed Speakers

Call for Speakers

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Call for Speakers

WordCamp is all about having speakers talk about different things regarding WordPress. We are putting out a “call for speakers” for WordCamp Mumbai 2015.

Since we are not planning to host separate tracks simultaneously, it would mean we need to have more crisper, shorter speaker sessions this time around. We also want to encourage local languages and would love to have a speaker session in Marathi, the local language of Mumbai.

The speaker registrations will close on the 15th 25th January 2015 or earlier if we fill-up all speaker slots.

Before applying do go through our guidelines and fill out the form below.

Speaker Guidelines

  • The speakers sessions will have to be on topics that are related to WordPress. This is a no-brainer but diverging a little off WordPress sometimes when you take questions is fine, but the core of your talk must be related to WordPress.
  • As a speaker, you should have a decent level of expertise over the topic of your session. Speakers should be ready to take questions during the talk at times and obviously after the talk is over.
  • Speaker sessions are planned to run 20 minutes and then a 10 minute Q&A.
  • We expect our speakers to be contributors to WordPress community. This means we expect them to pay for their own travel and stay. This is a speaker’s way of contributing to the WordCamp.
  • We also expect our speakers to be participants at the WordCamp. This means speakers will need to ideally be around for more than just their own session.

All speakers, participants, organizers and volunteers are all expected to follow the Code of Conduct at WordCamps.

What happens after you fill in the form:

  • As soon as we get an application, you will receive a first communication asking for more details of your speakers sessions.
  • A volunteer team will discuss each speaker application decide to either reject or get more information from the speaker if needed.
  • Initially a speaker will be informally confirmed. Only after the speaker sends out a full draft and scope of the session along with a time frame, will their name go up on the official speaker list.

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Speaker applications are now closed.