7th-8th December 2019
We’re happy to announce that WordCamp Pokhara is officially on the calendar! WordCamp Pokhara will be held on 7th-8th December, 2019 at Hotel Pokhara Grande, Pokhara.
WordCamps are casual, non-profit, volunteer-run conferences that are local in nature and focus on connecting people who works in, use or have a website built in WordPress. Topics can cover everything related to WordPress including things like blogging, coding, branding and security.
WordPress For Entrepreneurs
Topic Category: WordPress Business
Speaker Type : National
Speaker Bio:
Bibek Sapkota is a passionate youth and an Information Technology graduate. He is a social activist by heart. He has been actively involved in Lions Club International As District secretary of Leo District Council 325 B1 Nepal and Amnesty International Nepal as a member. Being a youth entrepreneur, he is leading Social Enterprise Urja Lab as Chairman and Aarambha IT Research Center as a Co-founder and Life In Nepal as CEO. He is a former Council Member of United States Embassy Youth Council (USYC) and Federal Youths Parliament of Nepal. Moreover, he is also a farmer running Himalayan Earth Farm, Baglung. Mr. Sapkota has been active in WP Community as a volunteer, organizer and speaker in different WordCamps.
Session Summary:
Startups are usually huge on ideas and entrepreneurs are mostly short on cash. Generally speaking, most startups do understand that a presence on the internet is most to their idea developing into a growing venture. A website is a convenient and cost-effective idea for them to explain their ideas, lay out the road map to achieve them and keep all stakeholders informed of their progress. It confers credibility on the venture with details of name, address and contact details. It also helps to reach out to job seekers, investors, suppliers and potential customers in the early stages and for building up a buzz until launch day.As soon as the startup starts, the website can be converted into 24/7 available platform for marketing, sales, customer support and related stuffs. I shall be talking about cost efficient, secure, effective and easy use of WordPress for Entrepreneurs and their startups.
Intended Audience: Entrepreneurs, Bloggers, and Developers
How I got into WordPress and learn new daily?
Topic Category:
Speaker Type : National
Speaker Bio:
Santosh Baral is an 18-year-old student, currently studying A levels in GBS.
Apart from high school, he has been working as a part-time blogger and web developer.
he also does bug hunting in the most popular websites making him a full-time learner.
With 1 and a half years of experience, he is pretty familiar with all the tools and tricks in the field of cybersecurity and web development.
Session summary:
Getting starting with WordPress is not that hard as you think if you so some interest towards it. Once you got into WordPress and learn to use it in a proper way you gonna loved it and change your thinking towards web development. Santosh will be talking about the use and importance of plugins and themes for WordPress user and will be sharing his experience. He will also be talking about blogging and eCommerce with WordPress. At the end of this session, participants will have a basic idea about WordPress, themes and plugins, blogging and eCommerce.
Intended Audience: WordPress beginners or WordPress enthusiasts
Why Human Centric Design Is Important for WordPress & Its Community
Topic Category:
Speaker Type : International
Speaker Bio:
Saif is currently working as a Product Manager at weDevs. He’s a passionate speaker; you can find him in Bangladesh talking about WordPress, community & open-source projects. He is an entrepreneur at heart as he founded his own managed WordPress hosting company by 17. Deeply passionate about technologies that make human lives more comfortable. A longtime WordPress enthusiast, he believes that websites and the tools used to build them should be well crafted, intuitive, and accessible. Saif possesses excellent knowledge of Human-Computer Interaction and loves building products that users love to use.
Session Summary :
Saif will be talking about the fundamentals of Human-Computer Interaction. Human-Computer Interaction is a topic that combines the best of Computer Science, Arts & Design, and Cognitive Psychology. By the end of the sessions, the attendees will have a basic idea about how HCI (Human-Computer Interaction) ties in with the modern design and user experiences. The session will introduce key topics of HCI including affordances, signifiers, constraints, mappings, feedback, consistency and more.
Intended Audience : Beginners & Advanced
Importance of WordCamp and WordPress Community
Topic Category:
Speaker Type : National
Speaker Bio:
He is fast learner, highly motivated Web Programmer, WordPress Developer, IT Entrepreneur, Fintech Investor and Cyber Security enthusiast. Apart from that, He is an easy going person and believes in teamwork. His is IT entrepreneur by hobby and social activist by passion. He is vice president at Rotaract Club of Tilottama, Rupandehi for 2019/2020 and he is team lead at WordPress Butwal & WordCamp Butwal 2020 lead organizer. When he isn’t playing with a computer screen, he spends time speaking on meetup and WordCamps, doing social activities, hanging out with friends and exploring new places.
Session Summary:
I am playing with WordPress since the beginning of our company. I have been involved in WordPress community since more than 5 years. First I attended WordCamp Nepal in 2015 since then I am contributing WorPress Community in the form of volunteering the WordCamp, Speaking at WordCamp as well as Sponsoring WordCamp. Since 1 year I am leading WordPress Butwal community and organizing WordCamp Butwal 2020. WordCamp, Meetups are an opportunity for people who love and value WordPress. There are lots of give and take. I will be speaking about the value of WordPress community , how community works, how community is growing and how the members can benefited.
Intended Audience : Beginner to Intermediate
Cloud Deployment and Threats
Topic Category:
Speaker Type : National
Speaker Bio:
Ashok Kuikel is WordPress & Mobile Application Developer, Cloud Architect, Entrepreneur working on Socio-Economic Development implementing Technology. Mr. Kuikel is Founder of Onesourcecode Technology, as a platform for contributing for the society through Information Technology.
With his interest in Socio-Economic Development he has earned Microsoft Student Partner 2015/2016 . He has been actively contributing as Joint Secretary of Federation of Computer Association of Nepal Kavre Chapter.
Beside that,he is an official Global Peace Ambassador for Global Peace Chain, Nepal Chapter and Member of Internet Society, Nepal Chapter.
Above all, he enjoys learning about new trends and technologies and loves to share innovative ideas to contribute in the growth of the WordPress industry.
Session Summary :
Web is the best platform for Startups to Entrepreneurs to express their ideas, layout the road map and achieve their Goal. Most Startups understand that their presence on the internet is essential to turn their idea into a growing venture.
As they launch their startup, their ideas get transformed into a website and becomes a platform for all their sales and marketing related activities.
During this WordCamp, I will be talking about secure and cost-efficient server setup and how Entrepreneurs can use WordPress to easily fuel their Startups.
This session will cover Common mistakes made on WordPress Environment, Common attacks/threats on WordPress Sites and how to avoid that while developing WordPress Themes and plugins.
Intended Audience: Entrepreneurs, Startups & Developers
Get-Set-REST
Topic Category: Advanced Development
Speaker Type : National
Speaker Bio:
Madan is a full-time developer, currently leading the technical team of Sriyog.com. He has been into WordPress and PHP development for the last 4 years. Apart from programming, he loves teaching, training, poetry, literature and sometimes lying in his room doing nothing. He is also involved in social activities and strongly believes to bring change through technology.
Session Summary :
In this topic, I will be talking about REST API, its architecture, Authentication, and usage. I will also be covering concepts of headless WordPress development practices with examples.
Headless CMS development is the process of separating frontend and backend. It makes the site less heavy and fast, but at the same time, it has some drawbacks.
Let’s Explore Together.
Intended Audience: Developers
Quintessence of Generating Quality Content & Marketing Them for the 21st-Century Website
Topic Category:
Speaker Type : International
Speaker Bio:
Tarun is a professional web content writer, working as a content marketer at weDevs for the last 2.5 years. He is a WordPress enthusiast who loves to write about anything that excites him. He loves engaging and communicating with people of and off of the WordPress community. In his short professional career, he has written more than 100+ SEO friendly, & highly informative user-centric blogs addressing the international audiences. His aim is to share whatever knowledge he has acquired regarding content writing & marketing for the modern-day websites. Above all, he enjoys learning about new trends and technologies and loves to share innovative ideas to contribute in the growth of the WordPress industry.
Session Summary:
Quality content in any type of website can have a huge impact on the mind of the reader. So Tarun will be discussing the differences between good quality vs poor quality content. Also, the essentiality of having powerful & influential content that can be both useful and provide valuable information at the same time. Not just generating quality content but marketing them is also important nowadays. Therefore his topic will also enlighten the audiences about the modern-day content marketing challenges and how to overcome them. Finally, there will be some quick tips and tricks related to smart content marketing, some fun facts & blog writing tips to lighten your mood. He is hopeful that by the end of the session the audiences would surely be acquainted with the basic knowledge about the importance of creating & marketing quality content for any type of website. He also believes that his influential session would encourage everyone who is passionate about writing to pick up content writing as their career.
Intended Audience: Beginner Level Bloggers, Passionate Content Writers & Marketers, WordPress Enthusiast & General Users.
WordPress Maintenance Checklist and Its Importance
Topic Category:
Speaker Type : National
Speaker Bio:
Anil Khattri is WordPress enthusiastic who is currently working as IT Officer at Jaljala Rural Municipality . He had his first encounter with WordPress in 2016, and since then it has become his hobby, passion, and the center of his profession. He generally strives for pixel perfect design, clean robust code and user-friendly interface. He also has contributed to numerous social organization including Dari Gang, and other different Social Youth Clubs. He is known for his passion for his beard, but is also crazy about gaming, functional programming and data visualizing.
Session Summary :
Why WordPress Maintenance?
Managing a WordPress website is a full-time job as opposed to the popular opinion that you simply need to set it and sit. Things break at unexpected times, and it’s your responsibility to make repairs. You need to create backups, update your website and simply keep the business going.
If your WordPress website is your livelihood, you cannot afford to let things go unattended for long periods. This is where a WordPress maintenance checklist comes in. You definitely don’t want to lose your site to hackers, or lose out on business because your design scares away prospects.
checklist provides you with instructions for maintenance tasks on a high level – so you know that your site is set up properly.
If your site breaks (e.g. because of a faulty plugin update that causes an error in combination with your theme) you might still need a developer at hand. But you’ll also be in the position to simply bring back a backup of your website to get it back up and running in no time.
While this WordPress maintenance checklist gives you a glimpse into all of the areas that go into keeping a WordPress site running smoothly, it cannot hide the fact that WordPress maintenance is tricky. However, it will act as a beacon guiding you in the right direction. And if you’re on Liquid Web’s Managed WordPress Hosting plan, you’ll find maintaining your site even easier.
In a nutshell, WordPress maintenance checklist will take away the pain from keeping your website running stable and secure. It’ll give you a framework to structure maintenance into simple recurring tasks which you can partially automate. You can literally save days throughout the new year by using checklist.
So basically I will share my knowledge about what is checklist and how it helps in WordPress.
Intended Audience : Any
A great website isn’t ENOUGH
Topic Category: WordPress Business
Speaker Type : National
Speaker Bio:
Over the past 10 years, Rambabu has helped thousands of startups to grow online. He has built thousands of websites and optimized them for greater online revenue. He helped startups to build a profitable business with the help of WordPress and SEO. Besides businesses, he is helping newbies to adapt and grow in the world of WordPress and SEO.
When not glued to his computer he travels to amazing places.
Session Summary :
Why Every Business Should have a GREAT WEBSITE?
You are what Google says you are.
It means, every business or brand must have a website that ranks well in google and serves the best interest of their target audience. It is essential to attract new customers, build a great brand, provide easy access to the information and many more.
Your website works as a sales person that is constantly promoting your services and you are open for business 24/7, 365 days/year.
And the most interesting part is you can do it now, easily with the help of WordPress. You don’t have to write complex codes, spend months learning and don’t have to hire anyone to manage your website.
Intended Audience: WordPress Lovers, the ones who want to dedicate their life to WordPress and make multiple seven figures
WordPress and Millennials
Topic Category:
Speaker Type : National
Speaker Bio:
Priyam Badha Khanal is a WordPresser and an Engineering student at Purbanchal University School of Engineering & Technology at Biratnagar. She has been active at WordPress meetup in Biratnagar, uses WordPress.She has been involved in the WordPress Community for the last two years and also has worked as a volunteer in WordCamp Biratnagar. Her interest field is web and design. So, WordPress is the best platform for her. She is a tech enthusiast and currently has been working on her own project.
Session Summary:
My presentation will be especially for a dedicated audience belonging to my age group. I Will be explaining how WordPress can benefit us being a beginner and also be explaining the advantages of being in the WordPress Community.
Intended Audience : Students , Beginners
Team: Theme Review
Contributor Day Team Lead Type: National
Contributor Day Team Lead Bio:
Biplav Subedi is currently a plugin developer at WPMU DEV . He’s been there for nearly a year now and is thrilled to be a part of the amazing team. He is also a Theme review mod, theme & plugin developer and a core contributor on wp.org and loves to review themes as it was his first step to getting involved in the community.
Other than that Biplav is an outgoing person, who loves to do anything and everything. He is your go-to friend to do anything exciting from touring the country to a movie companion, a football teammate to being that friend who beats you on every other game. 😉 Anything you name, he’s up for it.
He also occasionally posts his Cover songs on Soundcloud , go give it a listen.
Team: Support
Contributor Day Team Lead Type: National
Contributor Day Team Lead Bio:
Abhishek Rijal is a professional WordPress developer, primarily involved in WordPress theme and Plugin development. Currently Working as Senior WordPress plugin developer at CodeWing Solutions, he has been involved with Theme Review, WordPress themes and plugins development and support team, customizations, and development of WordPress based products and services. He has also been working as a WordPress development trainer at Halftone designs, Kathmandu.
He is an active participant and contributor to local WordCamps and attends WordPress meet-ups and community events around Kathmandu.
While not working, he loves to travel around and explore new things. Additionally, he engages himself in different social service projects in Nepal as a member of Lions Club International.
Team: Plugin
Contributor Day Team Lead Type: National
Contributor Day Team Lead Bio:
Utsav likes to call himself a wannabe because he wants to be so many things. He is a developer by heart, runs a WordPress based service-focused digital Agency and a few WordPress based products. His newfound love is Youtube, where he runs a tech review channel called Uv Reviews and sometimes adds travel videos on his personal channel.
He has been in the WordPress ecosystem for 11 years and just loves how active and welcoming this community is. He is the current lead organizer for WordCamp Kathmandu and a part of WordCamp Kathmandu since the very first. He is also an active speaker having spoken in around 9 WordCamps in different cities since 2012.
He loves to talk to new people, especially from the community. So if you see him around, say hi or if you are shy, he’s also on twitter.
Informatics College Pokhara, established in 2011 is an associate college of Innovate Nepal Group (ING). Initially, it started its academic journey as a franchisee of Informatics Education Limited, Singapore. Since 2017, Informatics College Pokhara has been directly partnering with London Metropolitan University, UK to provide enviable higher education in IT and Business to students in Pokhara at an affordable price.
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Broadway Infosys, an ISO 9001:2015 certified IT learning center is a pioneer and leading institution in Nepal. We have been providing professional IT courses for more than a decade. We offer well-structured complete professional training in many IT courses that are available and in demand in the modern IT market. With the proper facility of training labs, we aim to ensure that our trainees are world-class in any course that they aim for. Thus, it is safe to assume that “Inspiring Growth” is our main aim.
Bluehost has been a WordPress partner since 2005 and powers over 1 million WordPress sites worldwide. Their objective is to help customers, whether novice or pro, create a thriving online presence at an affordable price. With a team of in-house tech experts available 24/7, Bluehost dedicates time and resources to providing the best support and services in the industry. Join millions of other site owners and see what Bluehost can do for you and your online presence.
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HubSpot (NYSE: HUBS) is a leading growth platform. Since 2006, HubSpot has been on a mission to make the world more inbound. Today, over 56,500 customers in more than 100 countries use HubSpot’s award-winning software, services, and support to transform the way they attract, engage, and delight customers. Comprised of Marketing Hub, Sales Hub, Service Hub, and a powerful free CRM, HubSpot gives companies the tools they need to Grow Better. Learn more about HubSpot for WordPress.
Hotel Jal Mahal is a boutique resort in Pokhara where water, mountains, plants and humans interplay to rejuvenate each other. It is a resort with luxurious poolside rooms, stunning Himalayan views, beautifully maintained spacious garden, and warm hospitality. It is the only resort in Nepal providing privileged access to our child-guests to a boutique theme park, run by its sister concern, ChaChaWhee. (The funpark is undergoing renovation at the moment)
Webpage Nepal is a leading web solutions company, offering high-quality web design, web development and digital marketing services. When designing user experience and software, we will guide you through the best methods. Our solutions should suit your business environment fully and get your customers closer to your products and services.
We offer complete web solution including web design, responsive web design, web development, e-commerce development, WordPress development, custom web design, search engine optimization, social media marketing. Our highly qualified and skilled website designers build creative design with their knowledge and vast experience in web design. We work with expertise and deliver websites within the timeline at an affordable price.
Skeinsoft is the place where creativity joins hands with the supremacy of high-end technology that reflects on the progress of our clients. We are a team of passionate, creative and result oriented professionals, aimed to deliver cutting-edge web design & web development services to fulfill the goals and objectives of clients. We ensure the best possible strategic outcome for your website designing initiative and this is what enables our clients to attend the highest level in the online business market. From Android App development and software development our professionals work with the dedication to deliver client success on every project assigned.
Skeinsoft is also engages in providing various professional courses which indeed helps in increasing the skilled manpower in the technology sector. As we know that, IT market of Pokhara (or Nepal) is growing rapidly but there is a lack of skilled manpower as per the market demand. Students aren’t able to find the right institution which will serve them required courses to shape up their career as IT professional. But now, you don’t need to worry! We at Skeinsoft have launched various professional courses which meets the current demand for IT professionals in global IT marketplace.
EnviteTech is a full-service digital agency of web experts based in Bharatpur, Chitwan, Nepal. We work with businesses and organizations across the globe to launch or scale high-performance websites, mobile apps, and software that deliver ultimate digital experiences. The best customer-oriented service is a true collaboration between agency and client. it’s all about the journey together.
The extended EnviteTech team includes an incredible roster of talent, that can get even the most challenging job done.
AllRounder Themes is a company that specializes in developing good looking, effective but yet easy to use premium WordPress themes that allows the user to create a unique and attractive website. It is our passion as well as duty to develop and design themes that are perfectly coded, simple, attractive, and easily customizable to enhance the performance of your site.
We are also available for the custom projects that include development of simple to complex theme and plugin development.
HUB International Education is a top-notch educational consultancy of Nepal committed to providing qualitative career advice and guidance to potential students aspiring to study abroad.
Over the past years, HUB has indeed proved to be a benchmark for understanding students’ academic caliber and interest prior to matching them with the most suitable educational institutions overseas.
Devom Tech is an innovative IT security solutions for any size of the company, working to prevent from a different type of cyber attack offering its Security+ scan service, which includes cloud scanner & ethical hackers to uncover potential vulnerabilities to mitigate within domain, web, mobile, network & databases.
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Khalti is a mobile wallet & payment gateway service provider in Nepal. It allows users to pay for a range of services like basic utility payments, hotel bookings, movie and domestic flight tickets, event tickets, online shopping and many more.
Launched in January 2017, Khalti is built by the world class engineering team behind Sparrow SMS which has served millions of Nepalis over the last 10 years.
Khalti’s goal is to simplify lives of people by bringing financial inclusivity to every individual in Nepal and take the payment industry from offline to online through best practices.
The company was declared the global winner of Google Business Group Stories Search Contest 2017.
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Aarambha IT Research Center is an established Information Communication Technology and Business Management company. We design, develop, support and promote our own ICT and business management application software using the latest technology currently available in the market and also some other domains through our alliances’ coordination. We coordinate nationally and internationally through our representatives and alliances in different countries of the world.
Heli Air Nepal introduces you to Nepal’s first Gyrocopter service for all the aviation and adventure sport lovers to fly in the sky and get the bird’s view of the beautiful city, Pokhara. There must be only a few who haven’t been mesmerized by the beauty of Pokhara which offers you the view of Machapuchre that falls on the lap of Phewa Lake along with World Peace Pagoda standing tall amongst the deep Queen Forest and Hills that sum up to the nature’s beauty.
You can not live forever but memories do, so don’t be afraid to capture your beautiful moments. Gleam Pixel Studio for more vibrant photo shoot and video shoot. Moreover we generate the ideas as you imagine or our creativity, just remember us when you sketch something in your mind, we do Graphic Design, 3d Modeling and Animation works. Gleam Pixel Studio.
Check out our Call for Sponsors post for details on how you can help make this year’s WordCamp the best it can be!
