WELCOME TO WORDCAMP BIRATNAGAR

WELCOME TO WORDCAMP BIRATNAGAR

We’re very happy and excited to announce that WordCamp Biratnagar is officially on the calendar! WordCamp Biratnagar will be held on December 22, 2018, at Hotel Asiatique, Biratnagar, Morang, Nepal.

Unfamiliar with WordCamps?

WordCamps are casual, non-profit, volunteer-run conferences that are local in nature and focus on connecting people who work in, use, or have a website built in WordPress. Topics can cover everything related to WordPress including things like blogging, coding, branding, and security.

Aside from session content, WordCamps also provide the opportunity to meet people working in a similar field and to ask any questions that you might have.

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WCBRT Organizing Team

Abi Rana

Design Wrangler

Abi Rana is a self-taught front-end developer, who is always inspired by how web works and all the code technologies making huge changes on human life. That’s how he started to learn code and that makes him very motivated to coding. He loves to work with unique and complex designs and apply creative touch to it, currently he is also trying his hands on Web Animation with GSAP.

He has been a freelancer his whole career and also acquired experience with a major Web Development company in Biratnagar. As a front-end developer he has worked with various techs but WordPress is most of what he works with. Beside that he has recently co-founded a start up company, IT Service Nepal in Biratnagar.

He has also been contributing to the WordPress community with workshops and meetups.

Siddhant Mandal

Print/Content Wrangler

Siddhant Mandal is a WordPresser from Biratnagar, Nepal. He is the founder of Binwary, a software company based in Biratnagar.  He is also POC of Google Crowdsource Community, Regular Google I/O organizer & speaker from past three years in Biratnagar and awarded as top 10 innovative product in ICT Award 2017. Besides WordPress, he is an android app developer.

He is committed to the WordPress community from the very beginning as an Organizer and contributing by sharing his experiences in meetups & workshops. He believes in the term,” Giving back to the community is the way to make a life.”

He is passionate towards his works and prefers to read books or watch documentaries in his unoccupied time. Get in touch with him, @PirateSiddhant

 

Rishav Malla Thakuri

Volunteer Wrangler

He is IT, student. He is mainly involved in WordPress designing and Development. He is actively working in the WordPress community in Biratnagar.

Over the years, he has contributed to the WordPress community as a WordPress Meetup Speaker, organizer, volunteer, and Tutor. He is passionate about learning and exploring different aspects of WordPress. More, He is very much enthusiast to train the new upcoming WordPress Lovers. Besides WordPress, he loves exploring new things, travel and hangout with friends and family.

Saroj Karki

Media/Publicity Wrangler

Saroj Karki, founder of Youth for blood and currently executive director of OB media Pvt Ltd. Initiated of WordPress Biratnagar in 2011. Use WordPress.

Bicky Tamang

Website Wrangler

Bicky is a WordPress developer. He is a WordPress enthusiast and loves designing. He is actively involved in WordPress Theme development. He gained much experience working as a theme developer.

He is also involved in WordPress community where he has been contributing as an organizer with different workshops and meetups.

Parbat Raj Jha

Finance Wrangler

Parbat is a founder of Paaila technologies based in Biratnagar. He leads the analysis and development of their own product, services and takes care of customer support. Over the years, he has contributed to the WordPress community in different ways as a  speaker, organizer, volunteer, polyglot, theme/plugins developer. When he’s away from the keyboard, he enjoys time with his family the most and loves to go for short trips.

While not working, he loves to travel around and explore new things. Additionally, he engages himself in different program  ICT awareness  in the eastern part of  Nepal as a member  of the East IT community

Kamal Prasad Sah

Speaker Wrangler

Kamal Prasad Sah is a WordPress Developer who is mainly involved with WordPress Theme and Plugin development. He has been building products for WP based websites for a long time. After working as a Senior WordPress Developer for multiple national and multinational companies he has co-founded IT Service Nepal based in Biratnagar.

He has also been contributing to the WordPress community with different workshops and meetups.

Aakash Jha

Creative Wrangler

Aakash Jha is a B.E. Computer Engineering student. He is also a Co-Founder of Binwary. He is a Designer & Animation hobbyist. He has been working with WordPress since last 1.5 years. He is actively involved in WordPress meetups volunteering & organizing events.

Sujit Jha

Sponsor Wrangler

Mr. Jha is a Network Engineer by Profession. He is Project Manager at WorldLink Communications Pvt. Ltd. He is an avid WordPress user from Biratnagar, Nepal. He is one of the active member of the WordPress community Biratnagar. He is Sponsor Wrangler of WordCamp Biratnagar 2018.

Sujit is an active global member of ISOC and Internet society Nepal Chapter.

He loves to drive in a new environment in the sector of Information and communication technology. He wants to spend his spare time exploring new technologies that can be beneficial for the community.

Ganga Kafle

Lead Organizer

Mr. Kafle is the WordPress Contributor and theme review team lead.

In addition, he works for WPEntire and leads theme review team. Besides this, he volunteers as a theme review moderator in the WordPress Theme Review team. He has contributed to the WordPress community as WordCamp speaker, organizer, volunteer, documentation, core contributors, translation team, theme/plugins developer.

He loves spending time with friends, families, reading blogs, traveling and listening to music.

Sagar Bahadur Tamang

Venue Wrangler

Sagar, a graduate in Computer Engineering is the senior WordPress developer in Cascade Infotech. He is very enthusiastic and fascinating WordPresser from Biratnagar, Nepal. He is engaged in with WordPress since last 1 year and is a very active member of WordPress Biratnagar meetups.

He is always curious about developing new things and Winner of Yantra 3.0 and first runner-up of Yantra 4.0, National Robotics Competition organized by Robotics Association Nepal. Sagar is an easy going person with a very welcoming personality. His kind and helpful nature are what makes him a go-to person for reliability. Besides technology, he enjoys exploring and traveling to new places, hacking stuff, debating with his colleagues on philosophy and taste new foods.

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WCBRT Speakers

Saroj Karki

Saroj Karki, founder of Youth for blood and currently executive director of OB media Pvt Ltd. Initiated of WordPress Biratnagar in 2011. Use WordPress.

Title: WordPress History in Biratnagar

Intended Audience: Everyone

Description: You will get all the information about the WordPress Biratnagar history.

Utsav Singh Rathour

A WordPress enthusiast for the past 11 years or so, Utsav loves WordPress and believes in giving back to the community, that has given him so much. Utsav is the founder of Code Pixelz Media a WordPress development company and owns theme shops like CodeThemes.co and customization service websites.
He loves coffee and code. So next time you are in Kathmandu and need a recommendation on a good cafe with a stable internet connection, you know who to ask 😉

Topic: Giving back to the community

Intended Audience: Everyone

Description: There are a lot of people, who make a living out of WordPress, but not all understand well enough the concept of giving back to the community, especially in the Open Source community. I will be discussing how you can give back to the WordPress community to make it more awesome and how that positively adds to your career and growth. There are more than just a couple ways of giving back and everyone can help it become better one way or other and that is what I will be discussing.

Pratima Sharma

Pratima Sharma is the Co-founder and managing director at Mandala IT Solutions where she wears many hats. She is an active part of the WordPress community in Pokhara. In her spare time, she is an avid reader and likes to explore her variety of interests.

Title:

The digital revolution- what is next?

Description: 

The digital revolution has transformed our lives; especially the lives of us women. If it weren’t for the digital revolution, perhaps we would have been slaving our lives away like our grandmothers had to.

But where is it heading?

The easy answer would be Robotics, AI, Crypto or Block Chain but what’s important and should actually matter is ‘ What’s next for our society?’

Intended Audience: Everyone

GANGA KAFLE

Mr. Kafle is the Co-Founder and theme review team lead at one of the fast growing WordPress themes marketplace – Template Sell based in Nepal.

In addition, he works for WPEntire and leads theme review team. Besides this, he volunteers as a theme review moderator in the WordPress Theme Review team. He has contributed to the WordPress community as WordCamp speaker, organizer, volunteer, documentation, core contributors, translation team, theme/plugins developer.

He loves spending time with friends, families, reading blogs, traveling and listening to music.

Panel Discussion: Girls in WordPress – Story, Experience, Opportunity, and Career

Abul Khayer

Abul Khayer has been working as a WordPress developer for several Web Development agencies for last five years. He’s currently the CTO of Search English and proprietor of his own Web Development agency Biggestech. He’s specialized in WordPress Security and WooCommerce. He’s the lead organizer of Dhaka WordPress Meetup and a deputy of Community Team.

Title: WordPress Security Fundamentals

Intended Audience: WordPress users and developers

Description: This talk is all about the common security threads WordPress websites face. The audience will learn the type of attacks that WordPress websites get, how users will measure the security and how they will protect WordPress websites from the common security threads. The session easy suitable for any WordPress user, developer or enthusiast. It’s a 25 minutes session in the English language.

Prithu Singh Thakuri

Prithu is the CEO and team lead at one of the fast growing WordPress online resources websites – WPAll Club based in Nepal. Along with her few colleagues, she writes contents, online promotion plans, SEO plans and makes strategies to put WPAll Club at the top of WordPress content business. Sometimes she also writes for AccessPress Themes, 8 Degree Themes, and a few other theme stores.

It has been a couple of years that, she started loving WordPress and working on it as a career. She still believes that she is learning and exploring many aspects of WordPress, SEO contents, online and social media promotion etc. Besides WordPress she loves traveling, reading books and browsing new things/ideas on the internet.

Panel Discussion: Girls in WordPress – Story, Experience, Opportunity, and Career

 

Vedanshu Jain

Works at Automattic. Member of WordPress Community Support Team. New to WordPress community, coming from Ruby on Rails.

Title: Gutenberg at wordcamp.org

Intended Audience: Developers looking to know more about Gutenberg blocks.

Description: Challenges, some implementation details and outcome in moving from shortcodes to Gutenberg blocks at wordcamp.org.

 

Madan Panthi

Madan is a WordPress developer and a student of Information Technology. He started WordPress as a passion and later building a career in it. He has been working in WordPress for about three years. He loves playing with codes, learning new technologies, and turning coffee into code. He is actively working with WordPress Community and organizing and facilitating different workshops on WordPress. He loves open source software and serving the community.
Madan is currently working in Bharyang Ventures as Project Manager and Server Admin.

Topic: Catching up with Cloud

Intended Audience: Developers, IT Professionals, Cloud Enthusiasts.

Description: After building a website it’s always essential to move to a server in order to make it public. As Dedicated server would not be cost effective and may not be affordable for most of small-scale business houses, cloud is the best option. Coming to the cloud, again there are a number of options, VPC, VPS, Shared Servers or if we go to cloud service models, again we have models like IaaS, Paas, Saas. And also there are a huge number of cloud service providers each claiming, they being the best. Out of all these confusions, I will be trying to share my knowledge on cloud server, choosing the best cloud server for your application, using different tools in order to check if the server is actually good and different types of firewalls and security issues.

Regan Khadgi

Regan is an IT Engineering graduate who has been successfully contributing IT sector with his expertise in WordPress, PHP MVC framework and CI. He is WordPress Lead Plugin Developer at AccessPress Themes with 6+ years of service in the company along with experience of teaching IT skills to hundreds of younger generation IT enthusiasts. This ever smiling cool guy motivates his fellow colleagues and students to their work as he quotes, “Work as if tomorrow is holiday.”. For him, work is fun.

Beside his professional goals, he has a strong passion for music, especially guitar. He humorously says that he can play guitar with his eyes closed. He is found playing his guitar even in a short break of 10 minutes and creating soothing sound to make the office environment more pleasant. He spends his weekends and holidays with his dear guitar, singing songs, listening music and watching movies. He seems quite choosy with the movies that he opts for high IMDB rating only.

Title: Make Living through WordPress

Intended Audience: Everyone

Description: My topic will include various way of earning through WordPress.

Kamal Prasad Sah

Kamal Prasad Sah is a WordPress Developer who is mainly involved with WordPress Theme and Plugin development. He has been building products for WP based websites for a long time. After working as a Senior WordPress Developer for multiple national and multinational companies he has co-founded IT Service Nepal based in Biratnagar.

He has also been contributing to the WordPress community with different workshops and meetups.

Topic Title: Why WordPress is a better choice ?

Topic Description: He will describe about the benefits and career in WordPress.

Intended Audience: Everyone

Abhishek Rijal

Abhishek Rijal is a professional WordPress developer, primarily involved in WordPress theme and Plugin development. Currently Working as a Freelance Developer, he has been involved with Theme Review, WordPress themes and plugins support team, customizations, and development of WordPress based products.

Abhishek is an active participant and contributor to the regular WordPress meet-ups and community events around Kathmandu. He has also participated in WordCamp Kathmandu 2016 as a Volunteer, WordCamp Kathmandu 2017 as a speaker and WordCamp Kathmandu 2018 as a Contributor’s day lead.

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.

Topic: WordPress Automation tools: Develop WP Themes and plugins faster !!

Intended Audience:  WordPress Developers Developers, IT Professionals.

 

Sunita Rai

Sunita writes for MonsterInsights, IsItWP, and multiple websites under Awesome Motive company. She has  experience of working with the top WordPress companies in Nepal, Access Keys and ThemeGrill.

WordPress – she loves it and she believes that it’s empowered her a lot in life. Also a student of MPhil in Sociology at Tribhuvan University.

Panel Discussion: Girls in WordPress – Story, Experience, Opportunity, and Career

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Bibek Sapkota

Bibek Sapkota is a passionate youth currently doing Bachelors in Information Technology. He has been actively involved in the field of Youth Empowerment and Entrepreneurship. As a young Entrepreneur he is leading a social Enterprise, Urja Lab. He has been promoting the use of WordPress in socio-economic, cultural and environmental aspects of the society. Mr. Sapkota is playing active role in the field of debating, interaction and innovations being general member of Debate Network Nepal and Board member of Leo District Council 325 B1 Nepal. He is also a member of Federal Youth Parliament of Nepal and former Council Member of United States Embassy Youth Council (USYC).

Topic: WordPress for Entrepreneurs

Intended Audience: Entrepreneurs, Bloggers, and Developers

Description: I shall be talking about the use of WordPress for easy communication, promotion, and expansion of Business Startups.

Liton Arefin

Arefin is the founder and CEO of Jewel Theme which is a WordPress Theme and Plugin Development Company. He started exploring WordPress in 2008 and quickly fell in love with it. He has been since not only a WordPress evangelist but also an active community member Authoring Themes, Plugins and Books. His ebook on Plugin development crossed more than 200,000 downloads and was appreciated greatly by the Bangladeshi Local Community. He has currently 17 active Plugins and 9 WordPress themes in WordPress.org Repository as well as dozens of Themes and Plugins in Themeforest.

Liton Arefin will be Speaking about New Era of Plugin Development in WordPress.

Liton Arefin has done Information and Communication Engineering from Rajshahi University. Currently based in Dhaka, Bangladesh. You can follow him on https://jeweltheme.com or follow @Litonice11 on Twitter.

Topic: New Era of Plugin Development in WordPress

Intended Audience: Everyone

Description: He will share the Plugin development technique.

Prakash Upreti

Prakash Upreti, IT Professional, using WordPress since 2005, started carrier with WordPress. Tech enthusiastic, old blogger, tech entrepreneur.

Running #PracasInfosys in Biratnagar since 2007, founder of Sriyog.Com

Title:  Journey Since 2005

Intended Audience: Everyone

Description: I’m going to share my experience with WordPress since my early stage of carrer. I will cover the following topics as a speaker.

1. Future on Information Technology

2. WordPress changed my life

3. WordPress for Web Designers & Developers 4. Journey since 2005-2018

 

Fahad Murtaza

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I started working with WordPress around 2004 and since then, in love with it. I have since done a lot of things with WordPress. I recently joined Stanfield Real estate and building their web stack on WordPress along with other technologies.

I love sharing my knowledge and that’s exactly why I want to travel to Nepal, share knowledge and do some sightseeing.

Fahad Murtaza

Title: WordPress Hooks 101

Intended Audience: Beginners to Advance

Description: I’ll be talking about WordPress hooks and how they make life easier. I am good at speaking to people. I haven’t prepared the presentation material yet but I have plenty to talk about. I’ll make the topic equally interesting for novice and professionals.

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Hotel Asiatique Pvt. Ltd.
Airport Road, Biratnagar, Nepal

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