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The call for Media Partners is open to tech bloggers, influencers, magazines, TV and radio stations. The partnership is an opportunity for these media platforms to bring unique stories to their audience.

As a Media Partner, you are committed to offering media coverage before, during and after the event. This includes interviews, articles and social media posts across your network.

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Call for Speakers

Do you have a knack for knowledge? Are you a digital maestro? A digital explorer who is always carving new ways for the benefit of the digital community? We want to hear from you!

We are providing the WordCamp platform so that you can share your knowledge, skills, experiences, and stories with our community at WordCamp Karachi, August 04th, 2018.

WordCamp Karachi is a community event to help WordPress users, content creators, designers & developers learn and network. Whether you live in Pakistan or just anywhere in the Universe if you are interested in becoming a speaker at the event. Simply contact us!

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Call for Volunteers

We are looking for speakers to share their knowledge, skill, experience, and stories with our welcoming community at WordCamp Karachi, August 04th, 2018. We want speakers from any location in the World throughout the WordPress Community and beyond.

WordCamp Karachi is a community event to help WordPress users & developers learn more and network with each other.

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About WordCamp

WordCamp Karachi 2018 will be held on August 04th, 2018. WordCamp Karachi is going to be a full-day conference with multiple sessions on both technical & business topics related to WordPress. Renowned experts have been invited to deliver lectures. The sessions will be useful for both newbies as well as advanced users & developers of WordPress. Delicious food will be served to the participants. The venue is located in the heart of Karachi at IBA Main Campus, Karachi.

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Why Karachi?

Karachi is the most populous city of Pakistan, and sixth most populous city globally. Ranked as a prominent beta world city, it is Pakistan’s premier industrial and financial center and serves over a population of over 20 million. With a literacy rate of around 70 percent, Karachi poses a lucrative opportunity for digital marketers, developers, and designers to find opportunities of upgrading their skills and enhancing their career prospects.

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It is located in the heart of Karachi with one of Top University of Pakistan, IBA University Main Campus Karachi Ghani Tayyab Auditorium. Karachi, Pakistan.

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Call for Speakers

We’re thrilled to announce that WordCamp Karachi 2018 is officially accepting speaker applications! Last date to apply for speaker is 14-07-2018 Why speak? Presenting at WordCamp takes some work but is very rewarding. You get to share your passion, convince people you’re worth hiring and help everyone learn about WordPress, all at the same time. …

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Speakers

Sajid Javed

Topic: Panel: Choosing WordPress as a Career
WordPress Developer | Happiness Engineer at Automattic.com | WordPress Practitioner and Community Enthusiast | Host and Main Organizer of WordPress Meetup group Islamabad-Rawalpindi

Why am I eligible to talk on this topic?

I have a plugin on WordPress.org with 100,000+ active installs!

I have brought it up from the last result on the fourth page to the first result on the first page by applying different techniques and tricks that I am eager to share.

Link to the plugin:

https://goo.gl/pzYiEg

Faiza Yousuf

Topic: Panel: Choosing WordPress as a Career

I am a technologist and a serial entrepreneur with more than 8 years of experience in building products and teams. I run a consulting company with the focus on helping small businesses to embrace technology and I also run a community called WomenInTechPK. These days, I am busy in co-running a
coding boot camp called CodeGirls and consulting for a couple of local and international clients on Requirement Engineering, Team Management and Agile Transformation. I love to read and get paid for writing about tools and practices.

Haroon Q. Raja

Topic: Need for Speed – The What, Why & How of WordPress Performance Optimization

I am a technology solutions architect with nearly two decades of industry experience spanning development, content strategy, SEO, information security, marketing, project management, system administration, technology infrastructure deployment & optimization, communication & workflow optimization, technical training and beyond.

I’m currently in the process of building a fully managed WordPress hosting company by the name of Happy Cloud, set to launch later this year.

Apart from that, I’m working as Principal Consultant at my consultancy HQRaja, as well as Lead ICT & SEO consultant at Starcom-Mediavest, and Managing Consultant at KickStart Pakistan.

My education background is in Economics & Finance, Mass Communication as well as Software Engineering.

Fahad Rafiq

Topic: SEO Hacks for WordPress Users

I’m a veteran of creating strategy and consulting SEO. Already have experienced in Gaditek, a IT Based Company in Karachi. Now Start my own Startup name as “Appers”.

Usman Khalid

Topic: Opening Remarks

Usman is a Technology Consultant & Entrepreneur and Digital Community Expert one of a visionary man who is on the roadmap to create an impact on 1 billion lives globally through technology and community development.

His expertise mix with E-commerce Technology Marketing and Content Development industry with more than 9 years of total industry experience.

Usman Khalid who is the CEO of WPJIT (WordPress Just in Time), a WordPress agency. His company has transitioned from single client to servicing over 150 clients in just the span of two years without capitalizing on paid campaigns.

Usman is also the founder of Tijarah fully Managed E-commerce Platform which helps entrepreneurs to launch Ecommerce store in 1 day with highly scalable and top-notch design interface.

He empowers brands to communicate with their target audience through end-to-end digital marketing strategies and specializes in Growth Hacking, Inbound Marketing, Lead Generation, SEO/SEM, Content Marketing, and digital strategy.

He is now lead Organizer at WordCamp Karachi and active organizer in WordPress Meetup Karachi. He usually found coaching in different universities about WordPress, and Ecommerce

anumkamran

Topic: Panel: Choosing WordPress as a Career

Anum Kamran – Alibaba efounders fellow and a tech entrepreneur, is one of those woman entrepreneurs who undid all the negative social conditioning and kept climbing the ladder which eventually opened the door of success for her. She proved to be a woman with entrepreneurial aspirations who made herself heard.

Anum Kamran is an enthusiast entrepreneur; she has dedicated herself to empower society with the use of technology and provided the society with projects like Apex Solutions (web solution provider), World Auto Source (B2B), Buyon.pk (A fastest growing online shopping marketplace in Pakistan) and Shelance.pk (Pakistan’s First Women Only Freelancing Portal). Her volunteer work for the technological environment is worth mentioning with ventures as IEEE and WIE. This ambitious lady has been teaching as visiting faculty. While being a high achiever and maverick herself, Anum Kamran is one of those rare people who combines exceptional professionalism with warmth and humility and with that she wants other women to get motivated.

She is helping and consulting other woman entrepreneurs/startups to embrace with the possibilities of working without compromising primary responsibilities. For that she is conducting sessions about women empowerment, entrepreneurship, leadership etc.

Fahad Shakeel

Topic: Panel: Building Brands on WordPress

An IT professional with vast varieties of skills in my experience for 11years. Which includes Satellite Communication, Broadcast engineering, Network engineering, Software Development and WordPress which is my last and only love of life.
Started PressTigers (a WP Agency) in June 2015 as a founder and grown this up up-to 40 people in house. All focused on WordPress services & support.
In just 2 years, founded almost 2 dozen WP products includes 6 opensource. Significant creation was Simple Job Board which is now approaching 10,000+ active installs with 5+ rating intact. By the number of daily downloads it’s second largest WordPress job board plugin within community.

Muhammad Kashif

Topic: Panel: Choosing WordPress as a Career

Kashif is a Full Stack WordPress Developer, Trainer & Course
Creator. When he’s not writing code, he’s teaching people how to
build things with and for WordPress.

To feed his entrepreneurial spirit, he founded his company MeshPros
that provides training, Development and consulting services for small
to medium size businesses. He is a true WordPress Evangelist in
spirit and personality.

Notably, he is the face behind the amazing initiative of WordPress
Meetups Pakistan. With his commitment and the dedication of his
team WordPress Meetups Pakistan has conducted one of the biggest
Global WordPress Meetups in Lahore, which was featured in
WPTavern.

Because of his amazing initiatives and achievements he’s been
published as a success story at TechJuice, My Awesome Journey.

Abdullah Ramzan

Topic: Gutenberg & Custom Block Development

A Software Engineer, part of the PressTigers clan at Nextbridge (Pvt.) Ltd. as a WP Plugin Developer who loves to contribute to opensource projects. A regular core contributor of WordPress since the WP 4.9.3 and contributed to Gutenberg, Postman SMTP, WP Job Manager, created many open source projects in addition to reporting few bugs at facebook graph API as a bug hunter. An active part of the development team of PressTigers who crafted simple plugins like Simple Job Board, Simple Event Planner and Flexy Breadcrumb. Also, reported an issue on WordPress HackerOne profile privately but it was reported publicly.
Loves to help people on different forums especially on WordPress.org support forum and actively attending the meetings on #forum channel.

Github: https://github.com/abdullah1908
WordPress.org: https://profiles.wordpress.org/abdullahramzan/

Mobeen Abdullah

Topic:Theme development with Sage 9, DRY Templates and Laravel’s Blade Engine

Mobeen Abdullah is a Full-stack Developer who developed dozens of WP themes and plugins in organizations he worked in. He started his career as Civil Associate Engineer but left the job after 1 year and moved to UI/UX designing just because of web passion. Later he started working as a Full-stack developer in an organization i.e Fliegen IT Solutions where he got chances to work in different languages and stacks.

He is in WordPress development from last 5 years, working in different Front-end & back-end frameworks but still, he is in love with WordPress, built and building some great tools for WordPress developers.
He’s currently employed by Ciklum as a Principle Software Engineer and when not at work, he can be found at his mini office at home developing something cool in WordPress.

Muhammad Adnan

Topic: Panel: Building Brands on WordPress

Adnan is Senior Software Architect, Google Summer of Code Student + Mentor. Google Student Ambassador 2013. Innovation Hero. Check out https://wpbrigade.com/ to know more about my WordPress Development Agency & https://analytify.io/ is about my WordPress Product.

I have contributed to WordPress core, Spoke in WordCamp, Organizer of Sialkot WordPress Club, Developed some cool Plugins and Themes on wordpress.org and Thousands of custom Websites based on WordPress since 2.2 version.

My Talk on WordPress TV https://wordpress.tv/speakers/muhammad-adnan/
My Plugins https://profiles.wordpress.org/hiddenpearls#content-plugins
My Themes https://profiles.wordpress.org/hiddenpearls#content-themes

Mashhood Rastgar

Topic: Progressive Web Apps: Mobile for next billion users

Mashhood is the principal technical consultant at Recurship and a Google Developer Expert. He works with different startups in US and EU to helps them crawl through the technical maze and quickly build amazing products focused around the problems they are trying to solve. He specializes in using the latest web technologies available to execute the best possible solutions.

Shakir Ali

Topic: WordPress Security Best Practices

Shakir Ali is a Systems Engineer at 10UP and he spent the last ten years working as both a Systems Administrator and Support Engineer for various web hosting organizations. A problem solver at heart, Shakir is passionate about accepting new opportunities to expand his knowledge, implementing solutions for clients’ toughest challenges, and resolving both systems and programming related needs in WordPress. From last 2.5 years, Shakir Ali is totally involved in managed WordPress hosting at 10up.com, where he not only make sure that WordPress sites for its clients are highly secure and performing well but he also takes care of providing scalable and reliable infrastructure. 

Bilal Shahid

Topic: Pairing Messenger Marketing with WooCommerce to Increase Sales

Bilal is a full-stack developer, author, and an instructor who likes to explore new ideas. In this session, we will take a look at ways to increase sales by pairing Facebook Messenger marketing with WooCommerce. Some of the topics we will explore are – ManyChat (a tool for Messenger marketing) – Increasing Subscribers through Ads & Website Widgets – WooCommerce Product & Landing Pages – Broadcasting Messages.

Zeeshan Raza

Topic: Importance of Choosing a Niche

Zeeshan is Co-Founder of a popular WordPress agency, wooninjas.com Zeeshan also works as the Chief Community Manager in his own company and is now spearheading the entire direction of his agency towards a product company. He is also an avid traveller / Digital Nomad and is a part of many such communities around the world who work from their laptops while travelling around the world. He has also attended a few WordCamps in the US and will talk about how to leverage this amazing community for your business.

Ulrich

Topic: Managing WordPress from the command line

Ulrich is a dedicated WordPress contributor. He started the WordPress Meetup in Bern @WPBern was the lead organisers for WordCamp Bern in 2017.

He works for required, a remote WordPress agency from Switzerland & Germany, as a WordPress developer.

SaadHamid

Topic: Panel: Choosing WordPress as a Career

Saad Hamid is a technology entrepreneur and digital ecosystem builder based at the National Incubation Center Pakistan as an Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR). He is the CEO of DEMO which provides consultancy, trainings, services and research in impact-driven verticals such as innovation, entrepreneurship, skills development, technology and communications leading to the wave of the 4th industrial revolution.

Saad is also the founder of SkillsFirst which is one of fastest growing digital skills development program in Pakistan and also works as an advisor to national scale digital skill training programs such as KP Youth Employment Program in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Chief Minister’s eRozgaar program in Punjab and DigiSkills Training Program under Ministry of IT & Telecom.

Saad has previously been affiliated with Invest2Innovate which is a premier accelerator for startups and served as the Country Representative for Upwork.com. His has over 10 years of experience in digital marketing, startup consulting, innovation management, design thinking, digital strategy, brand development, community impact and training and he has had opportunity to work with TED, WEF, IDEO, UNICEF, UNDP, Upwork, World Bank, UKAid, Telenor and Mobilink on various projects and initiatives related to community building, ICTs for Development, E-solutions & Freelancing, Digital Marketing and Design Thinking. 

Saad is a Global Shaper at World Economic Forum, TED-Ed Innovator and an Acumen Fellow. He also runs the Google Developers Community in Islamabad as Pakistan’s first Google Developer Expert (GDE) and serves as as an active mentor to the startups at in the ecosystem. Saad is an alumni of Telenor Youth Forum, State International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP), Ashoka Changemakers and has long been affiliated with TED as Senior TEDx Ambassador to the region as licensee and curator of TEDxIslamabad and has also been awarded the Bill & Melinda Gates Fellowship for TEDxChange.

Saad has been recognised by the World Economic Forum as one of the Davos50 Innovators in 2018. He is an active member of the Corporate Pakistan Group (CPG) and is a member of advisory board for Sehat Kahani, Accountability Lab Pakistan and Incubation Center of University of Central Punjab.

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