{"id":927,"date":"2016-10-25T15:41:25","date_gmt":"2016-10-25T09:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2016.kathmandu.wordcamp.org\/?p=927"},"modified":"2016-10-25T15:41:25","modified_gmt":"2016-10-25T09:56:25","slug":"introducing-first-round-of-speakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kathmandu.wordcamp.org\/2016\/introducing-first-round-of-speakers\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing our first round of speakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WordCamp Kathmandu, Nepal 2016 is really excited to introduce our first round of speakers!<\/p>\n<div class=\"sitem-wrap\">\n<div class=\"sitem-image\"><img alt='' src='https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/eccb37e8c2f714e73a950ebb1cde120e40a25f547aaa574ef286fd0ba0fb8606?s=96&#038;d=mm&#038;r=g' srcset='https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/eccb37e8c2f714e73a950ebb1cde120e40a25f547aaa574ef286fd0ba0fb8606?s=192&#038;d=mm&#038;r=g 2x' class='avatar avatar-96 photo' height='96' width='96' \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"sitem-content\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/2016.kathmandu.wordcamp.org\/speaker\/mahangu-weerasinghe\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mahangu Weerasinghe<\/a><\/strong> hails from Colombo, Sri Lanka. He first found WordPress when he stumbled upon 0.70 in the dark recesses of #wordpress on Freenode.<br \/>\nTopic: Support First: Standing Behind Your WordPress Products<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"sitem-wrap\">\n<div class=\"sitem-image\"><img alt='' src='https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/70db125f4b32ffd54b8e01689ac572dd6dea5db55f7b09c8b8bf6624cee5ad37?s=96&#038;d=mm&#038;r=g' srcset='https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/70db125f4b32ffd54b8e01689ac572dd6dea5db55f7b09c8b8bf6624cee5ad37?s=192&#038;d=mm&#038;r=g 2x' class='avatar avatar-96 photo' height='96' width='96' \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"sitem-content\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/2016.kathmandu.wordcamp.org\/speaker\/amit-singh\/\" target=\"_blank\">Amit Singh<\/a><\/strong> is a founder and CEO of WPoets Technology. He been working with WordPress since 2007, and contributed his first WordPress plugin to WordPress.org repository in 2008.<br \/>\nTopic:\u00a0Stop coding, start assembling your websites<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"sitem-wrap\">\n<div class=\"sitem-image\"><img alt='' src='https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/0f8c1c3369ebcbdd28dcb931170beabc44d9699d5509edcf487b655f28ea61cd?s=96&#038;d=mm&#038;r=g' srcset='https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/0f8c1c3369ebcbdd28dcb931170beabc44d9699d5509edcf487b655f28ea61cd?s=192&#038;d=mm&#038;r=g 2x' class='avatar avatar-96 photo' height='96' width='96' \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"sitem-content\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/2016.kathmandu.wordcamp.org\/speaker\/digamber-pradhan\/\" target=\"_blank\">Digamber Pradhan<\/a><\/strong> is WordPress Developer and Team Lead at Web Experts Nepal. He feels he has grown both as a developer and a person in his journey and would like to share his journey and give back to the community.<br \/>\nTopic:\u00a0WordPress: Speed &amp; Security<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"sitem-wrap\">\n<div class=\"sitem-image\"><img alt='' src='https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/8e5362b2f7bb7406ee4273f001ef3cbd93273e4f6e68405ca7e1a1aef86c1247?s=96&#038;d=mm&#038;r=g' srcset='https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/8e5362b2f7bb7406ee4273f001ef3cbd93273e4f6e68405ca7e1a1aef86c1247?s=192&#038;d=mm&#038;r=g 2x' class='avatar avatar-96 photo' height='96' width='96' \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"sitem-content\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/2016.kathmandu.wordcamp.org\/speaker\/sunita-rai\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sunita Rai<\/a><\/strong> is a WordPress lover, digital marketing, SEO and blogging enthusiast. She has contributed to ThemeGrill, WPAll, AccessPress Themes, and multiple websites as a freelancer.<br \/>\nTopic: SEO Copywriting for WordPress<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"sitem-wrap\">\n<div class=\"sitem-image\"><img alt='' src='https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/676fc2b16a130c3bb35b74ac9011a6c244ddb1b5efd9799f482f7a91a1df9bb1?s=96&#038;d=mm&#038;r=g' srcset='https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/676fc2b16a130c3bb35b74ac9011a6c244ddb1b5efd9799f482f7a91a1df9bb1?s=192&#038;d=mm&#038;r=g 2x' class='avatar avatar-96 photo' height='96' width='96' \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"sitem-content\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/2016.kathmandu.wordcamp.org\/speaker\/umesh-chaudhary\/\" target=\"_blank\">Umesh Chaudhary<\/a><\/strong> is a Senior WordPress Developer and Team Lead at Rigorous Web Services. He has constantly been working with clients ranging from smaller projects to multinational larger projects WorldWide.<br \/>\nTopic:\u00a0Multisite, Core Concepts<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/2016.kathmandu.wordcamp.org\/speakers\/\" target=\"_blank\">Speakers page<\/a> to learn more about each of them. If you haven\u2019t bought your tickets, you can get it from <a href=\"https:\/\/2016.kathmandu.wordcamp.org\/early-bird-tickets-available\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. You can <a href=\"https:\/\/2016.kathmandu.wordcamp.org\/contact\/\" target=\"_blank\">contact us<\/a> if you have any queries, feedback or suggestions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WordCamp Kathmandu, Nepal 2016 is really excited to introduce our first round of speakers! Mahangu Weerasinghe hails from Colombo, Sri Lanka. He first found WordPress when he stumbled upon 0.70 in the dark recesses of #wordpress on Freenode. Topic: Support First: Standing Behind Your WordPress Products Amit Singh is a founder and CEO of WPoets &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kathmandu.wordcamp.org\/2016\/introducing-first-round-of-speakers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Introducing our first round of speakers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11536545,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7DSlL-eX","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kathmandu.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kathmandu.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kathmandu.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kathmandu.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11536545"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kathmandu.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=927"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kathmandu.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":934,"href":"https:\/\/kathmandu.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927\/revisions\/934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kathmandu.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kathmandu.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kathmandu.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}