{"id":2885,"date":"2018-11-26T14:03:05","date_gmt":"2018-11-26T08:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2018.ahmedabad.wordcamp.org\/?p=2885"},"modified":"2018-11-29T13:04:53","modified_gmt":"2018-11-29T07:34:53","slug":"panel-discussion-wordpress-k3g-kabhi-khushi-kabhi-gham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ahmedabad.wordcamp.org\/2018\/panel-discussion-wordpress-k3g-kabhi-khushi-kabhi-gham\/","title":{"rendered":"Panel Discussion &#8211; WordPress K3G (Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2883\" src=\"https:\/\/2018.ahmedabad.wordcamp.org\/files\/2018\/11\/panalist_banner_detailpage.jpg\" alt=\"panalist\" width=\"741\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ahmedabad.wordcamp.org\/2018\/files\/2018\/11\/panalist_banner_detailpage.jpg 741w, https:\/\/ahmedabad.wordcamp.org\/2018\/files\/2018\/11\/panalist_banner_detailpage-400x198.jpg 400w, https:\/\/ahmedabad.wordcamp.org\/2018\/files\/2018\/11\/panalist_banner_detailpage-600x297.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ahmedabad.wordcamp.org\/2018\/files\/2018\/11\/panalist_banner_detailpage-500x248.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yes! We all are aware of the fact that Change is the only constant. Our panelists who are the WordPress magnets will share their thoughts on the Topic \u201c<strong>Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gam<\/strong>\u201d in WordPress economy.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Vatsal Shah<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Vatsal believes in transformation and enlightenment of organization and individuals. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pragmaticconsultancy.in\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Pragmatic Consultancy<\/a> was founded in the year 2008 by Vatsal. He deals in areas like Leadership Development, Strategy Planning, Business Processes Re-engineering, Brand Communication, Sales Channel Development, and People Management. He has transformed various IT, E-Commerce, Chemical, Retail, Service sector organizations in his performing career of 14 years.<\/p>\n<p>He has influenced more than 54 organizations in India, China, UK, Africa, and the USA, mentored 127 CXOs, and trained more than 5700 people. He was also awarded for Excellence in Business Transformation award in 2016. He was also invited as a speaker by WordCamp, Meet Magento, GTU, ETail India, AMA, GLS University.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2. Nirav Mehta<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mehtanirav.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nirav<\/a> is entrepreneur geek and storyteller who still loves to code. Nirav has built a rather eventful track record over the last 20 years. He launched India\u2019s first electronic magazine, a thriving web agency that went down in 2009, made a heroic return and recovery, then a string of successful product businesses in parallel. He&#8217;s a published author of three books and speaks at various tech and business events.<\/p>\n<p>He will help with your queries in WordPress, WooCommerce; starting up, running or scaling a tech business, he&#8217;s your goto guy!<\/p>\n<p><strong>3. Ronik Patel<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ronik is the web developer, entrepreneur, and WordPress expert behind <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jdsofttech.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">JD Softtech<\/a>, a white label web agency that operates two offices \u2013 one in Boston, Massachusetts and one in Ahmedabad, Gujarat.<\/p>\n<p>Ronik\u2019s portfolio includes custom WordPress plugins, bespoke Woocommerce e-commerce implementations, and one-of-a-kind cloud-based web applications for businesses. Ronik and his team have solved business challenges for clients in the hospitality industry, the education sector, retail, and even created innovative, scalable accounting SAAS software for convenience stores.<\/p>\n<p><strong>4. Sujay Pawar<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sujay is a dropout, marketer, die-hard entrepreneur and co-founder of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brainstormforce.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brainstorm Force<\/a>. His WordPress plugins and themes collectively power more than 2 million WordPress websites. Astra theme and CartFlows are his most recent products.<\/p>\n<p><strong>5. M Asif Rahman<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>M Asif Rahman is a long time WordPress Enthusiast, Serial Entrepreneur, and Tech Evangelist. Since 2004, he has been contributing towards the community and working closely with WordPress. Asif is the Founder of <a href=\"https:\/\/arcom.com.bd\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ARCom<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/analytify.io\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Analytify<\/a>, Alo Ventures, <a href=\"https:\/\/wpdeveloper.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">WPDeveloper<\/a> and involved with many other organizations. He was also the CEO of weDevs, a large WordPress based company. Besides that, Asif loves to invest and help startups. He is proudly involved with Trance App, Leanplum, Geeky Social, and several other companies from their early stage. He is also one of the early (Pre-IPO) investor of Facebook. And most importantly, he is a blessed Dad of two super cute little princesses, and husband of a lovely wife. Though Asif mostly lives in Orlando, Florida, but he\u2019s originally from Bangladesh.<\/p>\n<p> Asif has proudly appeared in nearly 100 WordCamps all around the world and delivered speeches in over 20 WordCamps. Interestingly, M Asif Rahman has retired this year by the age of 34 by announcing his retirement via a 10,000-word semi-autobiography in HeroPress, which you could read here \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/heropress.com\/essays\/retiring-young-bangladesh-thanks-wordpress\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/heropress.com\/essays\/retiring-young-bangladesh-thanks-wordpress\/<\/a> Asif is very excited to attend and speak at WordCamp Ahmedabad, he finds Ahmedabad has everything to be a tech hu<\/p>\n<p><strong>6. Jaymin Bhuptani<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jaymin is the CEO of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ensightglobal.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ENSIGHT Business Solutions<\/a>, the parent entity of solution-centric ventures &#8211; WebbyMonks, EmailMonks, Octos &amp; InboxArmy. With a team of over 500 passionate Developers &amp; Marketers, Ensight group serves more than 6000 customers across 52 countries worldwide &#8211; from Disney, Amazon, National Geographic, Shoppers Stop, Cambridge, DHL, to name a few.<\/p>\n<p>Jaymin is super passionate about scaling up the business, creating opportunities &amp; enriching lives. He is a strong believer in the essence of \u2018Focused-approach\u2019, and ENSIGHT is built on this philosophy where \u2018We do what we are BEST at, and do not hesitate to say NO to everything else\u2019. An avid traveler, a father of two &amp; a constant learner about business &amp; technology.<\/p>\n<p><strong>7. Anil Gupta<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Anil is passionate &amp; compassionate, thinker &amp; tinkerer, connoisseur &amp; frugal. He is the Technopreneur with more than 10 years of experience coding, thinking and leading the business with mind and people with heart. With a degree in computer science, he always has the vision to build a business that takes care of customers as well as employee and community thus he started Multidots in 2009 and since then as a CEO &amp; Co-Founder of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.multidots.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Multidots<\/a> &#8211; he and his team is on this mission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes! We all are aware of the fact that Change is the only constant. 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