Category: Speakers

Raja Mohammed (Project Manager) is speaking at WordCamp Bengaluru 2026 on “The Structural Churn and The Walkaway”, a 15-minute lightning talk on Sunday 22 November.

Churn rarely comes from one department. Raja looks at how project, operations and product decisions open structural cracks in a business, and why fixing them and aligning goals across teams brings churn down.

Read the full announcement for the session abstract and more about Raja.

Nirbhay Singh Rao (Full Stack Developer, Elementor) is speaking at WordCamp Bengaluru 2026 on “Beyond the Boilerplate: Building High-Quality WordPress Plugins with AI”, a 30-minute talk on Sunday 22 November.

AI can write a working WordPress plugin in seconds, but working is not production-ready: it skips coding standards, sanitization and escaping. Nirbhay covers the prompting, automated WPCS checks and human review that keep AI-written PHP secure.

Read the full announcement for the session abstract and more about Nirbhay.

Joel Abreo (Senior Project Manager) is speaking at WordCamp Bengaluru 2026 on “Operationalising AI after the easy gains”, a 30-minute talk on Sunday 22 November.

Most people say AI makes them faster, yet few companies can point to better results. Joel’s case is that the bottleneck has moved from individual tasks to shared context and coordination, and he shares what happened when he tried moving AI onto it on his own team.

Read the full announcement for the session abstract and more about Joel.

Anand Upadhyay (Founder, WPVibes) is speaking at WordCamp Bengaluru 2026 on “Evolution of WordPress education: Campus Connect, Credits, and what comes next”, a 15-minute talk on Saturday 21 November.

Anand’s 2024 workshop for 400 students in Ajmer became WordPress Campus Connect, now an official Foundation program on four continents. He covers what grew around it, from Student Clubs to WordPress Credits, where the ladder still has gaps, and how AI changes what a first workshop should teach.

Read the full announcement for the session abstract and more about Anand.

Sudip Bhattacharya (Managing Director, RB Innovate & VideoSynq) is speaking at WordCamp Bengaluru 2026 on “AI Agents to Turn Your WordPress Blog into Short Videos”, a 15-minute lightning talk on Sunday 22 November.

Most WordPress blogs sit on years of posts that were read once. Sudip walks through a chain of AI agents that picks the posts worth turning into video, writes the script, generates narration and visuals, and publishes the short.

Read the full announcement for the session abstract and more about Sudip.

Ravi Chillara (Co Founder, SuperrApp) is speaking at WordCamp Bengaluru 2026 on “From Conversation to Conversion: Building Execution-First AI for B2B”, a 15-minute lightning talk on Sunday 22 November.

A B2B buyer asking about stock, volume pricing or an order wants to finish a transaction, not read a help article. Ravi makes the case for AI that executes instead of just chatting, so the conversation ends in a conversion.

Read the full announcement for the session abstract and more about Ravi.

Raghunath J (Chief Technology Officer, 4Monks Consulting LLP) is speaking at WordCamp Bengaluru 2026 on “Beyond Traditional WordPress: Building for the Modern Web in the Age of AI”, a 15-minute lightning talk on Sunday 22 November.

WordPress no longer stops at themes and plugins. Raghunath looks at it as the content platform behind APIs, headless builds and custom frontends, and at where AI fits in, from debugging code to search and content workflows.

Read the full announcement for the session abstract and more about Raghunath.

Preetika Thakur (Digital Marketing) is speaking at WordCamp Bengaluru 2026 on “From Editorial Workflow to AI Discovery: Making WordPress Content Machine-Readable and Findable”, a 15-minute lightning talk on Sunday 22 November.

Preetika covers how to structure WordPress content so machines can read its meaning and context: schema, entities, headings and internal links used with intent, and AI in the editorial process without the copy going generic.

Read the full announcement for the session abstract and more about Preetika.

Karthik Srinivasan (Designer. Carpenter. Guitarist. Motorcyclist, everything motorcycling) is speaking at WordCamp Bengaluru 2026 on “WordPress Has Entered the Chat”, a 15-minute lightning talk on Sunday 22 November.

Years of talks about what WordPress does. Karthik asks who it is: what people associate with it, how they would describe it as a person, and the odd contradictions that show up once you ask.

Read the full announcement for the session abstract and more about Karthik.

Subhasis Chatterjee (Founder and CEO, ConnectIndia) is speaking at WordCamp Bengaluru 2026 on “Regional Content Is the New Global Content”, a 15-minute lightning talk on Sunday 22 November.

Regional content isn’t a niche any more. Subhasis looks at the rise of vernacular creators in India, the pull of Tier-2 and Tier-3 audiences, and where the monetization gaps and openings are.

Read the full announcement for the session abstract and more about Subhasis.