Category: Speakers

Souptik Datta (Product Engineer, TeamUpdraft) is speaking at WordCamp Bengaluru 2026 on “Our secret sauce for keeping 24/7 AI agents affordable”, a 15-minute lightning talk on Sunday 22 November.

Souptik’s team moved much of its development to cloud AI agents that run around the clock. He shows that workflow, then the in-house system that sends each request to the right model instead of the most expensive one, with the usage data behind it.

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

Rishit Gupta (Software Engineer II, rtCamp) is speaking at WordCamp Bengaluru 2026 on “Making AI Reliable for Editorial Workflows”, a 15-minute lightning talk on Sunday 22 November.

AI doesn’t follow the same pattern every time, which is a problem when a brand guide expects it to. Rishit shows how to build guardrails so AI-powered editorial tools in WordPress stay on brand.

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

Dr Rahul D Arora (Consultant, Palliative Medicine, Ramaiah Memorial Hospital) is speaking at WordCamp Bengaluru 2026 on “AI as a Contributor: Et tu, Brute?”, a 15-minute lightning talk on Sunday 22 November.

Rahul runs Pall MED Prep, a WordPress blog working through hard clinical questions in palliative medicine. Following one post from draft to final, he shows AI as a partner that tests his reasoning rather than a tool that writes the content.

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

Makarand G. Mane (Founder and Designated Partner, WPGenius Solutions LLP) is speaking at WordCamp Bengaluru 2026 on “Beyond Code: 10 Ways Anyone Can Contribute to WordPress”, a 15-minute talk on Saturday 21 November.

Contributing to WordPress doesn’t have to mean writing PHP. Makarand covers ten ways in, among them Polyglots, Photos, Support Forums and WordPress TV, with examples from his own contributions.

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

Kakshak Kalaria (Director of Engineering, Concatstring) is speaking at WordCamp Bengaluru 2026 on “From Code to Boardroom: The Real Business Impact of AI in WordPress Teams”, a 15-minute lightning talk on Sunday 22 November.

Most AI-in-WordPress talks stop at code completion. Kakshak looks at what actually changed for a WordPress engineering team at three levels, coding, QA and leadership, and what that means for how you staff one.

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

Gulshan Iyer (Founder and CEO, Arbhu Enterprises) is speaking at WordCamp Bengaluru 2026 on “Tokens to Dollars: Building Tools that AutoSell”, a 30-minute talk on Sunday 22 November.

Most small-business sites stay open all night while the business behind them doesn’t. Gulshan shows how WordPress, AI and automation can capture an enquiry, qualify it, follow up and update the CRM, and bring the owner in only when a decision is needed.

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

Anurag Bhandari (Chief Technologist, antelligent) is speaking at WordCamp Bengaluru 2026 on “How an AI agent works in WordPress”, a 30-minute talk on Sunday 22 November.

An AI agent is a goal, a set of tools and a loop, and most of it is code you have already written. Anurag takes one apart on stage, then replaces a six-screen WooCommerce refund with one typed sentence, live.

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

Anindo Neel Dutta (Member of GTM Staff, Trelium) is speaking at WordCamp Bengaluru 2026 on “I Gave AI My WordPress”, a 30-minute talk on Sunday 22 November.

What happens when you give an AI agent access to a real WordPress site? Anindo covers what agents can do, where it gets weird, and how to build workflows that are useful without handing the AI the keys to everything.

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

Amit Singh (Managing Partner, WPoets) is speaking at WordCamp Bengaluru 2026 on “Building the Plane While Flying It: a zero downtime Webflow to WordPress migration”, a 30-minute talk on Sunday 22 November.

A client outgrew Webflow while publishing 120 to 140 posts a month, and freezing content was not an option. Amit walks through the reverse proxy setup that ran Webflow and WordPress side by side on one domain until the cutover.

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

Ajay M Aravind (Founder and CEO, Midnay) is speaking at WordCamp Bengaluru 2026 on “Same Work, Same Quality, Different Response”, a 30-minute talk on Sunday 22 November.

Two clients got the same work to the same standard. One renewed, one didn’t. Ajay explains the five buckets client work falls into, and why sorting them at intake beats finding out at renewal.

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