{"id":2961,"date":"2026-10-09T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T03:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bengaluru.wordcamp.org\/2026\/?p=2961"},"modified":"2026-10-07T09:55:52","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T04:25:52","slug":"speaker-anurag-bhandari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bengaluru.wordcamp.org\/2026\/speaker-anurag-bhandari\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing our speaker: Anurag Bhandari"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Anurag Bhandari<\/strong> (Chief Technologist, antelligent) is speaking at WordCamp Bengaluru 2026 on \u201cHow an AI agent works in WordPress\u201d<\/strong>, a 30-minute talk on Sunday 22 November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read the full announcement for the session abstract and more about Anurag.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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On stage \u00b7 <\/span>Day 2<\/strong> \u00b7 <\/span>22 Nov<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Speaker announcement \u00b7 <\/span>05<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meet your speaker<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anurag Bhandari<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Chief Technologist<\/strong> \u00b7 <\/span>antelligent<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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When<\/span> Sunday 22 November, the main day<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Where<\/span> St. Joseph’s Boys’ High School<\/a> on Museum Road<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Time<\/span> goes up with the schedule<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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How an AI agent works in WordPress<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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An AI agent is three things: a goal, a set of tools, and a loop. This talk takes one apart on stage and shows that most of what is inside is code you have already written.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two thirds of the time is the concepts, in plain terms. The model in the middle never does anything itself. It picks a function and fills in its arguments, and your code does the actual work. In WordPress that means your tools are the REST routes and action hooks you wrote years ago, and the model is a component you can swap out later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From Anurag’s session abstract \u00b7 <\/span>read the rest<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Your ticket to it<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Format<\/span> Talk<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Length<\/span> 30 minutes<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Day<\/span> Sun 22 Nov<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Room<\/span> with the schedule<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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About Anurag<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Anurag leads engineering at antelligent, where he works on small AI models that run cheaply and privately. Earlier he built high-volume systems at Automattic (WooCommerce) and at Deel. He maintains Hoobert, a free WordPress plugin, and writes at anurock.dev. Based in Gurgaon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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