Speakers

Roshaan Saeed

Founder Stippple

She is Imaginative UX Designer, Creative Director and Manager. Working from 6 years and have been a part of various campaigns in which she had been working as a Product Designer. She used to define user experience and customer experience for products, user task flows, and UI specifications. Communicate scenarios, end-to-end experiences. Moreover, she run her own startup which is basically empowering the Women Freelance Designers of Pakistan

Zohair Yousafi

Business Operations & Customer Success Professional

I have 17+ years of professional experience where I’ve worked for and with Fortune 500 companies such as American Express, Philip Morris International, and Samsung. I spent ~5 years managing the contact center operations for a workforce of 200+ people when I was at Ovex Technologies. Then, for 3+ years, I managed the operations of two different software houses in Lahore that specialized in IT-led recruitment services and non-invasive biometric solutions respectively. After that, I was part of the launch team that brought Uber to Lahore and I spearheaded the launch of Uber in Karachi. Now, I’m working for Automattic where we work incredibly hard to make WordPress.com the preferred-managed WordPress hosting solution on the web.

Saad Hamid

CEO, DEMO. Top rated WordPress Freelancer

Over 13+ years of experience in WordPress development, deployment, management and services and top-rated freelancer on Upwork. Saad Hamid is a technology entrepreneur. He runs DEMO which provides consultancy, trainings, services and research in impact-driven verticals such as innovation, entrepreneurship, skills development, technology communications and digital.

Saad is also the founder of SkillsFirst, which is one of fastest growing digital skills development program in Pakistan, and also works as an advisor to national scale digital skill training programs such as KP Youth Employment Program in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Chief Minister's eRozgaar program in Punjab and DigiSkills Training Program under Ministry of IT & Telecom.

Saad is a Global Shaper at World Economic Forum, TED-Ed Innovator, Acumen Fellow, Pakistan’s first Google Developer Expert (GDE) and curator for TEDxIslamabad. Saad has also been recognized by the World Economic Forum as one of the Davos50 Innovators in 2018.

Muhamad Yousaf Saeed

Founder of Internet Business Trainings (IBT)

He is a Serial Entrepreneur, a Passionate Certified Digital Marketer, and Business Strategy Consultant. He is one of the first Pakistani Flippa Super Seller. He uses WordPress to build websites and sold it. He uses WordPress to Build and Grow his Clients Businesses along with his own Businesses.

Neils Lange

Happiness Engineer @ Automattic

Niels works as Happiness Engineer for Automattic where he provides support for WordPress.com customers. Outside work he organises WordCamps and WordPress Meetups both in Europe and Asia.

After his study in computer science in Germany, he moved to the Netherlands, where he worked for several companies as a web developer and a business analyst. Since mid-2014 he’s been travelling through South-East Asia where he fights bugs between palm trees and rice fields.

Haroon Q. Raja

Founder & Chief Happiness Officer @ Happy Cloud

A technology solutions architect with nearly two decades of industry experience spanning development, content strategy, SEO, information security, marketing, project management, system administration, technology infrastructure deployment & optimization, communication & workflow optimization, technical training and beyond. Currently in the process of building a premium fully managed WordPress cloud hosting platform by the name of Happy Cloud

Abdullah Ramzan

WP Plugin Developer @”PressTigers

A Software Engineer, part of the PressTigers clan at Nextbridge (Pvt.) Ltd. as a WP Plugin Developer who loves to contribute to opensource projects. A regular core contributor of WordPress since the WP 4.9.3 and contributed to Gutenberg, Postman SMTP, WP Job Manager, created many open source projects in addition to reporting few bugs at Facebook Graph API as a bug hunter. An active part of the development team of PressTigers who crafted simple plugins like Simple Job Board, Simple Event Planner and Flexy Breadcrumb

Salma Noreen

Trainer & Freelancer

Salma is working as a freelance WordPress web developer since 2010.

In 2011, she discovered freelancing platforms and immediately got carried away with the idea. And, now she is top individual freelancing profile from Pakistan on freelancer. com

She always wanted to spread the knowledge that she has and for that matter, she has have been trying to make efforts from the very beginning. But her big moment came in 2017 when she joined eRozgaar as a non tech trainer. Through their platform, she has trained students in Rawalpindi and Attock about Freelancing & WordPress and Alhamdulillah because of her talented students, she was awarded ‘Best nontech Trainer’ award in early 2018.

Muhammad Adnan

CTO at WPBrigade

I’m a Senior Software Architect, Google Summer of Code Student + Mentor. Google code-in Mentor, Google Student Ambassador 2013. Innovation Hero. Check out https://wpbrigade.com/ to know more about my WordPress Development Agency & https://analytify.io/ is about my WordPress Product.

I have contributed to phpMyAdmin, WordPress core, Spoke in WordCamps, Organizer of Sialkot WordPress Club, Developed some cool Plugins and Themes on wordpress.org and Thousands of custom Websites based on WordPress since 2.2 version.

Daniyal Ahmed

CEO & Co-Founder at Photon Technologies

My name is Daniyal Ahmed, I am C.E.O & Co-Founder at Photon Technologies – I am a full-stack web developer with a love for entrepreneurship and building web apps on WordPress. I am working as WordPress developer from last 7 years. I am the author of various WordPress plugins that are freely available at WordPress.org, I am also Translation Contributor to WordPress.

In the daytime, I usually visit WordPress support forum and try to resolve different issues. Spends my most of the time contributing to open source; building new and exciting things with WordPress.

Zeeshan Raza

Co-founder & Community Manager at Wooninjas

Zeeshan is Co-Founder of a popular WordPress agency, wooninjas.com. Zeeshan also works as the Chief Community Manager in his own company and is now spear heading the entire direction of his agency towards a product company. He is also an avid traveler / Digital Nomad and is a part of many such communities around the world who work from their laptops while traveling around the world. He has also attended a few WordCamps in the US and will talk about how to leverage this amazing community.

Asim Bawany

Partner, Business Development and Growth

As a kid, I have always been drawn to computers and I wanted to be a “computer engineer”. Life had other plans though, and I graduated as a Business graduate from Textile Institute of Pakistan. But I had already discovered WordPress before I graduated with my Bachelors and it sucked me into this digital world. I started out building really basic websites for affiliate marketing but it didn’t really work out for me. However, in the process I had come to learn WordPress in and out and I realized I enjoyed building websites much more than marketing them and I was done with affiliate marketing. I already had a small team of 2 by then so we started building websites for others. This was in 2012. Fast forward 6 years, we now use WordPress not just for websites but as an application framework to build reliable solutions for businesses and we use WooCommerce to enable these businesses to sell online.

Hassan Raza

Co-Founder at rfstud.io , Growth Hacker/UX Designer

Hassan has completed 300+ Web Projects to date mostly using WordPress and he specializes in UX/CX with expertise in Growth Hacking, Data driven Checkout Optimizations and WooCommerce Performance Optimizations.

Ihtisham Zahoor

Web Developer @ Centangle

WordPresser, born introspective, WC speaker / organizer, aspiring writer, an enthusiast of JS / FOSS

Fahad Murtaza

Software Engineer

With a career spanning over more than a decade, Fahad has built software using multiple technologies and led multiple teams. He works for a US-based luxury real estate company where he uses WordPress,  among other technologies every day to solve problems for his teammates and customers.  He is passionate about sharing his WordPress knowledge among the community and excited to learn from others.

Shakir Ali

Systems Engineer @ 10UP

Shakir Ali is a Systems Engineer at 10UP and he is having more than ten years of experience working in different web hosting organizations as a Systems and Technical Support Engineer. A problem solver at heart, Shakir is passionate about learning new technologies and from last three years he is totally involved in managed WordPress hosting at 10up.com, where he not only make sure that WordPress sites for its clients are highly secure and performing well but he also takes care of providing scalable and reliable infrastructure.

You can find him on LinkedIn | Facebook

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