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Conference Day \u00b7 Sunday, 25 October \u00b7 AIOU, Islamabad<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meet the speakers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

17 practitioners from Pakistan’s WordPress community, sharing what they have learned building products, running agencies, testing plugins, and working with AI in real projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Talks and workshop<\/a>Building with AI panel<\/a>Next-Gen Agency panel<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Mian Shahzad Raza<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

WordPress Developer and Educator<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hands-on workshop<\/strong>AI-Powered WordPress Development: MCP, Agents & Modern Developer Workflows<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mian Shahzad Raza is a WordPress developer from Lahore who builds custom themes, plugins, e-commerce stores, and membership platforms. He teaches a YouTube community of 130K+ subscribers, with a focus on maintainable code and practical business results.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/article>\n\n\n\n

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Fahad Murtaza<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Founder, iSuperCoder<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Long talk<\/strong>Shipping Client WordPress Sites with AI Agents: The Workflow, the Guardrails, and the Mistakes<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fahad is a software engineer at a US law firm and a WordPress product builder. He runs iSuperCoder, a WordPress and WooCommerce studio with 700+ projects delivered worldwide, and builds products including TableCrafter, WPMCP Pro, which lets AI edit WordPress with automatic rollback, and Dukandar, an AI shopping assistant for WordPress and Shopify.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/article>\n\n\n\n

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Haroon Q. Raja<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Technology Solutions Architect<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lightning talk<\/strong>Fundamentals of Cybersecurity in the AI Age<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Haroon is a technology solutions architect with 25 years of industry experience across development, content strategy, SEO, information security, marketing, project management, system administration, infrastructure, and technical training.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/article>\n\n\n\n

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Maryam Sultana<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

QA Engineer and WordPress Contributor<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lightning talk<\/strong>Let AI Test Your WordPress Site<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Maryam is a QA Engineer specializing in WordPress plugins and a contributor to WordPress, WordPress Playground, and beta testing. She enjoys making testing simpler and more approachable, and has spoken on practical WordPress testing at meetups and WordCamps.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/article>\n\n\n\n

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Muhammad Afzal<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

IoT and Web Developer, Author<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Talk<\/strong>AI-Ready WordPress: Preparing Websites & WooCommerce Stores for the Agentic Web<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Muhammad has 13+ years of experience in web, IoT, and network application development using PHP, WordPress, ASP.NET, C++, Node.js, and Arduino. He is the author of a book on Arduino IoT Cloud published by Packt, and an official EC-Council trainer for IoT courses.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/article>\n\n\n\n

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Nouman Yaqoob<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Content Operations Specialist, Awesome Motive<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lightning talk<\/strong>Talk to Your Website: AI for People Who Don\u2019t Code<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nouman has written about WordPress for 14 years, almost all of it at WPBeginner. At Awesome Motive he builds AI automations, plugin and theme labs, and runs data and SEO experiments. He writes about AI, the open web, and WordPress at noumanlabs.com.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/article>\n\n\n\n

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Mudassar Saeed<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Full Stack PHP Developer<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lightning talk<\/strong>Stop Guessing: 5 Steps to Debug Any WordPress Problem<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mudassar is a full stack PHP developer with 15+ years in web development, specializing in WordPress, Laravel, WooCommerce, LMS platforms, performance optimization, and site migrations. He enjoys solving real-world WordPress problems and sharing what he learns.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/article>\n\n\n\n

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Imran Nadir<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Founder, Marketist<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lightning talk<\/strong>Your WordPress Site Isn\u2019t a Landing Page: Fixing Sites That Bleed Ad Spend<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Imran is the founder of Marketist, a digital marketing agency focused on the construction industry. With an MBA and 10+ years in sales, marketing, and paid search, he has delivered 1,000+ projects, most of them on WordPress. He hosts a podcast with agency founders and speaks regularly at WordPress and marketing meetups in Islamabad.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/article>\n\n\n\n

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Sajjad Hussain<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Co-Founder, Rext AI<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Long talk<\/strong>Beyond the Prompt: The Human Work Behind Trustworthy AI Content in WordPress<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sajjad is a software engineer, WordPress developer and product builder, and the Co-Founder of Rext AI, an AI-powered content product for research, creation, quality checks and WordPress publishing. He has contributed plugins, themes and translations to WordPress, spoken at meetups in Abbottabad and Faisalabad, volunteered at WordCamp Islamabad and contributed at WordCamp Lahore.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/article>\n\n\n\n

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Muhammad Murad Khan<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Assistant Professor, GCU Faisalabad<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Long talk<\/strong>WordPress Security Hardening Using Claude Code<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dr. Muhammad Murad Khan is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Government College University Faisalabad and the founder of Wowbly Technologies, a PSEB-registered software house that builds WordPress and WooCommerce solutions, with stores running for clients in Estonia, Germany and Australia.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Panel<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Building with AI: From Prompts to Production<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Hosted by Muhammad Kashif<\/strong>, Lead Organiser<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Muhammad Shoaib<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

WordPress and Shopify Developer<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Muhammad Shoaib is a WordPress and Shopify developer with 14+ years of experience and 200+ projects across development, performance, SEO, integrations, and custom plugins for clients and agencies worldwide. He is currently exploring modern WordPress development and AI-powered tools.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/article>\n\n\n\n

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Muhammad Farooq Abdullah<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Founder, LDninjas and CodeSparky<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Farooq is the founder of LDninjas and CodeSparky, two WordPress businesses serving clients worldwide. For 15 years he has built and led WordPress teams delivering LMS platforms, custom plugins, and scalable web solutions. His current interest is how AI and automation are changing what agencies deliver.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/article>\n\n\n\n

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Nadia Kalsoom<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

IT Manager, Developer, and Trainer<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nadia is an IT manager, developer, trainer, and entrepreneur with 9+ years in technology, spanning WordPress, PHP, Linux, hosting, AI, prompt engineering, and workflow automation. She is a cPanel Certified Partner and n8n-certified professional, and regularly shares her work through talks, workshops, and community events.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/article>\n\n\n\n

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Zohair Yousafi<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Onboarding Team, Automattic<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Zohair brings 23 years in business operations and customer success, with companies including American Express, Philip Morris International, Samsung, and Uber. He has been at Automattic for nearly a decade, starting as a Happiness Engineer, then spending three years on the AI squad, and now helping customers get started on the onboarding team.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Panel<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Next-Gen Agency: Clients, Systems, AI & Sustainable Growth<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Hosted by Tahir Shahzad<\/strong>, Co-Lead<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Raheel Afzal<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Co-Founder and Country Lead, Allshore Talent<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Raheel is a technology entrepreneur with more than two decades in IT, software services, and web hosting. At Allshore Talent he helps international clients build and manage software and IT operations. His current work explores AI-assisted development, workflow automation, and new service models.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/article>\n\n\n\n

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Aiman Tahir Shah<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Agency Partner Program Lead, Cloudways by DigitalOcean<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aiman leads the Agency Partner Program at Cloudways by DigitalOcean, working with digital agencies worldwide to scale their hosting infrastructure, adopt new technologies including AI, and build sustainable growth. Aiman brings practical insight from managing hundreds of agency partnerships.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/article>\n\n\n\n

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Muhammad Waheed<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Chief Commercial Officer, Aridian Technologies LLC<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Muhammad Waheed brings over seven years of experience across engineering, sales, and business development. His journey from technical roles to commercial leadership gives him a unique perspective on enterprise clients, strategic partnerships, and scaling technology businesses.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/article>\n\n\n\n

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Muhammad Athar<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

CTO, SMCSE<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Athar is the CTO of SMCSE, where he has also served as IT Manager for over a decade. A computer scientist from Information Technology University with a Master’s in Digital Transformation from Asia Pacific University, he has completed more than 3,000 projects worldwide since 2015, with a focus on IT management, eCommerce, and digital marketing.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/article>\n\n\n\n

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Muhammad Fayyaz<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Founder, TechUp Solutions<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Muhammad Fayyaz is a WordPress professional, SEO strategist, and founder of TechUp Solutions. Over 10+ years he has grown from independent freelancer to leading a multidisciplinary digital team, and he cares about practical WordPress education, sustainable freelancing, and turning technical skills into long-term careers.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Plan your day<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

See when and where each session happens, then get your ticket.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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View the schedule<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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