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Siddharth Ashok

Speaker announcement: Siddharth Ashok on “How to be a better designer (Specially as a developer)”

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Siddharth Ashok will be speaking on the topic How to be a better designer (Specially as a developer). This session will be held on the weekend of 13th and 14th February 2021. The schedule will soon be announced – keep following this space!

Bio of Siddharth Ashok

Siddharth Ashok is the co-founder of GrandWorks, a multidisciplinary digital agency, where he helps businesses around the world with outcome-focused design and development. He works as a Front-end developer and thrives in the grey area between design and development. He is passionate about CSS, web performance, clean code, and designing functional UI/UX. He also enjoys building communities and organizing events. The lead organizer for WordPress Goa and Goa Web Folks meetup group, he loves to contribute to the community, by sharing knowledge at events on topics related to Front-End and WordPress.

About the session

Siddharth will speak on the topic How to be a better designer (Specially as a developer). In the session, he will cover;

  • The need to be better at design as a developer, its importance, and how it helps us.
  • Steps and exercises to become a better designer
  • How to take a design language and extend into an aesthetic UI
  • Best tools to use
  • Understanding the use of color, fonts, and general best-practices to make a clean UI
  • Understanding UX

Speaker Announcement: Daisy Olsen and Niharika Sanadhya on “From Design to Page – Using the WordPress block editor to implement a landing page design”

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Daisy Olsen

Daisy Olsen and Niharika Sanadhya will be jointly delivering a session on the topic From Design to Page – Using the WordPress block editor to implement a landing page design. This session will be held on the weekend of 13th and 14th February 2021. The schedule will soon be announced – keep following this space!

About Daisy

Daisy has worked in and around the WordPress community since 2007. She has spoken at WordCamps in New York City, Boston, and Chicago. She also helped to organize the first WordCamp Boston in 2010. Currently, she works for Automattic as a Developer Relations contributor on the WordPress open source project. In her spare time, you’ll often find her listening to audio books while knitting. She loves to take road trips with her family and will often spend many weeks throughout the year visiting different places.

Daisy’s Twitter handle is: @DaisyOlsen

About Niharika

Niharika started her career as a Graphic Designer with a leading Digital Marketing agency in India. She has worked with clients from varied niches for their social media graphics, and website design needs. Currently, she is working in the graphic design niche as a freelancer, while establishing her brand – POPxDESI.com, which is an online store for imitation jewellery and home decor.

Niharika’s Twitter handle is: @nikohlife

About the session

The WordPress block editor brings a powerful page building experience to your content creation process. Learn how blocks can be used to create complex design as Daisy and Niharika work together to tap into the power of the block editor to create a landing page in WordPress based on a landing page design concept.

Speaker Announcement: Imran Sayed on “Block-Based Themes – The Future Of Full Site Editing In WordPress”

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Sudar Muthu

Pronouns: He/him

Sudar Muthu is a WordPress plugin developer from Chennai, India who works as Lead Web Engineer at 10up.


Sudar is involved with the WordPress community for more than a decade and has contributed back to the community by speaking at various WordPress events, helping to organize WordPress related community events like WordCamps, Meetups, Do Action etc and by contributing to WordPress core.

Speaker Announcement: Adrian Tobey on “Launch your WordPress project in 90 days or less! How to overcome the never ending development cycle.”

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Adrian Tobey

Adrian Tobey will be speaking on the topic Launch your WordPress project in 90 days or less! How to overcome the never ending development cycle. This session will be held on the weekend of 13th and 14th February 2021. The schedule will soon be announced – keep following this space!

Bio of Adrian Tobey

Adrian Tobey, at the age of 23, has built a thriving business on a mission to help small businesses launch their funnels, grow their lists, and scale their businesses! His award-winning software companies (Groundhogg, MailHawk, WP Simple Chat, & FormLift) are used by thousands of businesses around the world and enable entrepreneurs, educators, creators and more to create high converting customer experiences and communicate with their audience through email and SMS.

About the session

Are you an agency that has a client who’s WordPress project is just never done? Are you an entrepreneur who hasn’t launch yet because the site just isn’t ready yet?

You’re not alone! Adrian has seen businesses struggle with launching every single day – in communities, clients, and basically everywhere..

After working with thousands of businesses over the last 6 years, and growing my own list of successful WordPress projects, he has uncovered consistent patterns and roadblocks both practical and psychological that prevent small businesses from launching on time and seeing positive results.

In this session Adrian will share with you the top 3 reasons why projects fail to launch and how to overcome them so you can get your next WordPress project launched in 90 days or less, guaranteed.

Adrian’s Twitter handle is @adriantobey