M Asif Rahman’s talk is titled “Making Millions in WordPress Plugin Business But Not Being Evil”. This talk is a must-attend for all rising WordPress developers and agencies who are keen to combine their passion with business acumen, without compromising on ethics.

Asif has been a long time WordPress enthusiast, serial entrepreneur and technology evangelist. He is the CEO of a prominent WordPress product company called weDevs, in Dhaka, Bangladesh. A veteran of WordCamps, Asif has appeared in more than 40 WordCamps around the world.

Since weDevs was founded in 2013, Asif’s company has launched dozens of plugins, with both free and premium add-ons/versions. These plugins have clocked over 500,000 downloads, and fetched more than $1 million in sales.

Asif will share his experience on how his organization was able to bootstrap their business with plugins, and finally build a team of around 35 people working from a swanky office today.

The points that Asif will cover include:

1. A brief discussion on do’s and don’ts.
2. The moral background for business decisions.
3. Choosing a pricing model: Add-ons, Pro versions or SaaS.
4. Satisfying your free users.
5. Making the most from the ecosystem around WordPress.

SECURITY! That word brings to mind frightening stories of SQL injection, data loss, web page defacements and other breaches.

Here’s announcing Chathu Vishwajith, who will guide us on this subject with real world examples, through a talk titled “Hardening WordPress is an art”!

For every WordPress plugin, theme or client project you accomplish, it is important to have in place the best security measures to defend your work from being ruined by the bad guys. Chathu’s talk is sure to help you upgrade your website’s security.

The speaker Chathu is an Auth0 Ambassador, Co-Organizer of Colombo JS Meetup and Organizer of Sri Lanka Unity Developers User Group. He is also the co-founder of a software development startup. He brings with him the experience of hardening security for over 20 WordPress websites. He has successfully handled massive DDOS attacks as well.

Here’s announcing Samantha Pathirathna, our next speaker on the subject of “WordPress for Sustainable Development”!

Samantha is an award winning entrepreneur, and began his WordPress journey as the Chairman and Managing Director of ECO TREATS TOURISM (PVT) LTD.

After having donned multiple hats as researcher, consultant, trainer and scholar, Samantha is convinced that WordPress can be leveraged to play a major role in achieving sustainable development goals. To learn more about sustainable development goals, do check out the United Nations page on the subject.

The subject of protecting our planet’s natural resources is more important today than ever before. Don’t miss Samantha’s talk that will throw light on WordPress’ promise to make a difference in this arena, and be prepared with your questions!