Call For Speakers

We would like to invite speakers for WordCamp Mumbai 2018.

Come share your experiences during the 5th anniversary of the community meeting dedicated to WordPress in Mumbai.

What we want for WordCamp Mumbai 2018?

Like every year WordCamp Mumbai 2018 is always a single track event, BUT this time thing are going to be different. We are planning to organise a multi-track event. So be creative when submitting your speaker application.

WordCamp is a conference about WordPress, talks need to be about WordPress or related to WordPress in someway, but some generic content which would interest a WordPress User is also considered.

WordCamps are volunteer driven events and speaking is also consider a way of volunteering at the event, hence it isn’t a paid gig or linked with sponsorship in any way. In fact, speakers are expected to pay for their own travel and accommodation.

If you have read so far, you may be considering applying to speak here are some tips:

  • The passion of WordPress.
  • Your desire to give back to the community.
  • Share your expertise live, with a warm and enthusiastic audience.
  • Being a professional speaker is NOT required. HOWEVER you must know what you are talking about.
  • In your speaker submission, let us know how your talk can relate to WordPress audience.
  • Your command over the subject matter is more important than your ability to present or your experience speaking at events.
  • We always on the lookout for new speakers of ALL ages and backgrounds.
  • You have to know how to spell WordPress and Respect the WordPress logo/trademarks.
  • Single speaker sessions aren’t the only thing we are looking for. Feel free to be creative and apply ideas for group discussions, QnAs, Demos, Workshops and anything that you could manage in an Auditorium / Classes environment.
  • Speaker sessions need not be in English alone. We would love to host sessions in Hindi and Marathi as well.
  • Adding your story to your talk rather than just giving out instructions will make your session more interesting and even more likely to be picked if others apply for the same topic. For e.g. instead of applying with a topic like “Developing a WordPress Plugin” you could do “Developing my first WordPress Plugin” or “What I learnt while publishing over 25 plugins on WordPress.org”
  • Confront your points of view and bring visibility to your use of WordPress.

Some Rules:

  • Speakers are vetted by volunteers, they may not be able to reply to everyone or accommodate everyone, so be thoughtful and nice :).
  • No one is a celebrity at WordCamp Mumbai.
  • Speakers when they apply should co-operate with the speaker review team to work on the content of their topics. Just like you, they too have full-time jobs / career and are volunteering their time to WordCamp Mumbai.
  • If you are distributing any WordPress derivatives which include WordPress Plugins and Themes, they need to be 100% GPL like the core WordPress Software.
  • Please be prepared to submit speaker slides OR review your presentation with the WCMumbai speaker team PRIOR to the event.
  • If your are not using slides for your presentation, at least an outline OR points you will be covering needs to submitted.
  • As mentioned above these are not paid gigs. Speakers are not paid to speak at WordCamps OR paid by Organisers to travel. They have to either fund themselves OR ask their company to do so.

We have closed – Call for Speakers….Thanks all for the support.