Talks

Rajkot.Tech AI Meetup · Rajkot

Speaker · Organised by Rajkot.tech

A long session on how the Artisans team codes with AI: plan the work, verify everything, and stop treating the model as a coding tool.

Build With Antigravity, GDG Rajkot · Atmiya University, Kalavad Road, Rajkot

Speaker · ~90-110, mostly students · Organised by Google Developer Groups Rajkot; venue partner Atmiya University

How we use AI agents to ship production software: better prompts, making the AI check its own work, and a small library of repeatable commands.

Also on the line-up: Khush Vachhani (iDestiny Technology Lab, The Anatomy of an AI Application), Harsh Manvar (Podstack.io, Deployment from Antigravity to Google Cloud).

Artisans Learning Session (team talk, open to 5 external participants) · Artisans Cloud, 1108-9 The Spire 2, nr. Sheetal Park BRTS, Rajkot

Speaker + host · ~25-30 (team and guests) · Organised by Artisans Cloud

Built from my own session history, 185 sessions in six weeks: Claude Code as a general-purpose worker across production software, websites, media, automation, infra and review.

GUJCOST-sponsored State Level three-day workshop, Dept. of Electronics & Communication, V.V.P. Engineering College · V.V.P. Engineering College, Kalavad Road, Rajkot

Workshop speaker / lead trainer · ~25 E.C. students · Organised by Dept. of Electronics & Communication, V.V.P. Engineering College (GUJCOST / DST, Govt. of Gujarat grant), with Artisans Commerce Cloud

A hands-on three-day workshop. Every student shipped two live projects, from a campus lost-and-found portal to an inventory and billing app.

With Rajan Parmar (Artisans Commerce Cloud), Prakash Mansuriya (Artisans Commerce Cloud), Sanjay Sagathiya (Artisans Commerce Cloud).

Student session at Marwadi University (Rotaract / Rotary Club of Rajkot Prime) · Marwadi University auditorium, Rajkot

Speaker · Several hundred students (~350-500) · Organised by Marwadi University with the Rotaract Club

Why practising leadership and networking through Rotaract before your first job pays off, for a full auditorium of students.

Laravel Rajkot Meetup June 2025 · RK University City Campus, 2nd Ring Road, Mota Mava, Rajkot

Speaker + organiser · ~55-65 · Organised by Rajkot.tech / Laravel Rajkot

The tooling and automation my team uses in Laravel projects, and the hundreds of hours it saves.

Also on the line-up: Shreya Doshi (Marwadi University, Building AI Agents in Laravel).

In-house learning session at Improwised Technologies · Improwised Technologies office, Rajkot

Guest speaker · ~25-30 developers · Organised by Improwised Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

How I use AI coding tools day to day, and the habits that make them pay off, for the Improwised team.

Also on the line-up: Rakshit Menpara (how the AI tools work and how best to use them), Jayson Ganatra (a tool he vibe-coded for his business).

Rajkot Toastmasters Club event (Toastmasters International, Division J, District 98) · indoor hall, Rajkot

Speaker · ~45-60 · Organised by Rajkot Toastmasters Club

An impromptu talk on a topic handed to me on the spot, Toastmasters style.

Also on the line-up: Dr. Brillian S. K. (main session), Jay and Shivani Shukla.

SaaSBoomi Socials: Rajkot Edition · rooftop event space, Rajkot

Invited speaker · ~40 SaaS founders and tech professionals · Organised by SaaSBoomi (hosts Sradha Suresh, Gaurav Nagani, Aniruddh Nagodra, Neha Arya)

A short invited talk on Rajkot's industrial landscape and why it is a good place to build a tech business.

GDG Rajkot DevFest 2024 (DevFest'24 Rajkot) · Darshan University, Rajkot-Morbi Highway, Rajkot

Speaker · ~150-180 in the hall; 253 registered · Organised by Google Developer Groups Rajkot with the Dept. of CSE, Darshan University

A talk with a live demo: a Next.js site deployed to GitHub Pages through a workflow file, written on stage.

Also on the line-up: Parth Jansari (Impulsiveweb), Ashutosh Bhakare (Unnati Development and Training Centre), Paresh Mayani (SolGuruz), Pratik Butani (7Span).

LaravelLive Surat, December 2023 chapter meetup (#laravelsurat) · Wibes coworking space, Surat

Guest speaker ("special speaker from Rajkot") · ~45-50 · Organised by InfyOm Technologies / Mitul Golakiya

Shared the Laravel tooling we lean on, as a guest at the Surat chapter during a weekend trip with friends.

Laracon India 2023 (first edition), 25-26 Feb 2023 · Club O7 - The Capitol, Ahmedabad

Speaker (also volunteered) · Conference hall, several hundred · Organised by Laracon India (Vishal Rajpurohit, ViitorCloud)

Thirty minutes on the lifecycle of a Laravel request, on the same stage as Taylor Otwell and the Laravel core team at the first Laracon India.

Also on the line-up: Taylor Otwell, Freek Van der Herten, Jess Archer, Marcel Pociot, Nuno Maduro, James Brooks and 8 more.

Livestream on Bhushan Gaikwad's YouTube channel · Online

Guest presenter · Online (356 views as of Sep 2026) · Organised by Bhushan Gaikwad (Treblle)

A live demo of PHPStan and Larastan on the laravel.io codebase with host Bhushan Gaikwad. My earliest recorded session.

Hosted by Bhushan Gaikwad.

LaravelLive India Ahmedabad, June 2019 meetup · ViitorCloud Technologies, Ahmedabad

Speaker · ~30-35 developers · Organised by LaravelLive India / Laravel Live Ahmedabad

The Rajkot talk from a week earlier, repeated for the Ahmedabad chapter. Came home with a memento and a medal.

Also on the line-up: Siddharth Ghedia (Artixun Softwares, Scaling Laravel Projects), Povilas Korop (QuickAdminPanel, Laravel PHPUnit testing tutorial).

Rajkot Laravel Meetup June 2019 (LaravelLive India Rajkot chapter) · Improwised Technologies, 322 Landmark, Astron Chowk, Sardarnagar, Rajkot

Speaker + organiser · Organised by Rajkot Laravel Community / LaravelLive India

Route model binding, macros, higher-order messages, the service container, facades and service providers: the parts of Laravel that look like magic until you read them.

Also on the line-up: Chirag Lathiya (Introduction to GraphQL).

LaravelLive India Ahmedabad, November 2018 meetup (the chapter's first) · ViitorCloud Technologies, Avadhesh House, Bodakdev, Ahmedabad

Speaker · ~40-75 developers · Organised by LaravelLive India / Laravel Live Ahmedabad, hosted by ViitorCloud

Laravel Telescope had just shipped, so I walked the Ahmedabad chapter through it live on a real app.

Also on the line-up: Ruchit Patel (ViitorCloud), Sarthak Shrivastava (Bitfumes), Viral Solani (Cygnet Infotech).

LaraveLive India × Rajkot Laravel Community meetup (the first Laravel meetup in Rajkot) · EYUVA Internet Pvt Ltd, 404 Riverawave, Kalavad Road, Rajkot

Speaker + organiser · ~30 developers (sold out) · Organised by me with LaravelLive India

The first Laravel meetup in Rajkot, which I organised and spoke at. Three talks that morning: design patterns, API development and package development. Thirty of us in a small office room, sold out.

Also on the line-up: Siddharth Ghedia (Design patterns in Laravel), Vishal Sancheti (Laravel package development).