Talks

CXO Roundtable, Visionary Council of IT & ITeS Enterprises (VCITE) · Twin Star Conference Hall, 150 Ft Ring Road, Rajkot

Panelist · CXOs and founders of IT and ITeS companies · Organised by Visionary Council of IT & ITeS Enterprises (VCITE)

AI is changing the economics of IT: how we price, how we deliver, how we build teams and what margins look like. A CXO roundtable for IT and ITeS business leaders in Rajkot.

Moderated by Shailesh Davara. With Hemang Kothari (Kevit.io), Bhavesh Gadhethariya (Infinity Infoway), Chirag Goswami (Cybernara).

Insight Session, Rajkot Management Association · Hotel Kings Kraft, Kalawad Road, Rajkot

Speaker · RMA members: business owners and seasoned experts, mostly from non-technical backgrounds · Organised by Rajkot Management Association (RMA)

AI is not only for the tech folks. A session for business owners and seasoned experts, mostly from non-technical backgrounds: the AI tools worth learning in 2026, what they can do beyond chat, and why a confident answer still needs checking.

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.

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 leans on, and the hundreds of hours it saves.

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.

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.

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.

Installation Ceremony 2024-25, Rotary Club of Rajkot Prime · Rajkot

Master of ceremonies (co-host with Jayson Ganatra; mentor Vishal Sarvaiya) · Organised by Rotary Club of Rajkot Prime

My first time as master of ceremonies, at one of the most important evenings of our Rotary club. I said yes before I knew how hard it would be; with Jayson Ganatra as co-host it turned out easier than I expected.

LaravelLive Surat, December 2023 chapter meetup · Wibes coworking space, Surat

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

Shared the developer 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 request, on the same stage as Taylor Otwell and his 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.

Freshbits Learning Hours #5 · Freshbits Web Solutions, 205 Time Square, Ayodhya Chowk, 150 Feet Ring Road, Rajkot

Host + speaker · Organised by Freshbits Web Solutions

A hands-on nginx session at our office, with Rajan on Git and GitHub and Dinesh on VS Code.

Freshbits workshop for IT students of Government Polytechnic, Rajkot · Government Polytechnic, Rajkot

Lead presenter (with the Freshbits team) · IT diploma students · Organised by Freshbits Web Solutions with Government Polytechnic Rajkot (IT department)

A hands-on HTML and CSS workshop for IT diploma students, run with my Freshbits team: everyone built a personal website, and the best ones won.

Career Guidance & Technical Seminar, Industrial Training Institute (ITI) Rajkot · ITI Rajkot, Bhavnagar Road, Rajkot

Speaker · ~100 trainees of the COPA, CSP and CHW trades, plus instructors · Organised by ITI Rajkot (Government of Gujarat)

A career seminar for about a hundred ITI trainees from the computer trades: what a career in programming looks like and how to get started. The institute sent a letter of appreciation afterwards.

Freshbits Learning Hours #4 (Mega event), from 16:00 · Freshbits Web Solutions, 1002 Time Square, Ayodhya Chowk, 150 Feet Ring Road, Rajkot

Host + speaker · Organised by Freshbits Web Solutions

The mega edition: four sessions in one afternoon. Mine opened it with how the web works, a LAMP setup and the building blocks of a web page.

Freshbits Learning Hours #2 · Freshbits Web Solutions, 1002 Time Square, Ayodhya Chowk, 150 Feet Ring Road, Rajkot

Host + speaker · A small room of students and beginners · Organised by Freshbits Web Solutions

An evening at our office for students and beginners: what a career in programming looks like, alongside a VS Code session by Hiren.

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 static analysis tools on a real open-source codebase, with host Bhushan Gaikwad. My earliest recorded session.

Hosted by Bhushan Gaikwad.

Laravel Live Ahmedabad online meetup (the chapter's July 2020 meetup, streamed on StreamYard) · Online

Panelist · Online (live viewers peaked around 20) · Organised by Laravel Ahmedabad Community

A lockdown panel and open Q&A for the Ahmedabad chapter, with Hiren Dave, Mitul Golakiya and Sarthak Shrivastava. I took live questions, like how to upgrade an old app without breaking its packages.

Hosted by Bhavesh Daswani.

Seminar by the Faculty of MCA, Sunshine Group of Institutions · Sunshine College computer lab, 2nd 150ft Ring Road, Kalawad Road, Rajkot

Sole speaker · MCA students (computer lab) · Organised by Faculty of MCA, Sunshine Group of Institutions

A full day with MCA students in the college computer lab: why learn programming, when a framework fits, then building a basic web app together.

Laravel Mumbai Meetup: October Chapter (LaravelLive India Mumbai) · 91springboard, Akruti Trade Centre, Andheri East, Mumbai

Guest speaker ("special guest from Laravel Rajkot Community") · Organised by Laravel Mumbai / LaravelLive India

Took the magic talk to Mumbai as a guest from the Rajkot community, at the chapter's Diwali meetup. The scheduler slide even runs a mumbai:meetup command.

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.

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 the framework that look like magic until you read them.

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

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

LaraveLive India × Rajkot Laravel Community meetup · EYUVA Internet Pvt Ltd, 404 Riverawave, Kalavad Road, Rajkot

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

Our community's first meetup, 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.