Meet Magento India 2020 Recap & Insights

Magento is more than a company. It is a community! And, Meet Magento is the conference that offers a chance to meet the best minds and fresh ideas of the Magento world.

Meet Magento India 2020 was all about learning, making friends, and everything Magento!

Team Meetanshi attended the event as a contributing sponsor and came back with lots of actionable tips and knowledge from the speakers at the event.

We’re excited to have @MeetanshiInc as Contributing Sponsors for #MM20IN! See you in February! #adobe #magento #magento2 #ecommerce pic.twitter.com/hhHvgGHZ1j

— Wagento Creative LLC (@wagento) January 13, 2020

Organized by Wagento, the event was set ablaze with sessions from speakers like Ben Marks, VInai Kopp, Vikrant Shukla, Kali Charan Rajput, Marsha Naidoo, Miguel Balparda, Sathish Vaidyanathan, Sergii Ivashchenko, and the list is big!

Meet Magento India 2020 was held at The Leela, Mumbai on February 01, 2020.

Organized in a marvelous environment with delicious food and beverages, the conference offered a perfect opportunity for everyone to connect with the community, exchange knowledge, learn about Magento’s evolution and upcoming plans.

Meet Magento India 2020!

The event kicked off at 8:00 am with Magento peeps at the registration desk and taking selfies with the first look of #MM20IN.

With a welcome note by Vijay Golani and Brent Peterson, the conference got a boost and was followed by an insightful keynote by Sathish Vaidyanathan from PayPal. He focuses on the business outcome which matters the most, rather than technology which is only the medium, according to him!

Cheliyan Pancras from Adobe mentioned:

• Integration of Magento & Adobe
• Efficient operation of multi-source inventory
• Page builder
• An example of Forever New that benefitted from Magento 2
• Upcoming AI-powered site search by Adobe

Not forgetting to mention the yummy breakfast sponsored by Codilar 😋

Now, the audience was all set to get the secret of succeeding in E-commerce from Kali Charan Rajput from Ranosys who says:

• Have an emotional bond with site visitors
• The attitude of shopper’s first at every instance
• Creativity in product returns management

and more!

Great to have chat with energetic team of @MeetanshiInc #MM20IN https://t.co/hZhYxtYAWA

— Kali Charan Rajput (@kcrajput) February 1, 2020

Enjoyed having a conversation with him!

Simultaneously, Krish Guda explained the need for speed and to achieve it with Image CDNs. We learned about “eTailing for a Billion”! from Mr. Vedanarayanan Vedantham at Meet Magento India 2020.

The panel discussion on hosting by Miguel Balparda, Arun Bansal, Shehzad Karkhanawala, Pradip Shah was a pleasant experience!

The most amazing speaker we met, Alfreds Genkins from ScandiPWA, talking about PWA at the age of 18!

The biggest #magento #pwa store insights by Alfred’s Genkins @ScandiPWA ! 60K skus, 35 websites, 2 languages, 87 stores with real-time stock update, 15K concurrent users, 250 rps, $1B revenue. Impressive story #MM20IN pic.twitter.com/RpytpRCnUJ

— Sergii Ivashchenko💻 (@sergeivaschenko) February 1, 2020

Umair Mohammed from Wigzo, talking about the importance of data at #MM20IN:

• Data collection
• Segmentation
• Personalization

🚀🚀 Meeting #Magento friends 🚀🚀@umair_zo @DharaTweeets @Aastha_7295#MM20IN @MeetMagentoIN @TheLeelaHotels pic.twitter.com/g1UzfuPT2P

— Meetanshi 🚀 (@MeetanshiInc) February 1, 2020

The next hour saw another three simultaneous sessions by Jisse Reitsma from Yireo, Stefan Willkommer from Techdivision, and Marsha Naidoo from Magemojo which were amazing in their own ways!

Jisse Reitsma talked about PWA and Duka.

We received great tips about cross-cultural competence and how to do business with them in the most feasible way!

Marsha was amazing at #MM20IN. She talked everything about the Magento community and how can we be helpful and contribute. And not only during the session, she even interacted with us after the session with so much interest!

Inspiring and guiding our way through #Magento community 😊🚀
Thank you @MarshaMarshaMa_ @DharaTweeets @Aastha_7295 #MM20IN @MeetMagentoIN @TheLeelaHotels pic.twitter.com/L5RULQXpzp

— Meetanshi 🚀 (@MeetanshiInc) February 1, 2020

By now everyone in our team was thinking about the dessert served after the lunch by Netsmartz because we got a sweet tooth!

After the delightful lunch, Sergii Ivashchenko, Vikrant Shukla – the supermageman, and Ravi Trivedi from PushEngage took to stage to talk about Adobe Stock Integration, the art of requirement gathering, and best practices of web push notifications.

Vikrant Shukla has shared his presentation here.

Informative session at #MM20IN by @trivediravi

🌐 Web push notifications are real time and hence higher open rates

🚀 Ideal web push is contextual, personalized, important & urgent

😎 Reach is 5x higher using push notifications

📢 Gather subscription on your HTTPS subdomain pic.twitter.com/RGeZ5CiaE9

— Meetanshi 🚀 (@MeetanshiInc) February 1, 2020

The conference was moving ahead with talks by Sailatha Karthikeyan, Christopher Daniel, and Sahil Chug.

#Magento store security precautions by @sahil_chugh_ at #MM20IN

* Backups
* Run Scans
* Remove unknown javascripts
* Diff GIT files with server files
* Remove unknown users like admin users, FTP or SSH users
* Block sensitive URLs
* Harden PHP + web servers

— Meetanshi 🚀 (@MeetanshiInc) February 1, 2020

And meeting Sahil with his Magehost team personally was fab!

How can we forget Vinai Kopp! He talked all about Testing Framework.

@MeetanshiInc Congratulations for winning a @mage2tv license! pic.twitter.com/ju2y0go3Sw

— Vinai (@VinaiKopp) February 1, 2020

Can you believe this! He took a selfie with one of our Mits at #MM20IN 🚀

Such an honor!

Mage2tv sponsored its subscription which was won by one from our Mit crew! And the crew was overwhelmed at this moment:

You can see the happiness on our face!

Another highlight of the event was Saurabh Rajpal from Google, talking about AMP for Emails in eCommerce.

Listening to @imsaurabhrajpal on AMP for Email in #Ecommerce #MM20IN @MeetMagentoIN pic.twitter.com/WK3VgSpmp4

— Meetanshi 🚀 (@MeetanshiInc) February 1, 2020

And now was the time for the showstopper of #MM20IN! The one and only Ben Marks.

To quote him from the conference, “India is a heart of Magento”

Such an aww moment for us. 😌

Not stopping to this, we were amazed when our team had a chat with him and selfie too!

Selfie with the one & only @BenMarks and @vikrantshukla at #MM20IN 🚀@MeetMagentoIN @magento #supermageman #MagentoMan
It was honor meeting you guys 😊 pic.twitter.com/CY1ZsIjkUa

— Meetanshi 🚀 (@MeetanshiInc) February 3, 2020

The conference was rocking till its end. The attendees were enjoying the drinks by shogun where our team met friends from around the globe. Have a glimpse at the pictures:

Saying that the day was fun-filled would be an understatement! For those who weren’t able to attend the event, #MM20IN is the best place to check out the highlights.

The team Meetanshi is proud to be part of such a buzzing community. We hope to see you all at Meet Magento India 2021 at Ahmedabad.