Sandeep Kelvadi is the founder of Thrivemattic, an AI-native marketing agency helping higher education institutions and B2B companies rethink how their audiences search, discover, and decide. He has built AI-powered tools for SEO analysis, competitor intelligence, and content optimization, and used AI to conduct a marketing research study across 194 private universities in India to assess their digital readiness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Previously, Sandeep co-founded Pixelmattic, a WordPress agency where he led marketing, growing the brand through content strategy, long-form guides, and SEO-driven lead generation. He writes about AI’s impact on search behavior and marketing systems. He also maintains the Marketing Skills Directory, a curated collection of 200+ skills, MCPs, and AI-powered tools for marketers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Outside of work, Sandeep is a photography enthusiast documenting street scenes and landscapes during his travels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He is based in Bengaluru, India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Thrivemattic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23210566,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_wcpt_user_name":"sandeepkelvadi","footnotes":""},"speaker_group":[139],"class_list":["post-12206","wcb_speaker","type-wcb_speaker","status-publish","hentry","wcb_speaker_group-panel-2-marketing-and-ai"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgnY82-3aS","avatar_urls":{"24":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/495322ae170c0457f3a0bd2d79509a51a9921b175a94b3e768b1c66c77b012ad?s=24&d=mm&r=g","48":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/495322ae170c0457f3a0bd2d79509a51a9921b175a94b3e768b1c66c77b012ad?s=48&d=mm&r=g","96":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/495322ae170c0457f3a0bd2d79509a51a9921b175a94b3e768b1c66c77b012ad?s=96&d=mm&r=g","128":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/495322ae170c0457f3a0bd2d79509a51a9921b175a94b3e768b1c66c77b012ad?s=128&d=mm&r=g","256":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/495322ae170c0457f3a0bd2d79509a51a9921b175a94b3e768b1c66c77b012ad?s=256&d=mm&r=g","512":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/495322ae170c0457f3a0bd2d79509a51a9921b175a94b3e768b1c66c77b012ad?s=512&d=mm&r=g"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asia.wordcamp.org\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/12206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asia.wordcamp.org\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asia.wordcamp.org\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/wcb_speaker"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asia.wordcamp.org\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23210566"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asia.wordcamp.org\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/asia.wordcamp.org\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/12206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12207,"href":"https:\/\/asia.wordcamp.org\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/12206\/revisions\/12207"}],"sessions":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asia.wordcamp.org\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/12257?_embed=1&context=view"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asia.wordcamp.org\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"wcb_speaker_group","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asia.wordcamp.org\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker_group?post=12206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}