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Charting your own course: launching visionary products without buy-in
This will be an interactive conversation between Ivana Ciric (Director of Product @ Thoughtworks), Jose Platero (Air Canada), and attendees.
In organizations where innovative ideas often face skepticism or outright resistance, how do you turn your vision into reality against the odds? We'll delve into the challenges and strategies of launching products that may not initially have the full support of stakeholders. We share our journey creating 'Trojan Horse' products at Air Canada to achieve innovation across company silos and reporting lines. Through real-world examples and practical insights, learn how to sell the problem, strategically assemble a lean team, and…
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Drinking Our Own Champagne: Managing Your Career with Product Management Principles
As a Product person, our North Star is to foster outcomes for our users, and how we work as product managers are designed to do exactly that. This philosophy guides our every action, shaping strategies that propel products to success. Yet, how often do we turn these proven methodologies inward, applying them to the very architects of these products - ourselves? In this presentation, I will take you through every step of managing your career like managing a product - going through product discovery, strategy, roadmapping and more. We’ll apply techniques we’ve learned from product management to optimize networking strategy,…
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Building Products that Customers Love
This is a presentation by Sanchi Gupta - Senior Product Manager at Atlassian. She has a vast experience of 10 years in Product Management building 0-1 & 1-n products for B2B and B2C customers.
It's not just about features anymore. Building products that customers truly love requires diving deeper, understanding their emotional triggers and creating experiences that resonate on a personal level.
Join me as I share my global journey - from the bustling streets of the Middle East to the diverse landscape of India (with its 500 million unique users!). I'll unveil the triumphs, the stumbles, and the game-changing…
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Unveiling the Abyss: Exploring a Product Manager's Deepest Fears
“What is your deepest fear?” - Coach Carter (greatest movie of all time)
Whether you are an aspiring Product Manager or a seasoned Product Professional, we are often hyper-focused on our success metrics, deliverables, stakeholders, proudest product launches, etc. Meanwhile, the realm of uncertainties, failures, and fears of product management often remains unspoken despite the fact that they subconsciously play an integral part within our decision-making processes.
Picture this: You are on the cusp of launching a new product, your team has poured countless hours into its development, and expectations are soaring. But as the launch date looms closer, doubt…
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Level Up Your Product: Secrets in Gamification from the Game PMs
Engagement & Retention are at the heart of the gaming industry. Two Game Product Managers from EA will talk about how gamification techniques as they apply broadly to product management.
We'll talk about KPI selection and optimization for products that are designed to bring joy and be engaged with frequently. We'll talk about the challenges of churn and the interesting data across a multi-year ecosystem that is turning into a total sports platform.
Techniques from games bring together the best in customer advocacy, user centric design, analytical rigor and global ethical considerations across the world.
Let's talk about how gamification…
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Data-Driven Product Leadership: Crafting a Partnership between Product and Data Science
Unveiling a unique approach and intricate dance between Product Managers and Data Scientists as they partner to discover opportunities, quantify success, and analyze results. Showcasing a collaborative model between roles that can evolve your product management practices to the next level.
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Navigating the Leap: From Associate/Jr PM to Senior/Principal PM
Hosted by Carrie Chatelain (Coconut, Article) and Filip Machat (Microsoft, Amazon).
Ideal for newcomers and those in the initial stages of their product management careers, our session is designed to provide you with essential insights and practical skills to fast-track your career progression. We'll concentrate on offering practical tips and actionable examples, delving into the distinct expectations between junior and senior level product managers. Through our presentation, we aim to highlight the critical skills you need to develop to successfully navigate the leap from junior to senior roles.39 votes -
Nurturing, or Killing, Your Next Concept: 0-to-1 Product Validation
Description:
"0-to-1 Product Validation" equips you with a clear framework to evaluate your product ideas, blending insights from product management and entrepreneurship. Learn to validate concepts, conduct meaningful customer research, and decide whether to nurture or kill your next project.Target Audience:
Ideal for Product Managers and emerging intrapreneurs/entrepreneurs keen on mastering early-stage product development.Learning Outcomes:
- Acquire a proven framework for assessing product viability, crafted through experience in both corporate and startup environments.
- Make better-informed decisions on which ideas to pursue or abandon.
- Gain techniques for effective customer engagement and feedback.Presentation Host:
Amer Abu-Khajil has…22 votes -
The Data Product Management Craft
Dive with me through prioritizing the customer needs in the technical world.
In this session, Luis will go through some foundational knowledge to dive into product management in a data world.
With real-world examples, we will answer questions like:How do data teams drive innovation?
What metrics should a PM for APIs or data transformation be looking at?
Do I need to have a programming background to transition into Data PM? (Hint: I don't have one).
In the world of LLMs, what's the role of a data PM?
Meet and connect with me
Luis Espinal's experience includes different verticals that…
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Navigating the Path from Customer Service to Product Management: A Personal Journey
In this session we’ll explore the journey of a professional who transitioned from a Customer Service Advisor role to a QA Analyst role, and finally to a Product Manager role. This session will delve into the challenges, learning experiences, and pivotal moments that shaped this career trajectory. Attendees will gain insights into how customer service skills can lay a foundation for quality assurance and product management roles, and how to leverage experiences in each position to climb the career ladder.
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How to encourage innovation through your people
It's widely known that innovation is key to building a sustainable competitive advantage for any business. In our current increasingly competitive business environment, it's even more crucial to find that edge for our organizations to thrive. For those of us leading teams in knowledge based industries, maximizing the potential of our people is key to encouraging the innovation critical to unlocking that edge.
So what practices need to be in place in our organizations to maximize the potential of our people for innovation?
This presentation will walk us through the evidence-based elements, practices, and models to make sense of the…
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Products for Change: how to use a digital product as a driver of organizational change
Driving effective change within a company requires the creation of various corresponding elements like a sense of urgency, a guiding coalition, etc., and particularly also a strong vision to direct the change effort.
Imagine how you as a product manager — whose cross-functional position is fundamental to effective change — are made responsible for setting this vision.
Or better yet, imagine that not only are you set the vision, you are also asked to create and manage a product that drives the desired organizational change forward, because when progress is easily made tangible, it acts as an effective object of…
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Job search strategies. Get your offer faster. 2024 edition
The 2024 job market is super tough, and it seems like nothing is working anymore. Or is it?
The presentation focuses on the key elements that will help you get an offer faster in 2024. Step by step, we’ll walk together through the job search funnel, highlighting ways to:
- Become more visible to recruiters and receive more interview invites.
- Gain a greater sense of control over the hiring process, avoiding the situation of endlessly and powerlessly waiting for a job update.
- Build a sustainable job search process that will help you navigate the ups and downs.
At the end of…
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Build with AI and Data Partners
In my early days as a Product Manager, PMs main build partners were primarily developers. Over time, this group has expanded to include roles like data scientists, data engineers, product analysts, ML engineers, knowledge engineers, and conversational designers, among others.
In this presentation, I'll provide an overview of different types of AI products a mental model for partnering with these diverse roles throughout the product lifecycle. We'll cover various AI products, including:
- Predictive ML products (e.g., applicant evaluation, targeting)
- ML Platforms: which provide infrastructure for hosting and operationalizing hundreds of ML models
- Generative AI products (e.g., content summarization)
- Semantic Search
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Extended Reality (XR) - Hype vs Reality
We’ve been hearing for 10-15 years that extended reality or spatial computing is the next big computing platform. Why is now different?
While it’s early days for XR in enterprise, we believe it’s worth exploring.Spatial Research + Design will share their perspectives and insights on XR and the Metaverse.
15 votes -
Unleash Your Product's Inner Salesperson: 3 Keys to Product-Led Growth
In today's competitive market, product managers need to find innovative ways to drive user acquisition and retention. Enter product-led growth, where your product becomes the ultimate salesperson. This talk dives deep into three key strategies:
Problem-Solution Hero: Craft a compelling narrative that showcases how your product solves your target audience's pain points.
Frictionless Onboarding: Design an intuitive and engaging user experience that seamlessly converts users into advocates.
Built-in Advocacy: Empower your product to act as a silent salesperson, leveraging features like freemium models and social proof to drive organic growth.
Learn how to unlock the power of your product and…
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Why PMs Fail at Shipping Impactful LLM Products
I first started building with LLMs with GPT-2 for millions of jobseekers at Indeed. Now, I'm shipping GPT-4 (and more) products for millions of creators at vidIQ.
With 4 years of LLM experience in B2C and about a dozen LLM product launches under my belt, I will share my biggest regrets that I hope other PMs can avoid. Where possible, I'll pull out AB test results. I also hope to make this interactive so we can all learn from one another!
Here are my biggest regrets that I will go into more detail about:
- Why Legal will block you, and…
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Adapt or Die: Supercharge Your Career in a Post-ZIRP World
Adapt or Die: Supercharge Your Career in a Post-ZIRP World
The last 24 months have seen a seismic shift in the PM profession. We have watched the end of cheap cash, shrinking product orgs, folks we respect questioning the function's utility (à la Airbnb), threats of obsolescence from new tech, and an over-supply of credentialed candidates at all levels.
Whether you are leveling up in a large org, guiding a startup through a storm, building businesses as a consultant, or hunting for your next role, this session can help you:
- Understand what has changed (and what hasn't)
- Avoid 4 strategic…
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Text Analytics for Product Management: the State of the Art
Companies have access to large volumes of user-generated text. It is a mostly unrealized corporate asset. Advances in AI over the past few years can leverage text to make an ~immediate~ impact on the bottom line. Text is now a first-class citizen in the product development life cycle!
If you care about any of these:
• What can you do with text? Why would you even care?
• What is the state of the art? Performance? Accuracy? Usefulness? Players?
• Can user-generated text be used to build a better product? (Yes.) How?
• Business case? Scenarios? Use cases? Danger zones?…
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How to Use AI-Powered CRM as a Product Manager
"How to Use AI-Powered CRM as a Product Manager" refers to the process of utilizing AI-enhanced Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software to manage and optimize product-related tasks and responsibilities. As a Product Manager, you would leverage AI capabilities within the CRM system to gather insights, analyze data, personalize interactions, streamline workflows, and make informed decisions regarding product development, marketing strategies, customer engagement, and sales efforts. This approach allows for more efficient and effective product management by leveraging advanced technology to better understand and meet customer needs while driving business growth.
9 votes