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Scaling Product Teams in the Age of AI
Join our panel moderated by Alexandre Ackermans, VP of Product at Maximizer where product leaders will discuss various ways to boost the output of product teams using AI.
As we see rapid adoption of AI across teams and organizations, understanding and using AI platforms like Open AI Chat GPT/Sora, Microsoft Co-Pilot, Google Gemini is essential for increasing velocity and remaining relevant in a world where the pace of change is accelerating.
We will cover topics like:
1.Automating Routine Tasks: AI streamlines mundane tasks like bug tracking and code reviews, freeing up time for more strategic work.
2.Enhancing Decision Making: AI-driven…
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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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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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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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Compensation - How to earn your value (2nd Edition)
"How to earn your value", initially presented at ProductCamp 2023 to over 60 people has been updated! The format will be a Compensation Overview presentation (1/3 of the session) followed by small breakout group activities (2/3).
The breakout groups will discuss the best ways to research Product Compensation, Salary Transparency in your company, How to discuss compensation during the Interview process and How to talk to your leader about Compensation. Each Breakout group will be provided with an Icebreaker & Tips sheet to accelerate the conversation.
Ryan is a Product Leader with experience teaching product management to both aspiring and…
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Creating Compelling Narratives in the Product World: A Storytelling Lab
A big part of our work as product people is communicating with a wide range of stakeholders to drive action and manage expectations. This often means sitting through painful meetings with outcomes that miss the mark.
Do you struggle to:
- Gain ready buy-in?
- Collaborate cohesively?
- Create a shared sense of empathy?
Storytelling engages emotions, distills complexity, and creates a memorable connection between the audience and the message, enhancing understanding, persuasion, and recall.
Bring your communication pain point and together, we'll apply a simple change story framework so that you walk away with not just a new perspective but a concrete…
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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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Help, is my career a hyper-fixation? (Neurodivergent in Product)
Quote: “How often do you have trouble wrapping up the final details of a project, once the challenging parts have been done?”
Does reading the first question of the ADHD self assessment make you laugh?
You might be in the right place.Your colourful co-hosts are quirky for a reason; we’re neurospicy!
We’re creating space for a gathering (not for boardgames this time though).We will;
1. Highlight as a crowd some common challenges for the neurodivergent peeps
2. Break-out into groups to discuss techniques and tips for overcoming these challenges
3. Regroup with the room to share insightsWe…
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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 -
Product Therapy: Peer Support for Product Professionals
“Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
The courage to change the things I can,
And the wisdom to know the difference.”Working in Product Management has gotten toxic! Psychological safety has been thrown to the wind. Layoffs are happening everywhere. Brian Chesky (Airbnb) is threatening our communal craft.
We are all in need of some communal Product Therapy!
Our product leadership support group has been self-organizing through a WhatsApp group and bi-weekly online meetings to talk through our product and career frustrations with safety and vulnerability to get to the core of what keeps us…
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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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How to build climate-positive products
A practical, tactical exploration of emerging theory and frameworks for building climate-positive products.
A brief exploration of why product teams have immense leverage in reversing climate change: every job is now a climate job; every company is a software company. And what that leverage looks like:
- the rock solid business case for climate-positive products
- carbon-efficiency 101
- networking costs
- planned obsolescence
- demand shifting / shaping
- design principlesThe majority of the session will be geared towards practical exploration of case studies from across discovery, implementation and GTM. We'll focus on a few core examples. However,…
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Mastering the Art of Pricing with Bayesian Inference
This will be an interactive session with Andreas Munk (Founder & CEO of Evara AI) and Paul Save (Founder, Cascadia Data Science Institute | xMicrosoft)
How Important is determining your profit maximizing price point? Have you had challenges pricing with incomplete or imperfect data due to time constraints and wished there was a better method? How many times have you wished there was a better way to update your model with actual prices customers would pay to predict the best price for your product?
In this interactive session, we'll demonstrate the remarkable potential of Bayesian inference for pricing in a…
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Individual Journeys in AI
We have assembled a fantastic group of panelists who will share how they have learned about AI, hoping to inspire others to dive deeper into this fast-evolving technology. The format will be the following:
Panelists share their individual journeys in AI, including the following:
1) How they got started
a) Challenges they faced along the way and how they overcame them
b) Tips for others to start
2) Open Q&A for the remainder of the sessionThe target audience is anyone and everyone who is interested in learning more about AI no matter what level your knowledge is currently at.
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Learn About Pairwise Comparison For All Your Prioritization Needs
Sometimes it isn't obvious what the highest priority feature is. Sometimes, you have a long list of feature ideas and enhancement requests to get done - but wherever you start, someone somewhere is going to challenge your prioritization decision.
Let pairwise comparison analysis help. Whether deployed as a simple survey or used in a deeper analytical format, pairwise comparison provides a simple tool that allows your stakeholders to quickly identify what they care about the most.
Join us - bring your list of features if you have one - and learn how to use pairwise comparison analysis to bring clarity…
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It's 2024! What the heck is product management anyway?
It's 2024, and product managers are facing an existential threat.
In a sea of titles like Product Owner, Product Manager, Product Marketing Manager, Product Operations Manager, we’re also faced with “non-product” people who are seemingly doing what we thought we were responsible for. Our roles are morphing, shifting, and increasingly, being questioned.
We live in a world where "product" seems to have more definitions and interpretations than Taylor Swift has fans.
Join us for a lively armchair chat with three seasoned experts as we navigate through the ever-evolving landscape of product management. We will aim to get to the bottom…
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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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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