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1. 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 complexity behind innovation, and the practical ways we can bridge theory to reality.

   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… more

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2. 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 change that people across traditional functions can relate to, hence allows them to visibly see the small wins to build momentum.

   In this presentation, I’ll share my approach with you, which I first started experimenting with in 2016, and I'll share some examples."

   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… more

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3. 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 up at night or how to move forward in our careers. This format applies adult learning principles - discussion/participation based, relevant/impactful topics, self-directed, reflects experience, and problem-centred.

   We unpack challenges that we cannot address in a work environment (no mentorship, too small, too political, etc.) and where we need to get direct advice in other ways (courses, coaching/consulting, mentorship, etc).

   In this workshop & audience invited round table, we’ll:

   Workshop Presentation (first half)
   - Present an overview of how we formed and with a few Product Leadership Group stories shared from our group
   - We’ll share a framework for how we organize and run our meetings so you can build your peer groups

   For the second half, we’ll run a live roundtable session:

   • run a sticky session gathering problems from members of the audience that they’d like to talk on
   • Vote collectively on 3 big problems to discuss
   • Invite those who wrote the top 3 problems to the front to join us for a product therapy roundtable along with some of the presenters

   “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… more

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4. Demystifying Data Product Development: A Practical Approach

   In this session, I'll share the challenges and learnings from a recent data product I built to explore the intricacies of utilizing Google Analytics 4 (GA4). With the ever-evolving landscape of digital analytics and the shutting down of GA3, it was paramount for my 4400+ users to adapt to this new product. GA4 offers a suite of powerful tools and features to extract meaningful insights and drive strategic decisions; however, there are unknowns associated with every data set, and GA4 was no different. This session is designed for product professionals seeking to harness the potential of an unknown data source to develop robust products that enhance business outcomes and drive innovation.

   In this session, I'll share the challenges and learnings from a recent data product I built to explore the intricacies of utilizing Google Analytics 4 (GA4). With the ever-evolving landscape of digital analytics and the shutting down of GA3, it was paramount for my 4400+ users to adapt to this new product. GA4 offers a suite of powerful tools and features to extract meaningful insights and drive strategic decisions; however, there are unknowns associated with every data set, and GA4 was no different. This session is designed for product professionals seeking to harness the potential of an unknown data source… more

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5. 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

   We'll then delve into two of the four products, examining each partner's contributions during development and outlining best practices for PM interactions.

   A special emphasis will be placed on data engineers and analysts. Despite being often overlooked, their roles are crucial in sourcing data, building pipelines, and generating insights through techniques like A/B testing and cohort analysis, all of which are foundational for creating effective AI products.

   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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