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Beyond the Scoreboard: Driving Success as a Game PM
The gaming industry is one of the most dynamic and competitive markets, requiring product managers to navigate player expectations, business goals, and creative vision. In this session, we’ll break down the core principles of game product management, from pre-production to post-launch, and explore how to balance data-driven decision-making with player experience.
Drawing from years of experience in game product management, I’ll share insights on:
Defining and measuring success in game development.
Managing stakeholder alignment between developers, cross-functional teams and leadership.
Leveraging analytics to drive engagement and retention.
Navigating monetization strategies without compromising player trust.
Whether you’re new to game product…
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How to Ask For a Promotion/Raise as a Product Manager: Insights from a Product Lead on his 7th role at TELUS
Has your role as a Product Manager evolved to support the growth of your company, or have you taken on additional responsibilities after a colleague left? If you've been in this new capacity for over six months and are unsure how to ask for a promotion or raise, this workshop is for you!
In this session, you'll learn a simple 3-step process that will help you:
1) Build a solid case for your promotion
2) Understand the promotion/raise process
3) Gain the confidence to ask for what you deserveAgenda:
• Reflect on Your Achievements: Learn how to identify and…
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Transitioning from Corporate to Entrepreneurship – What I Wish I Knew
Overview:
Many professionals dream of leaving their corporate careers to start their own venture—but what does it really take? In this talk, I’ll share my personal journey from working in healthcare to launching Simple Analytics, a startup that helps small businesses build affordable data solutions.This session will provide practical insights on how to transition strategically, reduce risk, and validate an idea before going all in.
Key Takeaways:
Mindset Shifts: The biggest changes from being an employee to an entrepreneurTesting Your Idea: Validating demand without quitting your job
Time & Risk Management: How to balance a full-time job with…
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How can legacy industries adopt a product mindset to improve service delivery?
Legacy industries like insurance, healthcare, banking, education are driven by domain expertise and contextual nuances with scope for major overhaul and service impact. Strong discovery and soft skills are required to identify and translate requirements. In such industries, there is an ample pool of internal subject matter experts due to their long tenure with such organizations. These experts help validate hypotheses and identify pain points early on due to their experience and proximity to users. In these industries, stakeholder relationships run deep and wide making it easier to recruit users for discovery, testing and gain evidence-based support. Word of mouth…
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Mindset for Success – Thriving, Adapting & Succeeding in Product Development
Success in product development isn’t just about skills—it’s about mindset. In a fast-moving, high-pressure environment, how you think, adapt, and respond to challenges can make all the difference. Whether you’re shifting roles, navigating career transitions, or facing uncertainty in product innovation, developing the right mindset is crucial.
Join our expert panel as we dive into mindset strategies to help you thrive, overcome challenges, and create success in your career and work. We’ll explore how people working in product can build mental fitness, reframe setbacks, and proactively shape their future—whether as individual contributors, team leaders, or career changers.
Panelists
Filip Machat…5 votes -
Unlocking Scalable Platform Products: Where User Needs Meet Business Goals
In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, platform products serve as the backbone of innovation, enabling organizations to scale efficiently. However, building successful platform products requires more than just technical excellence—it demands a deep understanding of user needs and alignment with organizational strategy. Without this foundation, even the most advanced platform efforts risk delivering limited value.
In this talk, we will explore the critical role of user research in shaping platform products and ensuring technical, product and design efforts lead to meaningful outcomes. We will discuss practical strategies for conducting research that informs product decisions and share real-world examples of how alignment…
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Ask The Experts: Driving Product with Insights & Strategy
Amelia Guimarin of Spatial Research & Design and Scott Baldwin of lululemon will discuss the best ways for product teams to align user needs and business goals.
Amelia and Scott will draw on their experience across organizations like BC Gov, Meta, Productboard, and Thinkific to outline methods for uncovering customer insights, tracking organizational KPIs, and aligning cross-functional groups to corporate north stars.
This session will explore how to combine UX and CX research with people and product management to hit your organization’s strategic goals. Bring your questions and prepare for a lively discussion!
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AI-Powered Security Automation for Agile Product Development
The Challenge
Security is often treated as a late-stage concern, leading to delays and rework.
Product managers must balance speed, innovation, and security without disrupting development.
Security teams may introduce last-minute requirements, forcing developers to redo work.The Solution: Embedding Security in Development
Automate security analysis within the development workflow.
Ensure security tasks are integrated into Agile processes from the start.
Use industry standards like OWASP ASVS, PCI-DSS, and GDPR to guide security decisions.
Make security a proactive step rather than a last-minute fix.How AI Can Help ?
Analyze use cases automatically and identify security risks in real time.…3 votes -
When Your Product is The Organization
For Product Leaders building an organization that is creating digital products, viewing your organization as a product in and of itself can create a powerful approach. Whether you are focused on a single product, portfolios or broader programs, building your organization with a product mindset brings better alignment, resiliency and results over the long-term.
By recursively using discovery and design techniques in an organizational context you can support your product organization’s ability to adapt in a world of never-ending change.
A change platform can help to sustainably & systematically guide your organization forward by crafting outcomes, a change map &…
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Can Gen AI Explore the Future?
A hands on workshop in which we will work together to see how genAi can be used to explore alternative futures. We will use a set of prompts together to generate a set of alternate future scenarios. This will be an application of Agile Scenario Planning, an adaptation of classical scenario planning developed during the pandemic to enable more rapid response to an uncertain future. Applications to product management will be explored.
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AI-Powered Product Management: Hype or the Future?
AI is shaking up product management—some say it’s just another tool, others believe it’s the future. This panel will explore how AI is reshaping product strategy, decision-making, and the PM role itself. We’ll discuss whether AI is an enhancement or a threat, real-world applications, and how PMs can stay ahead in an AI-driven era
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Products as Profit Engines: The Key to Value Creation and Market Success
At their core, businesses exist to create value—and products are the primary vehicle for transferring money from customers to the organization. But what makes a product successful in the market? How do you ensure that your product delivers real value while driving profitability?
This session will break down:
✅ The dual purpose of products: revenue generation and value delivery
✅ How businesses balance profit, customer needs, and market differentiation
✅ What makes a product truly valuable—solving pain points, quality, innovation, affordability, and customer experience
✅ The role of pricing and feature selection in maximizing market fitWe’ll explore how to…
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From Data to Dollars: How Conjoint Analysis Transformed a Telecom Loyalty Program
How do you determine which features customers truly value—and what they’re willing to pay for them? In this session, we’ll explore how Conjoint Analysis, a powerful research method, helped a leading South African telecommunications company design a loyalty program that maximized customer engagement and profitability.
Through real-world insights, we'll cover:
✅ How Conjoint Analysis reveals customer preferences and trade-offs
✅ The role of data-driven decision-making in product and pricing strategy
✅ Lessons learned from designing a high-impact loyalty program in a competitive marketWhether you're in product management, pricing strategy, or customer experience, this session will equip you with actionable…
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Trust Capital: Mastering the Currency of Your Product Management Career
You've heard the old saying. Product managers lead with zero authority, yet when a customer churns out, the PM is held accountable. So how do you handle challenges and objections that feel completely out of your control?
Join Hanson Do, a product manager in title, who over 9 years has also built experience in product marketing, QA, UX design, people management, and more, in a deep and honest conversation about one of the most important things that matter in your current (or future!) product management career: trust capital.
In this session you will learn the secrets to:
- Build a…2 votes -
From Zero to Million: How I got the first Million downloads on my Open-Source PHP package
Get introduced on my Open-Source Laravel localization project and what made it to achieve 1M downloads.
Learn about the experience of being a Open Source package maintainer, get advised (specially on what to do differently).
End the presentation inspired to do the same I did (or even better)!
I will start by explaining a little bit about the project and it’s differentials.
The second part will explain the process and the most important decisions and suggestions that I got from friends and co-workers (highlighting the importance of sharing your personal projects with people you thrust).
Third part will speak about…
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