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1. I Make Purple Kool-Aid, but I Don't Drink It - Lessons from the Trenches of Healthcare AI: Promise, Pitfalls, and Progress

   "People should stop training radiologists now. It’s just completely obvious that within 5 years deep learning is going to do better than radiologists… It might be 10 years, but we’ve got plenty of radiologists already.” -Geoffrey Hinton (Presentation to the American Association of Physicists in Medicine - Oct 2016)

   “I consider autonomous driving to be a basically solved problem… We’re less than two years away from complete autonomy.” -Elon Musk (Time Magazine/Code Conference 2016)

   Yet here we are in 2026, radiologists still driving their Tesla to the hospital.

   This talk presents an overview of how AI is being used in healthcare and honest perspective of what is real, what is hype and where AI is going.

   • What are the high value use cases for AI in medical imaging?
   • What's hype and what's real - when is AI going to replace radiologists? What are the challenges limiting progress?
   • Talk nerdy to me: how a training and inference pipeline is created, from acquiring and pre-processing data, model architectures and clinical deployment
   • Quality, risk and regulatory considerations when AI is involved in life and death decisions
   • Trends - Agentic AI and foundation models - so hot right now
   • Local eco-system - what companies in the lower mainland are doing: e.g. Clarius, mlHealth, Synthesis Health and others
   • Why AI companies are their own worst enemies

   All this framed in the context of how to apply fundamental principles of product management:
   *What problem(s) are you solving and for whom?
   *Follow the money - i.e. get your business model right
   *Measuring the right KPIs
   *Misalignment of incentives - why is it so hard to enact change in healthcare?
   *Getting Beyond User Personas - buyers, influencers, procurement etc.
   *From prototype to retirement - the Technology Adoption Life Cycle (tipping my hat to Geoffrey Moore)

   Bio: Brian has spent 30 years developing enterprise scale software for healthcare, developing medical imaging and electronic medical record systems for Fortune 500 companies, startups and healthcare providers, most recently senior product manager at mlHealth 360, a Surrey-based startup developing AI algorithms for analyzing medical images.

   "People should stop training radiologists now. It’s just completely obvious that within 5 years deep learning is going to do better than radiologists… It might be 10 years, but we’ve got plenty of radiologists already.” -Geoffrey Hinton (Presentation to the American Association of Physicists in Medicine - Oct 2016)

   “I consider autonomous driving to be a basically solved problem… We’re less than two years away from complete autonomy.” -Elon Musk (Time Magazine/Code Conference 2016)

   Yet here we are in 2026, radiologists still driving their Tesla to the hospital.

   This talk presents an overview of how AI is being used in… more

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2. Don't Bury the Lede - Getting to the point clearly

   Don’t Bury the Lede - Getting to the point clearly

   Product Manager’s are expected to communicate clearly and precisely to get buy-in and motivate people yet, far too often, this doesn’t happen. Why is that?

   This session teaches you how to communicate successfully whether by spoken or written words. It’ll help you identify what the most important message is using the Pyramid Methodology and lead with it when communicating with others while providing the relevant facts in concise ways. The goal is clearer thinking, faster decisions, and better collaborations, not only better slides or presentations.

   You will practice this skill using common work situations like status updates, meetings, and written summaries.

   You will learn how to:
   * Find the most important message
   * Put that message first
   * Prioritise relevant content
   * Cut extra background and detail
   * Make your work easier for others to understand and use

   About the Speaker: Eric Bin is a 25 year veteran of the tech industry with leadership roles at companies like Amazon, eBay, and Clio under his belt. Today he’s a career and leadership coach that helps mid-career professionals navigate the workplace by improving their craft, growing their leadership, and getting clarity on their careers.

   Don’t Bury the Lede - Getting to the point clearly

   Product Manager’s are expected to communicate clearly and precisely to get buy-in and motivate people yet, far too often, this doesn’t happen. Why is that?

   This session teaches you how to communicate successfully whether by spoken or written words. It’ll help you identify what the most important message is using the Pyramid Methodology and lead with it when communicating with others while providing the relevant facts in concise ways. The goal is clearer thinking, faster decisions, and better collaborations, not only better slides or presentations.

   You will practice this skill… more

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3. Vibe Coded Apps Lightening Session

   Format: 4-5 presenters with 5-mins max each on demo'ing something cool they made.

   Remainder of the talk is Q&A with the audience about anything folks would like to learn.

   I'll be reaching out to folks to join me, but if you are keen - ping me at https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulsave/

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4. The Hidden Costs of Vibe Coding: 500K+ lines, Four Apps, and What Broke?

   Everyone's showing you the weekend demo — "I built an app in one prompt, watch." Over the last several months I've vibe-coded 500K+ lines across four apps and two open-source libraries and several private libraries. The marketing narrative and the operational reality are very different things, and nobody is talking about the second one.

   This session is a field report on what actually breaks at scale — and what I had to build around each problem to keep shipping.

   What we'll cover together:

   • Context management. What it looks like at 50K lines vs. 500K with multiple projects, and when you start losing the plot without noticing.

   • Merge conflict pain across parallel agents. Why it can become unmanageable past three or four concurrent agents — and how I ended up letting LLMs talk to each other across worktrees to resolve it.

   • Reviewer fatigue. The real bottleneck at 500K lines isn't tokens or model cost — it's human attention. What I stopped reading, and what I learned to read instead.

   • Versioning . Shipping new versions to production for your end consumer can be a manual, painful dance that re-breaks your improvement loop at every release.

   • Quick wins you can achieve. Several things that you can get quick wins with and how to prioritize your time.

   The honest takeaway: vibe coding is real, but it's an operations problem, not a prompting problem. The PM skill of the next five years isn't prompt engineering — it's designing the review-and-coordination system around agents that write code faster than you can read it.

   Who should attend

   Product managers who are building (or about to start building) AI-assisted products — whether you're hands-on with the code or just watching your engineers do it. No technical background required; every cost described here shows up in any team shipping AI-generated work at scale

   Format:
   Interactive. Bring your own vibe-coding war stories; the most painful one gets an honest in-room diagnosis.

   SPEAKER
   
   Paul Save is the founder of iD8, an autonomous coding engine for mobile-first product development with integration to VS Code and a Web App, and ResumeWise. He has 10+ years of product management experience, including Group Product Manager for Fulfillment Systems at Best Buy and Senior Product Manager on Microsoft Teams, where he led a team that won a category of Microsoft's Fix, Hack, Learn Global Hackathon. He was an expert on the Mirror Committee "ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 42 – Artificial Intelligence" for international AI standards, founded Cascadia Data Science Institute, and has been a PM on data science projects since his first Kaggle competition in 2016. Paul has spoken at ProductCamp Vancouver/Seattle/PDX, Central 1 Momentum, AWS Initiate, and Microsoft MVP Summit. His open source portfolio can be seen at https://github.com/AIMLPM and includes:
   - MarkCrawl (fastest open source crawler for LLM/RAG. #1 on 4 of 6 metrics in llm-crawler-benchmarks: speed, extraction, retrieval MRR, cost, and pipeline time: https://github.com/AIMLPM/markcrawl )
   - llm-crawler-benchmarks (benchmarking for open source webcrawlers: https://github.com/AIMLPM/llm-crawler-benchmarks)

   Everyone's showing you the weekend demo — "I built an app in one prompt, watch." Over the last several months I've vibe-coded 500K+ lines across four apps and two open-source libraries and several private libraries. The marketing narrative and the operational reality are very different things, and nobody is talking about the second one.

   This session is a field report on what actually breaks at scale — and what I had to build around each problem to keep shipping.

   What we'll cover together:

   • Context management. What it looks like at 50K lines vs. 500K with multiple projects, and when you… more

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5. We Shipped Agentic AI in a Regulated Enterprise. The Hard Part Wasn't the AI

   January 2025, Agentic AI was in its infancy — Gartner put significant enterprise investment at 19%, Manus hadn't shipped yet, and there was no playbook for Agentic AI. We started building one for a regulated government entity anyway.

   Six months later, we had our 1st agentic app in production. Most don't get there. Only 15–20% of enterprises move agents past pilot, and Gartner expects 40%+ of agentic projects to be canceled by 2027.

   This talk is about what was actually hard. Not the model. Not the agents. The users. The productization. The gap between a demo that dazzles and a product people trust on a Monday.

   You'll leave with:

   [] Ship the least AI you can get away with, first — why restraint is the rational strategy
   [] Deterministic UX is not polish. It is the product — designing around non-determinism, not pretending it away
   [] The competition you can't see will kill you — the habit your users won't tell you about

   A first-person field report, not a framework. Bring your scars.

   SPEAKER BIO:
   Abhijit Dutta is a product builder, currently shipping AI products at WorkSafeBC, where the multi-agent system in this talk lives in production. Fifteen years across SaaS, B2B, e-commerce, and government (SALUS, APOLLO, Fatigue Science, Trulioo, BuildDirect) — building products that needed to work on a Monday, not demo well on a Friday

   January 2025, Agentic AI was in its infancy — Gartner put significant enterprise investment at 19%, Manus hadn't shipped yet, and there was no playbook for Agentic AI. We started building one for a regulated government entity anyway.

   Six months later, we had our 1st agentic app in production. Most don't get there. Only 15–20% of enterprises move agents past pilot, and Gartner expects 40%+ of agentic projects to be canceled by 2027.

   This talk is about what was actually hard. Not the model. Not the agents. The users. The productization. The gap between a demo that dazzles and a… more

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6. Story first: Why product strategy needs a destination before a problem

   Most product teams start with a problem statement. But a problem statement tells little about the bigger picture—

   This session introduces a different starting point: the story outcome — a precise description of what must be true about a person's situation after your product works, that isn't true now. The session invites us to anchor strategy to a wider lens on the product use and user.

   To make this concrete, we'll work through a hypothetical case study in AI-assisted radiology. We explore how a story outcome lens can inspire a different kind of user inquiry — including something problem statements routinely obscure: whose problem it actually is, and whose story the product is really telling!

   Audience: Senior PMs, UX researchers, product strategists.

   Speaker: Malahat Hosseini is a product designer with 15+ years designing for healthcare products. She has worked at McKesson, Telus Health and Microsoft health and life sciences.

   Most product teams start with a problem statement. But a problem statement tells little about the bigger picture—

   This session introduces a different starting point: the story outcome — a precise description of what must be true about a person's situation after your product works, that isn't true now. The session invites us to anchor strategy to a wider lens on the product use and user.

   To make this concrete, we'll work through a hypothetical case study in AI-assisted radiology. We explore how a story outcome lens can inspire a different kind of user inquiry — including something problem statements… more

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7. When Anyone Can Build Anything, What Are You Worth?

   Good PMs deeply understand their customers. Great PMs also know themselves.

   Yet most PMs have significant blind spots about their own value: what sets them apart, what they can offer, and what they truly value. Few PMs ever turn their discovery discipline inward.

   AI is raising the stakes on that gap: when what's valued shifts, the PMs who thrive will be the ones who know exactly where their greatest opportunities lie.

   This introspective yet interactive session helps you close that gap. You'll leave with:
   • A mindset shift that transforms how you percieve your own strengths and what you've dismissed as weaknesses;
   • A clearer sense of what you uniquely offer, and where that's most valued in this changing landscape;
   • A framework to help you uncover and recognize the opportunities where you will truly thrive.

   For over a decade Alan Albert has led MarketFit, coaching and empowering CEOs, executives, leaders and their teams to overcome their most difficult obstacles and surpass their objectives. An award-winning presenter, Alan draws on over 30 years of executive leadership, management and hands-on success creating top-selling, innovative products in organizations from startups through global enterprises.

   Good PMs deeply understand their customers. Great PMs also know themselves.

   Yet most PMs have significant blind spots about their own value: what sets them apart, what they can offer, and what they truly value. Few PMs ever turn their discovery discipline inward.

   AI is raising the stakes on that gap: when what's valued shifts, the PMs who thrive will be the ones who know exactly where their greatest opportunities lie.

   This introspective yet interactive session helps you close that gap. You'll leave with:
   • A mindset shift that transforms how you percieve your own strengths and what you've dismissed… more

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8. Product Discovery Doesn't Just Work on Software

   At ProductCamp 2024, I announced my new business (idea) and spent the day talking to PMs about it 1-on-1. The enthusiasm was overwhelming. All the highly experienced product managers I talked to thought it was an excellent idea. It turns out we were all wrong. Eighteen months later, I'd completely changed what I was building, because I actually did the research. This is a case study in applying software product validation principles to a non-software product: what I tested, what failed, what surprised me, and how the business I launched looks nothing like the one I was pitching in those chats between sessions two years ago.

   At ProductCamp 2024, I announced my new business (idea) and spent the day talking to PMs about it 1-on-1. The enthusiasm was overwhelming. All the highly experienced product managers I talked to thought it was an excellent idea. It turns out we were all wrong. Eighteen months later, I'd completely changed what I was building, because I actually did the research. This is a case study in applying software product validation principles to a non-software product: what I tested, what failed, what surprised me, and how the business I launched looks nothing like the one I was pitching in those… more

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9. Product Discovery in the Age of AI

   AI can assist, augment and even automate much of a traditional PM's job. So what's left? Talking to customers, clients, prospects! Testing assumptions before they become deliverables.

   Let's explore how AI augmented product discovery improve your speed to delivery AND ensure real customer needs are being met.

   I will share some great tips on how to use AI as part of this process that you can use immediately.

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10. Get the Interview. Ace the Interview. A Live AI Workshop for PMs.

    The PM job market is rough. Most candidates aren't failing at interviews — they're not getting them. And when they do, there's no feedback when it doesn't go well.
    This hands-on workshop covers the full cycle using a free, open-source AI tool demoed live on screen: decoding what a company actually wants, getting past ATS screening, preparing for that specific company's interview format, and running drills with real scored feedback.
    The more interactive, the better. Submit your resume and a target job description before May 9 and I'll work through it live in the session. The room shapes the demo. Your personal details will be anonymized for the demo purposes.
    Submit here: https://productcamp26-ai-workshop.netlify.app/
    Based on "How to Use AI in Your Next Job Interview" by Noam Segal, Lenny's Newsletter.

    The PM job market is rough. Most candidates aren't failing at interviews — they're not getting them. And when they do, there's no feedback when it doesn't go well.
    This hands-on workshop covers the full cycle using a free, open-source AI tool demoed live on screen: decoding what a company actually wants, getting past ATS screening, preparing for that specific company's interview format, and running drills with real scored feedback.
    The more interactive, the better. Submit your resume and a target job description before May 9 and I'll work through it live in the session. The room shapes the demo.… more

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11. A hands-on AI Product Management Workshop: Crazy 8 Discovery Brainstorming,Draft a PRD, AI Prototyping, and Deploy with Stakeholder Feedback

    PM Hive would love to host a hands-on workshop at this year's ProductCamp: "From Problem to Prototype with AI."

    The premise is simple. Attendees walk in with a problem statement and walk out with a working prototype. In 60-90 minutes, participants will move through four stages using AI tools at every step:

    1. Crazy 8 Discovery Brainstorming to get 8 cool use cases
    2. Draft a PRD/Product Brief from a defined problem
    3. Build a prototype/design with AI tools
    4. Ship. Actually deploy and host something live

    The key differentiator: We're focused on AI as a product decision-making partner - helping PMs learn the most realistic AI use cases they'll need to prototype 0 to 1, beginning with a Google Sprint Crazy 8 Brainstorm framework, to a PRD with AI, to prototyping, to deploying, all within 90 minutes. We'll start with discovery work after the problem is established, which is where most PMs actually spend their time.

    We'd structure it as a guided, hands-on build session with short demos between stages. Attendees leave with both a tangible artifact and a repeatable workflow they can bring back to their teams.

    Happy to chat through format, timing, or logistics. Would love to make this happen.

    PM Hive would love to host a hands-on workshop at this year's ProductCamp: "From Problem to Prototype with AI."

    The premise is simple. Attendees walk in with a problem statement and walk out with a working prototype. In 60-90 minutes, participants will move through four stages using AI tools at every step:

    1. Crazy 8 Discovery Brainstorming to get 8 cool use cases
    2. Draft a PRD/Product Brief from a defined problem
    3. Build a prototype/design with AI tools
    4. Ship. Actually deploy and host something live

    The key differentiator: We're focused on AI as a product decision-making partner - helping PMs learn the… more

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12. The PM Energy Problem: Why Great PMs Burn Out (and How AI Changes the Equation)

    The Product Manager is one of the few roles with unlimited scope, constant context switching, and ambiguous success metrics - making burnout a common but rarely addressed challenge. With the rise of GenAI tools, PMs now face a paradox: while AI can automate documentation, analysis, and coordination, it also accelerates the pace of work and increases expectations. This session introduces the “PM Energy Problem” in an AI-driven environment: why even high-performing PMs struggle to sustain impact, and explores how decision fatigue, invisible work, and competing priorities evolve with AI. Attendees will learn practical strategies to manage energy, leverage AI effectively, and operate more sustainably without sacrificing results.

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    Jacky Cheung is a Senior Product Manager – Technical at Amazon Web Services. With 12+ years of product experience, he has led the launch of consumer and enterprise products in cloud computing services, fraud & risk, cybersecurity, financial services, and sports media. Jacky is a customer-obsessed product leader who is passionate about building impactful solutions that solve critical customer problems, harnessing strong cross-functional collaboration to drive alignment and deliver results at scale.

    The Product Manager is one of the few roles with unlimited scope, constant context switching, and ambiguous success metrics - making burnout a common but rarely addressed challenge. With the rise of GenAI tools, PMs now face a paradox: while AI can automate documentation, analysis, and coordination, it also accelerates the pace of work and increases expectations. This session introduces the “PM Energy Problem” in an AI-driven environment: why even high-performing PMs struggle to sustain impact, and explores how decision fatigue, invisible work, and competing priorities evolve with AI. Attendees will learn practical strategies to manage energy, leverage AI effectively,… more

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13. The 5 Real Skills of Product Managers That Nobody Teaches (in the Age of AI)

    Product management is often taught through frameworks, roadmaps, and prioritization techniques - but the skills that truly drive impact are rarely discussed. In the age of generative AI and emerging agentic systems, these skills are becoming even more critical. As AI accelerates execution (writing specs, analyzing data, and even generating product ideas), the role of the PM is shifting toward judgment, alignment, and decision-making. This session explores five essential capabilities that differentiate high-performing PMs: narrative thinking, influence without authority, decision-making under ambiguity, stakeholder alignment, and product judgment, and how these evolve when AI becomes a core collaborator in your workflow.

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    Jacky Cheung is a Senior Product Manager – Technical at Amazon Web Services. With 12+ years of product experience, he has led the launch of consumer and enterprise products in cloud computing services, fraud & risk, cybersecurity, financial services, and sports media. Jacky is a customer-obsessed product leader who is passionate about building impactful solutions that solve critical customer problems, harnessing strong cross-functional collaboration to drive alignment and deliver results at scale.

    Product management is often taught through frameworks, roadmaps, and prioritization techniques - but the skills that truly drive impact are rarely discussed. In the age of generative AI and emerging agentic systems, these skills are becoming even more critical. As AI accelerates execution (writing specs, analyzing data, and even generating product ideas), the role of the PM is shifting toward judgment, alignment, and decision-making. This session explores five essential capabilities that differentiate high-performing PMs: narrative thinking, influence without authority, decision-making under ambiguity, stakeholder alignment, and product judgment, and how these evolve when AI becomes a core collaborator in your workflow.

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14. Breaking Into Product: Lessons from 50 Real Transitions into Product Management

    When you look closely at how people actually transition into a PM role, the paths vary widely: Associate PM programs, MBAs, internal transfers, or moving from adjacent roles like engineering, project management, or customer success.

    After speaking with 50 people who moved into product, one thing stood out: while their backgrounds were different, the behaviours that helped them break in were consistent.

    This session explores those patterns:

    • Where people came from before becoming PMs
    • Whether product was their first role or a transition later in their career
    • What kinds of companies enabled their first PM opportunity
    • How long it typically took to make the shift

    More importantly, the focus will be on what actually moved the needle.

    I’ll also share my own journey from customer support to product leadership, and how working across GTM and engineering, solving problems, and increasing cross-team leverage led to product ownership.

    This session is designed for anyone trying to break into product from a non-traditional path, or looking to better understand what it actually takes to make that transition.

    When you look closely at how people actually transition into a PM role, the paths vary widely: Associate PM programs, MBAs, internal transfers, or moving from adjacent roles like engineering, project management, or customer success.

    After speaking with 50 people who moved into product, one thing stood out: while their backgrounds were different, the behaviours that helped them break in were consistent.

    This session explores those patterns:

    • Where people came from before becoming PMs
    • Whether product was their first role or a transition later in their career
    • What kinds of companies enabled their first PM opportunity
    • How long it typically… more
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15. Revenue Before Raise

    Valuable insights for first-time and early-stage startup founders focusing on "revenue-before-capital-raise". Practical tips for creating value before borrowing.

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16. Nobody Claps When the Payment Goes Through.

    Every PM wants to ship something people love. But some products aren't built to be loved — they're built to disappear.
    Payments. Compliance. Tax infrastructure. ERP integrations. These are the products that run quietly in the background until they don't — and when they break, it's not a bad review or a drop in DAU. It's a frozen checkout, a regulatory audit, or a finance director on the phone at 3am.
    This talk is for PMs who build in the invisible lanes — or who want to understand what it actually takes to get there.
    Through real war stories from a TSYS-to-Stripe payments migration and a 0-to-1 India GST compliance launch, we'll unpack the mental models that separate PMs who survive high-stakes infrastructure work from those who don't: why edge cases are your real product, why documentation is a deliverable, why reversibility beats velocity, and why "I forgot your product existed" is the best thing a stakeholder can ever say to you.
    If you've ever shipped something critical and heard nothing — no celebration, no Slack emoji, just silence — this talk is about why that silence is the win, and how to build for it on purpose.

    Every PM wants to ship something people love. But some products aren't built to be loved — they're built to disappear.
    Payments. Compliance. Tax infrastructure. ERP integrations. These are the products that run quietly in the background until they don't — and when they break, it's not a bad review or a drop in DAU. It's a frozen checkout, a regulatory audit, or a finance director on the phone at 3am.
    This talk is for PMs who build in the invisible lanes — or who want to understand what it actually takes to get there.
    Through real war stories from… more

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17. How to make the transition from Product Manager to Product Builder

    I would propose a panel discussion with three to four experienced product managers who have made the transition from working as a pure product manager or product executive and are now fully immersed in product building with AI teams.

    I've been doing this for a few months now, and the learning curve is tremendous and I believe many people would benefit from this panel discussion. This is a unique time and this format would be a fantastic way to get engagement on different perspectives and questions.

    If you are interested in being a panelist, please comment below and I'll reach out to you.

    I would propose a panel discussion with three to four experienced product managers who have made the transition from working as a pure product manager or product executive and are now fully immersed in product building with AI teams.

    I've been doing this for a few months now, and the learning curve is tremendous and I believe many people would benefit from this panel discussion. This is a unique time and this format would be a fantastic way to get engagement on different perspectives and questions.

    If you are interested in being a panelist, please comment below and I'll reach… more

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18. How Quarterly Planning Drives Predictable Delivery

    Come and experience a fun planning and delivery simulation that shows how Quarterly Planning drives predictable delivery.

    Quarterly Planning is a cornerstone of many delivery teams creating a long-term plan showing what will get delivered and when it will be delivered. It provides an opportunity to uncover dependencies, look ahead at known work, and view delivery over a longer time horizon. Excellent reasons to invest time in planning over the longer timeframe.

    Too often this plan is interpreted as a commitment. It is not. Instead it provides the baseline against which delivery can be tracked. We want to think of it as a prediction, not a commitment.

    Using a fun simulation, you will learn how to quickly pull together a quarterly plan, and more importantly, how that plan changes as new information is uncovered as work is delivered.

    Come and experience a fun planning and delivery simulation that shows how Quarterly Planning drives predictable delivery.

    Quarterly Planning is a cornerstone of many delivery teams creating a long-term plan showing what will get delivered and when it will be delivered. It provides an opportunity to uncover dependencies, look ahead at known work, and view delivery over a longer time horizon. Excellent reasons to invest time in planning over the longer timeframe.

    Too often this plan is interpreted as a commitment. It is not. Instead it provides the baseline against which delivery can be tracked. We want to think of… more

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19. NOPE! When Collaboration Doesn't Work

    Ever wonder why collaboration is supposed to be a core company value but stuff still doesn’t get done? Or why fire drills disrupt YOUR VERY IMPORTANT INITIATIVE for the third time this month? Or why an ideal customer doesn’t buy your stuff, even though they’re in pain?

    You may have “alignment” in theory. You may have the right messaging when working with your colleagues. You may even have the right messaging for your customers.

    But you may not have the right value at the right time.

    In a follow on to last year’s “Make Your Messaging Suck Less” we will go beyond “Who cares and why is that important?” into why your value may not be your colleague’s or customer’s value - even though you have the same goals. It turns out compensation plans and metrics matter.

    Attendees will come away with a framework for defining the value (and non-value) of their own workloads and how to get more stuff done, say NO with confidence, or maybe even sell more stuff. As with last year, no AI will be used or harmed during this session.

    Ever wonder why collaboration is supposed to be a core company value but stuff still doesn’t get done? Or why fire drills disrupt YOUR VERY IMPORTANT INITIATIVE for the third time this month? Or why an ideal customer doesn’t buy your stuff, even though they’re in pain?

    You may have “alignment” in theory. You may have the right messaging when working with your colleagues. You may even have the right messaging for your customers.

    But you may not have the right value at the right time.

    In a follow on to last year’s “Make Your Messaging Suck Less” we will… more

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20. A Game of Thrones: Hacking Politics at Large Orgs - From Ex-Adobe Product Head and Stanford MBA

    TL;DR: A brutally honest and counter-intuitive guide for turning visibility, timing, and narrative into promotions, buy-in, and real impact.

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    I didn't want to name-drop, but all the highest voted ideas last year all named-dropped - so please forgive me. :)

    Before I started at Adobe, I had never worked for a company I didn't start myself, and my friends found the idea of me joining a behemoth enterprise company so ridiculous that they created a pool for how long I'd last before I'd quit - with the most optimistic of the bunch betting 6 months.

    4 years, 5 bosses, 5 promos and 10 org changes later, I realized that while most people cared about building great product, what is much more important is being at the right place and time, saying the right things, to the right people.

    That strategy may or may not include waiting outside the head-office bathroom, casually working on my laptop, and 'accidentally' bumping into an SVP to pitch an idea.

    Things I'd like to talk about:

    • Why the only KPI that matters is lowering stress
    • How naming an idea is more important than having the idea
    • You care about data. Everyone else just cares about slogans about data.
    • How 80% of my work was unimpactful, and how I just stopped doing them
    • Do the right thing - but only when everyone else cares about doing the right thing (but also secretly do the right thing)
    • Build social capital - then SPEND IT

    Yes. This is mostly a indulgent therapy session where I get to recount all the ways I realized that my good product ideas were not going to be good enough on their own to get buy-in. I just hope that you have as much fun listening to it as I will have unloading and that some of these lessons will be valuable to you in your career and the wonderful things you want to build.

    The session will be participatory and I hope you bring your unfiltered stories with you.

    It's going to be fun.

    TL;DR: A brutally honest and counter-intuitive guide for turning visibility, timing, and narrative into promotions, buy-in, and real impact.

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    I didn't want to name-drop, but all the highest voted ideas last year all named-dropped - so please forgive me. :)

    Before I started at Adobe, I had never worked for a company I didn't start myself, and my friends found the idea of me joining a behemoth enterprise company so ridiculous that they created a pool for how long I'd last before I'd quit - with the most optimistic of the bunch betting 6 months.

    4 years, 5 bosses, 5… more

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