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Five Reasons Why Your Product is Not Ready for AI… And How To Get There with Ryan Withop, Director of Analytics & Growth at RingCentral

Topic Five Reasons Why Your Product is Not Ready for AI… And How To Get There Speaker Ryan Withop, Director of Analytics & Growth, RingCentral Summary If you spend any amount of time reading about high-tech, it seems as if everyone has artificial intelligence (AI) or machine learning (ML) as their secret sauce. The reality…
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Aligning the Stars: How to Create a Product Roadmap that Aligns with a Startup’s Funding Cycles with Igino Cafiero, CEO, Bear Flag Robotics

Summary Startups are brutal. For many startups, the most grueling part is fundraising. The consequences of under or overestimating this challenge can be fatal. Teams that don’t account for creating fundable milestones will die, while those that over rotate on one-off demos, risk losing time and burning out their teams. The most skilled founders and…
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How Teams and Leaders Can Unleash the Power of Agile with Ron Lichty and Tom Evans

During our session, Ron and Tom will explore what being truly “Agile” looks like, for your product development as well as your business teams. They will cover what is in it for products, customers, and your organization as a whole, and what we as leaders can do to spark the best outcomes from our teams.…
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Why Should We Care? Connecting Product Development to Corporate Strategy with Jessica Sweeney

Learn to create an outcomes-based roadmap using a bottoms-up approach and a top-down approach with affiliated business metrics. Join us via Zoom for Jessica’s talk to learn how to connect product development to the corporate strategy. When Wednesday, April 13, 2022 from 6:30pm to 8:30pm PST Topic Why Should We Care? Connecting Product Development to…
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Workshop – Creating an Exceptional User Experience, the Agile Way

How do you keep your user experience state-of-the-art and a joy for the customer without killing your team and budget?  Go Agile. Topic Creating an Exceptional User Experience, the Agile Way Speaker Sean Van Tyne, Author, Easy to Use 2.0 Summary UX Agile workshop is a two-hour intensive, hands-on experience for lean and agile product…
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Workshop – What A Squirrel Can Teach Us about Communicating Value

There is an old adage in business: “Sell the sizzle, not the steak.”  Emotionally hook them with benefits, not features.  And how exactly does the infamous squirrel play a part in all of this? Attend our workshop to find out more! Topic What A Squirrel Can Teach Us about Communicating Value Speaker Neil Baron, B2B…
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Fast-Track into Product Leadership and Claim Your Seat at the Strategy Table with Lynne Levy, Product Management Coach

Learn the 5 key steps to fast-track your career into leadership, while reducing stress and loving your job again. Speaker Lynne Levy, Product Management Coach Summary Learn the 5 key steps to fast-track your career into leadership, while reducing stress and loving your job again.  We will walk through why working harder is the worst…
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Getting Onto and Moving Up the Product Management Career Ladder with Rich Mironov, CEO of Mironov Consulting

What do PMs actually do? How do you get that first product job? How does a senior PM move up to the director level? Join us via Zoom for Rich’s talk to learn more. Topic Getting Onto and Moving Up the Product Management Career Ladder Speaker Rich Mironov, CEO, Mironov Consulting Summary We will cover…
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Meet the Career Experts – How to Manage Your Career in Times of Change

As busy product professionals, we sometimes struggle to focus on career development and manage the growth and progression of our own careers.  Career management during periods of high change and uncertainty also presents additional unique challenges.  The past couple of years have certainly presented more change and uncertainty than any year in recent memory. During…
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Farming for Dissent – The Road to Improving Your Product Strategy with Ritu Goyal, Director of Engineering, Netflix

Getting your product strategy right is a tough job. Irrespective of the domain and the size of the company, product managers need to have conviction in their strategy and place smart bets. Even if you do all the research in the world up front, it is hard to know all that might go wrong. So…
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