Join us for an eye-opening talk and discover how nonverbal and artificial intelligence are transforming qualitative research for smarter product development. You don’t want to miss this! Date/Time: Wednesday, May 14, 2025 at 7pm PST online via Zoom Speaker: David M. Schneer, Ph.D. / CEO, Merrill Research Topic: What AI and Body Language Can Reveal…
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This one is all about you – how to build and protect your product career. And how to make more while doing less. As product professionals, it’s too easy to become an interchangeable part of the pack and easily replaced. Though never good, this is especially dangerous when cost-cutting, M&A, and new technologies like AI…
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Mastering Discovery for Product Success: Beyond the Requirements List Successful technology offerings don’t fail due to lack of effort—they fail, in part, to incomplete discovery. This session will equip product managers and their teams with a structured approach to uncovering the true business needs behind stakeholder requests. Using the 7 Levels of Highly Effective Discovery,…
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Speaker: Donna Griffit, Author, Sticking to My Story This event is being generously hosted by medical device company, Align Technology, best known for its flagship offering, Invisalign®. We will hear brief remarks on storytelling and product management from key Invisalign executives. Description: Storytelling is all the buzz – and for good reason. It’s an essential…
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Harnessing Generative AI for Next-Gen Product Design with David Beach, Senior Customer Success Manager, Global Gen AI Lead at Amazon Web Services (AWS), Founder at Cognittex Summary: Generative AI is transforming product design by enhancing ideation, accelerating prototyping, and optimizing user experience testing to align innovations with customer needs. Description: Generative AI is transforming the…
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“The role of the product manager has evolved to influence every aspect of making a product successful.” ~ MCKINSEY REPORT; The Product Management Talent Dilemma Since 2018, Productside has been conducting a global survey to examine the skill levels of Product Managers across 15 dimensions and to create the Product Management Skills Benchmark report. In…
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In-Person Fireside Chat, Networking, and Social, Co-Hosted by Nium NOTE: Video is still being processed. (Not available yet). Join us for an evening of hors d’oeuvres, networking, and insights on AI trends and other topics in San Francisco for a fireside chat featuring three esteemed product leaders: Abhijit Thosar: Head of Research and Design for…
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Building new products or new product features in-house may or may not be the right choice. There are other options, including buying the capabilities, partnering with another company, or even acquiring altogether. How do you decide? Which factors should you take into consideration beyond a pure cost comparison? In this session, we will define each…
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In this talk, we will explore five essential habits that can significantly accelerate product development cycles. Drawing from transformative prior work as a senior executive at Fortune 500 firm Agilent Technologies, John Sadler emphasizes the importance of continuous customer contact, prioritizing quality and cadence over scope, maintaining integration throughout the development process, fostering psychological safety…
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What do you do when everyone wants everything everywhere all at once? How do you decide what enhancements and even bugs (since not all are deal breakers) to focus on and in what sequence? Feature prioritization is a key activity in Product Management. But when the topic of prioritization comes up, many people don’t actually…
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