Speaker: Sari Harrison, Product Management Instructor, Product School

As a product manager, it's your job to realize your product’s vision by executing your chosen strategy. You'll come away ready to: Make sure your metrics are aligned with your vision and strategy. It’s also your job to deliver value to the business.

Vision

Speaker: Christian Bonilla, VP of Product Management at UserTesting

Every product team wants to build things users love. It’s why breakthrough products rarely happen by accident. Rather, they start with a strong product vision. Getting that vision right is one of the most important responsibilities of the product team. The goal may sound simple, but it’s hard to do.

Vision

Speaker: Sam McAfee, Product Development Consultant, Startup Patterns

As product managers we're in a golden age of being able to get all sorts of metrics and run all sorts of experiments. Do they contribute to the ultimate vision of your product? And is everybody clear on that vision? First, you'll learn how to make sure your measurements actually align with your product strategy.

Vision

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Being a Product Manager can be incredibly rewarding. In the best of scenarios, they craft their product’s vision, influence the process of bringing their product to life, and gain first-hand knowledge of how their product is directly impacting people.

Product Management

Speaker: Nils Davis, Principal, NPD Associates

But how you tailor that conversation depends on who you’re having it with, because your stakeholders’ vision for the future and your customers’ vision are likely two different things. A conversation about creating value is going to vary based on whether or not you’re asking someone to buy your product, or fund it.

Roadmap

Speaker: Sayanti Ghosh, Product Manager – AI/ML at Teck Resources Ltd.

“There’s probably no more important relationship for a successful product manager than the one with your engineers" (INSPIRED by Marty Cagan). Behind every great product there is not one but many people, all of whom work tirelessly to combine technology and design to solve customer problems and meet business needs.

Engineering

Speaker: Miles Robinson, Agile and Management Consultant, Motivational Speaker

Customer representation has always been a key reason for success in product development. It’s a truth universally acknowledged by the best product managers. Despite this, those building the product itself are often detached from their customers, leading to a gap between vision and execution on the most practical metrics.

Customer Experience