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April 17th, 2024
10:00 AM - 3:30 PM PST

10:00 AM

Marco Chan

Senior Product Manager at Shopify

Rituals to improve alignment and velocity

As product managers, it is critical to ensure stakeholders within your team and across the organization are aligned and aware of what you're shipping. To effectively operate at scale, especially in an increasingly remote environment, there are ways to improve both synchronous and asynchronous ways of communication. Creating effective rituals and artifacts can help scale visibility of your work and surface misalignments earlier to continue driving velocity. In my talk, I'll share strategies that I've used across teams in my career and how you can adapt them to your team.

10:30 AM

Gabriela Georgieva

Senior Product Manager at Uber

Streamlining Product Management at Uber: Leveraging Jira Atlassian’s Power

For my presentation at the Product Festival conference, I propose to share how Jira Atlassian’s tooling has been a game-changer in my role as a Senior Product Manager at Uber. I’ll walk you through the automations and customizations that have not only saved me countless hours but have also fostered transparency and efficiency within our teams. From automating emails after sprint planning to ensure all stakeholders are aligned with our two-week sprints, to leveraging comments and ticket transitions to keep requests up-to-date and stakeholders engaged. I’ll also cover how we use Jira Dashboards and Plans to visualize our roadmaps and track the team’s efforts effectively, ensuring that we’re always focused on our priorities. This talk is a deep dive into practical strategies for using Jira to streamline product management processes, making every step from planning to execution more manageable and visible to all involved parties.

11:00 AM

Hansel Valdez

Product Manager at Netflix

Buy vs Build Product Strategy

In general, companies prefer to custom-build software solutions when the functionality is unique to business needs and requires greater flexibility and customization. On the other hand, there are a lot of third-party solutions in the market when the functionality is mature in the industry and can be satisfied with out-of-the-box capabilities, or when building a new tool or component from scratch would be too resource-intensive. The goal of this session is to share a framework to decide if buying or building would be better for the business.

11:30 AM

Aria Srinivasan

Product Manager at Stripe

Things I Wish I knew earlier in my product career

I transitioned from being financial analyst into a product manager and the first year was far from a walk in the park. I was drowning in imposter syndrome and trying to drink from the firehouse, all while trying to influence without authority.. whatever that meant! This talk will discuss practical ways to avoid the common mistakes I made, particularly for those starting from a non-traditional background.

12:00 PM

Kaiz Alarakyia

Product Manager at Google

From Waterfall to Winning (How HCD Transforms Tech Products)

Many Product Managers find themselves drowning in the waterfall method, unable to deliver real long term impact for their users. Human Centred Design can be your liferaft. We'll discuss the secrets of HCD, what an HCD-powered product lifecycle looks like, and what roles you need to make HCD "stick".

12:30 PM

Networking Lunch

1:30 PM

Tvisha Gangwani

Product Manager at Microsoft

From Concept to Market: Navigating the Journey of Zero to One in Product Development

In this talk, we explore the 'Zero to One' journey in product development, offering a roadmap for turning innovative ideas into market-defining products. We'll delve into essential stages from ideation to scaling, emphasizing a customer-centric approach, agile methodologies, and the power of cross-functional collaboration. This session is designed to equip innovators, entrepreneurs, and product managers with the strategic insights and practical tools needed to navigate the complexities of creating products that disrupt industries and open new markets.

2:00 PM

Melissa Ng

Product Management at Google

Finding the voice of the customer & unlocking your partnership with UX Design

This session will outline how to approach a Voice of the Customer, what you should aim to learn from it as a PM, and how to use it to deepen your partnership with your UX design counterparts. I'll walk attendees through the ways I've conducted Voice of Customer exercises in the past as I've onboarded to new products and customer challenges, and how I've partnered with UX design & research to maximize learnings and forge a strong roadmap.

2:30 PM

Anjaly Joseph

Sr. Product Manager at NewsBreak

Ex-Google

Elevate Your Product's Influence: Engage Stakeholders from All Angles

Success as a product manager depends significantly on our ability to effectively communicate the product vision or successfully convince a customer about the product. In this talk we shall discuss sparking curiosity to discover hidden customer needs and prioritize solutions that address the most significant needs. This talk is for personal and professional selling of you as a Product Manager Person!

3:00 PM - 3:30 PM

End of day networking