Speakers

Our goal is to have an exciting group of product, marketing and entrepreneurial professionals from various industries and diverse disciplines speaking at this year’s event.

Schedule

9:00 – 9:50

Intro & Keynote

10:00- 10:50

Organizing Product Management: The Three Roles – Steve Johnson

Advanced Business Marketing - is an MBA really needed? - TBA 

11:00 – 11:50

You Know You're a Fatally Flawed Product Manager When... - Justin Smith 

Launch Best Practices – Brian McFarlane

 

LUNCH (Yes there's a FREE lunch! Thanks to Pragmatic Marketing)

1:00 – 1:50

You've just been promoted to product manager - now what? -Steve Wells

Community Management & Engagement - Robin Ahn

2:00 – 2.50

Customer Development, Agile and Product Management – Barry Paquet

How to be a Product Manager at a Startup – Hakan Kilic

3:00 – 3:30

Closing and Raffle

 After Party


  • Keynote - Alistair Croll

    Alistair is the principal analyst at Bitcurrent; an executive at CloudOps; an advisor to various technology venture firms; the founder of the Bitnorth conference; and the founder of the Human 2.0 blog on emerging technologies. Prior to Bitcurrent, Alistair co-founded startup accelerator Rednod; web performance management firm Coradiant; and Networkshop, a research firm. He has also worked as a product manager for 3Com Corporation, Primary Access, and Eicon Technology. Alistair is the content chair for Cloud Connect, the industry’s largest cloud computing event; the track chair for cloud computing and the Enterprise Cloud Summit at Interop; and the co-chair of O’Reilly Strata. Alistair is a frequent contributor to a range of technology publications. He has taught at industry conferences such as Web2Expo, IGT, Interop, Structure, Enterprise 2.0, Velocity, Mesh, and eMetrics. He is also the co-author of Web Operations (2010, O’Reilly), Complete Web Monitoring (2009, O’Reilly) and Managing Bandwidth: Deploying QOS in Enterprise Networks (1999, Prentice-Hall).