Panel: The State of Product Management 2021

Hector Del Castillo

BoldPM

Sponsor Exhibit in Slack channels #30 to #35

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Welcome

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Friday Sessions begin

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Empathy Mapping: Getting Started with the Next Tool You'll Love

Christina Jessica Inge

thoughtlight

Hitting Reset on Product Roadmaps

Matt Young

UserVoice

OKRs for Product Teams

Bruce McCarthy

Product Culture

Ten Tips to Leverage Data Better and Make Better Products

Dave Mathias

Beyond the Data

11:15 Sessions

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Interview Questions Best Practices

Melissa Appel

Wayfair

Good PMs confidently manage products. Great PMs manage people’s confidence.

Alyssa Dver

American Confidence Institute & ERG Leadership Allliance

Advancing your Career: Coaching/Mentorship Matters to both Mentors and Mentees

Mark Stephan

ProductHired

How to Set a Customer-Centric Vision and Strategy to Realize It

Rajesh Nerlikar

Prodify

11:55 Sessions

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What You Need to Know about Product Led Growth

Ed Arnold

Ibbaka

A/B Testing to Determine Product Priority

Ashish Tripathi

Annalect

Six-Word Leadership Stories: Curating and Crafting Your Elevator Speeches

Jean Storlie

Storlietelling LLC

How Exceptional Product Managers discover unmet customer needs

Gopal Shenoy

Takeoff Technologies

Exhibit: UT Austin Master’s in Tech Commercialization Program (MSTC)

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12:35 Sessions

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10 Ways to Ensure a Successful Product Launch

Dave Daniels

BrainKraft

How to Define a Winning Product Strategy

Dan Olsen

The Lean Product Playbook

Storytelling Data for Influence - communicating your ‘why’ for team agreement

Rachel Hinson

Hinson Strategic Consulting Group

10 Tips for Product Prioritizations

Moshe Mikanovsky

Product for Product Podcast

1:15pm Sessions

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Ideation Techniques - A Mini Workshop

Sweta Kodi

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Affinity Mapping Your Way to Better Team and Stakeholder Alignment

Cindy Brummer

Standard Beagle

The Strategic Role of Product Marketing

Steve Robins

Solution Marketing Strategies

Interview like a Pro for Market Discovery, Win-Loss, and More

Charles Topping

Market-Driven Business

1:55pm Sessions

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How to Get What You Want in Difficult Conversations

Jeff Lefton

Psychological Associates

The Future Is Hybrid: How To Do Hybrid Teams Right

Beth Matteotti

Distance Teaming, Inc.

We can't be everything to everyone - how to build a playbook for your target market

Sarah Davis

Traction IQ

Pricing Your Products For Maximum Return

Alan Albert

MarketFit

2:35pm Sessions

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Radically rethinking OKRs: How OKRs may be harming your organization and what to do instead

Radhika Dutt

Radical Product Thinking

De-Mystifying the Pricing Process

Scott Hillton

Tufts Gordon Institute

The Dangerous Animals of Product Management: The art of managing stakeholders & staying true to your product strategy

Dean Peters

280 Group

Seven Winning Revenue Models and Choosing the Right One

Ameeta Soni

Altek Consulting

Sponsor Exhibit in Slack channels #30 to #35

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Sponsor Exhibit in Slack channels #30 to #35

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Saturday Sessions begin

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Innovate Your Planning Process

Steve Johnson

Product Growth Leaders

Connect, Network and Find Mentorship in the Remote Working Environment

Aaron Kesler

SnapLogic

From Customer Discovery to Truth Discovery

David Eckoff

TBA

10:40am Sessions

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Aligning Requirements - Marrying concepts from Kano, MoSCoW, and Modularity

Brian Cohn

Aspire Innovation

Mastering the Product Resume

Dan Corbin

H-E-B

Developing a Career Roadmap: Stats, Paths and Plans

Jon Gatrell

Market Driven Business

11:20am Sessions

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Feature prioritization: Why I stopped sending surveys and started talking to customers

Amanda Nance

Ultimate Kronos Group (UKG)

People Don’t Care About Your Funnel; Uncovering the Real Buying Journey

Ryan Paul Gibson

content lift

Getting Hired: Nailing the Product Case Study for any PM Interview

Nick Ivanecky

Amazon

Panel: Product Management Trends & Predictions 2021

Hector Del Castillo

BoldPM