On November 18th and 19th, product people from around the world joined us for our autumn edition of #mtpcon Digital. We welcomed incredible speakers to our stage and joined even more in our breakout sessions to discuss a wide range of hot product topics. And there was plenty of networking and discussion in between.
The Highlights
The Keynotes
Mind the Product members can now watch ALL of the keynote talks again! Simply use the links below. Alternatively, you’ll find a dedicated post ‘Watch the #mtpcon Keynotes’ on your dashboard (published Friday 20th November). As an #mtpcon Digital attendee, you’ll have received an email with instructions on how to access your membership dashboard. You can also learn more about this here. Not yet member and want to sign up? Join today!
Watch the keynotes and read the writeups:
- Tech and the New Normal by Benedict Evans
- Scaling Product Teams: In Defense of Process by Spectra (Adaora) Asala
- Lessons from a Product Champion by Mary Poppendieck
- All These Worlds Are Yours by Cennydd Bowles
- The Anatomy of a Pivot by Asha Haji
- Product Leadership is Hard by Marty Cagan
We’ll also publish recordings of our 12 interactive breakout sessions over the coming weeks. You’ll find these linked here on your dashboard once they’ve been released:
- Shaun Russell: How Successful Product People Develop
- [Panel] OKRs in the Wild: Available to watch now in How Real Product Teams Make OKRs work: Extended Report
- Julian Thompson: Beyond Inclusive Design
- Roman Pichler: Structuring and Scaling Product Teams
- Susana Videira Lopes: Minimum Viable Product Manager
- Job van der Voort: Building Products Asynchronously With a Distributed Team
- Amy Zima: How to Create a Product Strategy
- Ibrahim Bashir: Bootstrapping a Product Team
- Georgie Smallwood: Product Tetris – The Ultimate Game of Leadership
- Cheryl Platz: Capturing Customer Context for Cross-Channel Experiences
- Sara Wood: Embracing Change as a Career Advantage
- Adrian Howard: Communicating Research with Pace Layer Mapping
The Doodles!
We always love the fantastic conference sketch notes, created for us by Julia Steiner (check out all of Julia’s 2020 #mtpcon sketch notes here) and were inspired to see what our attendees could put to paper too! We set a doodle challenge and here you can see our winning sketches by Robiert Luque and Inês Liberato.
Missed #mtpcon in the summer?
You can check out the Summer conference keynotes and sessions too.
Keynotes
- Incomplete by Design by Matt LeMay
- Every Problem is a People Problem by Christian Idiodi
- Your Product Career by Gibson Biddle
- Inclusive Design: Dreams and Disasters by Nancy Douyon
- Product Positioning by April Dunford
- Thinking Outside the Product Box by Jimena Almendares
Sessions
- Product Strategy and Skill Development (featuring C Todd Lombardo, Gabrielle Bufrem, Jeff Gothelf and Jeff Patton)
- Understanding Users (featuring Leech, Kristen Berman, Steve Portigal and Alicia Dixon)
- Leading Product Teams with Success (featuring Denise Jacobs, Christina Wodtke and Adam Thomas)
- The Product Manager’s Role (featuring Petra Wille, Hope Gurion and DeVaris Brown)
- Being Effective and Efficient in Product (featuring Bruce McCarthy, Jonathan Hassell, Amber Kearney and Maggie Crowley)