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<p>On Tuesday 19th July 2022, the global product community came together to celebrate World Product Day. A lot of fun was had, many insights were shared, and a huge amount of learnings were posted online for us all to improve our product crafts together. Here are some of the highlights from the day, including talks from ProductTanks all over the world, the 2nd ever ProductTank Awards, and insights from the product community.</p>
<h2>What happened?</h2>
<p>To help keep up the celebrations, 22 ProductTanks around the world hosted digital and in-person events and delivered some incredible talks throughout the day. Insights, memes, and even articles were shared by the product community on Twitter and LinkedIn.</p>
<h3>Growing product people and leaders from Aotearoa &#8211; ProductTank New Zealand</h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Kicking off the World Product Day celebrations were </span><a href="https://www.meetup.com/ProductTank-Auckland/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">ProductTank Auckland</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and </span><a href="https://www.meetup.com/ProductTank-Wellington/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">ProductTank Wellington</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> joined to bring a hybrid event discussing how Aotearoa is growing amazing product teams and leaders. </span></p>
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<h3>Product Firsts &#8211; ProductTank London</h3>
<p><a href="https://www.meetup.com/ProductTank"><span style="font-weight: 400;">ProductTank London</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> hosted a fantastic stream discussing the theme of World Product Day 2022, Product firsts. The discussions were:</span></p>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Building your first AI product by Clare Woodcock</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">My first public sector deal by James Routledge</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">My first billionaire pitch by Jo Wickremasinghe</span></li>
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<h3>Continuous Discovery &#8211; ProductTank Heidelberg</h3>
<p><a href="https://www.meetup.com/ProductTank-heidelberg/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">ProductTank Heidelberg</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> hosted its first ever hybrid event on World Product Day about continuous discovery with Konstantin Diener, CTO and Co-Founder of Cosee. </span><br />
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<h3>Networking with ProductTank Hamburg</h3>
<p>ProductTank Hamburg took advantage of the sun with a great in-person networking event at a beer garden. They had an evening of chats, laughs, and sharing product stories with each other, a lovely way to celebrate World Product Day.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Bringing the local <a href="https://twitter.com/producttank?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ProductTank</a> community back together to celebrate <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WorldProductDay?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#WorldProductDay</a>! Best idea to only have drinks at this temperature. 🍻🍸🍹🌞 <a href="https://t.co/XPR3vKIz1D">pic.twitter.com/XPR3vKIz1D</a></p>
<p>— ProductTank Hamburg (@ProductTankHH) <a href="https://twitter.com/ProductTankHH/status/1549438609807347712?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 19, 2022</a></p></blockquote>
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<h2>Social media highlights</h2>
<p>Members of the product community thanked the product people who helped them get to where they are now, shared tips and insights, and even posted funny memes!</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Today on <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/worldproductday?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#worldproductday</a> I&#8217;d like to give a shoutout to my mentors:<a href="https://twitter.com/iamctodd?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@iamctodd</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/kleto?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@kleto</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/paton_robyn?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@paton_robyn</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/product_dave?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@product_dave</a></p>
<p>Thank you for your support, your thoughts, your constant challenges, and your friendship</p>
<p>— Andrea Saez (@dreasaez) <a href="https://twitter.com/dreasaez/status/1549306547754475521?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 19, 2022</a></p></blockquote>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">My <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/worldproductday?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#worldproductday</a> shout out goes to everyone behind <a href="https://twitter.com/MindtheProduct?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MindtheProduct</a> &#8211; from the original founders to today&#8217;s crew. In my mind, they have made every day WPD, which is pretty darn impressive.<a href="https://twitter.com/simplybastow?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@simplybastow</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/bfgmartin?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@bfgmartin</a>, Analisa,<a href="https://twitter.com/thedailyem?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@thedailyem</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/simoncast?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@simoncast</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/James_Mayes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@James_Mayes</a> &amp; many more!</p>
<p>— Kate Leto (@kleto) <a href="https://twitter.com/kleto/status/1549341669186740224?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 19, 2022</a></p></blockquote>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">It&#8217;s 💙<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/worldproductday?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#worldproductday</a>, and I hope you all have a great day of learning, sharing, reflecting and honing your craft. I love to see how many Product Tanks and local communities take the chance to gather today and so I&#8217;ve decided to bring some 🎁 gifts to the party.</p>
<p>— loomista &#8211; Petra Wille | STRONG product people (@loomista) <a href="https://twitter.com/loomista/status/1549333155827646466?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 19, 2022</a></p></blockquote>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Happy <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WorldProductDay?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#WorldProductDay</a> product people!</p>
<p>A shout out to all of you!</p>
<p>Product is hard…and at times even a bit crappy. So if you’re having a tough day/week/month here are some product memes to lighten the mood 😂 <a href="https://t.co/yRDVDG2QEM">https://t.co/yRDVDG2QEM</a></p>
<p>— Ant Murphy (@ant_murphy) <a href="https://twitter.com/ant_murphy/status/1549318336219348992?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 19, 2022</a></p></blockquote>
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<h2>What advice would you give someone moving into a product leadership role?</h2>
<p>We also asked questions throughout the day. Here are some of the best answers to the most answered discussion topic: What advice would you give someone moving into a product leadership role?</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">A product leader is a product manager in a leadership team. And a team is a team. The approaches you&#8217;ve used in product teams still work if you tweak them a bit.</p>
<p>— Scott Colfer (@scottcolfer) <a href="https://twitter.com/scottcolfer/status/1549306474685497346?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 19, 2022</a></p></blockquote>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Have mentor(s) or a close group of product people you can *really* talk to, they&#8217;re invaluable as <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/prodmgmt?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#prodmgmt</a> can be lonely &amp; challenges unique</p>
<p>— Morag McLaren (@moragmclaren) <a href="https://twitter.com/moragmclaren/status/1549305257624276998?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 19, 2022</a></p></blockquote>
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<h2>The ProductTank Awards</h2>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Organising and running ProductTank meetups requires dedication &#8211; not to mention a huge amount of effort &#8211; and all of our ProductTanks do a fantastic job. For this reason, we brought back the ProductTank Awards with even more categories including a fan vote on favourite ProductTank Speakers and talks! Here are the categories:</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">🏅Most events hosted in 2021</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">🏅Most popular Stream in 2021</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">🏅Most popular Stream (collaboration) in 2021</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">🏅Most popular talk published on mindtheproduct.com</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">🏅Your favourite ProductTank speaker</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">🏅Your favourite ProductTank talk</span></p>
<p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/producttank-awards-world-product-day-2022-mind-the-product/?trackingId=rBbDMhiUSiWrB45XdFFKAA%3D%3D"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Check out the winners</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">!</span></p>
<h2>Guest articles</h2>
<p>We were so happy to see so many product people and companies write articles for World Product Day to share their knowledge and learnings with the product community. Here are a few:</p>
<p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-designops-helps-products-shailesh-gogate/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">How DesignOps helps Products</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> by Shailesh Gogate. Shailesh wrote up ProductTank Pune’s World Product Day event.</span></p>
<p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/chanadehemming_productmanagement-worldproductday-teamwork-activity-6955123976603889665-R_ma/?utm_source=linkedin_share&amp;utm_medium=member_desktop_web"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Product Managers: Look out for your well-being too</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> by Chanade Hemming. Chanade lists some great points on how product managers can look after their well-being &#8211; an incredibly important skill to learn. </span></p>
<p><a href="https://www.codecomputerlove.com/blog/12-questions-with-our-delivery-director-on-world-product-day/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">12 questions with our Delivery Director on World Product Day</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> by Code. Code interviews its Delivery Director, Claire Kerley on her product journey, and any tips she has to share from her experience of climbing the ranks as a product leader.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">All in all, World Product Day was a fantastic day. We were treated to so many insightful product talks from our talented ProductTanks across the globe as well as some fantastic insights, discussions, and entertaining posts from the product community. If you missed out, then simply search for #WorldProductDay on </span><a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23WorldProductDay&amp;src=recent_search_click"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Twitter</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and </span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/worldproductday/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">LinkedIn</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span></p>
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