Samridhi Anand is a Product Marketing Manager with a technical background and experience across B2B SaaS products. She is particularly interested in the intersection of product strategy, market insight, and go-to-market execution, helping teams translate complex products into compelling customer value.

Samridhi Anand

Product Development Process

Re-engineering the PM-PMM handoff: a case study in process transformation 

Mike Belsito is Head of Product Evangelism for Pendo and Mind the Product and is seen as one of product management’s most notable connectors. 

Mike spent over a decade leading two of the most recognized communities in product management – first as co-founder of Product Collective, home to INDUSTRY: The Product Conference – and then at Mind the Product, after Pendo brought the two together in September 2024. Through both, he's built spaces where product people connect, grow, and take their craft seriously.

Before his community-building chapter, Mike was a startup founder and operator, serving as a co-founder, executive, and early employee in several technology startup companies. He is currently under contract with Wiley to write The Future-Proof Product Manager – a book that explores the timeless characteristics helping product people stay valuable through any period of massive change. It is due out in February 2027. His work has been featured in the New York Times, The Atlantic, CNN, NPR, and PBS.


Mike Belsito

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Join our podcast hosts Lily Smith and Randy Silver for in-depth conversations with some of the best product people around the world! Every week they chat with people in the know, covering the topics that matter to you - solving real problems, developing awesome products, building successful teams and developing careers. Find out more, subscribe, and access all episodes on <a href="https://www.mindtheproduct.com/the-product-experience/">The Product Experience homepage</a>.

The Product Experience

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Tapas Peshin, PhD is a Senior Product Manager in energy and climate technology with over a decade of experience spanning power markets, analytics, and infrastructure systems. He has led product strategy and delivery across transmission, reliability, and market-facing platforms in U.S. wholesale electricity markets, and previously worked in energy analytics, consulting, and climate research. Tapas holds a PhD in Energy Resources Engineering from Stanford University and is passionate about building products that sit at the intersection of engineering rigor, market design, and climate impact.



Tapas Peshin

Product Roadmap

Product leadership in climate tech: Building impact in regulated, capital-intensive systems

Kent J McDonald writes about and practices software product management. He has IT and product development experience in a variety of industries including financial services, health insurance, nonprofit, and automotive. Kent currently practices his craft with teams in a variety of industries and provides just in time resources for product owners and business analysts at KBP.media and Product Collective. When not writing or product managing, Kent is his family’s #ubersherpa, listens to jazz and podcasts (but not necessarily podcasts about jazz), and collects national parks.

Kent McDonald

Louron serves as the Editor at Mind the Product, bringing 11+ years of experience in editorial roles across business and technology publications. For any editorial inquiries, you can connect with him on LinkedIn or email him at louron.pratt@pendo.io 

Louron Pratt

Conferences

Our notes from Mind the Product Chicago

Yoel Frischoff is a product strategist with 35+ years in industrial design, engineering, and technology management, and the founder of TheRoad, which helps hardware companies become software-driven platforms

Yoel Frischoff

Learn early, commit late: De-risking hardware in a software world

Evals, Analytics, and How to escape the feature factory: Francois Lopitaux (SVP Product Management, ThoughtSpot)

Everything you need to know about Dots, OpenAI's new agent 

Lily Shield-Polyzoides is a journalist working across print and digital publishing. She first worked with Mind the Product in 2023 and most recently covered the Commissioning Editor role, covering content on artificial intelligence and product careers.

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