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

Product Management

Product Management Conference

Get better at making better products: Vidya Dinamani, Founder and Partner at Product Rebels

Product/Market Fit

How Arize found product-market fit amidst the AI wave: Aman Khan (Head of Product)

How one Hackathon sparked a whole new product at Transifex: Maya Toutountzi (Head of Product) — Product Unplugged

Product Strategy

How Bain & Company adapted its product strategy for AI: Kasia Mrowca (Director of Product) — Product Unplugged

Data Driven Product Management

How Booking.com tackled a data quality crisis: Nimit Bhardwaj (Data Product Manager) – Product Unplugged

Michelle Egly

Community Post

The key to breaking free from the negative feedback loop of operational overload

Emily Canon is an Australian based Product Manager, and has experience in establishing thriving API ecosystems, API product strategy, and digital product strategy. With over a decade of experience in Technology and Product, Emily is passionate about extolling the business benefits of ecosystem strategy, and the necessity of customer centricity and product thinking, particularly for APIs. Emily has spoken at the API Days conference, participated in various technology podcasts, and enjoys reading and contributing to product communities and publications.

Emily Canon

Software Experience Management

Ten tips for Product Managers to get confident with APIs

Eira is an editor for Mind the Product. She's been a business journalist, editor, and copywriter for longer than she cares to think about.

Eira Hayward

Sunday Rewind: How to be a better product manager this new year

Three amazing speakers to learn from at #mtpcon London 2025

The best resources for product managers in 2025

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

Deep dive: Product engagement

Beks has over 2 decades experience working in Product Management, the last 14 years spent leading global product and design teams. Working at a wide variety of industries, product types; B2C, B2B, and B2B2C. Various domains;  financial services, payments, retail banking, SaaS, personal media and TV and most recently in Climate Tech. Beks is the founder of the Female Product Lead a community focused on empowering the female product leaders of today and tomorrow and is also a community leader at Product Mind community - the worlds only community supporting the mental health and wellbeing of product professionals globally.

Beks Yelland

How to set off on the right product foot in 2025

Lorian is a product professional and independent researcher immersed in Stockholm’s tech scene, with expertise spanning lifestyle and entertainment technology, internet and consumer tech, B2B/B2C hardware, and internal tools. This diverse experience allows her to bring a nuanced perspective to each project. As the cofounder and former organiser of ProductTank Oslo, she has also played a pivotal role in fostering a community of product professionals and driving conversations about innovation and best practices in product development. Passionate about the intersection of technology and society, she conducts research exploring how technology shapes everyday life, with a special focus on internet and mobile phone studies. Her published work highlights her commitment to understanding the broader impact of our digital interactions.

Lorian Leong

Artificial Intelligence (AI) & Machine Learning (ML)

The AI feature checklist: 21 questions addressing familiarity, fallbacks, and feedback

Sunday Rewind: 7 things I’ve learned in my first 6 months as a product manager

Hemanth Babu Shekar is a strategic product leader with 16 years of experience driving technological innovation across the tech industry. Currently serving at Rivian, he develops cutting-edge quality management systems that set new industry benchmarks. At Amazon, Hemanth launched machine learning products for transportation, optimizing complex logistics systems and solving critical attribution challenges. During his tenure at Meta, he developed AI-driven solutions for social commerce, addressing cross-platform tracking and user experience complexities. His career is distinguished by scaling breakthrough products across B2B and B2C sectors, consistently leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning to solve intricate industry challenges.

Hemanth Babu Shekar

Product Management Career

Should you specialize or stay versatile in product?

Sunday Rewind: Whose job is it anyway? The rise of Product Ops and why it deserves to be an independent function

Hermann is Head of Product in the company CSI.  
Since 2016 he has been developing in the direction of product management.
Between 2016 and 2021 he consulted business owners and product managers about Customer Development processes, marketing promotion of the product and other issues.
Since 2021, he has managed the product creation of Set Loyalty - CDP platform for data and customer loyalty management in large international retail chains.

Hermann Antonov

A case study: Launching a product process in a project-based company

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